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Hope its cold there in June if you do the headwall. I've seen that whole slope get swept clean from ice fall/avalanches at that time of year

Thats a great idea, I dont know the emails but maybe a call to them. phone #'s I'm sure they only hear about people complaining and dont always get positive feedback. Does anyone know the email addresses?

Well depending on weather Muir could be full (also depending on day, weekdays are better) True, it could still be winter up there in May.

Which route are you thinking of going up?

Now thats going out and getting it!

Ha härt för dum för förstå.

Call ya Senata!

Tyler, if you are talking about a winter Rainier then you might want to shed some light on your background, including a game plan. If you are talking about this summer, then you might want to ask later. I'm moving this to climbing partners. TTT

Yikes, where were you?

Well here is one from Baker: Picture I cant make it work here

Dru? Here Or if this doesnt work click link

Up at Cathedral gap we were just about to get off the glacier when we heard a bunch of clattering on the rock above us, and we werent really close to the rock. Look up at the noise and there were hundereds of boulders headed our way. They were spinning through the air and breaking apart and we were right in the way. It was down to the last second as we dodged them, it was like a bowling alley and we were the pins. Another case but not us: We were above the ice seracing area at Baker, and theres a bunch of people together down below in a group. One guy standing around maybe a dozen, looked like he was instructing them. Up slope from them my friend and I saw something...at first we didnt know what it was, until it skipped a few times. There were a few microwave sized boulder falling very fast, skipping every 40 yards or so, until we realized they were headed for the seracers that were pretty far away, so we yell "rock! rock!". Finally the instructor dude heard us and look up at us like we interupted him as the rocks sailed twenty feet right over their heads--they never saw them and went back to the instruction like we interupted him

How about "what was the weirdest thing you ran into while on a climb/hike/ski/bike ride?" I'm sure there are some pretty good stories out there.

s00b=Subaru, n00b

Yes we had bb gun wars too. When those got taken away we resorted to rocks, which proved to be more dangerous. Blow darts? we had them too. we would take a straw, then a needle with masking tape wrapped around it then rolled in paper. They had quite a range, not that i would know though

No shit.. We blew up a lot of canned food in the day. One time a can of peas was on the campfire all of a sudden. Plunk..plink....pliiiink! run for cover, the can just missed my friends head and actually dented itself as it impailed into a tree. Another king can of beans on the fire and run like hell, just as the concussion hits, destroys the fire and we get showered by beans for what seemed like minutes..beans every where. Could be deadly, and pailed by comparison to the bullets we threw in there.

Instead of throwing bullets in the campfire, try canned food. That stuff is dangerous and it would destroy the campfire and splatter food all over-worse than M-80s. Threw M-80s into mailboxes, shot bottle rockets from cars, or atleast my friends uh did Some childhood friends were into making bombs, and blow them up out on the playground. We used to climb trees as high as we could and hang onto the top as it slumped over.

One thing that was interesting is that Joe said they only had one knife, and if he had it he wouldn't cut the rope, and if he was Simon, he would. I think they were pretty hammered coming down, I am rereading the book and they were in bad shape coming down, as the movie illustrates.

Hroark Hows that Ted Nugent?

Maybe cc.com is getting more productive, and at work trask is getting more productive too

I hear ya I got laid off this week, second time in two years--both same reason, the company lost its funding.

Hey Catburd, I didnt get back to you about finding those keys in the parking lot for Pratt. Someone contacted me saying they saw the post on cc.com and knew the guy that lost the keys. He got them back, and was very happy.

I bet if you did theridge to the left (south) end of the lake (after following the Kindy ridge) it would be suck for skiing at that section, as it gets windblown, and a lot of boulders, maybe just below there seemed to be shelfs. Maybe better to go the other way around the lake, if avi conditions were ok. A great scenic area.