Joe_Poulton

This is a crappy winter to climb....damn air inversion.

Only a few more moments left as the world changes....Hooray.

I was up there yesterday. The snowpack was hard and frozen. However, If the top layer softens more and water percolates deeper into the pack there is a 6inch layer of blue ice a few feet into the pack. In some areas the ice is exposed...If you start walking on less then frozen snow. Be aware of a possible avy danger due to the ice layer.

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Get your shopping done in Kamloops on the way, if you don't plan to go into Canmore...Revelstoke, Lake Louise and Banff are on the steep side of the price tag.

It is a good place to boulder in mountaineering boots....but it's too easy in rock shoes...

Who wants to live a boring "rat race" style life....not me. Climbing is fun, just as Scuba Diving is fun....oh, boxing causes brain damage...that's why Mike Tyson bites instead. We all die, and through climbing we can dream of the fountain of youth. As we march forward to a certain future of an intangible reality.

I'm looking for two people interested in getting up on the south slopes of Hood before the snows hit for a bouldering photo shoot and to test some of Vayu Wear's gear. You'll get to keep the gear you wear and then Fredric at Vayu would like feedback. Anyone interested PM me for more details. Hoping to do this in abut 2 weeks during an afternoon / evening?

AFSP American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Walk Oct 11 starting at the World Trade Center Towers in Portland Oregon at noon. I just wanted to let everyone here know about this event. Working with the AFSP has helped me deal with my Uncle's suicide who took his life about a year ago. We are trying to get a Portland Chapter started. I know Seattle has a group doing the same thing up there. Thanks

Ride the Interurban Trail to Larabee State Park along Chuckanut Drive...enter the park, cross the tracks towards the water...stay left/south at low tide boulder a plenty...at high tide, cruise along the railroad tracks...Railroad Wall, a Fist crack to finger crack, the pink wall...walls along the water. The ride out and bouldering after a work day or school day will keep you in shape.

I'm a Grivel fan myself...after I got sick of trying to lead WI with my Chalet Quasar tools, I picked up the X-Monsters and love them for their narrow shaft profile, inexpensive price tag, durability...if you're climbing hard routes eventually you need 4 tools anyway if you break a pick. The X-Monsters are the cheap way to get that done.

I saw you two riding up the hill below Government Camp...and thought how awesome that would be...great work!

Definitely sad news, heard his name in passing moments. However, never met personally. I wish the best to his family.

Definitely pay attention to the snowpack as it builds. Don't go up if a coastal front is coming...unless you're positive you can get back to the start in zero visibility.

I like the Mountain Hardwear Belay and Chugach combo...had many mid winter open bivouacs in Colorado with this set up...extremely warm.

I found a stopper on Beacon Rock above the SE Corner in the jumbled Class 4 areas in a random crack yesterday...left for apparently no reason. If you are missing a piece left at Beacon...describe it.

Thanks for this info Jon To the rest...I was not asking for green leafy trees...Last time I crossed the border they made me throw out my food...so here's some fungus.

Thanks for this info Jon To the rest...I was not asking for green leafy trees...Last time I crossed the border they made me throw out my food...so here's some fungus.

Anyone have info on stores to get Mountain Houses/fuel and various other goodies on the Canadian side of the border? Driving from Portland, OR to Bellingham, WA through Hope, BC to Lake Louise, AB. Thanks

I'm glad my intro to Mountaineering years ago with AAI out of Bellingham was a lot safer (in my mind) than that....it's like that Patagonia video shot in Siberia/Russia/USSR...where ever it was...no boby climbs with ropes, gear or even shoes and people just fall off sometimes...

That's why I play on the South Tahoma Headwall, Success and Tahoma Cleaver areas...no body there. There ways to get away from people. That is for sure...however raising a price dose nothing. Everest cost a shit load and because of it less people are willing to help the struggling individuals on a given route. Like said earlier...pay for upkeep of what..it'll just blow up anyway so what the hell are the fees for, just so someone can have a cool job in the woods.

That is all that needs to be said...amazing the mountains are and will always be the beginning...

http://www.metskers.com/ Metskers maps in Seattle is a good place to start. I got my map of Robson there a few years back...they have connections. There's also a good shop in Denver by Schooter Joe's and the Funky Buddha, but I forget the name...or website...I say get a good map that hopefully doesn't lie and go with an open mind...maybe you'll find a new ice flow and climb a new route???

nice spot...looks like fun white potential...

Go to Nada Lake scramble up the Talus to the Northside climbs and travel west to north of the pass...there's some cool domes below the Black Pyramid and Prophet areas...when I went in there a few years back permits were not required to camp in the northern areas...then you could drop to the southside for a climb...