Stefan

parenthood never ends.....congrats on this part of your life.

I think early June is a good time--only if the weather cooperates. As others have said, I recommend a backup plan for the eastside of the Cascades. The weather does not cooperate in June as much as it does from mid July to mid September. With early June you have: Higher elevation brush beaten down. The alpine rock is free of snow. And you do not have to deal with annoying scree. some mosquitos With May you have: Pretty much most brush beaten down...but appearing. alpine rock on steep faces is definitely gone..but some cracks and crevices have snow. Could have snow showers. Do not have annoying scree. not really mosquitos, but may appear With July you have: The existence of brush at all elevations on the approach. The alpine rock is free of snow. You have annoying scree. Mosquitos. BTW: Hottest time period is usually end of July to first week of August.

1) CBS. Sorry to hear you leave. I do enjoy reading your posts. 2) Sorry we did not do more alpine together. 3) Make the move to Cali an opportunity. 4) Yes, you deserve the respect of being told you are laid off. 5) I will not make the mistake that others have done to you.

And then this graphs shows the accumulated number of days it has precipitated since 1982 for each of the days in each of the months from Nov 22 to March 8. Once again the data shows the best period is February 25 to March 1 with that first two weeks in February being somewhat okay, but definitely second in the choice.

This question intrigued me about the best days at Rainier. I am no scientist. Here is what I did, I took the SNOTEL data from Paradise ONLY since 1982 and found the daily precipitation from Nov 22 to March 8th every year. I then accumulated that daily precipitation for each of the years. For example I accumulated the precipitation for January 8th from 1982 to 2007. I then graphed that accumulation to show which days had the least amount of accumulation of the years and tried to see if I saw "weather windows". Here is my conclusion: I am wrong in my original estimation of the third week of January being the best month. The best time is actually February 25 to March 1 for the least amount of accumulation. For second best it appears the time from February 2 to February 14th appears somewhat consistently lower. A better analysis would take more snotel data from other snotel stations around Mt. Rainier, but I don't want to spend the time.

Agreed.

You know I would like to know if her husband just said, "You know I just don't want to communicate with you any more. My priority is with the guys at the pub." Or what if he said, "I am not doing any more chores around the house." This woman sucks. Sometimes sex with your spouse is not the greatest thing. IMO you should still do it with your spouse, for your spouse, which means you do it for the relationship. Just like turning off the television during overtime of a great sports game so you can listen to your spouse during a difficult time. Buck up bitch. This woman is selfish.

Awesome ride in today. Cold but still inspiring. The sunrise was gorgeous. And by the way I solved the answer to my cold weiner. I bought some shorts that have more padding up front. Problem has been solved! W00T!

lost mine for 15 minutes at Snoqualmie Pass yesterday. I could not imagine what 2 hours must have been like. Glad to hear it did end well.

If you look at the current weather forecast, and current conditions, it looks like I am right. AGAIN!

ditto

I drive by this place all the time and looks like a decent operation: http://www.northwestembroidery.com/ Its about 3 miles drive off of I-5 at Fife. Stefan

I suspect there are two reasons for this. 1) The reporters following the candidates have already reported on the positions of the candidates. Therefore reporting AGAIN on their positions is NOT NEW news. The reporters know so much about each candidate there is nothing NEW. 2) The candidates are doing so many things, they cannot devote enough time every day to every news outlet. Therefore the news outlets you are consuming cannot say anything about the positions, becuase they have not had time with the candidates.

one person I estimate is over 200lbs. About the 5th time he went out he told me the decking starting tearing away from the snowshoe. It happened when he was out. It pissed him off from the money he spent. The other person is probably 180. same story. But I think it was half way through the season and he was out maybe 10 times in my estimate. This person now goes by the plastic denali ascents which I use too. I had the first year of the denali ascents they came out....and they finally broke last year....so about 7 years? and I am a hard core user.

I had a great tailwind. It was like the supple hand of Denise Richards spanking me on the buttocks.

my opinion. anyone over 180lbs should not get MSR Lightning shoes. I have seen happy people that are small use them and swear by them. But I have seen two big people use them and have had nothing but trouble. I hope you aint above 180lbs.

I found through many jackets that my repellancy last longer if I do not wash it. It does not matter what techno repellancy anybody tries to sell me. The less I wash a jacket, the more repellancy lasts longer. But I do have to say that the trick to washing less is to stay cleaner.

I have always observed that is the third week in January.

I have 4 different trip report on Bandit. PM me and I can give you the detail. I can't remember which routes these people did. They were all done in either spring or fall I believe and not any class 5 was found. I do believe one group did the ne couloir.

If you looked closer and read the contracts, the resorts cannot disallow people on the property whatever they do, unless it endangers other people. Why? The ski resorts are all leasing the land from the National Forest Service. The land is public land. The patrollers can tell you what they want. You can do whatever you want outside of the leased land. It's your life.

For me its the top of the manhood, and so I have gotten used to it. Even if I wear rainpants over my padded shorts I still get the same darned effect.

I have always felt sorry for Joseph. Had a wife, but never had fun. Had to think once in while, what if my wife.... Then his kid would always tell him how he sinned...and the kid was ALWAYS right. Oi.

Excellent post. Sometimes it takes others a lifetime to make this realization. I hope you do not lose this perspective.

What do you wear to keep the head of manhood from freezing? I don't seem to have a good enough idea to have a comfortable ride.

that is funny!