Dru

Get out the peace pipe boys. You two need to smoke it.

Beck - AlpineK - into the BATTLE CAGE now! Winner will be the one who can drink the most at pub club tonight. Loser pays winners bar bill.

quote: Originally posted by Dwayner: The tavern is expecting us and has reserved a big table for us under the name, "Cascade Climbers". See ya...by the way, Mr. pope says he's going to be making an appearance for those of you who think me and he are one and the very same. - Dwayner Somebody take a digital camera and get a picture of these two thats the only evidence I will believe.

You say Terry, I hear Perry, then on the phone I thought you said Barry... I will take a qtip and clean the wax out of my ears when I get home. So you went straight down from the W. ridge to the road? Wow. Sounds like a story where 2 friends of mine did Ne buttress of slesse, went down w side, missed traverse ledge and kept rapping into forest then followed creek gullies down until they hit the border swath at which point they knew they had to go north to find the road... Character building bushwhacking is good for the soul in small doses. "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger". And there is nothing quite as nice as a sunrise when you are shivering at an unequipped bivy! [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 08-14-2001).]

"There's loose rock" "Lots of aid would be required" "Tons of wide cracks" "vegetated and mossy" "I saw slings up there" "Be prepared for lots of drilling or big runouts" "Its a long way to hike for a five pitch route" "Killer snafflehounds like the rabbit in Monty Python & The Holy Grail" Sounds like a lot of people have this one on their lists?

Oh yeah - before we get side tracked by the BB route topic - mneagle good TR man. Chepe=Caveman?

What, like his initials are BB?

You mean the one that looks like the west face of Snowpatch, with all the crack and corner systems? The one Beckey wanted me to go in and do with him before he went off to the Adamants? that one? shhhhhhh..... I hear the rock looks good from a distance but is horribly loose

Any way we could work that maintenance gig into the fall megafest? Like maybe we could get a pass for picking some weeds and/or cleaning up garbage while hiking into/out of the Enchantments? Cause I hear Borbon is gonna drag my ass up some of the Cashmere Crags.

Ask the Capt he was successful last weekend.

Darin I don't know how much they have freed but it is Mike Spagnut and his buddy Sean (I think Sean Neufeld) and they have been in there a few times, for all I know it's free by now. Update on Perry (or is it Barry - now I'm not sure) - he and his partner summitted late, decided not to descend NE ridge, went down W side, bivied somewhere w/o bivi gear, hiked all the way back up Centre to their truck (got a ride part way), and then had to climb all the approach, grab bivi gear, and come back out to their truck. They were up at the bivi, packing, when I drove in to check on them at noon yesterday. By the way the hatchery people are sick of climbers fighting to get the key so they are now leaving the Center Creek gate unlocked, so you can show up there at 4AM and still drive up the road. This should make daytripping the route easier.

Damn... I go away for a few hours and Scott erases his own posts so the thread now makes even less sense!

quote: Originally posted by viktor: www.wenworld.com/ has an update on the fires. not good. Clipped from the site for those who don't click and search: Fire officials were monitoring eight fires burning this morning near Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee. Most of the fires were small, and none were threatening homes or private property. However, several hiking trails were closed this morning, including the popular Snow Lakes Trail into the Enchantments southwest of Leavenworth. Fire crews may be sent out to look for hikers already in the wilderness if the fires start to get more active, said Ken Frederick, a Wenatchee National Forest spokesman. The fires began as a storm moved across central Chelan County between 5 and 8 p.m. Sunday. Residents in the upper Wenatchee River Valley saw dozens of lightning strikes, and large columns of smoke were visible from Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. "It's burning up a storm all around here," said Rob Newsom, a talk show host for KOHO radio in Leavenworth who lives up Icicle Creek. "I can sit inside my house and watch it all out the window. It's better than TV." Lightning touched the ground at least 100 times in Chelan County during the storm, said Jon Fox, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Spokane. Six fires burning this morning in the Icicle drainage were in the Trout Creek, Cannon Mountain, Snow Creek, Bridge Creek, Fourth of July Creek and Icicle Ridge areas. The Trout Creek, Bridge Creek and Icicle fires were estimated at 20 acres. Two more fires were burning near Lake Wenatchee at Butcher Creek and McCall Mountain. Six 20-person fire crews and three helicopters have been ordered for the fires. No firefighters were working on the fires this morning until fire officials could set priorities for where the crews, helicopters, tankers and other equipment would be sent, DeMario said. "Firefighting resources are very limited right now across the region," she said. Pat McNerthney saw several lightning strikes from the deck of his home about eight miles up the Icicle Creek drainage. "It was a great show," he said. "I saw one big streak cut across the sky and hit on Cannon Mountain. Then I saw a puff of smoke coming out of the ground."

