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The Northern Lights from the Icefields Parkway

Summer trail. Snow was patchy on steeper S facing slopes below lake. Wore crampons across slippery grass.

From 8a.nu: "Tsunami hits Railay Beach 2004-12-26 A tsunami created by an eartquake hit Railay Beach in Thailand at 11.00. All restaurants by the beach have been destroyed but no climbers have been reported seriously injured. Some 100 climbers ran in panic from the beach and some red-points had a dramatic finish, when suddenly a 10 meter wave appeared."

Climb: Welch Peak-SE Face Date of Climb: 12/24/2004 Trip Report: Shaun, Dave and I wandered up Welch Peak on Xmas Eve Day. Nice view of cloud seas in Chilliwack Valley. Snow was rock hard crust that supported the weight of a truck; we drove to end of Williamson Lake road. Lots of spindrift blowing around, high winds, very amusing, also cold. But it was sunny. Nice ice formed up in Williamson Cirque, kinda white and sun rotted where south facing, blue where east facing. We trudged up to below the Welch-Foley col and up into the SE bowl on Welch. Shaun and I made it partway up the final SE face but Dave was going quite slowly and not enjoying soloing the steeper conditions on the final face so we decided to turn around about 150-200m below the summit. Just the top of Old Settler was showing over the clouds when looking north. Made it down to the truck just at the time it started snowing, and home to Chilliwack by dark. A great day out with excellent views of Chilliwack Valley peaks wearing winter coats. Gear Notes: Crampons, mountaineering axe. Approach Notes: Drove Williamson Lk Road to ~1200m.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st..._on_sc/asteroid You may have 25 years to live. Get with it.

the same thing will happen here within the next 300 years. are you ready?

Awesome crust on Welch Peak today

You ever see these form up before Don? Right above Williamson Lake, looks to be some nice 100- 150m WI2s and 3's. Avvy hazard from above was minimal today. (with our long handled mtneering axes we regretfully wandered by on way up SE face of Welch)

2 hours plus climbing. (1 hr longer than going via Coquihalla plus 1 hr up and down oregon Jack road) But why not just stop in Golden & climb something in Kicking Horse the next AM instead of bee lining to Canmore?

Infinite Preiss.

This is the type of service that's easy to give when your sales are low and hard to give when your sales are high.

FURRY !!!!!

i'm gonzo too

Oh wait this is on south face of Intersection right. I was thinking of the 5.8 chimney on Intersection Rock. I just looked it up in the guide now... "The Flake 5.8" route # 1225. Dude you gotta get the #4 bigBro for Jt Ree chimneys.

I always thought it was called the SW Face Chimney or something.

Just load it into the Gallery http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab instead of via attachments.

I make little squeaking noises when I am about to fall off. My friend AMC was really vocal at this "Ok...falling..take..no wait, I'm gonna try it...sending..falling..take..don't take...oh my god... I'm gonna die..take...No! Wait! I've got it!... Oh shit! Take!" etc.

It';s funny you posted that at 4:20 PM yesterday

Apparently Distel's Joe's Valley guide is a good place to find glass.

Well I was thinking of last New Years. There was nothing in, in Hope, when we drove up on Wednesday, and when we came down on Sunday afternoon, after 5 days of cold, stuff was in: Bridal Falls, Medusa, Mousetrap, Sumallo, Seabird etc. I was just trying to decide if this forthcoming cold outbreak means its worth staying home and enjoying rare good conditions instead of making a planned Rockies trip. Think the Rockies are guaranteed though, so that's where I will be.

Doesn't "Drawstrings" have another name?

Lots of birthdays today it looks like. Of course with 7000 registered users and 365 days in the year that is not unexpected.

I believe the "Other Person" may be Matt from the UK. I would have to find the 1994 VOCJ to tell you Matt's last name though.