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PLUS, Outdoor Research should be stewarding the kegs of Pyramid Brewery at the Ropeup as well... they had heard about Rat's performance hoarding the group pitcher at last years ropeup, however, and he has been 86'd from the beer garden.

Press Release - Press Release - Press Release - Press Release Who: Rock climbers and members of the general public interested in rock climbing What: 3rd annual Cascade Climbers Full Moon Ropeup When: Fri, October 10th thru Sun, October 12th, 2003 Where: Bridge Creek Group Campground, Icicle Canyon, Leavenworth, WA Why: Fostering stewardship of the vertical environment. Come join fellow Northwest climbers at the third annual Cascade Climbers Full Moon Ropeup at beautiful Bridge Creek campground outside Leavenworth, Washington for a weekend of camaradie, climbing and communication. Participate in the trail project, gear swap, or campfire tales. Events planned for this fun filled event include: beginning climber toprope/mini instructional clinics, trail project, Saturday afternoon potluck, raffle to benefit the Access Fund and the American Alpine Journal, slide presentations and safety demonstrations, a pancake breakfast Sunday, and free gear giveaways. Event is FREE and open to all ages. Free camping at Bridge Creek Group Campground until full.Overflow camping nearby. Sponsored by: Cascadeclimbers.com, Marmot, The American Alpine Club, Omega Pacific, Outdoor Research, The Access Fund,The Pike Place Market News, Cascade Crags, Pro Mountain Sports, Second Ascent and the Washington Alpine Club .

friday, oct 10, sat, oct 11, sun oct 12. Camping Friday and Saturday nights. Look for more info on this site soon. still in the sponsor gathering/media blitz/ planning stages for this, it looks to be good. "fostering stewardship of the vertical environment," not "partying"!

the most valuable attribute one can find in a 'hydration' pack is that it can swallow a twelve pack without any hassle. The half rack serves as frame in the golite, and.... the regular msr dromedary bags are the most bombproof.

all you need is a tarp, you can wrap yourself up in it if you can't pitch it, use it like a blanket, but a 5x8 siltarp for one pitched low to ground is the way to go-packs up the size of a tennis ball! lightest, most breathable option, obviously not for Alaska summer trips but everything Cascade, THAT'S ALL YOU NEED- don't take anything more and you'll be okay... for two people a 10x12 is better. Learn how to pitch the darn thing, and get creative with how you pitch it, is my advice. bivies have a place, but not much, and tents have places but not many, and i'm just a dirtbag climber anyway who likes sleeping out with mother nature as the floor.

Met Greg Nickels yesterday, he handed me this really big check for five grand to buy a new 17" Apple power book and Adobe Indesign software- he's down with the Ropeup but hey, it's not IN Seattle! -just a little chestbeating here!

commercial businesses are well advised to actually purchase software they are going to be using! but the ipod, now that's a good idea... i'll look into the 23" Lcd display, good suggestions..

the biggest flat screen one Apple offers, i think it's 19" diagonal, maybe...i guess you can have two full page documents or web pages up side by side on the thing...they put out the red carpet for us- carte blanche approved! can't describe how ROCKING cool this is!

....had a beer with boss this morning about ten AM, and proudly beaming with the news- the city of Seattle gives the Pike Place Market News (of which I am editor in chief and head honcho, as well as my other gig you may know about) a grant for a new Apple G4 with the big screen, and the full Adobe suite package, the $2k package of illustrator, photoshop, pagemaker, etc...the boss goes to meet the mayor and pick up the check next week- what a groundswell! the city gives it up for Beck!!!

...layton has a good point..... if you haven't spent summer nights out shiverring, you forget about the obvious time wasters, although i leave the music behind, booze, cigs or other flammables are quite nice. food, a good LED headlamp, some distractionary items ,all good... one of the reasons i reccommend an emergency shelter for any long day or definite overnite trip, is the possibility of injury and resulting shock/ hypo therm compounding accident... tread tramp was out with no shelter after an accident recently crushed his ankles, ands it is in this circumstance! that a bivy could save or lack thereof, could waste lives... good thing Tread came out okay. i've spent a few genuinely hypothermic nights out on bivy, and it could have killed me... if you guys have ever wandered around in a hypothermic stupor, feeling you were warm, looking for a spot to lie down in a rainstorm in the middle of the night, you have been there... i would have loved a weather "shell" on THOSE bivies like the two items i mentioned earlier... if you can bring a candle stub, you'd be amazed at how much heat you can get from one candlepower, if you can get out of the wind... not so much so on a ledge but crashing after an epic at treeline afterwards and still 15 miles from the car.

