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    Deceptive Marketing

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    Thanks for your help guys.

    I wonder if any crampons out there are approved for running on concrete stairs. Maybe some of the crampons designed with the mixed climbing in mind would be ok for this type of an activity.

    How do climbers in Europe train for these routes? They should have it rated like the Teleferique Du Beout goes at TC (teleconcrete) IV or somthing....

    [geek]

    Ice on lower N. Face of Bear Mt.??

    in Alpine Lakes

    Posted

    While driving the Index - Galena Rd about 1 mile west of Garland Mineral springs there is a long, 2 tiered waterfall (maybe 400') that drains into the N. Fork of the Skykomish River on the South side of the river. It faces the north and the bottom elevation is somewhere around 1500'. I know this sucker must have frozen up at some point in time and wanted to fish for some beta particularily on the best approach other than swiming the Skykomish grin.gif" border="0

    Deceptive Marketing

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    While cleaning my garage last weekend, I came across a stack of literature, disclosures and warnings that came with climbing gear I obtained over the last year or so. I always put the paperwork in the pile to be looked at “later” (when the weather gets like it is). Anyway, I noticed the bottom line of the paper for my wife’s Grivel G-10 crampons says “ Crampons can be damaged by walking on rocks or running on the teleferique’s concrete stairs”. I am 100% serious people!! We probably would not have selected these crampons knowing this.

    My questions to you are – What the hell is a teleferique? Is this justification for returning the Crampons? If you can’t run on the concrete stairs in the teleferique, why bother?

    power trip

    in Spray

    Posted

    I get it - rightous dudes are on a "power trip". Sorry I'm a little slow today (like I'm not every other day).

    Spray Away! [geek]

    [ 12-03-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

    Avalanche Statement Up

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    OK Lammy-pajami, I'll bite [chubit]

    It means I would expect most climbers to know that despite what the avalache forecast is it may or may not apply to a particular area (where you are climbing) within the forecast zone covering everything from the crest of the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, please use your melon [geek] and assess conditions yourself (snow pit, Rutschblock, weather, terrain, etc...) I can hardly think of a worse way to die than being smothered to death with only a few inches of snow between your face and life. shocked.gif" border="0

    Anything you would like to add?? confused.gif" border="0

    (I heard you have never been on a glacier) tongue.gif" border="0

    Cornices?

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    More info Terminal Gooseberry:

    You probably already know this stuff, but I thought I would put it out there for the benefit of other gumbies. [geek]

    There are some diagrams on page 490 in Freedom of the Hills relating to judging fracture lines based on how "mature" the cornice is. Seems that the older and more snow that is built up, the fracture line grows more verticle in realtion to the upper surface of the snow, and the cornice becomes more unstable, obviously.

    Personally - cornices are really intimidating shocked.gif" border="0 , it's not a matter of if they will come down, but when and where do you want to be when they do? (probably not inside them thinking, "oops") However, if a very experienced climber is totally in tune with the stability of the snowpack the tunneling can probably be performed with some degree of safty. But not by me! [hell no]

    turkey weekend epics?

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    After successfully hunting and baggin a nice little noble fir x-mas tree in the N. Fork Skykomish drainage the family and I were headed down HWY 2 to Zekes Drive in for some lunch and HOLY CRAPOLA I SAW ZEKES BOULDER!!!! I swerved onto the shoulder and slamed on the brakes much to Mrs. Bronco's astonishment. It is huge and right next to HWY 2!! I mean you could spit your gum or flick a cigar butt out the window of your truck and hit that thing. I don't know how I missed it when I went looking for it, but, geeze I must have walked right over it.

    [geek][geek][geek]

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