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Erik- You may well already have climbed it, but it is not Rattletale.

Bingo, Off White. Washington from Ellinor. Here is another:

It is not Mount Thompson. Hint #2: I believe Fairweather and Off White are among those who have been here. There is a trail to this point, but not to that point in the photo.

That sounds about right. I was just kind of fantasizing that maybe I could take an easy weekend trip in the Train Glacier area.

Philfort: Wanna go? I might be interested in a return visit this Spring. There is a lot of good skiing up there. Dru: Do you know if RR Pass (Hurley River Road) is open this winter?

Dru - I'm having trouble going back and locating pictures that remain "unidentified" for a second look. Where in this thread is the "butt shot" posted?

Dru - You got it: Mt. Thiassi. Maybe you haven't bothered with it because it is too easy?? The mystery picture was shot a couple hundred yards uphill from here:

Jordop - The peak is much closer to Pemberton than Bella Coola. In addition to the class IV scramble, it has at least one eight to ten pitch rock route, 5.10 or so, on good rock.

By your definition, "exotic." But it is almost certainly climbed several times a year and would not be termed "exotic" by a Coast Mountains officianado.

Nope. Many many miles from Black Peak, in fact.

Lots of you have stood where this photo was taken and the peak shown in the photo has been discussed on this board.

It is not Little Annapurna.

philfort- True, there are a lot of mountains in the Coast Range that look something like that. But I figure somebody has a reasonable chance of identifying it because of the Baldwin link. I would venture a guess that Dru has stood at the exact same spot that I shot from, and maybe one or two others who post on this board.

As ChucK notes, two of mine are still unidentified. I'm not ready to give up on you folks yet, but I'll give some fairly generous hints. The first: Big hint: an almost identical shot appears in Baldwin's "Exploring the Coast Range on Skis." The rock on which I sat to shoot the shot is granite or something similar, with about a 300 yard class IV scramble to a fine summit. The second one: Big hint: the rock is, I believe, part of the Mount Stuart batholith.

Of course you are right, Winter, that technical climbing in AT boots with a hinged crampon would be better than doing so in Telemark boots, with a flexible foot and the binding extension out front.

Another:

Jon - Good cheap food is a definite plus. How's the staff at the Mustard Seed?

Might it be the Wine Spires? Burgundy - Etc.?

Forrest: He said "fifty" of us. I figure, this means it is probably not 5.10 but it probably IS in Jim Nelson's book. The rack appears too small for - what is it - the 4th pitch of Liberty Crack. So hmmm...

Good one, Phil. I was going to check in the Red Book but I think you might be right. Proper? Are you there?

Gearhead has a good point here: the light-weight aluminum ones they sell at PMS are good and the weight saving's a definite plus if you are looking for some crampons for general ski-mountaineering. However, those are hinged crampons and when I have tried real technical climbing with telemark boots and flexible crampons I have been very unhappy with the performance. For steep water ice and mixed or technical rock climbing, I use completely rigid crampons with vertical frame bars (I have Grivel Rambo's), and they turn my Scarpa T-2's into a fairly decent technical boot (the forward cant and the high cuffs are less than ideal, but overall they work pretty well). I am sure I will destroy the crampons if I try to use this rig for expedition climbing or even if I just log a lot of miles on them over a number of years, though, because I think the rigid crampons are not designed to be used with flexible boots.

Forrest- Are you asking about Off White's picture? It does look as if it could be some of that Wa Pass granite. I haven't done Clean Break.

Is Bill's shot the West Ridge of Stuart

Cool, Off. What is it -- 15 miles in there? Would it be worth it to haul skis in there in the spring?

Not Kendall.