Stefan

You are REALLY tired. I can tell from your writing. You kept refering to the "south face" of Big Four. YOU were on the north and east faces on that mountain. I like the hole you dug through. I wouldn't want to be you taking that picture seeing my friend making a cornice weaker AND being underneath it. That takes balls....

I work for Pokemon........and Magic.......and D&D.......

Today I thought was going to be a normal day at work. Instead HR organized an event where we are to "kill" other departments with these nerf guns--throughout the day. I am getting paid for this.

Dwayner. Dwayner. Dwayner. Everybody loves you. Nobody hates you. Found any relics similar to Queen Hatchupson recently?

Okay, so you guys think he's a jerk for killing his son--probably from not able to control his anger. Yeah, I think so too. But I am sure he didn't mean to kill his son--that's why it was manslaughter. He has to live with the fact that he killed his own son with his own hands out of his own anger. That kind of thought would put me in a depression forever.

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=wdig12&date=20030212&query=Loretan Check the bottom of the page for the story on Erhard Loretan I felt sorry for Erhard Loretan when I heard about this....

Here is a picture taken from Trapper's Peak on Sunday towards the Pickets from a friend of mine. Inspiration is above and just to the right of the guy in the red jacket. You can see the west ridge. http://www.mtnmike.com/pics/trappers/cookies.jpg

Glad to see this close call ended up positive Chuck. Really.

Wow. Great job! I really like the picture with the short sleeves! Short sleeves in the first of February!

Colin and Forrest. You have no concept of what pain is do you? Your efforts make me look a child. Congratulations. Amazing.

I am truly impressed. I don't even have the balls to get to the base of that thing.

I know the roads in there are complicated. Do you have detail on the roads? Like any numbers, distances, take a left at the road that has a snag? Kind of thing to get to the base of South Twin sister. I have been interested too in the South Twin and would appreciate any information.

Congratulations to the both of you. Would love to here how your estrogen weekend works out.

35 is low. I just took mine. I am at 51 typing this right now. I was at 75 in early December 2002 just when I had my casts taken off my legs. Since I have been doing my therapy I work out 6 times a week with 50 minutes doing aerobic activity. So....it doesn't take long to reduce your hear rate..... I suspect though I need to start working on some aneoribic activity to get "the endurance power" back.

And how do they get up the Baltoro in winter? I bet they go in the fall, set up their camps, do little acclimitization climbs, wait for winter, try climbing the damned thing, then wait till spring and the porters to return.

I see exactly what you are talking about. I will wait for the pictures. Thanks for the beta.

I realize you had cornices on the east side with deteriorating weather, but did you guys ever get a look at the NE ridge?????

The last word in "REI" is Incorporated. Legally, REI is a corporation.

Man was not made to touch every part of this earth. It is okay if we leave some places untouched.

Klenke: Could you take a look at the NE Ridge of Lewis when you are up there? I would like to know what it involves. Send me a trip report when you get back! I would also like to know what the east aspect of the north ridge you are on looks like. Thanks.

See, this is what pisses people off about the news industry -- it's more important to break the story than to get it accurate. You can do a lot more damage by passing along unconfirmed reports than by waiting until you know something or a fact, regardless of the bragging rights of being the first to break a story. Tom, I agree with you. I hope the news hounds follow this thread. Accuracy is more important than speed. The newshounds should say until they have accurate information, "An avalanche has occurred in Revelstoke where people were involved. No deaths or injuries are confirmed." What ever happened to "confirmation" of information?????? Didn't the Washington Post wait on publishing information until it was confirmed by a second source at the beginning of the Watergate incident??? This is why TODAYS news sucks.

I don't have the physical therapist knowledge or what "freeclimb9" says, but like I said in my earlier post.....I have taken out runners on climbs, and I have taken out people who mountain bikers. The runners suck on climbs. For some reason the runners just don't have the power. This is why I do not run and only do a stairstepper or bicycle as training. Just pure observation. By the way, the mountain bikers have kicked my ass on climbs.

Bicycling to Aconcagua and back is going to be easy compared to getting off of this damned continent and going across the seas with only human powered aid.

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I went to Home Depot. Nobody knew what Barge cement was. Where in this megastore would I find this? Plumbing? Painting? ????????