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Rodchester, what time did you summit? imorris, thanks. Did you climb the Reid from Timberline, or camp at the saddle?

Rodchester, what time did you summit? imorris, thanks. Did you climb the Reid from Timberline, or camp at the saddle?

Rodchester, great info, thanks. I left the saddle about 7:00am for the Leuthod, so we could see you guys on the headwall. It looked sweet. Although there were about 9 climber in front of us on the Leuthod, we were all at about the same pace, so no bottle-necks. The conditions were good except for some patches of rime ice that shattered from crampons and ice ax. I would like to do the Reid. Have you ever climber the leuthold? If so, how would you compare the two.

I've got a patagonia silk weight capaline T, and man does that thing soak up the man funk. I have to leave it outside when I get home from a trip.

Thanks for the perspective Cleave. I guess you had to be there. Seems I cheesed off Cpt a bit. The word slander is not appropriate in this case, as D agrees for the most part with the facts I described. As far as this being a public forum, the point is well taken, but isn't there a degree of anonymity here? On a lighter note, I just got my pictures back. I have duplicates for you Cleave, and I have a great shot of D descending the Chute.

We actually had a great climb, reaching the summit at 6:30am. It was increadible. With regard to counseling ... I advise that you follow your own advice.

Drederek, I was hoping I would catch up to you. My team got to high camp (about 11,200) on the Kautz route about 4:00 pm on Wednesday. We saw you guys descending the chute about 4:30 pm. I looked at my thermometer, it was 80 degrees. YOU ARE VERY LUCKY THAT YOU WALKED OFF THAT MOUNTIAN!!!!. I first thought you got nuked after you got off the chute (with much slipping and sliding I might add) and were down out of my sight in the garbage chute area. A large amount of debris discharged off the ice cliff and we figured you were dead. We were relieved when we saw you coming down from camp hazard about 6:30 pm, until the ice cliff calved off again right above you. We praised Jesus when the ice stopped just before sending you to an early grave. Somehow you missed hearing the rule about being back from the summit to high camp by noon. We hear from other teams that you didn't leave for the summit until 9:30am, is that correct? You have a death wish! We left for the summit at 1:00 am on Thursday and never saw as much as a rock fall. You need to understand that your stupid actions can effect others. We thought our trip was screwed because we were going to have to rescue your ass. Do me a favor. The next time you plan a climbing trip, let me know so that I can plan to be in another time zone.

Check out http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/climb_up.htm for current climbing conditions on Hood. There is a climbers trail groomed to about 8000' so if you get an alpine start, I don't see a need for skis. From everything I have heard so far conditions should be sweet this weekend. I plan on being at the base of the Leuthold about 5am on Monday. -Be Safe