Stefan

Dwayner told me this: If your feet are cold, put on a hat!

I have glissaded the couloir from top to bottom--in a light rain drizzle. Hell, people have skied the couloir from top to bottom......and Colin.....well.....Colin is several notches above my climbing abilities.......

Then maybe I was mistaken about his traverse. Sorry Colin. Or Bill lied to me about his accomplishment!

Timmy and Jon. I haven't ever said it, but you deserve it. Thank you for creating this online community.

Bill Sumner did a solo winter traverse. I don't know when he did it. Quote from Bill on regards to the traverse: "Stupidest thing I have done in my life"

I have heard of people doing that traverse.....I thought it was a myth. I have heard experienced Cascade folk talk about that traverse as a waste of time. Cascade couloir is not that bad in the late spring or early summer.

Mount Rainier may be separating the monopolistic guiding by RMI. I encourage everyone to go to the meetings to understand the history of what has happened, and maybe to voice your opinion if you agree or disagree with what has happened with the guiding company opportunities on Mt. Rainier. Is has been my experience that if you show up at Yakima, Ashford, or Tacoma you may be able to speak becuase less people show up at these locations. Here is the article from the Seattle Times telling the dates: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?c=1&slug=rainier29m&date=20030829&query=rainier The commercial guiding services plan for Mt. Rainier: http://www.nps.gov/mora/current/park_mgt.htm#CSP

I have a minivan. Toyota Sienna. It averages around 26mpg. What does your SUV get?

I don't like kissing a person who drinks coffee or just drank coffee. Their breath smells like shit. Literally.

I am married hope to keep it that way. But we will see. We fight. 50% of the fights are brought on by me and caused by my decisions or what I say. Ups and downs in a marriage. Right now going through a down period but not brought on by me. I hope the down period ends……. I don't think of divorce, but during those heated arguments I often think how nice it would be to eliminate the wife!

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I know some friends who did Logan on July 26/27 and they looked at the Douglas glacier and said it was in terrible shape at that time. This year with an 80% snowpack and continual good weather has enhanced it's demise. However, they said it probably would have been good during June to be on the Douglas Glacier.

MisterE. I know how you feel man. Remember, you never intentionally make a wrong decision. One night in November 1999 a friend and I were camping in my pickup at Bridge Creek trailhead when we heard a terrible crash at 1:00 a.m. We got into the cab of the truck and drove about 1/4 mile away towards Rainy Pass. A truck had flipped on ice and rolled. The father was cut up, the wife was hysterical, and their son was still laying in their truck (which was upside down). The father was really concerned about the dogs who were in the back of the truck not getting their diabetes shots. Somehow the dogs were thrown from the accident and the dogs turned out to be fine. Finally one car came and we told them to go for help in Mazama. About 1 hour later a paramedic car, several fire trucks, and a police car came. We let the pros take over. Went to bed at 3:00 a.m. Were were planning to do Liberty Bell the next day. I slept but I had dreams up the wazzooo about blood, cuts, and all the images I saw. We mentally couldn't do the Beckey route on Liberty Bell becuase of what we saw that night so we did something more moderate. I haven't forgot about that night.

I thought that was in October of 2001?

Good write up. Those boys will remember those hours for the rest of their lives, and have a good story to tell when they get back to school......"What did you do this summer?" Very happy the story was one where a positive ending happened.

I broke my talus last year. I have problems with my foot and I will have it probably for the rest of my life. Problems will get worse not better. Bottom line: Don't break your talus.

Even though I am taken, I totally agree. The same goes with a lot of single women. Single women are looking for good looking guys and HOPE they turn out to be nice guys to show mom and pop.....that's why a lot of women stay single.....as well as men....... DWAYNER: A long time ago, I went to a tavern in Tacoma several times that had the facade of a tea kettle. I really liked the place. They only served Rainier, Bud, and Miller when I went. Is that place still around?

I have also heard of people taking apart their stoves and putting it in various places in their checked baggage. The security is more interested in looking at the crampons. I have also heard of people taking their fuel bottles and filling them up with soda. The fuel bottles look exactly like the Sigg bottles that a lot of Europeans use for drinking out of.

The story has a hollywood ending! Heal thyself.

1) unhook the cables from your battery so they don't take the car 2) leave your car unlocked with absolutely nothing in it so they don't break a window In a past job, I had a coworker who told me he had a car while going to Columbia University in Harlem. The car was broken into almost once every three nights at the beginning of his stay. He got so fed up, he hired a homeless man and paid him $3 a night to stay in the car every night.

I think the worst fees in Washington State are in the Olympic National Park accessing it from the Olympic National Forest. 1) You need a trail park pass to park at the Olympic National Forest trailhead. 2) You need to pay for an entrance fee into the Olympic National Park. 3) You then need to pay for a nightly fee per person to the Olympic National Park.

Makes more sense carolyn since you knew the person was not coming back--you did not say that in your original post. I had to make some assumptions based on your original post. Hell I would have taken the rope too if I knew the person was not going to come back....I knew I would have returned it intentionally. But then again, I am splitting hairs and fucking bored.

I haven't done Stuart north ridge. I have done East Willmans. I don't know why I haven't come across booty either.....I don't have an answer. Maybe the peaks and routes I have chosen are just not popular with people.

So you've never taken a piece of booty in your life? Ever? Not even a sling? Or a booty cam? Either your lying or you don't get out much. I am not a cragger. I am 100% in the alpine. I never come across shit when I am out there. I would never take the shit either becuase then I know I would have to pack it out, and I try to minimize my weight as much as possible. I do come across slings--but I don't take them.

Not when you are bored.