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Thank you Phil.

OK, be nice to the old fella. I'm cleaning out the basement, and my ice climbing days are finito. Some of this stuff is definitely antiquated, and may have lost all its cool/useful factor; I can handle that. First the good stuff: Ice screws! 1-20cm BD Express, 2-20cm Grivel 360s, 3-15cm Grivel 360s, 2-12 cm 360s. Teeth are in very good to excellent condition. These are all older style Grivels with a more compact hanger design. They're great for placing in tight spots. Included is an OR tool roll for hauling them around without damaging them or your pack's contents. Asking $300 for the set. Grivel Wing Ice Tools. Back in the day these got the job done, and still would, but....? They've seen some modifications: Originally came as the light alpine model with aluminum spike; I added stainless steel spikes, shaft was drilled, custom adapters and stainless hardware used to install BD quick release leashes. Then I realized leashless was the biz and added a pommel and upper grip. If nothing else, maybe the spare picks are still desirable. In addition to the Evolution picks mounted on the tools, I have 2 NOS Evolutions and 1 NOS Gulotte; unused. And another 3 Evolutions in various states of decripitude. Make me an offer. 'Had enough Grivel yet? How about a set of Rambo crampons! Comes with antibotts. Right now setup as mono's but all the hardware is there to convert back to dual. Points are in good condition, not used for scratching up rock. Comes with a nice Onsite Equipment crampon bag from our friends up north, eh? Let's say $50 OBO. Back to the land of BD. Good general purpose steel crampons; I forget what model they are. $30. 3 handy clippers to attach to your harness and rack all those sweet screws you scored from here. $10 And finally. I have 2- 60cm snow pickets; one an MSR Coyote, one is from SMC. (No pics) They're pretty much equivalent. $15 each OBO. Or, if you're one of those crazy, poor, badass kids who rolls the dice on bail gear, I might just give these to ya. A portion of the proceeds goes to support this fine site!

Yeah, I was worried! It would be such a shame to see this place vaporize. Thanks!!

Thank you for your efforts!

Hey Artem, I live in Vancouver BC and would be down. Sounds like I don't have as much experience but I'm not a total gumby either. I'll send you a message with more info

Not today, Satan!

Nice write-up, even though I've never heard of any of this it's cool to see!

Hey @Thomasp99, I'll PM a track to you but it won't help on the rock since the amount of variation form right to wrong is small relative to gps accuracy. Once on route it's all feel. #1 rule is stay left after you get onto the rock. It's pretty hard to go too far left until you are close to the summit, then you go up.

You Rock!

Hello, I'm tryna figure out a plan to get up Rainier this winter (preferably January but who knows what weather and snow decide). I hang around CO mostly, but I have gotten out to Washington for trail work and climbs a few times. I have done Mt Baker a couple of times, but haven't had much time between work/etc to get out to more PNW peaks (I have done Mt Clarke and a few others during WTA hitches, but that was in the summer); I have avalanche/crevasse training (have all the necessary gear), plenty of ice climbing (WI4+) experience, have skied plenty of routes (up to and around D13) in Colorado, have summited 300+ mountains in Colorado; climbing in PNW is different, but not unfamiliar to me. I just don't have people/partners that would get out on the glaciers with me - hence I am here. I'm looking at either Emmons route or the Gibraltar ledges - again, depending on the conditions/time/etc. Let me know if you need more specifics/questions/lists/etc, and/or if there's other places that would be better for finding partners.

bump for the bag.

I heard this story first hand from Twight about 30 years ago. Pretty incredible.

Tough men back in them days. "average life expectancy was about 37". Sure glad that expectancy has changed quite substantially.

Like new used 1 time but did not work for planned use. New price @CMI $700. Will take $400 or best offer. I am not a climber call for pics. Brocher on CMIgearusa website. 9403670810.

I like Greenwoods. They fit my Scarpa Maestrale and did a nice job.

Ai is getting creepy as fuck. Are those dreads orange enough???

I cant imagine that cascade river road made it out without damage. that one parking spot for the approach to eldorado peak is like 20 feet horizontal and 2 feet vertical from the river. then there are all the small drainages that cross under the road.

also this Suiattle Road (Forest Service Road 26) is currently open to Canyon Creek Bridge at milepost 8.5, according to recent information from the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. However, the adjacent State Route 530 is closed at the intersection with Suiattle River Road (milepost 57) to Concrete Sauk Valley Road (milepost 61) due to recent widespread flooding in the region. This means access to the area may be impacted despite the status of the Forest Service road itsel

it would be surprising if any forest service roads are still passable. I heard that the road to north side baker is washed out...again....

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Ok, let's hope the funds to enforce mary jane users on federal lands are now diverted to fix all the damaged roads in the NF and NPs of WA! Yeah, I know, fat chance

I’m exploring ways to keep it going and making it more resilient. But what I did was a huge step. We are now on the latest OS, and dumped a bunch of old stuff that wasn’t used for the site, all the underlying components got upgraded. we just need to keep it simple. I will keep it going.

Thank you so much for getting it back up. I've actually been working on a little project archiving all my TRs as PDFs in legit printable formats (not an easy task) out of fear/knowledge that someday this place will burn down and not come back...glad that time has not come yet!