Stefan

Passion, excitement, and confidence are the important medicines that you need every day. Dr. Phil is the Buddha reincarnate

Everybody, please listen to what Dr. Phil says. Please.

WORST RAPPEL By far the Bedayn couloir off of Goode. Don't do it. Jim Nelson's book makes a bad recommendation.

My recommendation: Go to the memorial. Then go climbing. At the memorial you will probably hear other people talk about your friend in the same manner as you thought of him--those are nice thoughts.

I've met the owner of Nunatuk. Nice guy. He dropped the ball on this one. He admits it. Glad he took ownership of dropping the ball. Not many Americans these days take responsibility for the actions that are taken....always want to blame it on somebody else. I don't mind if it was posted here on the internet. You think the quality of cc.com and all its spray postings will detract the market from choosing Nunatak gear in the future? I don't think so. Many of you have responded quality things about Nunatak in previous postings. Those quality postings are currently outweigh the negative postings.

You're a sick climber. You are definitely trying tough stuff in my opinion.

DWAYNER! I HAVE SEEN YOU CLIMB THE BOLT LADDER ON MONKEY FACE......AND YOU CALLED IT "CLIMBING"

The SPRAY section of CASCADECLIMBERS.COM is exactly like the mall. Believe me. It is the same--it just looks different. YOU ALL JUST A BUNCH OF MALL(CC.COM) RATS LIKE ME!

I just want to know why some parks are free and others are not. Logistics makes sense. I think the White House is also part of the NPS but not sure, and I don't know if they charge for the tour there also. Dwayner....you know as well as I do, that if you enter MRNP park BEFORE 7:00a.m. and AFTER 6:00p.m. THEN IT'S FREE!

Did you see a helicopter in the Logan area on Saturday or Sunday?

Good for you! I have always thought that climbing one slight grade above what you can do until you feel comfortable with that grade would be the best way to improve. Of course jumping several grades up and then doing what you did works too! P.S. This should not be in spray. This is a legit climbing question.

I found the Dolomites one of the most picturesque places I have ever been to. The climbing looked great, but the access to beautiful women, good cheese, awesome bread, and no bushwacking just enhanced the experience.

I can decipher between Mike the Ranger and Mike the Sprayer. Mike the Ranger wears a uniform and does not know anything about the website cc.com...... Thanks for the info. I might contact them.

I did it last year. Took trail up to base of Eldorado. Traversed the glacier to the 8000 foot notch in the Tepeh ridge. Traversed down to the 7600+ col between Dorado Needle and Tepeh Towers where we made camp. Then traversed over to about 8200 feet on the north side of Dorado Needle. Then went up about 60-65 degree snow over an almost disappearing bergschrund to the ridge. Had solid low 5th class climbing to the summit on the ridge proper--about one pitch. We downclimbed the snow but had pickets to help us becuase it was one full ropelength. Back to camp. All in one day.

You will find less people in the Olympics. And more expensive.....unless.......

Have fun whatever you do!

Chaval?

I did Hozomeen in under 12 from Hozomeen Lake. You can get to the base of Cathedral in 4 hours on a bike from the US side... I would have to vote for Mt. Crowder as unattainable in 24 hours one way. Another vote for unattainbale in 24 hours one way: Mt. Childs on the Bailey Range at this location. No fair with skis. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=5295382&e=456225&s=25

Hey Mike, do you know why some NP installations have free entrance fees and others are not? I am not complaining. Just wondering what the policy is. For example, I don't recall paying for the Pearl Harbor thing--which is they way it should be for this facility. I know there are other NP's around the country that you don't have to pay for, I just can't remember their names. Not sure about the Statue of Liberty..... I know the money collected from the entrance(s) of MRNP goes into the general fund of all NP's. What's the policy why some NP's charge and some don't for entrance fees?

Well my wifes are too big and she complains about them being too big. She says they are a pain when she jogs. She wants surgery to reduce them.

1) cascadeclimbers.com 2) Canada is jealous

Alder Smoke kicks ass. Canjun is addictive but my tongue feels the pain.

There's nothing wrong with trying to fly, unless you happen to be a beagle instead of an eagle. I wish Dr. Phil was one of my climbing buddies.

I have done the traverse. I don't know if we did it right though. We dropped down NE off the South Brother (one or two rappels necessary) into the basin. Traversed north to the North Brother in the basin. Went up a couloir and then went climbers left to the summit of the North Brother. The last section of the North Brother was either class 4 or low class 5 and we did use a rope. This was many years ago so my memory is foggy. We then thought going straight downhill to the East Fork of Lena Creek would go back to camp. Wrong. It did go, but we had something like 3 full length double rappels where there were semi waterfalls occurring on both sides of us. I did NOT like those rappels. We should have headed more north to the headwaters of Lena Creek to head down. Lena Creek was the standard brush bash back to camp.

I thought you meant Backbone Ridge in the North Cascades.....