Lambone

Isn't that the "Far Side" I tell ya what pope, you chop those bolts and those two wingnuts will be in the same pose up at WA Pass before you know it...they will anyway...I taught them to climb at VW and told them all about how cool the Alpine Trad climbs are...and even told them there are some Alpine bolted climbs in Wilderness Areas...some rated only 5.10b! Shit they crank 11a at the gym...they will be there soon enough, it's all inevitable. They will be secretly toting Bosches up el cap to re-bolt Charlie Porters classic lines next season...with fat 3/8" and Metolius hangers of course. 1 down, several to go... "Damn it must have been alot of work drilling all these fat bolts by hand... "

BOLT THIS:

check yer pm's

well...the bolt/crappt rivet/ or whatever could blow, causing you to zipper the other crappy bolts below it... or your crappy rivet hanger could break... or you could fall out of your aiders while trying to top-step and break your daisy chain... Not that i have done any of those things. I don't know anything about the route, just relaying something I read to folks who know Smith...

Saw this post over on rockclimbing.com and thought some of youguys might be interested... http://rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=768143#768143

...they hold the mast straight. Hey what kind of boat do you have? If you look at my Photo Gallery you can see a pic of my "Brio." Sorry to hyjack your thread bigwalling, good luk seeling your metal, did you check with the local shops? they might be interested...

don't go there dude...

For your sailboat? hahaha Right on Bigwalling...that's cool your making stuff, I might hit you up sometime...

Any feed back on the new Womens version of the Nepal Top Extreme? My wife just bought a pair to be used for both volcano glacier tromping, and moderate ice climbing. In the past she has had a real hell of a time with cold feet. Pretty much a show stopper for us, and were hoping this boot will work better then the leathers she's used before. Trying to stay away from plastics...'cause she just doesn't need that much of a boot. Main concern is that they will be too stiff for walking on approaches and stuff... They fit real nice, she says, but she's still on the fence about keeping them. Anyway, just fishing for opinions...thanks.

How long have you been doing this?

Talk with Matt at a shop called Four Winds in Queen Anne...

great photos, thanks for sharing!

I woudn't recomend Power...i ruined a good pair of crampons with a dremel once, too easy to get carried away...

cool, so when do you graduate high school? just kidden man sounds fun. i think trying to explain why I climb is one of the hardest things to put into words. "beacause I was climbing with erik" is a good excuse to have in the bag just incase you need to get out of a sticky spot sometime...

I use a flat file. My recomendation would be to not make them too sharp. If you make them razor sharp the point gets "rolled over" very easily, the sharper they are the quicker they will become dull and the more you will need to sharpend them. And as the metal gets thinnner it is more likely to snap...and the sooner you'll need to replace them. Personaly I can't really tell the difference between super sharp pics and sorta sharp picks. Totaly dull picks with the sherp tip "rolled over" totaly suck though... I've never bothered sharpening the teeth.

Hey carolyn, good to see you around here again, it's been a while...? way to go ignoring those gapers. So many idiots bring so much ego to the crags that it's just disgusting...one of the main reasons i avoid sport crags these days, not that I don't like sport climbing, just that I don't like alot of the attitude you run into there... Anyway, warnings about deck potential are not necisarily a bad thing if done in a tactful way. If I knew about a route with a bad second clip and saw someone racking up for it who was unfamiliar with the climb, I'd probly mention something...like "Hey, carefull on that second clip..." But that's all that really needs to be said. After that the free advice is really just posturing. Once the climber is made aware of the risk they can make their own decisions... Anyway, glad you had fun!

It was totaly clear and sunny at Shasta, and the moon lit up the South Side like a spot light...but the damn wind was fierce and pretty much ruined the experience. Never had wind alone be a total showstopper...leave it to Shasta I guess.

This sounds like a thread you'd find on rockclimbing.com...

Tried to get up Shasta, got hammered by wind....

The I tent is too smal for 6 fters, go with the Eldorado if you go Bibler...

nice job Mike that is a HUGE day! have fun!

rat, both Cowan and Beehive will have some snow, but there will be dry routes on both peaks. Trailheads should be pretty well acessible. PM for more info, or for a contact for a local who knows both areas very well.

they walked in, he posted two seperate reports...

Thought this was pretty damn funny:

these kinds of questions are great and all, but it might be more appropriote to post them in the Alpine Lakes forum, or wherever they belong. That way people researching that area can find them easier. Just a suggestion...