To_The_Top

Crazy!! You can't see those storms approaching from the west, on most of those routes. Glad they are OK. TTT

Marymoor, easy to get to and more room.

Riots in the streets of Portland over Bush being there. Looks like WTO a few years ago. DFA seen on the hood of a police car.

Phish is good road music. Swedish rap is good too, if you understand it that is.

quote: Originally posted by Dave Schuldt: Did anyone happen to pick up my reflective leg band? I thought you couldn't go more than a 100 feet from the phone or it would start beeping and an automatic call to the probation officer would bring the cops there. Sorry couldn't make it. TTT

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: The Emmons is in good shape also, although you have to travers very far left to get around the upper bergschrund. I was up there last weekend and that was the better alternative then, the right was a bit of a pain. The route was good then both ways. Congrats on getting past the Cougars, I hear they are in town this weekend.

Dru, I thought you worked all the time. I wonder how many CC.comers where at the Hempfest and not climbing. I heard they had a hut setup like the one at Muir. I shoulda gone to help them reenact the day.

Hey Drew, How many of those 20 guests were your avatars? Nice to see the Canadian gov't is paying triple time to some to work on Sunday! Recovery after a climb is nice with a bottle of Chardonney on the deck in the sun! Nice day to enjoy the waterfront!

Check your Personal messages....I dont know if it is a help. TTT

Sibley creek approach is easier to get permits for the Triad area too, when the other approach usually is "sold out". The main problem was finding the "obvious decent gulley". Better views too. TTT

I heard on Rainier a very similar incident a week and a half ago on the Emmons, according to Rangers this weekend. No other details but know how a story changes by hearsay. Read the AAC accidents every year and as they always say NEVER glissade with crampons on.

I joined a few years back for a few reasons. The main one is the rescue insurance, when I hear about those pesky climbers costing the taxpayers comments from people I tell them that I have rescue insurance, it shuts them up while I still pay for their stadiums. You also get the publications they put out. Also, there is strength in numbers when it comes to politics, and they do lobby some. There are reasons not to join, like the $75 a year dues, but members get some discounts.

Nah, you can take your bike from Tacoma and up to Paradise, with all your climbing gear. Camp in the meadows (rest) and hike to Muir, smoke some stuff and climb to the summit for a 14k day. You can do 14k in the lower 48. TTT [ 08-12-2002, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: To The Top ]

We'll have to teach him to climb, he has the right attitude. O'ya, Social Distortion is the best. Maybe Trask=Twight

I also own the Ice Floss, and it does stay very dry on glaciers for a long time. I have rappeled on a old one retired now and did not like the elastic aspect of it and the fact I felt like I was on a string of yarn. Ive used these ropes on med to low angle glacier travel and feel that it is perfect up to 3 people and maybe a little short for 4. They are nice and light. TTT

Masking tape across the front with your CC.com name written on it, or if you follow write it backwards.

Nice job and nice TR!

One thing that amazed me was the stellar forecast that changed so quickly that weekend. Hindsight is 20/20 for sure, and I think it is great that Lambone has come on and offered all aspects of what really happens in a case like this. TTT

That is one cool pic! Which way did they go? Nice mountain. TTT

Take this to some chat room, or better: battle cage!

quote: Originally posted by Goat Boy: Nice job, AllenB. Winds have turned around many parties this year on several routes. Would you have bailed if RMI wasn't on your route? I bet that RMI did turn around. They wouldnt go up in that. AllenB, good job, how was visability? I climbed with a friend two years ago in very similiar conditions, but the Ingraham Direct was in. There was a cloud cap and most of the parties turned back above the cleaver, then RMI turned back. That left just us, and we had to crawl the last bit to the summit. We had the entire mountain to ourselves and it was so windy that most of the time we couldnt hear each other yelling to each other. Fun! TTT

The rangers at Jenny Lake are way better than the ones around here, well except a few and of course the climbing rangers at Rainier. The animals are very bold, lower down we had a buck nose through our base camp at night, a mouse drink itself to death on wine that was left in a open Nalgene, Moose (2) blocking the trail the next morning, and they were mean. Oh yes the lightning for sure was a hazard up high, it actually started a forest fire a quarter mile from us. Someone got struck on the Exum the day after we got out. Absolutely beautiful though, and make sure you eat ribs when in town. TTT

Chronic Gumby!

quote: Originally posted by iain: welcome to the f'ing club gumby. Gumby!