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Go hang a maga flag. Find out. My guess would be that some people would roll their eyes. And those people would be hailed as champions of your great autocrat. And then life would go on. Amazing “what if” though!

So yeah, I suppose I've followed the Beckey beta....but you'll do just fine if you're into the Pickets thing.

You're in the right spot! It has been a few years since I've traversed from Luna Col to Fury but I have done it a few times, including one-way coming down from Fury on a traverse and don't remember it being very difficult to figure out on the fly. I remember sticking fairly close to the ridge and then bypassing a steep section on the west side, on a prominent ledge. Here is a view looking toward Luna Col:

First time poster, not sure if this is the right subforum to ask this. Sorry if this doesn't belong here. Seems like there are one of two ways to do the traversal from Luna Col to the South Fury Glacier. 1. The SummitPost page suggests traversing E/SE of the ridge. 2. Beckey and many trip reports I've seen suggest staying on the ridge and taking the red ledges and the class 4/5 "Crux Tower." Based on just the route descriptions, I'd assume that the first route that stays below the ridge would be the easier/preferred option, but it seems like every recent trip report that I've seen from the past 4+ years all stay on the ridge (and climb the Crux Tower without ropes). What makes my assumption wrong here? Why is the ridge route better/more popular than the route that stays below the ridge? I'm grabbing a copy of Selected Climbs in the Cascades Vol 2 pretty soon which I hope will give me some more insight on the ridge route but I'd also like to hear the input of others. Thanks!

they should stick to cutting bolts on Forbidden, and keeping the cat scratch gully rappels as dangerous as possible. priorities, people!

Nice Lucas! Getting after it 🔥. Thanks for the inspo.

THIS is all you need

Here's some beta from this weekend, May 24-25. Snow on the road blocked access to the Schreiber’s meadow about half a mile short of the parking lot. I doubt that will melt out in the week, but snow down low is going fast. We took the summer route up to the Railroad Grade. I would not recommend that. It cost us an extra hour or more of climbing over snow obstacles. The week prior, Friday 5/16 through Tuesday 5/20, there was 3.5 inches of water equivalent that fell, or more than three feet of fresh snow up high. We brought show shoes and were thankful. We did not find any open crevasses to use for crevasse rescue practice, and I doubt those are going to open up any time soon. I probed an obvious depression in the area we typically use for this. While I did find a crevasse, the shallowest breakthroughs were at 230 cm down. We saw a large, group up high just below the open seracs. I don’t know for sure that they found any open crevasses, but they were stationary up there for several hours, so there may or may not be usable open crevasses up high around 7,000’. There were tons of loose wet avalanches on steeper terrain all around. Down low, snow bridges around the creek are collapsing. Be careful around those. Hopefully this is useful for others out there.

Thank you! Davis has been on the list...this seems like the way to do it!

Washington State's biennial budget twelve years ago was $18.5Bn. Today's is $76Bn. A state income tax won't solve wilderness access problems. And an additional sales tax would get funneled straight to politically-connected orgs just like Inslee's "Climate Commitment" carbon auction fraud.

Great topic. I wrote a master's thesis on wilderness access and your work reminds me of that long-ago project. You mostly avoid the effect wilderness/green orgs have had in limiting access vis-a-vis litigation and road closures. Back in the day NCCC and ALPS--and even the WTA were advocating for very limited/restricted access to virtually all wild areas and a strict interpretation of WA1964. Ditto the Pilchuck Audubon Society--and even some pretty radical NPS Superintendents like Bill Briggle. Other than theorizing that wilderness provided a sort of escape valve for capitalism, I didn't map out the economics as you have. I like what you've done!

boot dryers are mankind's greatest invention. without exaggerating: better than the printing press, moveable type, and sliced bread.

I'm a member of the NW Glacier Cruisers group

@Kameron Thanks so much. Which FB group?

Thanks appreciate it!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/activists-unfurl-trans-pride-flag-on-iconic-yosemite-cliff-hate-is-unnatural/ar-AA1FdKxT?ocid=BingNewsSerp Again, imagine a MAGA banner hanging from NA Wall and what the NPS response would be. And again, this is an NPS management problem. Fire everyone at Yosemite; rehire and reassign the handful who may not be ok with this.

Thanks Kam!

Saw on Facebook, no more snowmobiles for the season

https://youtu.be/GKdl-GCsNJ0?si=K8eSuFZnqx3Ygs2u

Spectacular pictures!

Sounds like the best way to just feel older.... Anyway sitting in traffic sucks! I love how the adventure extends throughout when you bike somewhere!

That's awesome! This TR got me thinking of all the places I could bike to, then I thought, "I'm too friggin old -- I'm just going to drive." 🤣

You didn't go into her bedroom and ask her to dry them for you at midnight? 😂 JK Hope you made it up to her? If not maybe consider rope gunning up Hard Mox on the next rainy weekend! 😂 Sorry, can't help myself. Glad you got out Lucas!

Looks fun but won't work for me this year. To clarify some things in the hopes of attracting some partners for you... looks like multiple pitches up to mid-5th but nothing harder if I'm reading this right? Grades are UIAA? Over 7k' of vert from just below 10k' to 17k' summit? Honestly sounds like a rad adventure.

They just ran the skimo race up there. A few weeks ago we could drive within 2 miles of the trailhead before snow. Access is probably perfect for skiing right now, and I believe the snowmobiles are still going up there (so >3 ft at Schreiber's). I would recommend flotation.