One time up at Vayu (It think... it was a few years ago) I said "I'm not gonna turn in until I see a shooting star". No sooner had I spoken than a HUGE flamer shot across the entire sky - it was so big you could see chunks flaking off and burning up. I like meteors. Another good one - FT and I just finished our route on the N face of Plinth, it is about 5AM, the sun comes up and there is a partial eclipse - a horned sun rising up, the snow turns pink, and a perfect lenticular cloud forms overhead, turns into "mammatus" clouds that I had only seen in a meteorology text before, then rain falls just on the summit and for about 150m on either side of us.

1) chop em up into 1-time-only use rap slings for wilderness bails. snafflehounds will eat what is left behind = no fixed installation to get the rangers pissed at you 2) use them as rap lines for scrubbing new routes 3) hoist your engine block 4) hang your hammock, tarpaulin etc. 5) dog leash, belt, other fashion accessory 6) strip out the core and use the sheath to make super lightweight chalk bag belt. 7) dominatrix accessory for tying up clients

The best thing about Trad Pride is that in the parades you can dress in Sport Climber Drag (you know, sexy Verve tights and a Prana tank-top) without anyone actually assuming you are a sport climber!

Hey with the weak dollar I can't understand why you aren't up here every weekend? Beckey is... more bang for the buck. I have only been to US twice in the last year (1 each Smith & Leavenworth) but my car has something to do with that, but it is kinda expensive.... like food in a bar costs the same in US$ as it would in CDN$ here??! Same with beer.... next pub club in Chilliwack??

Went up to Centre Creek at noon in my work truck to check out if P. & his buddy made it back down, they were moving pretty slow last I saw of them. Perry and his friend were not yet back at their truck. Maybe they are having an EPIC?????

Some nice seracs to play on around Joffre too if you dont mind crossing the border. Or good crevasses on the Warren Glacier on Garibaldi - approach via Brohm ridge. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 08-13-2001).]

Scott, Prozac will help. that or a lobotomy. And since you found the change from KTK to Trad Pride to be unacceptable too we will now call ourselves the "G8 ANARCHIST UNABOMBER PEDOPHILES FOR CHRIST" because that won't offend anyone. It doesnt havemuch to do with Trad anymore but... [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 08-13-2001).]

Yea-aw! Brother Lambone now gonna LAY ON THE HANDS and Brother Horsefly gonna rise from the Dead! Halleluyaw brother! Can I get an A-MEN? I cant hear yuh! Lowder! A-men!

That's Lisa's call.

Does Arcteryx know you are using their trademark? They tend to harsh on stuff like that. Look at the fight with Roc'teryx shoes in the EU.

How about a steel cage match to settle the question over which pair of brothers are the supreme brotherly mountaineering duo, between Lou & Jim, and Al & Aid Burgess?

Soloed East Ridge of Rexford as a day trip on Sunday. Left home 5AM got to Center crek gate 6AM. Hiked road (2 hrs) to start of bushwack, nice trail cutting work by guys working on the FFA of Pillar of Pi, no more bushwacking . Another 2 hrs of scrambling to base of route c. 10 AM (went up left hand most gully to below Pillar of Pi then cut right under ridge toe). Started climbing bush lines & ran across another party (Perry and his friend from USA, Perry lurks on cc.com, hi Perry, how did it go?) after they nearly beaned me with some rocks. Passed them at high speed and fought up bush pitches to ridge crest. Above, great ridge walk leads to pyramidal pinnacle and then several hundred meters of good, easy 5th class climbing mostly on crest and right side – excellent rock, short problems and good cracks. The 5.7 grade is pretty bouldery and the whole thing was easily doable in my Mtn. Masters. Last 100m to summit is a class 2 hike. (1PM – 3 hrs up on route) Ran into a BCMC party on summit and begged some food from them as I had forgotten my sesame snaps –still sitting on the counter in the kitchen at home. Asked them about the descent down W. ridge, got beta, took off, downclimbed from rap station to rap station (4th class) on summit tower then down ridge to basin below Nesakwatch spires (c. 2:30). Spent half an hour drying out sweaty socks and drinking snowmelt then half hour looking for trail, found trail, very steep descent. Back to logging road at 6PM, hobbled out to car at 7PM, great views of Slesse silhouetted against the setting sun with the sun’s rays shining beams through the notches. This was my 3rd attempt on the route – first time in 96 in a party of 4 we turned around after 2 bush pitches due to slowness. Second attempt in 2000 with 1 partner we turned around at the creek crossing when rain started. 3rd time lucky! Nice to finally tick. I would recommend it to anyone looking for some moderate, classic climbing. If you are going to take a rope along, even if just simulclimbing everything, be prepared to bivy somewhere, lots of elevation gain & loss.