Joe_Poulton

That sucks...I don't know where the post is now...but could his fall be related to the bad bolts that were posted previously at an area in Australia...?? I think there was even a video of the local climbers pulling the bolts out by hand??

In the "rainy" PNW down is not the way to go...you're wet and then really cold. Synthetic is the best. I use the Mtn Hardwear Chugach powder pant and the Mtn Hardwear Belay parka (now made this parka way) Synthetic retains a lot more warmth even after it gets wet....I've sat out a lot with this gear and only my base layer and shells on under...keeping perfectly warm.

There's ice on Hood a pillar of water ice I think I'll hit...

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Good thought...this is why I start with as little as possible maybe just a speedo and run to warm up...then I add a layer or two as I get higher and colder. My system has never gotten wet...3 layers: first layer of polyprops or just some Dickies and synthetic shirt. Second layer: softshells, which even in a full on rain climbing Needle Peak in BC Fall has kept my Dickies totally dry. Third Layer: Synthetic Parka and pants Mtn Hardwear Belay Parka and the Chugach powder pant to sleep and remain static and warm while drying the inner layers if they even got damp.

Well, I'll have to plan a meet up with you when I use my Warren Miller free day....

Nice shot...I'll have to ride that this winter!

Do you mean Friday the 23rd? I have Thurs/Friday off. My own gear. I could drive up from P-town...

Here's a previous Cascadeclimbers with a pic

Thanks...where do you normally ride? If you're near Portland, OR we should get some turns....

Actualy...I don't know why I wrote Havoc...they're the Zealot..

[img:center]http://poultonimaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/_mg_1752-640x426.jpg[/img] I want the snow already...and the ice. Can't wait to laydown tracks with my new Dukes and BD Havocs! Just thought I'd start a thread on the fresh...where is it this season? The above image I took last year.

cough* cough* (shyly raises hand and braces for personal attacks)....I read it! My subscription to r and I has ran out and I was going to renue cause the last 3 times I went climbing and had a full car, dudes in the back loved reading the old issues stuck behind my seat and their Ouuuus and Ahhhhs reminded me how damn good it is in the wider format. PS, I love the pictures Joe, don't stop or even slow down!!! The stories, however, CAN (but aren't necessarily and often are not) examples of what is being discussed here. Thanks for the vote Billcoe....I don't plan on stopping...unless a bear steals my gear...

Wow, I never knew so many people didn't read or like Climbing, Rock & Ice or the like...Climbing for instance based on the Skram Media report I get in my email says that their readership has had a dramatic rise in the recent quarter or two and is still increasing....these readers must be all the "newbs" since none of the climbers on here read it or subscribe...shit I must be paying my own paycheck by subscribing to Climbing to study the "pretty" photos so I can take better photos and get published more often. This is sad... My inspirations for my photography are guys like Micheal Clark, Boone Speed and Gordon Wiltse all who have been published numerous times in various mediums... If I find someone to step in front of my camera and I do the image justice with my "skillz" then I want to submit it. I hope no one has issues with the photogs that shoot the "media whore" in an attempt to make a paycheck..... ideally I want to write about it too...

Damn, I have my Healthcare Provider CPR tonight...

I wish my shoulder didn't get tweaked....sounds like you guys had fun...yodeling and all...I've got to go back.

Damn thing....just got sick this morning...some flu thing. Otherwise I'd be there.

Don't know anything about the "Bone Cairn"....

No...the failure was worse then that...I retweaked my shoulder on the first pitch of the Nav Wall...it sucked I injuried it canoeing a few weeks earlier and thought it had healed. First trip in awhile with a pack too...need to train more...then again I was packing some of my camera gear too...I was there Wed/Thurs. I left a bright yellow piece at the first pitch of the Nav with old retired biners...I was there with Marc...

I went to Slesse this last week...but due to my inactivity post surgery the climb was unsuccessful...however, I got a good panoramic from the cairn. If anyone wants a large image format to study the face let me know.

Good to know Glenn's still around...whatever happened to his website? Here's another spot for his stories: http://www.spirituallyfit.com/volume1/issue4/stories/g_williams_rainier.htm So did he finally do Hood...when I met him on Pilchuck he was having trouble getting permits?

Since everyone is ranting...unrelated to Slesse...I once hiked in Snow lakes trail for the Black pyramid and hiked out Rat Creek in the Enchantments...it was hell. Turned a minor day into a 17hr rush with exposed 5.8 soloing up and down moss covered ledges above deep dark voids of nothing and log highways through devils club...it was a wonderful experience for me...though my partner won't let me live it down since it was my suggestion to take the "faster" becky trail out....go do it...winter would be easier cause you could just ski out...

Aren't you a bit early? ha...nice. I like being early...

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They've been climbed...room for more. I can't find the site with topos yet. But here's an old thread. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/609509/1