Kloochman Rock – home to Appetite For Destruction (5 pitch, 10d) route. Kloochman is Yakama for “fucking chosspile.”

The team preparing for the sporto choss nirvana that is Appetite For Destruction (Apr. 2016).

Ye leading pitch 1…first Craig belayed, then I belayed, then Craig belayed. Why? I do not recall (Apr. 2016).

Ye on pitch 1 (Apr. 2016).

Ye – easy there, don’t pull off the belay ledge mang!!

Leading pitch 1 and trying to wait out a shower of rocks by making myself small under the “roof” (Apr. 2016).

Goose Egg Mountain from Appetite For Destruction (Apr. 2016).

Shirley enjoying pitch 1 (Apr. 2016).

The 10b “roof” on pitch 3 (Apr. 2016).

Just above the 10b “roof” on pitch 3 of Appetite For Destruction (Apr. 2016).

…and looking back at Shirley from about the same spot (Apr. 2016).

Craig leading pitch 4 – the lower of the two 10d pitches (Apr. 2016).

Shirley nearing the top of pitch 3 (Apr. 2016).

Topping out on pitch 3 (Apr. 2016).

Leading pitch 4 (Apr. 2016).

More Goose Egg from Kloochman…

…home to classics such as Ride The Lightning (5.9), Dirty Sanchez (5.8) and Shock And Awe (5.10c).

Ye leading pitch 5 (Apr. 2016).

Shirley topping out on pitch 4 (Apr. 2016).

Leading pitch 5 (Apr. 2016).

Shirley atop the Appetite For Destruction route (Apr. 2016).

Yours truly at the top…what’s the matter pussycat, you no likee choss? Photo by Craig.

Ye (whose job took him out to Chernobyl the week prior) and Craig on the ridge atop Appetite For Destruction (Apr. 2016).

Craig surfing the choss down to a rap anchor on the way down (Apr. 2016).

Craig and Ye simul-rapping…very cute!

Another Pacific Northwest Classic in the bag. Photo by Craig.

Having satiated their Appetite For Destruction, the crew proceeded to satisfy their appetite for food back at the car (Apr. 2016).