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Nice photo Colin. Burl. Look forward to seeing more pics.

Fuck the bouldering. I'd be focusing my energies on climbing on the tall blond Baltic ladies.

The Baltic seems like a cool place.

Might want to check a website on Rockies climbing like Live-the-vision. com. In other news, a party did the first winter ascent this last weekend of Mt. Alberta.

You guys are just jealous I've been chatting with hot babes online all day.

Well Mike, dating is sure like a box of chocolates. The best thing is when you can bring them home and put them in a sound proof metal box and then bring them out weeks later and rub them all over your naked body.

Flying in a helicopter! Drinking and Running! Diahrea and cold chills! Smoking Hash! Good God man!!!

So, did you forget to attach the pic? Thanks. Ooops.

Posts about threads about articles about climbing bulleting boards are bullshit man. Fifteen pounds of bullshit in one of those tiny dimesack baggies.

Woot and shit.

And he would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids.

Be sure to sport the pink tights for your next eurotrash "alpine" arete, son.

Uncle Fuckers.

That was the route we were originally planning on climbing. It wasn't good. Would have been a wallow - all filled in with snow and a only couple of steep ice steps. Maybe in early season it would be good. Here's a pic attached. I'm tellin' ya, the direct line (we should have climbed) would be the bomb though.

The best routes aren't worth repeating.

The Nickerson is so boring. Why don't you kooks dream up something better. There's tons of good pubs on Greenwood. Old Town tavern in Ballard? The Sloop? The Lockspot? The Belguin Beer place on Cap Hill? The Roanoke? The Big Time in U District? Etc. Etc.

I have those same boots a few years older. They trashed my shins too.

Cool. Thanks for the beta. Right now anything worth skiing will involve hiking with skis on your back (or your board if you swing that way).

I always had this problem until I got some custom thermal intuition liners. Still bothers me a bit but not too bad. Also might try and loosen the cuffs a lot when walking downhill - what Matt said.

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Mountain climbing conditions right now are fucking great.

Nice work!! How you think Sherpa would be for ski down?

Rolf Larson and I climbed a line on the north face of Mt. Buckner on Sunday the 20th. Friday, after bivying at the trailhead, we skinned up the road and started up the trail to Boston Basin. Coincidentally a group of 3 skiers were off to ski the north colior on Buckner that same morning. Thrashed through the brush and above tree level by early afternoon up to within about 800 feet of the Sahale Boston col that day. Skiers continued on to make the traverse to Boston Glacier. Next day some weather moved in and vis was shitty at the col. We began the traverse. Good neve, exposure, heavy packs. Traverse, Down the Boston Glacier in light north face pow and across to the north face of Buckner that day. Scoped lines. Line we originally intended to climb looked too filled in with snow. Another line caught our eye that started with an ice flow then went into some snow and ice runnels. There was a direct start to this line that just looked too much like powder snow on rock. After another cold night in the Bibler, Rolf roused early with his usual sunny disposition and made a brew while I kept my head stuck in my sleeping bag. We trudged up to the ice fall. After some fucking around I finally started up the ice - a fun pitch with a decent steep section. From there we continued up steep snow and fun aesthetic mixed climbing. Here's a bad photo but gives an impression of the climbing. The neve was superb. Everything that looked like powder snow from the glacier was thick thunker neve. We realized we should have taken a steeper line or the direct start. About half way up the face we were able to look down at the direct start and it looked rad - with a classic ice and neve filled chimney with decent rock pro. What little girls we were for taking the conservative approach. More fun climbing led to the of the ridge and a classic ridge traverse with exposure and amazing views of the North Cascades in winter led to the summit. We paused in the sun and descended the north coliour back to the Bibler. It was only 1:30 by the time we got back to camp, so we made a brew and I told Rolf I was over spooning with him in the Bibler let's go home. We packed our shit and bolted. The skiers who had skiied the north coliour the day before had been farming the north facing slope from the Boston Sahale traverse notch down the glacier that day and had kicked a bitchin skin highway back up. Thanks skiers!! Got down to truck by 8:00 after a long exhausting day and had a beer. Named the route "Copa Cabana" after a friend who spent his President's Day weekend kiteboarding and drinking margaritas in Mexico with bikini babes instead of the Rolf Larson lovefest of freezing ass and killing ice. Shot of the route from bro's arial photo page: The Copa Direct remains. If this high pressure holds someone should go crush!!!

This has probabaly already been covered, but DOT is starting to plow WA Pass. May be open in a couple weeks. Fuckin Crazy. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002186487_northcascades22m.html

There is no such thing as an "alpine arete."