thelawgoddess

i doubt conditions would have been much better there. it's only like 10 feet to the left, eh? too warm = snow chunks. i miss my high altitude dry stuff! hopefully tomorrow will be more inspiring - i'm going to rent some alpine boards so i can ski the chunks better!

well, not really impressed with snowbird. i mean, it's fun skiing and all ... but it lacks something.

i've had more trouble finding open do-able routes at index than at vantage. on the sport routes there you can skip bolts. (duh.) and most of the cracks at vantage aren't bolted. (duh again.) comparing index and vantage is like ... well, see above! having fun definitely is what counts. luckily we all have a little bit different views of what fun is ... otherwise we'd all be at the same crag lined up at the same climb.

that's what i meant!!! hey, wait a minute. very funny ...

sorry about your fishies.

that would suck to have your internet celebrity status taken from you like that!

what's wrong with choss? people climb that shit all the time out in the real world. vantage wouldn't be my first choice of a place to climb, but neither would smith or index. vantage has it's own particular set of charms and can be a lot of fun.

crappy!!! that is so NOT cool. :-(

what a spectacular route description!

woolite. front loader at laundromat. lay out to dry. that or: use ice climbing at the ouray ice park. lay out to dry. both work well, but the latter is cheaper and way more fun!

thanks, other erik. ;-) oh, and i'll be skiing newskool-style on my oldskool tele set-up of newskool skis.

thanks, erik. i don't mind hiking for the good stuff, but for such a short trip i'm not going to pay to ski alta when i can ski snowbird for free. i'll be staying in park city but i only have two days to frolic so i doubt i will be doing any sightseeing. will definitely try to hit the city up for fat tuesday though!

i'll be driving fast. i'll be heading for the bc backcountry ...

yeah, right. you probably weigh as much as me.

nah, rumr; your ropes are just too fat!

False advertising; stay at Indian Creek or come up to Washington so we can climb in Squamish. why don't you just come up to squamish so we can climb in squamish? i'll be there by may ...

wow; that makes smith kind of sound like fun.

whoa; yeah ... wtf?

i didn't ask you where else i should go! thanks for nothing ...

the more you tell me not to come ... the more you know i'll be there. see you in the spring, dru!

check your pm's ... :-)

turn_one, check your pm's!

that's too much work!!!

lots of blue ice down here in colorado - pretty water ice.