Alasdair

You dont climb, you boulder. Sport Climbing Alpine climbing Trad Climbing Ice climbing mixed climbing bouldering... Note no one ever calls it boulder climbing. It is just bouldering. Oh and your right Distel, I never climb, I just talk about it.

Mike the only way for you to keep up with distel is to only post pictures of a single subject, make all of the pictures look exactly the same and be sure that they all suck.

Go to Colchuck. If the weather and snow look good climb there. If not go back down and climb on Icicle creek.

Dont think so. I believe there have been at least a couple of others. Ok, upon further checking I realized that the climb referenced in the Beckey book was acctually done in April, but is described as a "winter variation", hence the confusion. There is also no reference to winter ascents in the AAJ. So thanks for the heads up Kyle, it does appear that we have inadvertantly done the first winter ascent of that route. If anyone knows any differently please let either Ade or I know.

Those were not the tracks that we saw. They were fresh tracks from the day before.

Dont think so. I believe there have been at least a couple of others.

Good we will have to do it again sometime.

Then why place the fucking gear in the first place.

Huh?

To add a couple of notes: The first section of ice off the deck was a really nice AI 3 pitch. Worthy of an ice climb in its self. From a distance it looked really thin at close inspection it was perfect. Several sections of the N. Face route looked to have very simmilar ice on it. From the base the N face looks like it would be a very good climb right now. I think that TCs is pretty much in right now. The whole area has fairly nice cramponing on the snow. Makes me think that the obvious couloir to the left of the summit of Colchuck would be a pretty nice route right now. Snow conditions deteriorate as you get higher. So the exit couloir on TCs probably sucks. As ade said any significant snow accumulation is going to make this area pretty scary. If you were one of the people who climbed N buttress couloir on colchuck on Sat and found the quick draw on the snow below dragontail, i suggest you dont use it. It fell at least 1000 ft hitting many rocks on its way down. If anyone is on Serpentine any time soon and finds my sunglasses I would like them back. I will buy you a beer.

I will save my spooning for you pat_o

This country can be so pathetic sometimes. If you took some of these PC idiots to europe they would keel over. For example: The MSN Gemany site. Why the hell can so few people in this country handle a pair of breasts?

Yea yea there are lots of crack problems in Everett. I hear about it on the news every night.

Done! Thanks.

Gee, with an argument like that, you've sure go ME convinced. Did you take your moron pill this morning, or is it PMS? I dont think I was trying to convince you of anything.

There currently is no evidence one way or the other. It is fucking stupid to say I think one group did it over another, when you dont really have a fucking clue who did it. It is like anounching who one the presidential election before anyone knows who one. But wait that has never happened has it.

But you still really dont have a fucking clue

Your kidding right? Everett is a total shit hole.

But you really have no fucking idea, so who cares who you randomly think it is. You post is about as useful as a fox news online pole.

Keep in mind that it is very possible that any marking that were there could be removed or covered with other markings.

ebay

As far as MOFA courses go, I took one in the fall. It seems the only group to take this course with in the puget sound area is the Mountaineers. I found the class to be very limited in scope and usefullness. For example asking questions about what to do in a party of two situation I recieved answers like "you shouldnt climb in parties of two" and " what type of climbing are you doing with only one other partner?" The instructors were horrible causing us to give them the nicknames bumblefuck and the anti-Twight. In addition, it was impossible to get any information regarding drugs that should be carried on long expeditions. I understand that this is likely due to lawyers, but it was pretty fucking retarded to tell a class that asprin is the only drug you should carry in the back country. I would recomend you go get certified for CPR, and then buy a fucking book and read it for the rest. you will learn more, and wont waste a shit load of time. Or go take a wilderness first responder class.

From the web site... Tactics that won't help I assume that your objective is to receive less mail. You might also be interested in encouraging mailers to send junk mail less often. The following are tactics that won't succeed at either of these goals, but (if you're vindictive) might make you feel better. Using Business Reply Envelopes to complain will usually not get the attention of the mailing company. If you attach them to a brick or overfill the envelope, the post office will discard them. If you send them back empty, or with a complaint about the catalogue you didn't want, they'll be discarded by the people who open the envelopes. The mail is usually opened by people who get paid by the hour, and aren't asked to relay complaints or count the number of replies that didn't contain orders. Your use of the BRE will cost them money, but they'll never notice it, so this won't cause them to change the way they do business. (Unless the number of people sending empty BRE's becomes a substantial fraction of the number sending orders. This might lower the effectiveness enough that they'd stop doing mail order. Not likely.) If you want the company to pay attention, get in touch with their customer service people. Most of the time, the company never even saw your name, so they can't do much to keep you from getting future ads. They buy lists from other companies, and those other companies are the ones you need to get in touch with. They might be interested if you were offended by their ad, but otherwise they'll just point out that many people order merchandise from them in response to the mailing. If you want to stop getting the mail, find out who they buy names from, and get those people to stop selling your name.

I have done this and yes it was a lot of fun, but it does not do shit to reduce the flow of junk mail. There are a couple of useful websites that will reduce junk mail. First go to the direct marketing associations web site and pay the fucking $5 and you will stop recieving all those credit card offers. It worked for me. If you are not quite as lazy as I, and dont want to pay the $5 then you can mail in a form that will do the same thing. This really does work. It reduced my junk mail by 90%. Direct marketing web site. There are other ways to reduce junk mail also they can be found on this site. web page Keep in mind that sending that shit back does cost the company money, but it also wastes resources and your time. Spend the 10 mins and do it right.

Does anyone actually rope up on Leuthold? Is there any reason to?