mountainguy01

REI does not carry the Bellingham Rock Guide, Basecamp is the only place that I know carries it. Or just get a hold of Jason, I know he is working on a new one.

Awesome pics and TR. Can't wait to do it! Hey Fairweather! I bet your little brother is stronger, faster, will climb in any weather, and I am sure he is better looking too. You better watch out... ...and Mowich Face is in the picture now? Works for me...

Skied Ruth Mt. Sunday in a blizzard! Lots of heavy fresh stuff!?! Made it all the way to Hannegan camp before we pulled the skis off.

We did make it up the Roman Wall. It wasn't a problem, just wouldn't want to slip. There were a few slings on the rocks right above the wall that people were rapping off but it wan't neccessary. It is possible to traverse over to the Easton and up.

Climbed the Coleman-Deming Sat. and was in pretty good condition. We left the trailhead at 6:30am and summited at 1:00pm. Above heliotrope the shrund is pretty big and you traverse right on the bottom lip of it. At about 8500' there are a few snow bridges to cross and they are very solid. Right after you pass underneath Colfax there is 50-60 degree serac (if you want to call it that) that you must climb over (~15 vertical feet)and then traverse a thin snow ridge for ~100 feet. The Roman Wall is water ice covered with rime ice at about 10'000'. One can easily traverse over to the Easton and up for an easier ascent to the summit. The entire route is very straight forward and is hard ice/snow. Didn't use a rope and at the top it was clear and no wind. This trip definately made up for the previous weekend of getting to the Col and turning around in a blizzard. There is some nice steep water ice setting up near heliotrope and higher on the mountain too.

Was up there last weekend and make it to the top in 5hr 48min. You don't need crampons unless you want to get on the snow. It is possible to get the summit sloshing up scree only. The only snow you will have to cross is at the saddle between the False summit and the actual peak, but it is flat. The cabin at top is almost completely out but still filled with snow inside. Easily done in a day. There was a 69 year old guy up there and plenty of people in tennis shoes at the top. Have fun. NOTE: I will never go up Adams that late in the season again.

Did Coleman-Deming. Cake walk, some pretty nice snow bridges and even had the excitement of watching a guy glissade with the crampons on and watch the leg break. Snow was solid until 10:00 and there is a highway up.

This is not really a new issue. There have been many environmental organizations/groups that have purchased forest land/private land so that it can be protected. The Northwest Ecosystem Alliace bought the Loomis Forest in Washington with all state public raised money. Paul Allen even gave $3.5 million. The Nature Conservancy just spent $31.25 million to create Great Sand Dunes National Park. If environmental groups are going to buy forest land then they need to buy the timber stands AND the land that the trees are on. That is what a timber company does, except most of the time the timber companies get subsidizes for the road building, etc., thus having the taxpayers front the bill. The U.S. lost over $1.05 billion on below cost timber sales between 1995-97 and spent $245 million in 1992-94 to build roads for forest companies to access public land according to the GAO. And by letting the groups buy the land we don't have to deal with them chaining themselves to trees or "spiking" the timber creating even more problems. And we sure DON'T NEED another Julia Butterfly. Also, in a capitalistic society we act in a free market economy. So let the highest bidder take the land. [ 02-25-2002: Message edited by: mountainguy01 ]

It is called the Grivel "3rd Tool" to be exact and is very functional and light.

Fairweather, I see in a great deal of your posts that you talk a lot about college campuses. Where do you get these "twisted statistics" that the majority of college campuses are these liberal state of minds. Do colleges not make us one of the most educated nations in the world, and would we be as free without these higher institutions of education? If Evergreen or Western always enters your mind, there are not just liberal people on campuses. If these thoughts come from the media, of course they are going to show the "good" stuff people want to hear even if it is a minute part of a college campus, which most of the time it is. You hear about the anti-war protest, but do you hear about the pro-war rallies?

Go to WWU and you could even get a degree in Recreation! My vote would be Western, there is always something to do in terms of recreation and their teaching program is awesome. And you will meet some "interesting" people up here too.

There are a lot of climbers at Western and there isn't an active climbing club or anything for people (freshmen and newbies) to find about others. Are there any people in the area (Bellingham) or at Western that want to get a club going. UW has a pretty active group and it would be awesome to get something going up here.

What are you making fun of Western for? Though it does seem that many liberal and enviromentalist do attend this school, there are a few (may I say a few) that can form thier own opinion and have not been brain washed. But overall, I agree with you Brian.

Was up on SEWS three weeks ago and the couloir was pure ice about 100ft. from the top of the notch (and it was bad ice too.) I assume by now that it is pretty much melted out. I would recommend the S. Arete.