Name that route by description PNW edition (#2)

I'll try to shine more light on the subject: 

The crag it's on was a riverside landmark to the first American explorers and later settlers to the pnw. As the route name implies, you can pull out the etriers for this single pitch route without feeling shame, unlike another similarly named route nearby.

Siege Tactics on Beacon Rock?

Or, indeed, Free For Some at the same venue?

Edit. Me again; hurrah! Or possibly not. I have one ready - but would you like to post up, Garrett? I certainly wouldn't have got it if you hadn't named the crag. I was still a long way east working my way downriver from Wenatchee, checking out any location that sounded promising with respect to Matt's description; I'd still be doing it now. Something with a word like 'Beacon' in the name was exactly the sort of thing I was looking for - so a quick check and: Bingo! Also I'm beginning to seriously doubt my judgement when it comes to thinking up any sort of remotely amenable clue.

I'll give it half an hour and then post up if you haven't already. That would be 11am in Oregon. [It's currently approaching 6:30pm here in the UK, with 8 hours difference.]

I.P. for the win - Free For Some, Beacon Rock

MattBwrote:

I.P. for the win - Free For Some, Beacon Rock

Ok - I'll go. I won't tempt fate by saying "This should be quite easy"!

"This 'Inside Corners' route pre-dates by a couple of years the future Mrs Næss's experience of it."

Alternatively, that first bit could be written "This route, located in 'The Inside Corners', pre-dates etc ...."

 Not wedding day.

wedding day?

Chain reaction? 

MattBwrote:

Chain reaction? 

Matt has it. Excellent! Over to you.

When climbers talk about this often free-soloed classic multi pitch, they often think that both the middle and end deserve an R, but the FA and guidebooks only recognized one R section. Unrelated, but it also is a tad runout in one section.

(I wikiied the heck out of the "naess" clue. Learned a very interesting little bit of trivia! Thanks!)

MattBwrote:

(I wikiied the heck out of the "naess" clue. Learned a very interesting little bit of trivia! Thanks!)

Ah, yes. Norwegian climbing history is slightly complicated by the inclusion of two prominent figures, one the uncle of the other, both called Arne Næss. To solve the clue, of course, one only needs to know that at least one of them married Diana Ross!

West face Kangaroo?

I really thought Ignacius had given us an easy one with the climb a bride looked forward to, I thought the Naess stuff was just a red herring!

Not kangaroo. 

Another clue(hint) 

Climbers are drawn like moths to a flame to this nearly seaside cliff complex

Drederekwrote:

I really thought Ignacius had given us an easy one with the climb a bride looked forward to, I thought the Naess stuff was just a red herring!

Hah! Of course I gave you an easy one; I always do....

Did you get the 'Inside Corners' bit? 

Also - lest we forget, and in case anybody is still interested - my previous offering is still out there; no prizes now, of course, but still a chance of that warm glow as the smugmeter kicks in! A TL;DR might be:-

"It's the standard/easy route on a mountain - very popular, judging by the 'forest' of skis stashed - that would also be used as the normal descent route after climbing one of the other ones. The terrain is such that the first part is generally most efficiently done on skis, or maybe snowshoes, up to a feature below which they are usually stashed as thereafter things get steeper. The name given to this particular feature suggests a different means of transport. The mountain isn't in Washington, and being in a 'state' it isn't in BC either. Solving the anagram KALIATNH will help."

Yes; that's the short version!

Edit. Not Hood. The reason for earlier saying that 'hogsback' is warm is that it contains the word 'hog' - which together with Harley and Hells Angel gives a hint to the name of the ski-stashing location [which I forgot to mention in the TL;DR].

South face of hood, right?

Denali, west buttess

MattBwrote:

Denali, west buttess

Bingo! Embrace the 'smug'....

The orient express clue sealed the deal for me ( a long with the thousand over hints!)

My same mystery route, rewritten a bit:

Many climbers talk about this route as if both the middle and end deserve an R, but the (1960s?) FA and later guidebooks only recognize one R section.  Unrelated, but it also is a tad runout in one spot. I wish the idea of having two-Rs would just die.

Dramatic 1000 foot cliffs rise above this classic multi pitch slab crack, which is an early trad challenge for many, and is commonly free soloed by some of the hardier. Drawn like moths to a flame, climbers, skiers, mountain bikers hail from all over the world to this totally skookum area.

Should be easy, I put over a dozen clues in there... 

MattBwrote:

The orient express clue sealed the deal for me ( a long with the thousand over hints!). 

That's strange; I didn't mention anything about the Orient Express - assuming you mean the line to the right of the Messner Couloir overlooking the 14,000 ft camp. The clue was all about Motorcycle Hill at the top end of the main Kahiltna Glacier [the KALIATNH anagram that followed on from all the Half Dome/Kali Yuga stuff].

White Lightning on the Apron at Squamish? Although I've no idea whether it follows a crack, or is a popular solo.

Edit. Hah! Completely missed your 'dieDra' and 'dierDra' hiding in plain sight. Was just pondering Sparrow with its surfeit of 'r's in the middle when Kevin struck! Excellent clue.

Diedre (not Dierdre)

Yup, diedra. Oops diedre

I assumed the 'other transportation method' meant orient express, as in railroad