fredrogers

I've used Dave Page, John Ramuta and James at Cascade Cobbler. Page's crew fucked up a pair of shoes, Ramuta does/has done excellent work, and James does work on par with or better than Ramuta, but faster and for less. Yeah, I'm a local, but I'd still send my shoes to Ramuta if James didn't do as good/better work for less.

Cascade Cobbler in Mazama. http://cascadecobbler.com/ James has done 2 pairs my shoes and done excellent work.

From the East side- Snow is decent to good above 5,500-6K from the Methow side. Some rugged snomowing to the hairpin on 20. Did not want to push our luck on the Liberty Bell paths, all 3 went big. YMMV.

Softshell pants/jacket. Both size lg, black. Sherpa insulated s/s pants, lightly used $50- ankle zips. . Helly Hansen jacket, no hood, NWT, $75. Spark R&D Splitboard bindings, Restraint binding from 07-08, both split and resort plates. Some wear on straps, one custom pin, still very serviceable. $175. Paid $450. Ships from Mazama WA, can do pay pal. Pics if you are interested (lost my camera cord).

PM sent on Intution liners.

The cheapest hands down is the Idle a While Motel or the Blue Spruce Motel in Twisp. Do not expect much at either place except for a cheap place to stay. Best Western in Winthrop is reasonable, as is the Mt. Gardner Inn. I think the Rolling Huts in Mazama are pretty reasonable if you can deal with walking to the toilet at night. If you have a large group, try Timberline Meadows Cabins In Mazama or perhaps some of the cabins the Mazama Country Inn offers. If you coming between New Years and MLK weekend, you can likely wheel and deal on pricing.

Telemarker- I think there was some for on injunction or something like that with Dan H. If I type in Dan - and don't space out the letters the last name doesn't show.

Don't forget Dan H o w i t t. That was a doozy.

The return of Dan H o w i t t?

You joined the site 4 days ago and you're laying the newbie smack down? easy cowboy or girl.

I have a 2002 Outback- bought it 4+ yeas ago. Going from 58,000-114,000 miles has required very little outside routine maintenance, some warped brake rotors, that was about it. Pros: super reliable, with studless snows and AWD that thing is a fantastic snow car (with 1 exception), lots or room for gear and I can sleep in the back at 5' 10" with pretty broad shoulders. Gets decent mileage and as TimL showed this summer it does close to 100 MPH pretty well when loaded with gear. Cons: clearance. I was following my bro in his Forester on some pretty rough FS roads this summer and bottomed out a few times where he was fine. My main bitch, since I live in snow country, is that the wheel wells get plugged with snow easily. If that shit freezes its a bitch to clear.

Hewitt- Here's a plug for the North Cascade Mountain Guides here in Mazama. They offer a 3-day glacier travel training course for $550 a person, which is a heavy focus on the skills you'll need for climbing glaciated peaks. That breaks down to $183 or so a day. I think a summit attempt is extra, but they are good guys and it would be 2:1 instruction. http://www.ncmountainguides.com/glacier.asp

I think you missed my point.

Sweet fucking jesus. I can't believe I have wasted minutes of my life on this thread. I can't resist anymore, although I knew immediately who Dane was talking about. Submitdouchebag- Shut up. Shut the fuck up. Seriously. Stop posting. Go climb some shit for your own development and not post about it. Try some humility. Try some silence. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result. For the rest of us, let's not feed his pathetic narcissism that craves any attention, even if it is in this negative vein. I have to agree with Drep that a big reason I don't contribute to this site very much anymore is the pointless drivel that predominates the user generated content- in the last few months from this particular poster mostly, although one can also easily tire of Dwayner as well. I'm all for a site to share beta, conditions reports, beautiful pics, gear reviews, etc. But this pointless drivel is tiresome.

size?

There are a few of us splitty/bilers in Mazama. Worth the drive for sure. Get in touch via PM if interested.

Climb N Early Winters, fix line, rap down. climb S Early, rap down, grab line fixed to N Early and jug back up the the top of S Early. Fix line. Commence traversing. Scary as hell I was told.

breathe deep, chill out.

Little spits of drizzle today- after yesterday's deluge, but totally climbable. Brisk, with winds 10-20MPH and temps have been 40's in the AM and right around 60-65 today. Looking at the NOAA forecast for the weekend, I'd say you'd be able to climb all weekend in Mazama- Prospector dries super fast, as does the Fun Chunk. FWIW- I climbed Prime Rib last Sun and just a head's up one of the belay bolts at the bottom of the last pitch is missing- with a long cordalette you can sling a pinch off to the right.

Nope. It's in the Ross Lake NRA which is part of the Park Complex. It is also the most heavily used "part" of the park, so highly patrolled.

Same goes for Ballard and other camp grounds up Lost River Road. If you have a trailhead permit there are a few undeveloped spots at Robinson Crk. TH that are "free". Early Winters will be your best bet if you are headed to the Pass, though. There is a new breakfast spot a ways down from Mazama at the Rolling Huts (aka Wesola Polana) that does great food with bottomless coffee for about $6 per entree. Opens at 8:30 and has wi-fi.

It is super fun. Can be windy up high and bring some long runners for the traverse pitches. and approach shoes for the scramble between P8-9 and the descent. 13-ish raps with a 60M will get you down just fine. have fun!

Skinned in and climbed the SW Coulior today. What started off as 5-6" of decent pow ended up getting hammered by the sun. The SW Coulior is in great shape but a bit of a wallow- there is a nice trench up it now. Here are some pics of the Becky route- my zoom wasn't working, but the 3rd pitch was plastered with snow. The Coulior was a fun wallow. Definitely nice to have 5" of snow over the verglas in the top 100 or so feet. Set off a small slide on the lower steep bit on the way down. Photos are in the gallery. Maybe some smart person can get the links to work here. Was snowing pretty hard by the time I reached the base- forecast is calling for a little bit of precip each day through Sat.

Delightfully so.

I have used both extensively over the past 3 years. Globalstar if awful, unreliable and a waste of weight in your pack. I would only use Irridium because they are super reliable, even if more expensive. Texting from your base to the phones is free and a great way to communicate on the cheap. Don't be lured in by the heavily discounted rates for Globalstar. You will not be able to get any kind of reliable comm with them...