Bronco

I nominate Alex and Dave for Snaffelhound Tarzan Awards!

look at me, here is my secret place I won't tell where it is either!

well now I gotta see it!

finally got around to measuring and doing the conversion since I don't own a metric tape measure, and it's 68.58cm from end to end.

might want to check this out: http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2003/02/26/news/01bridgerbzbigs.txt bring your longhandles too!

Just like those, I guess it's called the "Guide" model.

My wife wore these just twice and decided they were indeed too small. Euro Size 38 or US womens 7. Green Superfeet Insoles. $90.00 OBO email: ryan@rpmcousa.com

I just finished reading "Mountain Men" and it covered the first ascent of Denali and first several attempts. Anywho, most of those guys wore "mukmuks" or some Eskimo calf high mocasin type boot made from seal skin like these: that's what I'd wear, or some plastics.

an appropriate comparison of Iron Mike and Jacko http://espn.go.com/page2/s/bona/030218.html

Just get 'im in the ring

At what point in time did boxing become a glorified version of bigtime wrasleing? I still remember the good old days of sitting around my grandpas living room with my uncles and male cousins watching Ali defend his title in 1980. I hate what has happend to boxing in the last 10 years or so.. . Anyone want to fight Tyson? All you have to do is take a dive in the first minute of the first round. I bet Ali would still take him.

probably safe to assume the harder, run out slab routes at Static Point and Darrington are still in need of FNAs as well as Watusi Rodeo, Drury Falls and the E.D.M. route on Index.

So I stopped in the Pattagucci shop last yesterday in Seattle and checked the Dragonfly out. It appears to be made out of crepe paper with a DWR over it. Even on sale, I couldn't pull the trigger, this may be too light, indeed. Coincentally, this weekend I also came to the conclusion that all of the most light weight, high tech stuff in the universe won't help me.

In your dreams big guy! We would've been doing good to get half way up the couloir before dark!

I understand the scariest might be the view from the saddle between the North and Middle peaks of Index.

Spanker, this sounds an awful lot like whining. Considering the lack of snow and bounty of good weather days we have had, I have no sympathy for you. The weather and avvy danger shouldn't be as bad east of the crest. Go to the MOUNTAINS and come back with any kind of trip report!

No thanks, those hammers were pretty cool though.

how 'bout $30.00 OBO and I can email you a picture if you request one.

here's some nice cheap patagonia pants for $59.00 http://www.patagonia.com/za/PDC?OPTION=PRODUCT&merchant_rn=7385&cgrfnbr=125323&sku=83625

4 lost on Rainier not hard to find By Todd C. Frankel Herald Writer A mountain rescue team was supposed to find the four climbers missing on Mount Rainier. Fay Pullen, 60, of Kent stumbled onto them first. She was skiing alone Tuesday in dense fog and snow when she spotted the missing four, including one from Mukilteo, at an elevation of about 7,200 feet in the Paradise Glacier area. She brought help with a cell phone call to 911. Pullen, wife of King County Councilman Kent Pullen, was surprised to find television cameras and reporters when she came off the mountain. They wanted to talk to her. "You go out often enough, strange things happen," she said Wednesday from her home in Kent. Pullen goes skiing twice a week during the winter. In the summer, she takes longer climbing trips. "I'm in the inner circle of crazy people who climb mountains," she said with a laugh. Pullen woke up Tuesday hoping to ski at Snoqualmie Pass. But the pass had no new snow, so Pullen decided to head to Paradise on Mount Rainier. She found an ambulance, a rescue team and reporters in the Paradise parking lot. Two climbers -- Chris McGinnis, 50, of Mukilteo, and Quang Than, 47, of Newport Beach, Calif. --had been missing since Sunday. Rescuers didn't yet know that two other climbers -- Karen Arkin of Berkeley, Calif., and Bree Loewen of Seattle -- were also overdue. Pullen pushed out on her telemark skis thinking for a moment she might find them out there. Near Cowlitz Rocks, the fog began to fade. The snow was new and unspoiled. But she saw fresh ski tracks up ahead, skied toward them and saw four people sitting on the rocks in the sun. They didn't wave to her. They didn't call out. Pullen was puzzled. There were supposed to be only two missing climbers. "Are you the lost climbers?" she called out. Two of them replied, "Yes." The other two said, "No." In fact, they all were lost climbers. Pullen told them about the rescue effort. "They almost seemed a little surprised there was so much fuss about them," she said. She called 911 and helped coordinate the rescue effort. Pullen would go first, pressing down a path with her skis. The climbers would follow. Rescuers would begin walking up to meet them. Everyone was safely off the mountain by 8:30 p.m. They were all in good condition. Only Arkin was treated for minor frostbite of her fingers. Pullen has seen the other side of a mountain rescue. On a cold, sunny day in January 1997, she slipped on an ice field on Granite Mountain at Snoqualmie Pass. She slid across 400 feet of ice before her crampons caught in the ice, breaking her leg. She couldn't move an inch. She called 911 on her cell phone. Six hours later, she was flown out in a military helicopter. So Pullen knows how the four Rainier climbers likely feel at having rescuers called out. "They are probably very grateful," she said, "but also embarrassed."

me too, except the less used expedition/cold weather gear, it sits in an "organized" pile in the attic.

Fill me in, what's a "New-Zealand-style picket"?? and the link just incase: http://www.yatesgear.com/climbing/ice/pickett.jpg I have a couple of these guys and like them alot, they are a bit lighter than the "T" style

nice TR, good job getting up there with a new partner!

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