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Bummer, man. I've got some leftover percocet if you start running low. Hope you heal quickly!

Werd, as they say.

Apparently iain's got what you're looking for.

Is Beckey working on a new edition of the green guide (Stevens to Rainy Pass)? Any idea when a new version is to be published? I'm wondering if I should just go pick up the current edition or just wait for a new one.

If you buy Freedom of the Hills you can lug it on your training hikes and read a chapter at the top. Bring it along when you go to practice crevasse rescue and use it to pad the lip. I bet if you showed up at the crag and started leafing through it, everyone nearby would either A) clear out for fear of having to rescue a newbie or B) helpfully answer any safety questions you might have. Either way, you win! I prefer books because you can read them away from a computer.

I think you've hinted at the answer to your own question. Maybe it's because he's out climbing instead of sprayin' on cc.com.

Ray-neer is the big one in the distance, Stuart is the big one in the foreground. To the left of Stuart is Sherpa, on the ridge from Colchuck. Dragontail is out of view on the far left side.

Awesome! Mom will be proud.

Sold!

Ironically enough, I was warming up on some easy boulder problem at the gym this past week and felt the three middle fingers on my right hand go "crunch". It was as if the bones and tendons rolled over each other (I was holding a three-finger pocket). I quit climbing and biked home in disgust. It's feeling better after some icing and three days of rest. Sheesh.

The Climber's Guide to the Olympic Mountains (Mountaineers Press) has good information on this area.

Punctured lung? Did one of you guys prod him too hard with your trekking pole to get him hiking faster?

The two pitches of 5.easy, though fun, aren't really worth the hike, but it's not a bad outing if you climb the east ridge first, then rappel and climb the south face. I thought the super-slippery green rock in the initial chimney on the e. face route was cool. Great view of Mt. Stuart, too, and Ingalls Lake is a pretty spot.

Arr! A thread pirate! Well, I can only do the honorable thing and lower my price: pick them up from my house and they're yours.

Git yerself some boots for the spring ski season. Take 'em to WA Pass this weekend! One ornery buckle, a detached flap of velcro, and some ugly glue on the toes, but otherwise they're in good shape. Too small for me. $40 OBO, you pick 'em up in Seattle or I can meet you on the way out to the mountains.

What kind of climb requires a simul-rappel? I'm having trouble picturing it... you have to reach the ground way over to either side of the anchor? Do you simul-rappers (heh heh) always knot the ends together to prevent the dreaded double death fall? It all depends, I suppose, but knotting the ends seems doubly important in this case.

Fascinating! I've always wondered why my dog went to great lengths to eat out of the catbox. I always thought he was just mentally deficient.

Thanks, Mountie!

I had the cell phone plugin for the Handspring and it blows. The phone gets shitty reception compared to any regular cellphone and it's awkward to hold. The ringer is impossibly quiet. I hardly ever talked on the damn thing. Great idea, poor execution. Maybe the newer fully-integrated Handspring PDA/phones are better... I got a regular ol' phone with the same service plan and it's so much better that I actually use the phone now. I still keep the PDA around for the calendar, todo list, and address book. I'd be lost without it, even though it's broken in strange ways: the screen has some permanently black areas and the thing eats one pair of batteries per day (I use rechargeables).

Damn, that really sucks. I remember Guy Edwards from a slideshow I saw of his Coast Range traverse. He's an inspirational climber.

No snowshoes needed and the road is no longer gated. See the other thread. From what I've heard, the NBC was all snow all the way this past weekend.

All good suggestions. Start on easier or at least less crimpy routes, belay your partner first before starting to climb, go for a quick run or make the approach longer for a more thorough warmup, stretch between climbs... The only way to cure tendonitis, though, is ice and rest (i.e., no climbing).

Too bad about your car, klenke... and thanks for the steps up to the summit. Most of them were filled in with spindrift, but the last bit up to our lunch spot was perfect buckets.

Ah, that must have been the Alex we met late Friday night. We were the three guys in the minivan. Did you do Triple Couloirs? I lost a blue and white spectra runner with a funky wiregate biner on it somewhere that day. Anyone come across such a thing?