Alasdair

If only chemistry was a required course for everyone. Who the fuck Seemed to think that Sodium Fluoride is somehow close in molecular structure to Dioxin? One is inorganic the other organic. They could not be any farther apart in molecular structure. It reminds me of one of the editors at a company I used to work for who freaked out when I had a container of liquid nitrogen in the office. She claimed she was very sensitive to chemicals and I must get it out of the office or she would have to leave.

Wayne and I had shells landing on the slopes near us when we were on Polar Circus a few years ago. Needless to say we both thought we were gonners.

As far as more marketable I think it will help you. As I understand it the more training you have the less liable you should have as long as you dont fuck up too badly. You should ask a lawyer about that though. You might also want to send a mail to AMGA about the liability thing.

An AMGA course is going to make people take you more seriously. I dont think you will regret it.

Yea It is quite likely your next step, and mike is correct you will learn a ton.

Yea Im not sure you are going to find many safe objectives this weekend. I guess it all depends on if the predicted friday snowfall happens. If it does you will have lots of new snow on top of wind deposits which equals not so good. If the friday-saturday snowfall does not pan out then go up to snoqualmie.

Why, just because the calendar says so? I would think if its Dec 20th and its 0 degrees and snowing crazy. Its a winter accent. I could be wrong though. Yep you are infact wrong.

Two guys in nice suites playing this game knocked on my door the other night. I offered them a beer a bong hit and some magic tea but they declined so I asked them if they were government spys who were out to get me, and they said no. Then they tried to hand me a book and I tried to hand them the bong and they said no so I asked them if they were government spys and they said no. Then they asked me if I had read their book and I offered them a beer and they said no so I asked them if they were government spys and they said no so I told them to fuck off. I guess I won the game.

Given the current avalanche forecast I think attempts at first ascents are a great idea right now. I am sure the 10 feet of new snow wont be any hindrance to your plans what so ever. http://www.nwac.us/products/SABSEA

I used one several times this summer, and was very impressed. Tons of room and pretty good in shitty weather. Nice and light weight. I did not use it in wind too much so I dont know how it would hold up. It is definatly on the top 3 tents I am currently looking at.

Dru is faced with another dateless night and his harddrive full of porn just crashed. Help him out Gary.

Because volcanos very commonly just explode with no warning and catch climbers by supprise. Wow climbing is really dangerous. I am staying away from volcanos from now on. Thanks CNN.

The only reason you are seeing steam is because there is curretnly cold dry air sitting over the mountains, and it is no more active than it was last week.

It is not preparing for an eruption. It is erupting and has been for over a year.

Ding! Ding! My new executive producer's philosphy: "If we don't have video, we don't run it." Oh and also more useless celebrity news!! I'm sorry, has anybody seen my pride laying around here someplace? Awsome! Looks like you are in the same spot I am. I just sent this mail out a few minutes ago. I think you know where I am comming from... >I am back working in the confines of stupidity. All of our test >machines are in India except one. I set that one up for testing >yesterday and overnight somone in inda connected to it and put a new >operating system on it. I can not use any of the machines in india >because everyone has gone home and they fucked up when trying to add >my permissions to them. They are so fucking slow that it take 3 >seconds to click a simple fucking button. I could spend the next >4.5 fucking hours resetting up the machine I tried to set up >yesterday so I can do some testing on a Japanese vista OS that I >don’t fucking understand because no one in their right mind would >put vista on a machine if they were not specifically testing to make >sure it worked, but in doing so they removed my permissions to the >machine. On a brighter note cascade climbers is quite entertaining >this morning. I really have no idea how *edited* continues to make >money. Oh I know they outsource absolutly fucking everything and >are able to pay for lots of Indian child labor to wait several >seconds for a pressed button to acctually respond, and 4 seconds for >the fucking mouse pointer to get from one side of the desktop to the >other.

Nothing is wrong with them, but lots of climbers for one reason or another find the club learning environment offensive. Sign up and enjoy yourself.

Quite sure I will get a lot of shit for this, but... They certainly have their place. http://www.spokanemountaineers.org/

Huh? Did you wake and bake? Set down the pipe and go to work now.

I personally dont think anyone would give a shit if this was three locals from the pacific Northwest. It happens to be that these are guys from Texass and NYC so everybody is shitting themselves. There is a just as tragic a story unfolding in China right with two very skilled mountaineers, but noone seems to give a shit. I guess they cant get the carnage cameras over there.

Yes it is worth it, and yes it offers a resonable chance to summit and do it safely. Take the training very seriously and be in the best shape of your life when you show up and you will have the time of your life. It is most often the people who do not take the training seriously or underestimate what it takes to climb Rainier that dont make it to the top. The emmons is a great route and quite enjoyable. I would say its a more enjoyable route than the DC, but that is always debatable. The only thing I would add is that from my expereince people who have never climbed before are making a bad desicion picking Rainier for their first climb. Its hard, and for most people really not that much fun. Most people are totally wasted when they get back to camp and end up with the general sentiment of that was great but I am never climbing again. "Im done" I personally think it is sad that these people invest money in all the gear and then based on one climb dont try it again. I think this is because they pick the wrong mountain for a first. Take a look at some other mountains first and decide whether climbing is for you and then go get the big one. I recomend Mt. Shucksan, Mt. Baker, or some of the moutains in the Rockies (not familiar with any that would be good, but someone else might be able to help you here).

The search teams are made up of climbers. We are happy to go look for other climbers in trouble. Believe it or not most of us on search teams enjoy having a chance to bail out of work and go up mountains even in shitty conditions and look for people. You clearly dont understand the first thing about climbing and I dont really expect you to, however your commentary and criticism of something you clearly know nothing about is obnoxious. Navigate away from this site, and go back to sitting in front of FOX news.

That was a fun day out. And it was Chris that supplied the beers. Heres hoping they stopped in a monestary and found religion and choose not to come back for a while.

Prick!

I am taking the dog up Tiger Mt. after work. I figured it would be a good place to check out the "storm". Anyone else got good ideas of where to go to experience the "storm"?

Ok dude, Several people have answered your questions. Your original question was a reasonable one. Your subseqent "Im a badass climber because I have climbed Denali" bullshit is getting tiresome. You should have stopped asking questions when you were ahead. You are now begging to seem like an ass.