rat

now if you could just find a #5 camelot.....i hear the grace period is quickly ticking away......

fuck off, podunk.

kudos. that's a cool website.

might have done it by now if i owned a snowmobile. gordon briody and mark shipman sledded up to trinity and attempted a route on the face years ago. not sure if shipman went back to complete it. it hasn't quite been in shape/haven't had a partner/too chicken to solo when i've checked it in the fall. john scurlock's photos seem to be creating momentum.

it's gated at fish lake sno-park.

the photo of buck fails to show the 1500' of thrashing required to get out of the alder-choked avalanche catch basin below the face. the approach is frought with danger. the rock is rotten green schist. you will undoubtedly die. but you must take a number and get in line to do so.

sorry, i meant razorback ridge.

very cool, and asterisk-free, ascent. how were snow and ice conditions back there? anything dripping down near backbone ridge?

a little clarification: we descended the north face, not the north face couloir. the skiers also descended the north face. however, it appeared that conditions were not to their liking and it looked like they downclimbed about 1/2 to 2/3 of the face before skiing.

goat creek sno-park east of mazama. there are also some spots along the lost river road beyond the mazama store.

russia (altai mountains near border of siberia, mongolia and china), china (sichuan), pakistan.

bullshit.

the pdf loads slow on a dial-up connection. wait long enough and you'll be rewarded with gems like "when i lived and climbed in the seattle area in the 1980's, no such book (the washington ice guide) existed so i had to pretty much create the sport of ice climbing in washington, and such an adventure it was...."

A FROZEN WORLD, "the world's premier mixed and leashless climbing newsletter", brought to you by little bobby onsight. the more love i see, the more hate i feel. it better get cold soon or you worms are gonna suffer.

wtf, crazymofo? don't you know that fa claims on the internet trump ascents published in such lowly journals as the caj? if it's the same guy, i recall alex was pretty good with a knife too.

thanks for the blotter info. nice bit of pulling out onto the narrow pillar on the plum, eh? hope you hooked the holes my friend and i left for you on saturday. by the way, we took don's advice and climbed nocturnal emission on friday---a very nice line. we fucked up and walked off to climbers' right but saw some nice looking, but shorter, pure ice and mixed possibilities on the way down. i don't have a guide so am unsure if they've been climbed. anyhow, food for thought next time around.

someone was walking down from white blotter early saturday evening. anyone here? if so, how was it (not that it matters now)? enjoy the floods.

send a pm.

i must have lucked out. evidently some airlines allow canister stoves but not used liquid fueled stoves (http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/camping_equipment.html). i guess you better check directly with your intended airline. yeah, the airlines are fucking stupid. all stop.

since a cartridge stove is really nothing but a chunk of metal (similar to climbing hardware), i don't think you will have any problem if you put it in checked baggage. i suggest putting it near the top of your bag in case tsa employees get curious and search your bags. obviously, don't try and fly with the gas canisters. tsa also restricts how many lighters (2, i was told---they searched my bags) you can have in checked luggage. i recently flew domestic/international with a msr stove and liquid fuel bottles. i dismantled the stove, cleaned the bottles (like tshimko) and left them uncapped near the top in checked baggage. my bag was searched both ways but they didn't take the stove or bottles. hope that helps.

to play the devil's advocate: where would YOU like him to build on his PRIVATE property? 1. near our access to careno crag, a top-rope problem and some fine bouldering? 2. with variances, closer to icicle road and, unfortunately, closer to icicle creek. you must be joking when you object to variances to road setbacks in this area. and if you live up the icicle, you don't have a fucking leg to stand on. ultimately, we likely will all have to find a new trail to careno crag and likely have to give up a bouldering area (ala rat creek boulder). thank the desire for economic growth for that. how many degrees of separation obsolve you?

"Look lets say I'm bored. I decide that I'm going to have a fun time by going over to my neighbor's house and kick his dog for a while. As long as I don't get to agro the dog will be just fine...so there shouldn't be a problem." i think you should name it "feck" ala dennis hopper's ironic name in "river's edge" and cc.com's own facsimile. it will likely be about as dumb as feck but better looking. fffeccckkkk. open the door, goooodddaaaaamit.

feck, a few pins and lag screws harming your urban druid sensibilities? shove your vice-principal attitude up your ass.

that would have been cappellini and i. keep figuring.

true that. another cogent argument from specialed, esq.