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Always remember the giant carrot at the end. That's what I tell myself when the alarm is going off and it's still dark out.

Curious as to why the Mounties rappelled? I like the summit bouldering moves myself.

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"A lot of people go to college for six years." "Yeah, they're called doctors."

Any word from the land of gianormous mosquitos and flies with insatiable thirsts? Inquiring minds want to know.

I've seen it before a number of times, but that just looks like somebody glissaded with a bloody anus!! Sorry about the weather. You can at least say you gave it a try and tried to defy the odds. And if it's any consolation, that peak and I have a grudge with each other due to sleep/migrane problems on a couple of attempts.

Wouldn't this have the same drawbacks as the cordellette?

Remind me not to go camping with you!!

Leavenworth trad ethics is an oxymoron on some crags there. I've noticed similar lines in Icicle for years. And then you'll find crags that are done the right way.

Interesting setup. I can see the benefits. I'm assuming that the center loop is the one connected to the bomber piece?

Cordelettes always go up the rock with me. Yesterday was able to use it in multiple uses. Frist time was to equalize an anchor, second time was to tie the wife down to a boulder while she belayed me, third time was to tie a tree as an anchor, and the fourth time was to equalize a giant cam and a bolt as an anchor. That piece of nylon saved me from lugging around an army of slings.

Looks like a nice runout to the summit pyramid there. How was the rock quality and how sustained was the climbing?

Great read. Very ingenuous of you in dead-manning the stone. Will have to try caveman fishing sometime. But I think the hardest part will be pulling one wing off of the flies.

She's a temptress with a cruel heart, yet holds onto our genitalia with a vice grip. That is why we keep coming back to her, abused, mocked, dare I say it, easy whore that she is.

I bet the groups you met from SAC are their climbing class. Should be around that time of year. And yes, they are cool people, that's why I was a member for three years. SEWS is an undervalued, work off the winter beer fat, climb IMO. Plus the scenery is worth the trek alone.

Great report and good photos. It's always great having good climbing trips with your spouse.

wow. That's incredible. As is this: No doubt. However I'd like to see their knees when they reach 30. It's like this younger guy I was bouldering with today. He was taken 15 footers onto the ground. "Dude, do you want me to move the crash pad next time?" "No, it's a flat landing area." Sigh, I remember back when I had cartiledge in my knees.

I don't have an exact tally, but five days resort and somewhere around 20 days backcountry. Given the high temps and what I saw early last week in the Front Range with the snow conditions, I've put my AT boots into storage.

Finished my 8-dy work week. Heading out tomorrow for 2 1/2 days of bouldering and mountain biking at Buena Vista. Not much more you can do when your belay slave... er I mean wife is in India.

Couldn't the guys just jumped on Rewritten and joined up after the first pitch? People complain about Index, my experiences tell my Squamish and Eldo are much, much worse. I have yet to do more then Mosquito on the Smoke Bluff Connection due to crowds, and that was because it was raining when I climbed it.

Wow. Nice. I agree with you, I've been at the base of the thing and it ain't no 60 degrees.

So what I'm learning from this thread is that JG is the Flying Circus climb of Index?

Ditto. You never know who can back up their chestbeating. The more humble the climber, the better they are.

How was the traverse Kyle? How much of Ragged Ridge did you encompass?

Wow Alex, Sounds like deja vu on my two attempts to ski the Easton. Although the first time I got a hitch up the road by one of the sled heads. The second time after skiing up to pass the trailhead, I couldn't even see the mountain. I'd be out there skiing in the nearly 2 feet of new wet stuff we got over the weekend but the avy conditions are less than ideal right now. Hopefully tomorrow before work I can get some turns in.