AllYouCanEat

quote: AlpineK: Yeah skiing pussy ass slopes. All of you religious nordic zelots; I've got something for you to suck on. "pure skiing" my fuckin ass Telemark skiing is pure and aethetically pleasing. The downhill turn uses brute force and conquers a slope. Telemark skiers harmonize with nature. We don't conquer. As for pussy ass slopes. Follow me, bitch. [ 12-01-2001: Message edited by: AllYouCanEat ]

If you were up at Rainier last Saturday, you should read this. Avalanches are never good. http://www.backcountrymagazine.com/artman/publish/article_63.shtml ...

I agree. The S&R seem to be more concerned with protocol than finding someone who is missing or buried. If I can't get myself out or my partners can't then I figure I am done for. If it is more than 2 miles away and they can't land a heli then I doubt if the S&R and their 100 lbs of gear could reach me anyway. When I was 6 I remember the news cameras filming the S&R turning around because of bad weather as we made our way to muir.(?) I am not an expert, but what I have seen angers me, mostly because what I see is not as professional as they profess to be.

I was up there. We left the parking lot and made it through, but the other half of our party did not. He told me this: 2 trees fell1 dead, 1 injuredA blue Ford Explorer I also heard that emergency vehicles had a difficult time getting to the scene of the accident because of the second tree.

AllYouCanEat will crush Hercules with his huge bulk. Benman will wish he had some food other than power bars to feed AllYouCanEat. I am the All-Devourer and Benman and Hercules are just an entree. Bring it on...

"How many miles to Babylon? Threescore and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again." Traditional... "Survival is that ability to swim in strange water." "Be prepared to appreciate what you meet." -Frank Herbert-

You think you are not living today. You think that tomorrow you will be. Right now you are dead, yet not dead. You are a soul caught between and left to suffer; you didn’t respect life, you didn’t live your life as you should have, and you wasted it away. You chose your limbo. You face that decision each day, but now your mind has changed. You wish to make tomorrow today. You want to live. You want to dream. You want to hope. You want to love. You want to hate. You want to discover. You want to believe. You want to taste. You want to smell. You want to hear the birds and the rustle of tree leaves in the fall. You want all of this, but I don’t have the power to give it, only you do. AllYouCanEat...JH "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I wll face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Frank Herbert... "'Tis said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey, and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, it instantly and unresistaingly torn in pieces." Emerson - Essay on English traits...

http://www.king5.com/topstories/10002071_LO0903climbers.html I never like to hear this type of news...

Yes...

We will have a story and pics in a few weeks at http://students.washington.edu/benman/ . The Normal Route up to Dome Peak is still in good shape with only a few cracks open on the Dome glacier. Since we had skis (we needed our august ski) we wanted to go up the steep face that rises up to the SW summit. The climb is still possible, but has patches of blue ice and a crack that spans the lower face. We crossed on the left across a snow bridge on the way up and skied down the center of the face on the way down over the crack. We found the face to be 50+ degrees with a stretch or two at 55 degrees. We skied/climbed AUGUST 29 and 30. The area is very nice, but a hard two day trip especially with skis... [This message has been edited by AllYouCanEat (edited 09-03-2001).]

Are people different who climb, ski, bike, kayak, etc? I notice that I have a lower opinion of people who watch football on weekends, go to the mall for more than 5 minutes, who enjoy large groups of people, and whose life is nothing beyond their work life. I have a hard time relating or even speaking to these people. To me they might as well be aliens. Am I alone in this opinion? Am I wrong to think this way?...

That is good to hear...

Let the rivers flow...kayaker/climber

"It's not about remembering what you can do, it's about forgetting what you can't do." Remember it and say it before every trip.

Do any of you know a cheap place to get fuel for an MSR pocket rocket.

Dana Design Bomb...

I saw a dude get a running start and jump 180 feet off sugarloaf into water. He broke his back...

Check this page out http://students.washington.edu/benman/ for route conditions and a climbing report plus pics on the NFNWR and Adams glacier. There will be some blue ice and you can always traverse over to the ridge if you have too...

Yes. There is snow about 2 and a half miles up the trail as of a few days ago...

We summitted and skied Cascade Coullee, Saturday. I would leave early because the snow will get very, very soft by the afternoon. You can drive to the parking lot and there is snow a half mile up the pass and on Stuart there is snow a 1000 to 1500 feet up the chute. Enjoy. I hope you get to see the mountain because all we saw was white...

This shows the summerland route. http://students.washington.edu/benman/Jason/LittleT/Summer00/LittleTahoma1.htm

Don't forget the Dead.

Adian, here are some tips. I climbed and skied Adams when I was 5 or 6 years old. Adams is cake compared to Rainier. I climbed Rainier when I was 11 or 12 and so I know how it feels at your age. The hardest thing I had to deal with was the rope. Also, getting enough sleep. Anyhow, here is my 2 cents: Before you climb I would run up to Muir 2 or 3 times and slog in the snow for a time and see how fast you can do get up there. If you can get to Muir in 3 hrs that is good. If you can't do that, running steps isn't a bad idea since you live in the city. Another good idea since you have been up Adams is to climb it before you go up Rainier -- like a week or two before. Start from the parking lot (if you get there) and climb it in a day. Good workout. Good practice... Oh, a camelback is a bad idea on Rainier just cause the nipple might fall off or the water may freeze. My bad if you know...

I ran up there for the day a few weeks ago with the intention of going to the summit and skiing down that afternoon. There was: - Two miles of snow on the road before I got to the trailhead (more or less). - A deep windpac/snow - Bad Avi danger I turned around because I had a bad feeling about the snow. Now days I tend to listen to those things.

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