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Stefan, glad to hear you are all (relatively) okay, got to hate the crater- better try to keep off that daytime tv, the soaps will get ya!

hmm.. open footbag, lets you get up, put on boots, go fire up stove to get h20 boiling, while still in your sleeping bag...hmm...

If you're going to buy a new bag, I strongly reccommend you get one with a drawstring footbag. You will love yourself for it for the next two-three decades you own the damn thing. Really. get one.

Wow. Still grinnin'. This years' Ropeup ROCKED! Great to see everybody, meet everybody, and see everybody i didn't meet, what a happening we had going on. Three cheers for Terminal Gravity, J Kruger and whoever else helped the beer flow, TG, YOU THE MAN!

had coffecake with Dr Jay and Eric this morning at Bridge Creek- the bathrooms are open, no running water.

you can drink in campgrounds, tha's for sure! Big roaring parties with a butrocking metal band plugged into a generator hidden in the bushes probably aren't, so some discretion will probably be in order- we need to get the keg its' own tent- does anyone want to bring an extra Megamid for the keg to "chill" out in?

TG the only way to go with collapsible poles are the Black Diamond flicklocks, it's the only bomber adjustable poles out there- but thery're not light, like 7oz each, why do you need the extrlite? seems there'd by a tradeoff with durability, if you want really light look into XC racing poles but they're mostly made of carbon fiber and probably wouldn't take any extended rock bashing.

best not let the snafflehounds get wind of this one!

okay, I'll bring a tapper for the keg then,in case one doesn't make it. See ya'll tommorrow.

free pool at the Old Post Office Sundays after 6 pm, just put on a flannel and stick a big knife on your belt, you'll fit right in (oh, yeah, and don't ask "What kind of microbrews you got?" in any smalltown tavern, just order a Pabst or a Kokanee and you'll be fine)

skinny dipping in Tranquil Lake optional part of tour. Will bring highballs to lower inhibitions after a burly choss walk to boulder.

Mattp is covering some important topics as this year we aren't at a group site. Bridge Creek site officially is small, but could definitely handle the size of crowd we had last year. If most/all spots get reserved by climbers, then in collusion we can be havin' a party with no complaints, except by the campground hosts who will be stopping by from eight mile- who I think we can handle. Unofficial camping down road of group site, across road to right at gate,to old campground or, Agood spot if the party looks to be getting big is right across the bridge to the left side of road there's a big pull down spot (If you've been up there you know what I'm talking about) that looks good for partying and camping at, although would probably get one visit from the man, i've seen overnighters there. I think the taking over the bridge creek site makes the most sense."Wow, what a coincidence, we all found out we were climbing today " kind of explanations if we get cuestions. we Put overflow cars and/or main party in pull down spot across the bridge. if it looks like things are going to get out of hand A bribe for the campground host is probably in order. Smoked salmon and a fifty. I'll take care of that part.

karma's already predestinated who's going to recover those cams, you dolts. Darma, thats affectable.

well said, Man of seamless cool. I'm going to go for a choss hike Saturday to a boulder problem at 8700 feet, never been over that way before and want to check it out. Anybody want to go along, it should be veddy nice, veddy pretty, walk with your head in the clouds kind of day. Union rules on the smoke breaks.

planning to go on a lowclass dirtbag choss scrapple up to boulder Colchuck balanced rock via Asgard Pass on Saturday if anybody would rather go high than crag. look for a granola eatin' treehugger type around Bridge creek Friday night or PM me.

Le Grand Beuverie- That's a must read! The forward alone is worth picking up a copy of "A Night of Serious Drinking" "It was late when we drank. We all thought it was high time to begin.What there had been before, no one could remember. We just said it was already late."

I want some Scholler knickers!!! With built in suspenders, please. Soft shells prices are expected to drop substantially in the next coupla years, but if you not wearing Scholler yet you're missing the boat.

Dru, that's BEAT! man. My weekend just ended 8pm tuesday- three nights up Glacier Peak, Kololo Peaks, White Chuck glacier, BEAUTIFUL weather, moon crested snowcapped peaks in alpenglow.

Thanks, Will. Great read, do you know what publisher? Shambala ?

CAC hut to hut out on the Wapata, if it's a winter thing you're after, although I hear that's much nicer in Spring.

beer, slides, gear raffle, hmm, how bad is that?

The Optimus Nova- yet another attempt to engineer a better stove, only to have it be a POS. I took a look at the Nova at the stove when it was introduced and gave it a basic idiots' once over- DO NOT BUY ONE- there's some kind of "field maintainable" something on it, anyway within 10 seconds I had undid a little stopper that LAUNCHED a little piece out of it, and a spring and ballstop fell out, No thanks. How high do you want to go with a white gas stove, anyway? I'd think an expedition would have canister stoves for going above 4000 m regardless. I'm still going to assert that among white gas stoves, for heavy dirtbag use, a Svea Climber 123R is still the way to go. An XGK for melting snow is a good friend to have around, but using a Svea is almost as easy as turning on a light switch, while using a MSR stove (or probably that Nova as well) is more like taking a cat for a walk on a leash. When it's raining. My thinking is this whole notion of putting a pump in a fuel bottle to save 4 ounces isn't worth the added headache of having a multi piece plastic dohickey you need to f*** with while you're out in the thick of things. There's an Optimus #45 up on my bookshelf I'm looking at and, while not suited for packing, really is a beautiful example of a well crafted stove I'd reccommend people go get a Svea123R. Try it out, Easy. reliable.Bomber. two hours simmer time on 6 oz fillup. Idiot proof. two user servicable moving parts, the fuel key and the cap. Self cleaning. You won't want to go back to any burner/fuel bottle combi stove, which are flawed by the very nature of their design.

...going in to Whitechuck glacier and Kololo Peaks this weekend if weathers good and up to Harts Pass if weather goes pissy...any other BC skiers anxious to break out the planks this weekend? I'm also up to alternate suggestion destinations as long as it doesn't involve the Muir Snowfield. or the hut.

...a rather difficult issue, and one which has turned conventional environmental wisdom on its' head. Maybe its' really win/win for the enironment AND the timber industry, at least in the short (decades) term. I wonder who thinned the forests and "regulated" fire dangers before the loggers changed old growth to secondary forests in the last 100 years..."the wedges of development are being driven hard and none of the obstacles or defenses of nature can long withstand the onset of this immereasurable industry." John Muir, writing about the Northwest. and,..."Fire, then, is the great governing agent in forest distribution..."

how wide is the shovel and waist on these? I'll give you $50 for them. I know it's a low offer.