Alasdair

I will second the excellent climbing conditions on hood right now. Was up there this weekend and managed to hit the summit three times via the West crater rim, Leuthold and the hogsback. Leuthold was in really good shape mostly ice for the last 1000 ft.

There is nothing down low... obviously. But... There was considerable ice formations on rock areas higher. Anything facing north seemed to have alot of ice. For example all of the rock cliffs on the right side of the shoot up to the tooth were totally covered in relatively thick ice. This could make for some good mixed climbing. I Think that anything steep on north aspects will have a pretty good covering of ice. It looks like there has actually been pretty good conditions up there for the formation of ice routes. I could see N face of Snoqualmie and it looked like it could be in. Not just a little but fairly fat. I am almost positive that the NE slabs route on the tooth is in. I have no idea on chair peak.

Yea thanks specialed, anyone else?

Any one know if there is anything climbable up at alpental right now. I am heading up there in a little while to get out.

Rat - One thing to think about with your support on cutting to supress fire. It doesnt do shit, it is a farce. In a forrest fire generally the lumber (i.e. the part of the tree that the logging company wants) does not burn. Even in really bad fires (see pictures of yellowstone). When you go in and strip all of the limbs off of a tree, leave them on the ground to dry, and remove all of the lumber it actually makes the area more likely to burn. This is a bullshit argument that pro logging is using to up the cut in our forrests.

And 50% of that 40% probably does not understand what unilateral even means, and for that matter could not point to the middle east on a map.

As a citizen of either the US or the UK you are expected to make your own political desisions, whether or not they agree with the politicians of that country or not. I happen to not agree with war, because it will not be seen as liberation it will be seen as an attack on a muslim country, and will end up making the world a more dangerous place for us, not a safer one (my opinion here). FYI: I happen to be a US citizen.

FYI: No one cares what the queens opinion is, and considering the overall human rights record of the British Royal family, I would not be supprised if the queen wanted to drop A-bombs.

Trask, most of your posts simply border on the retarded. Do you ever think for yourself? Or have you always sprayed out of you ass, the regurgitated shit that you here on right wing talk shows. You seriously need to do a little reading and educate your self on some issues. Oh and BTW fox news does not count. Try these sources... www.bbcnews.com http://www.economist.com/ Or a little closer to home www.NYT.com

Makes no difference to me anymore since I have not been to a gym or a sport crag in a year, and dont really care to.

I dont really remeber exacly but I believe the hold was just after about the 4th bolt maybe the 5th right in the seam. It was one of those nice big holds that you could layback off of. Now you have to do a little traverse to the left on tiny little holds to get up.

Easier on top rope? I dont know what you are talking about. I highly recomend going when it is in the 40s. The tiny edges on that thing do not take to warm rock shoes very well. I think it snowed just after I got to the anchors.

Top 3 routes... All alpine 1. Project unclimbed ridge #1 2. Project unclimbed ridge #2 3. Project traverse

Hey Col. I broke one of the biggest holds off of Zebra seam about 2 years ago. It is considerably harder now. Let me know when you get close to getting up it and I will head down and break some more off. Good luck that thing is pretty hard.

With all this avatar talk, I decided to change mine to send a wonderfull message of hope to all.

yea, good point.

And this from a guy who hacks websites on his PDA from a table a the Latona..... Get a life, Al! btw, anything going on this weekend big guy? Avalanches are going on this weekend. So I will be spending most of the weekend recovering from hangovers. Want to join me.

Unlike most climbs at vantage the route did not have removable holds. It was a really fun pillar climb that had some face face moves mixed in with lots of "slapper" holds on the sides.

My name is muslimhacker. Mr. Dru completely right. Many of you are prejudice against my people. You think we not smart. But I only 12 years old, and I hack computers from internet cafe in Algeria. You must be the one who hacked adamsons site. I knew those muslin extreemists would get us all eventually. Huh maybe the US should start a war to stop you guys from hacking meaningless web sites.

I am not sure that area would be the best place to hang out this weekend after 24 inches of new snow on top of a nice solid snow layer. Not to mention not being able to find the ice because it is burried under all the new.

I climbed that thing a couple of years ago. I acctually thought it was one of the best climbs at Vantage. I only got on it once however. It was really fucking scary.

A question for some of you Hood regulars... What do you think the conditions on the North side of hood may look like this weekend? Avi, snow, etc. Climbable?

weekend you dont sound like a racist, but trasks comment makes him look like more of an ignorant fuck than I seen on this board in a long time.

Smokey stays the same, they are just going to change his image to apeal to the younger generation by having him drive snowmobiles, ATVs, and the occasional logging truck.

I like it better than the old one.