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    Stuart range?

    in Alpine Lakes

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by allison:

    surf on over to
    and check out the trip reports. Best conditions info in all the land!

    lol... thanks Alison for a great laugh... I don't usually like to make fun of others for dayhikes (i enjoy 'em too)....but Scot'teryx's description of the "illusive" Mt Si/Teneriffe traverse just cracked me up! [laf]

     

    That site is hilarious. I thinks some people take their hiking a wee bit too serious.

    Cameras again, a great compromise

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by willstrickland:

    Juneriver, you are actually the consumer the Maxxum 5 is targeted at...it's supposed to compete with the N65, Cannon Rebel (it actually blows them outta the water). Just curious if you checked out the Maxxum and if so why you chose the Nikon over it.

    Actually, I'm probably just an uninformed consumer, a tool of the marketing machine.

    When I talked to the local camera shops (I mentioned I'm not a camera expert), they all presented the Canon and the Nikon as the only two plausible options. Pentax, Minolta, etc. were not even taken seriously.

    I suppose I should have done more research than just talking to a coupla stores, but I figured that these guys knew what they were talking about. Just like the REI guys are always experts, right?

    Anyhoo, I've had good experience in the past with Nikon with a SLR and my digital so I didn't mind sticking with them. I truly wanted the N80, but it was more camera than I need and heavier. I'm pretty happy with the N65.

    Jamie "The Tool"

    Cameras again, a great compromise

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by beefcider:[QB]I use a Nikon F100 and the N80, not especially cheap but both are solid cameras. There is a lithium battery adapter for the F100 and it makes it much lighter. QB]

    I'm not a camera expert, but I just got a Nikon N65 and am very happy with it. Excellent optics, a few less features than the N80 but it is a lot lighter.I don't know how the battery will hold up to the cold however...

    RMI Crevasse rescue school

    in Newbies

    Posted

    I have mixed feelings about this class. I took it two or three years ago and definitely got some good instruction from it.

    The downside was the lead instructor was more interested in bragging about the time he went to Annapurna, and how he got pro deals on clothes, and about this one time in band camp... than in teaching crevasse rescue. Also the class was 90% scary guys who thought this was the short course in getting them to the top of the mountain the next day. There seriously was guys wearing lycra bike shorts and asking how many kilo-newtons of force a snow bollard was rated for.

    If I were to do it all over again, I would just grab Andy Selters book and head up for some snow at the Pass. You'll get the same info, it's just a matter of discipline to actually go out and do it and really do some practice.

    all around Ice axe

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    I love my Simond crampons. I used them exclusively for the last five years and never had any problems.

    Never had a Simond ice axe, but Barrabes usually has them in stock and I really considered buying Simond tools this year.

    Why MSR has got it right

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    I think the ownership/partnership/whatever has been in effect for less than a year (probably closer to six months).

    They are probably facing the usual integration issues of two formerly competing companies and I assume one or the other company will phase out the redundant products.

    Remote North Cascades

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    White Rock Lakes - The approach was as bad as it sounds in Nelson's guide as the approach to Dome. Only the biting flies were an exceptional surprise.If I remember right, you'll downclimb the Dana Glacier, nothing serious but watch for hidden crevasses even in mid-late summer.Keep descending below the glacier to keep well below cliff bands. Goat trails are plentiful.

    As long as you are out there with the camera gear, check out the view of Glacier Peak from Itswoot Ridge. I caught the best sunset I've experienced in the mountains right there, turning the whole mountain every color imaginable for about an hour.

    dividendz?

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by vegetablebelay:

    I have a ventilateable pair of Mt Hardware gaiters with a zipper in the back.

    I seem to manually vent my gaiters with my crampons every year, so that's what my $20 check is going to.

    purifier

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    They're OK for day hikes if you don't want to just carry a Nalgene. Anything more than that and I find they're just a pain. They are heavy, don't hold much water (the space in the bottle is taken up by the large filter) and they're extremely slow.

    I guess the upside is you can get a good workout just trying to squeeze the water through it at any kind of pace to drink if you're thirsty.

    Climbing Ice With Only One Boot

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    After planning for 6 months to do the Ptarmagin Traverse and driving four hours out to Cascade River Road, I discovered I forgot BOTH boots.

    The next 8 hours of driving home and back was without a lot of conversation in the car.

    That was the worst one for me...although just last Sat. we had to do a roundtrip run back home when both my partner and I forgot to grab helmets when going ice climbing. mad.gif" border="0mad.gif" border="0mad.gif" border="0

    Hanger Replacement at Vantage

    in Access Issues

    Posted

    Allison,I'm not sure that I totally understand what you are proposing. But if it's putting epoxy on the bolts that thread into the sleeve in the rock so that they can't be turned out without shearing, I think that's a really bad idea.If someone did go to steal the gear and sheared the bolts they would still get the hangers, and leave a lot of sheared off bolts in the rock that would really difficult to cover up or reuse. A real mess. Even, worse would be if they cranked on a few and then gave up. That could significantly damage/weaken the bolts or the rock around them. This would be invisible damage until the next unlucky sap took a fall onto it. shocked.gif" border="0

    I would think this might be something to be considered with any gluing or thread peening on any bolts.

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