mattp

quote: Originally posted by klenke: You might also want to purchase a Washington State Gazetteer mapbook since it will give you a good overall impression and reference for the general area The USGS North Cascades map is pretty good for this purpose, although it gives elevations in meters.

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: Was there a midnight climb? Sorry we missed you, Scott.

Sorry - can't get the code to work.

Here's a photo of the area. The hut is just to the right of the moraine prominent in the lower center of the photograph. [ 10-21-2002, 07:24 PM: Message edited by: mattp ]

That'd be good, but a kegger at the Keith Flavelle Memorial hut would be even flabber. Its a bit of a drive from Bend, perhaps, but you can get to the trailhead from Seattle in 5 hrs. (at night) and the Adams trailhead is at least 4. The hut sleeps 20 or more, and is strategically located below dozens of incredible ski runs - both above and below treeline. The ski in is only 3 1/2 miles and 1200 feet elevation gain, so a small alpine buddy -- 7 3/4 gallons -- could easily make the trip.

Yeah, but we could go to "the manliest place on earth." Just ask Brandon: click here [ 10-21-2002, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: mattp ]

Crackbolter - Check out the DeLorme topo's on cd.

From some webpage: "Another restaurant that formerly was a hole in the wall has moved up to bigger digs. In the University District, Schultzy's owners Don and Susan Schulze have taken the plunge, spent $425,000 on a building and spent $125,000 more converting half of it into a 60-seat restaurant. With the larger space, the couple have added beer and wine on tap, upscale hamburgers, and some low-fat vegetarian fare to their signature sausage dishes. "

Erik showed me the autoblock this weekend, and it seemed both easy to use and effective.

Can they special order Terminal Gravity stout?

I always wondered about that place - it's right next to a metal annodizing plant or something like that. Kind of like the Barbeque place on Elliot that is in an old dry-cleaners.

The Ballroom has been pretty good all Summer, but I'm not sure it will work as well for us if we have to move inside. Owl and Thistle was the scene of the most recent Seattle pubclub. Anybody like the Zoo? or that place in Roosevelt? Or Two Bells?

quote: Originally posted by sayjay: thanks for the awesome stout, TG! you're *my* alpine buddy of the week...

Sorry, I had left the "www" out of the URL. You're too fast for me, Dru - trying the link before I even had time to test it. Go back to work! [ 10-21-2002, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: mattp ]

Additional shots of the party, and some climbing pics, are in a temporary folder on my webpage. click here [ 10-21-2002, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: mattp ]

For those who can't find the gallery, here's a picture of this weekend's ALPINE BUDDY:

Ding Ding Ding!

These things might save somebody some time, but without thinking very much about it I can see some real problems with the use of them. Here's a couple of them: Issue one: when do you activate the thing? When somebody is losing mass blood or just when you find that you are not going to make it down off Johannesburg tonight and you didn't bring bivvy gear and it looks like rain? (In the old days you would tough it out, but now you think you don't have to and you really don't know if you could survive a night out so you feel justified in calling for help.) Issue two: Will the prospect of a ready-to-order rescue cause people to try a climb that would previously have been too intimidating? Issue three: once you push the panic button a rescue will have to be initiated becaause if the signal thereafter stops they won't now if the unit stopped working or the user switched it off. If we want a rescue calling device, I'd be hoping they come out with a tiny satellite phone.

you...sliced up my wife; you sliced her up; you sliced her up!

I would say it might be more difficult. To buy and use such a locator beacon is kind of like saying you fear you might get lost (which would very likely be your own fault), whereas to buy and use an avalanche beacon is to acknowledge that you plan to spend time in dangerous terrain (which we tend to think is a reasonable choice, if you take "adequate" precautions). However, my recollection is that the use of avalanche beacons became standard practice among all the backcountry skiers I know within a few years of their release on the general market.

Leavenworth Cam: [ 10-18-2002, 01:47 PM: Message edited by: mattp ]