there are great choices in both glacier glass style, and wrap, shades, that provide adequate eye protection at adequately low prices,and still good, 15-30 bucks. it depends on how much time you are on Glacier as well. waking up for weeks on the Juneau icefields, or doing an extended wapata traverse, or around a volcano on skis, i'd get an actual glacier glass with side shields that fits well. for Rx wearers, prescrip glass, dual gradient, mirrored, polarized lenses set me back $135 about 2 years ago at my local optometrist.. toss them into some 30 dollar closeout julbo round frames found on sale and i'm styling rxed at only $175... one of the best outdoor gear investments i've made over the last twenty years, in terms of value/use, have been several pair of perscription glacier glasses... rxed sports glasses in any tint i've bought from lenscrafters for under a hundred bucks... the dark tints are sufficent for a full day of sking at the resort but not enough for a sunny day on the emmons in july. for eyeglass wearers, its a hundred bucks! and polarized allows you to see subtle contrasts in snowfields that glare would otherwise swallow up, i think it's still a good idea for snow travel in any glacier glass you purchase.

a strong second for the adventure medical kits emergency bivy in the funky yellow stuff sack, at eight ounces a very durable (mines seen two patient packagings on Rainier and a trip to the Bailey Range as well as multiple nights out as bag or ground cover), multiple use 'space blanket', it even has a nexus type now woven prushed wicking interior, a foot vent, and side opening, that makes it about 5,000 percent better than a mylar space blanket and only costs about twenty bucks....mine lives in any daypack i bring, winter or summer. this is the stuff of space blanket hall of fame!

Dru, i think you'll be fine, unless the weather is going to be lousy, in which case bringing an ortovox bivy or a integral designs svarsky guides siltarp would be handy, both can be deployed in hanging belays to fit two-3 people in, and have vents/belay egress at the peaks; these all weigh in at about 12 ounces. the Svarsky siltarp also serves as flat tarp or ground cloth if the approaches are long and you need to sleep out on the flatter ground, too.

whatinthuhellis wrong with you people? Can't we find, oh, say, a half dozen venues that work, and stick with them? All this regionalist bullshizzle that seems to go on more and more every week, would't it take a lot of frustration out of the where?where?where? every week it seems that there needs to be the right amount of space for 30-40 potential pub clubbers, and out of a couple of hundred bars in seattle, picking a few that work and sticking with them, would save the hassle of the weekly bickering... here it is tuesday am and i'm going to work and don't know where pub club is going to be, and i don't get to check at work anymore as often, and will probably miss out... so, where's the wendesday eastside pubclub going to be? Bouldering, then drinks?

one of the best resources for old time 'folk' music from the twentieth century would be Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music" originally released in 1952, is comprised of 84 songs on 6 records, all recorded in the first half of the twentieth century. Artists like: leadbelly, the carter family, the carolina tar heels, john hurt, the new city ramblers, the cincinnati jug band, blind willie johnson, and many others. this collection of 'folk ' music is considered to be one of the most important music anthologies ever and has been widely considered for the last fifty years to be one of "founding documents of american music" look for it from folkways recordings, re-released by the smithsonian institute, 1997.

the Yates Rocker gets several good votes from both sides of the Atlantic, and having compaered many of these side by side, the Rocker definetly has one of the easiest feeds of any of the devices in general use for TRS.

i don't know how to get into the chat room , otherwise... dru, are you going to show for rope up this year or what?

Carolyn.. i just got back from pub club...

thanks, Lowell, you're doing a great job, keep up the good work!

anyone in town that doesn't want to deal with the crowds are welcome to view the fireworks from my deck on Lower Queen Anne. 9'o clock until after the fireworks. My deck looks out over the city and the space needle and should be able to see elliot bay fireworks, though i haven't seen them from here yet, i think its the right line of sight... some of us are unlucky enough to have to be stuck in town, might as well enjoy the show fourth of july pub club fireworks party tonight, give me a call 228-6538 or send me an IM if you want to have some brewskis and catch the pyrotechnics.

if cavey doesn't want it after all, i'll take it, dr jay

probably most of the summer, if you know what you're doing- it currently doesn't have any extensive crevasse systems on the Sitkum year to year except in a couple of easily avoided areas. the northeast side of the peak has more broken up glaciers.

..skiing on Friday, anyone? Day trip from Seattle, and back in time to see the fireworks(I would be so totally out of town but i have to work in city) If it is a bluebird day, skiing on the fourth of July is a great two-fer, and sure to inspire watercooler envy in the flag toting laz-z-boy-ers.