Alasdair

And if there are any raptors nesting near the crag you should stay the hell away. First because they need room to nest, and secondly because they will fuck you up really bad if you get too close.

I learned to climb mostly at climbing areas in the Coburg Hills. There are several areas, with anything from really hard to really easy. It is all on private property and most of the owners will not give access to anyone. Sadly I suggest you find somewhere else to climb.

I would recomend the rupal face.

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Ray, although this axe by itself is probably not worth more than about $50 -$100, it is an axe that has real worth just by its history. Althought I hate to see it go out of the northwest, the American Alpine Club has a museum in CO. Another option, if you could talk Fred out of a couple of more items would be to approach the Museum of Hisory and idustry into an exibit on northwest moutnaineering. I am sure there are several people on this board with enough items to start a nice exibit at a local museum. We were talking to the woman who runs the Mt Erie grocery last weekend, and she said that Dallas Kloke has some old climbing gear he was going to put up a little historical display in the store there when his new guidebook finally comes out. And I know that Otto Trott's widow has the Duke of Abruzzi's ice axe (a friend bought their house a couple of years ago.) So it seems like there is a lot of stuff out there to put together a pretty respectable display at MOHAI if someone were willing to take the lead. Lowell Skoog? Harry Majors? I would volunteer some time, but I have absolutly no contacts.

NE buttress of Sir Donald. Took the girlfriend up it last year. All was fine until about 2 pitches from the top when the exposure finally got to her and she demanded immediate retreat. She wants to go back and finish it this year.

Ray, although this axe by itself is probably not worth more than about $50 -$100, it is an axe that has real worth just by its history. Althought I hate to see it go out of the northwest, the American Alpine Club has a museum in CO. Another option, if you could talk Fred out of a couple of more items would be to approach the Museum of Hisory and idustry into an exibit on northwest moutnaineering. I am sure there are several people on this board with enough items to start a nice exibit at a local museum.

rupal face

I dunno, but I believe an engine did fall off of a DC-10 taking off from O'Hare Airport a few decades ago. http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/79-05-25(Chicago).asp yep several DC-10s lost engines. I have never heard of a 737 or 757 loosing an engine.

actually, yea. an evergreen cargo 747 in anchorage about 8 years ago lost the engine over town. Apparently you cant read... 737 + 757 !=747

In millions upon millions of flights, has an engine ever fallen off of a 737, or 757? Think about that next time you fly accros the country.

Dont fuck around on Denali. Take the right equipment. If you are sitting at 17k camp and you find yourself spooning with your stinky hairy nasty climbing partner then you will wish you had shelled out for the warmer bag. I have not been on Denali, but I can tell you that I was damn glad I had bought a new bag when I was on Foraker. Put it on the credit card.

Thanks, I am going to assume that they are all really dangerous and stay the fuck away. As far as the dynamite goes; it is not the only thing that is likely to explode if you touch it. I have done a couple of mine cleanups, and there are all sorts of chemicals common in mining that are very unstable after sitting around for a while. So I guess I would like to add dont touch anything in bottles, or tins if you go in to a mine.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't exploring old mines exceptionally dangerous?

Climbed in t-shirt all day Saturday and sunday. I love Smith in February.

Who gives a shit. All the movies are complete crap anyway.

Has that spinner below the motuh been replaced yet? Dont know. I guess I will find out.

Monkey Space

I've never done LR, but from what everybody says, this seems to be the case...the crux is the length of the route and keeping an eye on weather, etc, since that can be tricky from tha side of the mountain. Being in good shape and moving quick are probably your best bets. I would second the NR of Adams recommendation. You get nearly 10k or vertical from trailhead to summit, it's a reasonably long ridge (*nothing* like LR, granted) and you get altitude. I did it in like half a day, so if you are in shape for LR, you should definitely be able to do that. Is there any real glacier travel on the N. Ridge? Is it a good solo?

?? i have a hard time seeing the similarity between the two, but i guess i've never actually seen liberty ridge w/ me own two eyes...i certainly wouldn't consider luethold's as a classic Agreed. Leuthold can be done in hour and half from illumination rock if you are in decent shape. Go climb something you want to climb the week before. As far as acclimatization for altitude goes climbing something the week before is likely to make no noticable difference.

Dude that sounds sweet!

Or you could pass on that and just get drunk.

Probably, but it is not a very effective weapon in a solid form, so it is most often found as a liquid. Until someone comes up with an effective dispesion tool then ricin is not a very scary weapon. The exact colors of these types of compounds is kept somewhat quiet so the stupid masses dont start sending talcum powder in envelopes. Oh they do that anyway. For example anthrax is almost certainly not a white powder. There for allowing first responders a very quick tool for figuring out most hoxes. Although anyone with even the slightest scientific back ground would know where to look to find out the answers.

Although you may think it is easy to identify sugar from anthrax or other possible terrorist weapons, it is not. Keep in mind that touching it or tasting it are not an option, so you have to do other things to identify it. Sugar happens to be one of the more difficult things to identify without scientific equipment. Talcum powder however is very easy to rule out. Also it is somewhat understandable that their are so many incidents given the medias hype of antrax, and the general publics complete lack of knowlege of anything.

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