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    MORE CLIMBING TALK!!

    in Climber's Board

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    Ursa_Eagle said:

    Did you use ropes? That would have slowed us up (and prolly been a lot safer, especially on what we climbed on the summit pinnacle.) We were moving quickly down the trail, a moderate jog at times, but not really running. (The descent was interesting enough after the beers at Sahale Camp without trying to run.) And did the snaffle lick your gaiters and try to eat your ankles? hahaha.gif (I'll post pics once I get around to resizing them)

     

    Did we use ropes? Hell yes!

    I had my new Rando rope that is 30M 8mm.

    That thing kicks ass.

     

    Tons of dead ends on the sahale glacier where the bridges had collapsed recently, so we had to end run almost all of them.

     

    We also went slow up the east gully, belaying the last bit in gaper style. I guess I dont think a stupid slip in the sandboxes are really worth it not to rope up there, but that's just me.

     

    The rappel was fun with a 30M rope, and we trudged back pretty qickly down the arm, only to stop a few times and get some great shots of marmots and sahale.

     

    Compared to 2001, the glacier was darn broken up

    MORE CLIMBING TALK!!

    in Climber's Board

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    Scottyterrorix!

    Did you climb Thomson? How did the Newbie do?

     

    How did you know I was gonna head up thomson?

    Did I post that somewhere?

     

    We actually headed up Sahale and met up with the climbing ranger and his friend. I still am amazed that Ursa person did the route RT in 8.5 hours RT. We did it 9 hours RT and we ran down the trail from cascade pass all the way to the TH.

     

    Hey Mom, look at me, I'm leading!

    in North Cascades

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    No, Scot, it's not; takes too much time, creates ropedrag, drains energy. None of which is good in an alpine environment.

     

    You can sew a line up no problem and eliminate rope drag if you use runners in the correct manner. You know this though, and for your first lead in an alpine setting, sewing it up is not a bad thing. We all can't lead 5.9 in our boots anyway grin.gif

    Mineral Park Fire

    in North Cascades

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    It was still blazing, creating quite an unpleasant hike up to Cascade Pass from all the smoke

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    Marmots were running for their lives everywhere!

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    More info:

    Location: South of Johannesburg Peak in the upper Cascade River drainage about 20 miles east of Marblemount. A portion of the fire is now in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area.

     

    Mineral Park Fire is approaching the largest fire in size within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest since the mid or late 1960s.

    From: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/fire/mineral_park/index.shtml

     

    Learn to climb slab with experienced instructors

    in Spray

    Posted

    I hate rappeling, basically becuase your not in a system, only if you use a backup prusik, which I have never done. I do like to have a fireman's belay whenever possible though. Multipitch rappels are never fun. When we bailed off of Forbidden this last week, I hated it.

     

    I wish I could get a Magic Carpet

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