Stefan

Duct tape is useful for things that break in the backcountry, but how to bring duct tape without bringing the whole roll? Rap duct tape around your ski poles for how much you think you need. Can also rap duct tape around MSR fuel bottles.

some a little more challenging than a walkup...but might be fun with the kid as it is minor scrambling Mt. Forgotten Del Campo/Gothic Sperry Mt. Pugh Breccia

Go with Denali Ascents. I have a friend who weighs about 180lbs and broke the fabric on the Lightning Ascents on the second day out. I have heard of rumors of other people breaking on the fabric too. But I also know someone who weighs about 120lbs and loves the Lightning Ascents.

I have a closet in my house that is 20 feet long by 7 feet wide--that's where I keep my stuff I have shelves for everything I hang all my clothes and sleeping bags All my climbing hardwear is hung on a pegpoard--I have found the pegpoard extremely helpful This organization helps me out becuase all I have to do is visually "scan" for something and there it is. I have noticed that I rarely forget anything becuase I can see everything when I pack.

i wish disco would be back in vogue. i feel lonely.

Oi! I did not it was that mucho dinero.

Yea, that post does seem suspicious....but the fact of the matter is my wife is a sexual offender therapist for adolescents....and the stories....well, they are interesting.

And how much does a newest fighter jet cost? I think $60million? If that is true, you could build 6 of them. I think 6 fighter jets would be more worth it.

you would be surprised how often this actually happens around the Puget Sound area--when they are caught. Juveniles do it most frequently, but the news outlets do not report on these activities. hay bails are the preferred method of choice for getting up there.

hey that's pretty cool thanks for sharing

hopefully they will cut police for less traffic tickets!

bouldering is still the truest sense of climbing. its just you and the rock baby! crash pads are aid.

Its fine in September, not too hot, not too cold. You just have the problem with a potential hurricane...but anywhere in the Carribean has this potential problem from about mid August to the end of October.

a) Thailand beaches sun she can belay you b) Belize beaches sun sea kayaking c) Kauai beaches sun stay in a yurt on the north side

great way to get that thing. still amazed it took you three hours to go almost 6 miles in the valley. great work

I wish I could have started at 5.10b as a new climber.

this actually is good news. what it means is: It will be too costly to run the justice system, so laws need to change, so they only keep the really bad people. One result, the legalizing of small amounts of pot. Its coming.

It can be done...but won't happen. The only way it can be done is to eliminate the amount spent on national defense. What percentage of the tax revenue do the Swiss spend on national defense?

Same with me. However, I would like to point out I am thankful for food and the roof that is over my head, my wife, and my children. I don't think I should complain about being worse off with those types of benefits. I just want the war to end.

In my low 20’s and starting on this climbing thing I went with a partner to do Hall Peak just outside of Silverton up the Mountain Loop Highway in June of one year. We parked at the Big Four parking lot and we got a non alpine start. We started up and of course came through the ruthless tangle of Pacific Yew trees. For those of you who do not know, the Pacific Yew tree is the most difficult type of brush in the Northwest to get through—more difficult than Devil’s Club, and of the ubiquitous Slide Alder, and Vine Maple--in fact the yew tree is associated with death in mythology due to its poisonous nature. It took a bit of time to get through the yew section and we did find some rappel slings, which made us happy somebody else had a low IQ as us. After the yew tree mess we wound our way to the top of Hall Peak seeing a bobcat. It was late, and we needed to get down before dark and a decent time or our wives were going to call search and rescue. So we thought it would be faster to go down the north side to Silverton and hitch a ride to the Big Four parking lot. So we went down. I don’t know how we did it, but we had to start doing rappels. We had to beat the darkness encroaching. We moved fast at setting up the rappels but we were inefficient due to the amount of brush we were rappelling through in the middle of the north face of Hall. On the second rappel, I lost my wedding ring somewhere in the middle of the face. The fourth rappel we were tired, and the sun had it last gasp, but I could see we were close to the bottom. I couldn’t see below me due to the brush and I did not know if the ropes would reach. I threw the ropes, and went rappelling over, not knowing how far down I could go, but I just went for it. The ropes did not reach the bottom. However they stopped right in the middle of a cedar tree with an 8” diameter trunk that was sticking nearly perpendicular out of the rock face about 40 feet above the bottom of the face. If the ropes were 10 feet to either side, we would not have made this tree, or rappel. We hung on to that tree for the final rappel. It would have been funny to see to people hanging on to a tree about 40 feet above the ground. We got down. Now it was completely dark. Take out the headlamps. Only one, and it was fading…Then we had to go out via Silver Gulch. For those of you who do not know, Silver Gulch is a Washington State Slide Alder tree farm. Now try negotiating through Slide Alder in the dark with one headlamp between the two of you, getting worried your wife will call Search and Rescue on you. We got out to Silverton at 1:00a.m. and we were able to hitch a ride from some gangly looking teenagers and to a phone around 2:00a.m. to let the wives know that we were out. The wives had indeed called Search and Rescue about an hour earlier. The epic part comes into play when you know you can make it due to the conditions, but you aren’t going to make the “time” and the wife gets worried—that feeling makes the time feel like days.

glad to hear you okay. too bad about the clowns interceding your peace.

cool to see you and John S pointing the camera at each of you.

It is a forecast for every 5KM square area. And yes it is true. For example, click on Stampede Pass and mark down the temperatures for the forecast. Then click on Lester, and notice the temperatures forecast. They will be different. They haven't done this before for locations that are so close together. It is just starting. In the future will be precipitation and wind too.

The reason for the new format is that they are trying to get to a forecast by each of the 5KM pixels. They will give forecasts for precipitation by each of those pixels in the future. Seriously, I was told this last year by the national weather service (NWS). NOAA doesn't actually do the forecasts, it is officially the NWS. The NWS is a subsidiary department of NOAA.

several people have done the entire traverse in a day. The only problem I had were on two peaks: 1)Pinnacle...I did not need rope, but others have definitely needed ropes to descend. 2)Unicorn. Low class 5 for a short section. I did not need rope on the way up, but needed for a short rappel. recommendation: take bike to trailhead to Unicorn, and stash bike in trees. Drive back to Longmire and ascend trail to Eagle, then do the traverse, and then down to your bike, which then you can ride back to Longmire.