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Update: These ropes live on! The Duodess stays with us, a different (Petzl) single, the 5mm, and the two Mammut half ropes are taken. The scramble rope may get turned into a doormat if no one else claims it. The two CC.com stalwarts who are receiving my used ropes are going to make a donation to the site. Win-Win-Win.

I just saw this; excellent effort!! You had me scratching my balding head over the 8/18 itinerary though. Your day ended up at White Rock Lakes, not Cub. It sucks that the Suiattle River Road is closed again now that the trail has been maintained.

Good hanging out with you today @Otto!

added "best of cc.com" to the search TR search function. Keep in mind this is limited to TRs, so if not in the TRs forums then those won't show up. but the TR search is all about TRs so that is why.

I just added a "first ascent" selection in the search tool. You can search by FAs in a region by season, or whatever you want to slice or dice it. if you know of an FA that doesn't show up, then PM me a link. I'll add the tag and it will show up in search. This is pretty fun. Please add your feature enhancement ideas here. I will see what I can do. I have other ideas, but this is going to get better everytime I touch it.

I went up on Saturday, 2/28, and chopped away the last two logs across the road. Wonderful to get out on a sunny winter day! These logas are around 3 miles up from the parking lot. Before and after Last one, before and after: And the main part of the Squire Creek Wall with recent dusting:

I just used the search feature to find a JasonG TR I'd never seen for the Little Yoho Valley. It gets me excited for my trip next week!

THANK YOU for keeping this site going. It represents the work - outdoors and online - of thousands of people over 25ish years. There are some real historical gems here. I have noticed that things are greatly improved from where they were a few years ago. Again, THANK YOU!

Wanted to bump this thread. Headed up there in a couple weeks. Seems like more snow than down here in Oregon but still warmer than average? Anyone familiar with some of the routes mentioned want to give me their two cents on what might make sense? Any other route recommendations?

currerently results are just showing any post in a TR forum for a user. I'll get that fixed. Also I think I'm going to make a tool for fixing TRs which Mods and Admins can use to fix TR posts to get them properly formatted. We may also be able to search by tag. But I'm out of tokens for the day, so next time.

made the search results look like forum view. dang this is pretty fun.

added autocomplete to the search for author. it continues to be wonky. but i can continuelly iterate this to improve.

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Just what I needed to see as I eat a brownie after putting the kids to bed and cleaning up the kitchen! Thanks @olyclimber ! 😂

I recently learned to play toxicity on my new Schecter (it lives in drop C atm). Gonna perform it soon for a charity event

Oh I quickly realized that buying the Pro version was the thing to do. im using Claude code, which is suited to my level…not an IDE. ive worked with some really smart people and the process it uses is uncannily similar. The actual coding part is more black box but when it troubleshoots it tells you what it’s checking and why. It took it like 8 iterations to get it right but it did. I thinks the one part I’m wondering about it how good can it get at actually enabling my vision of what I want. It may just come down to my ability to write prompt rather than Claude not being able to execute.

Good question. Here is what Google says: A men's US size 11.5 typically corresponds to a 29.5 Mondopoint (or 295 mm) in ski and snowboard boots. This size indicates the inner boot length is 29.5 centimeters. It is equivalent to a European size 45, according to Scheels' DC Shoes size chart and Evo's snowboarding boot chart. Evo +3

What a Goodwill find!

Rainier’s season has been getting shorter due to glacial wasting and recession. I personally would not attempt the standard routes on Rainier past June; even earlier for many other routes. This season is likely to be particularly short due to the snow drought in the western U.S. Also, I would skip St Helens.

About me 24m, I've done Pico de Orizaba (19000ft/5800m), Izta, and Mount Elbert CO in the winter. I also rock climb frequently if that makes any difference. I'm planning on doing a trip to do Ranier, Baker & St Helens with the ultimate goal of building up my skills to tackle Denali. At this point, I know I definitely lack some technical knowledge necessary to summit Ranier such as crevasse rescue and navigation. But nonetheless would like to attempt to tackle it. I'm not a total gumby though — I have done a few high elevation peaks w/ crampons, a high level of fitness & am comfortable organizing the proper gear. I was planning on going late August, since that's when I turn 25 and can avoid the under 25 fee for renting a car. But I also heard that can be a dangerous time of season due to rockfall and widening crevasses. Part of me thinks I should just get a guide, but I dislike the handholding and lack of agency that comes with hiring a guide, not to mention the cost. So if you would like to tackle Ranier this season, or have some wisdom to spare to someone of my situation, I would greatly appreciate it! contact loucks12345 [at] gmail

Chatbots are terrible at lots of things, and are imposing untold externalities on the world but, yeah, they're really fucking good at helping humans write instructions for computers. I have to use claude code for work coding and it's incredibly helpful. You of course have to check things, and it can be super dumb, because it does not actually understand anything. It is rearranging words from the internet, not expressing some internal representation of the world. But it's super useful. I haven't used the free version since work started paying for it, but in the past there was a big difference in how good they were.

Unbelievable....this is version .01. It has issues. But I just made this in an hour using natural language prompts. https://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/trsearch/ Does it work well? Not really. But as a POC pretty cool. I'm not a coder. I ran out of tokens for the day, so I'll pick it up the next time I have time.