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If anyone is interested this year, we are going to be doing 2-4 person teams, and it will most likely be the Alpental to Denny TH/Iron Horse trail bike/McClellans Butte/North bend bike to finish. If anyone is interested or has some ideas, please feel free to email me at scott@nwog.org The date is TBD, but will be sometime in mid september Who wil Team HC be?

www.allofmp3.com Russian site that pays royalties to musicians, yet full CD quality albums cost about $1.50 I have been using it for about 6 months now and no complaints

That shit is so freakin rad!!!!!! I dont remember getting asked permission for the Prusik photo!

Very cool Lowell. I have been wanting to read that book and passed it up last year at a bargain book store. Gotta go find it again. BTW - Is it a worthwhile trip to go do all three fingers? Is it quality rock (anyone?)

But I'm a "sprayprentice"

Left TH on Saturday morning at 530am after getting rained on in our bivies on Friday night????. First 1/2 mile of trail was easy but overgrown. We reached the main fjord of the river and it was quite easy to cross, rather low. Made our way up to Cougar Falls and then through the Avi Debris to the first meadow with no problems. (Just a ton of logs and debris to cross every 100 feet it seemed) We passed a Mazamas group campsite where the scree hill is encountered and went right up a steep heather slope and then onto some snow. Stay left instead and follow the climbers trail that we did not see. After that we were totally off route and climbed some snow in the gully that ran out at a few places and had to downlclimb some snow and onto the heather slopes and ascend the wet granite slabs and snow slopes to the SE ridgeline. The climbers trail is way east of the basin and that slowed us down by taking the wrong route. Once at the ridgeline the sloan glacier is sighted along with the summit. We contemplated where to get onto the glacier, whether or not to do the high traverse or do a low traverse. We started the low traverse and wound up zig zagging forever, running into dead ends etc, lots of gapers out there as well! After we found a decent route, my friend Jessica (Alpine Chica) fell into a small crevase through a snow bridge, no big deal as we were 4 on a rope and she was in the middle. We finally reached the beautiful granite slab of the east side of sloan and got on the ridgeline. We ran into a group of mazamas with huge packs at that point as they started to head back to camp. It was 130pm and we decided that we had to start hauling ass to make this thing happen. The 3rd scramble is very easy. Mostly a climbers trail at the start, then a chossy gully that is sandy, one 4th class move IMO, and then a 3rd class move here and there. We reached the summit, took some pictures and headed down. We thought that a straight traverse across the top of the glacier would be best and the quickest, so we headed out and found ourselves running into some gapers that we were able to negotiate, and then a rock band stopped us dead in our tracks. John downclimbed some wet slab and over a moat that could have ate him up. The rest of set up a sling on a large rock and a bail biner to lower ourselves off of (Booty for Fence Sitter!). That took way too long, and alpine chica was new to glacier travel so she was a little slower and more timid than the rest. We reached the ridgeline and glissaded down to fresh water and hopped onto the climbers trail that was smooth sailing all the way down to the mazamas camp. We went as fast as possible from here on out, but did not reach the river fjord until 830pm. The trail back to the cars from there winds around here and there and was hard to follow at times, and we got lost a few times, but the main thing to do is to follow the orange ribbons. They will take you the right way every time. We got to the car at 9pm, exhausted............. The drive back home sucked, I might have been driving worse than a granite falls drunk.

Sergio and I got in between a mother black bear and her a cub about 3 weeks ago out on clark mountain. Luckily we did not surprise her, but she made plenty of noises and did the Jurassic Park thing through the trees. We moved real fast after that........

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I'd have to say that taking the palmer lift is AID. It doesn't save time and it just proves that you are a lazy ass. If you are such a "peak bagger", why did you have to take the chairlift? Your not going to get any more of your so called peak's if you keep climbing like this wussy style you got going on. Suck it up and climb that extra 2 miles or whatever it is. You gotta learn that if you post crap like this your gonna get burned, just read my stevens pass TR for an example..........wanker

Total choss, but from where?

Donde Esta senor Klenke?

Just learned that there is going to be a raffle and a dyno competition along with prizes, etc. Hope to see ya all there!

Just saw it tonight when I was at costco, not sure if I want to take a big fall on it or not, seems to be only one layer of very cushiony foam that seems to flatten with little weight Has anyone tried these out yet?

Exactly! I5 always bottlenecks as you come into Everett just before the "Broadway" exit, which is the best exit as it is "exit only" for about 1/2 mile and you can cruise up to 99 from there or go all the way down broadway to hewitt then to rucker as well But since traffic might be real bad, I'd say the Boeing exit (#189) towards Mukilteo and get off at 99 and then go north all the way to the gym, or just take 99 all the way from the Edmonds area. They just did some cool upgrades to the gym this week as well as the installed some really cool features that are way overdue.

Easiest thing to do is either take 99 up past 196th street in lynnwood then cut back onto the freeway, or take I5 to 526 toeards Mukilteo and then follow 99 all the way into Everett. I always take I5 to the Boeing exit and take the 99 exit off of that into Everett to avoid the bottleneck in the DT area of the freeway I also dedicated a route tonight at the gym in the honor of cc.com

So who's gonna make it? I have to work at the gym that night, but the Flying Pig would like to know if there will be enough people to fill up the banquet room they have downstairs, and if they should extend their hours to accomodate the CC.com crowd. You can either reply here that you will be there or send me a PM ~~~~~

Frankly Mr Shankly I'm a sickening wreck, Ive got the 21st century breathing down my neck, I must move fast, you understand me, I want to go down in musical history......... mr shankly........................

Climbed it last year, never noticed anything, but then again I didn't use my open eye

Thursday July 17 5-830pm Free Climbing at Cascade Crags http://www.cascadecrags.com (free entry to the gym with your CC password= "plab") Rentals and Ice Wall are not included 830pm - ? Pub Club at the:Flying Pig http://www.nwbrewpage.com/wabpubs/FlyPig.html 2929 Colby Avenue, Everett, Washington Tel: (425) 339-1393 They have reserved the downstairs banquet room just for us. We do need to find out if there is gonna be a crowd so that the Pig can staff someone just for the banquet room. SPRAY ON!!!!

not much for me to lead there...................

heading to 38 tomorrow, I gotta go check out the far side and get on some of those cool climbs at nevermind of you wanna meet up

Horses are allowed on that trail up to Boulder Pass, funny thing. Bears are allowed out there too, as we got inbetween a mother and her cub. It was quite the standoff.........

Being an asshole in a wilderness area is prohibited as well

Just did Clark in a day from the TH to the base of the glacier, because of time restraints, sergio and I had to turn around at 1pm. THat's a long ways in I tell ya, 10.5 miles to Boulder Pass, then up and around and onto the glacier. Beckey says it's 5 hours from Boulder Pass, and I dont know the exact mileage from there to the summit, but I owuld guess 2-3, and it's 2500 elevation gain from the pass to the summit. We could have done it, and would probably be about 16 hours RT I would guess. Damn it was hot out there today - Oh yeah, take bikes up the first 4 miles, it is damn quick in and out. We did the first 4 miles in 45 minutes up and out