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Yeah Nice, Rampart Creek Hostel sounds like a good base camp, and close to the Parkway routes. Do you need to make reservations there, or is it walk in? Is it too late allready? Murchison, Polar Circus, and Weeping would be fantastic. Is that a realistic tick list for three days in a row? Also, I'm meeting my bros from Bozeman, so we'll have a party of three. Kind of slower, but they are ropeguns...

off the couch...no problem

Pretend it was your first ice trip to the Can. Rockies...If you had just three full days to climb ice in the Banff/Canmore Area, what routes would you climb? I'm going the weekend before Thanksgiving. Anything up to WI 5 is ok. What is a good game plan? With only three days, I hope to avoid driving around and getting shut down.

There is no way that boot is 10 ounces lighter than this: I can belive that it is warmer though. Maybe it is 2 lbs per boot, that would make more sense.

we need a kill the cat icon!

Adrian posted the link to his web site in the ice conditions forum, check it out. It seems like a cool concept. I'm not sure I fully understand how it works... Personaly I like a simpler system. I use the flexible La Sportiva S with Grivel G14's on all kinds of ice routes and it works just fine for me. I think the crampons alone stiffen the boots up enough.

I'm not a kayaker...but perhaps he slammed a rock underneath which knocked him out. From what I hear about Ben's strength and skill, I can't imagine he couldn't have bailed if he wa concious. Maybe it doesn't help to speculate.... As one who just lost a close friend to a watersport a few weeks ago, I can sympathize with you. There is nothing much in this world that feels worse. Take care, Matt

I saw it on Oct 27th from the N Ridge. Thin ice smears looked like they could be linked, and lots of rock. But alot could have changed since then. I'll try to get my photos developed.

Allways celebrate his life.

jim could be syearing you away for a reason...

Hey rbw, You might get some good turns in at the highest elevations around here. Mt. Mclaughlin, Brown Mt., Mt Ashland, and Mt Shasta will be your best bet. Keep in mind this was our first real snowfall, so you will be skiing on top of volcanic shale with a 17" base, possibly less since it may have melted some. Expect pretty wet snow, which makes for a good base, but less than good turns. On Sunday my wife and I drove up to Mt. Ashland with our mountain bikes (14 mile downhill singletrack to our doorstep)... But with almost 2 ft in the parking lot we felt pretty stupid. People were pulling skis and boards off their cars and here we are with bikes...everyone was laughing at us. I pulled a U and gunned it through the wet snow outa there. What a gaper move! Thats ok, 500ft lower we were ripping moist mud.

Frightenly beautiful, amazingly scary looking... I see a haul bag, did you haul and bivi on it? Just curious...looks like bad mud hauling taboot...

John Ramuta picks up and delivers orders at the Redmond Vertical World. He or his families cobblery should be able to take care of them for you.

hmmm...what does a whisperlight stove have to do with Trad climbing?

I have an Andinista...is there anything else? Only bad thing is the straps loosen on their own. But mine is the older style...

I can't even figure out what you're trying to say... You can't placement a shit just by looking at it...duh.

I don't work for BD, but maybe because the Viper is not an "Alpine" tool

I can pretty much check all those off the list, except: -car is more expensive than the rack...barely. -I wear scholler pants... -No desert towers yet, unless Red Rocks counts... -who the hell is larry panteberthy????

my vote... Bali is good for a party, but Thailand and Nepal should be visited by everyone who loves climbing and adventure.

....uh...I meant to do that...

...whoa...

you are not a trad climber until you have climbed in Yosemite...

More than half is pretty steep. They are trying to expand it to add more green runs...how sad but lots of the ashlnd liberals are against the expansion, it is sort of a hot topic around here...

I'd rather have a wee hill than no hill...I think Mt Ashland is way better than any lift served access at notsnowquality pass, and not far off from Stevens. But mostly I'm just glad that it is 20 minutes from my house with no traffic bullshit to deal with....