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BATTLECAGE!!! BOO-YAH!!!

Dave has a new thread, sticky and all... this will be sweet!

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You'll get so bored of me crashing there ALL THE TIME. DID I SAY ALL THE TIME? I MEANT A L L T H E T I M E Hahahaha Coolest idea all day. Wish I could do it.

I'd like to do some snow and ice climbs, like Shuksan NF, Buckner NF, Maude NF, Triple Couloirs if it isn't too late, you get the picture. I'd also like to do a bit of ski touring, I'd particularly like to traverse Adams over the NW Ridge and S Spur, ski Baker by the Easton and ski the Ptarmigan Traverse. Cragging, either free or aid, at Index, Vantage, Lworth, Smith, whatever, is cool too - especially as backup. I have two days off each week, which ones is very flexible except Tuesdays I absolutely have to be in Seattle, no chance to leave, and Friday afternoons it is inconvenient to not be in the city. Planning ahead (weeks, 1-2 months even) is good. Bad weather backup plans are mandatory... This kind of stuff isn't new to me, I'm fairly solid with it. I finally have all the gear and a car that works. If you're setting out for something like this sometime this spring/early summer season and you need a partner or could use a third, please send me a PM. I check the site religiously so if I'm around you should get a reply in a couple of hours or so Hearing from all you guys that I know from pub club and other places would be especially cool... I've hardly ever met somebody at pub club that I didn't like... so would hearing from the folks I have made tentative plans with, it's time to nail'em down. You know who you are. Now go plan something fun and then come back and invite me along

Man! What are you guys doing next? Handing out free digital cameras to get all that space filled? Dibs on the first one!!! This is awesome! to you

Tres cool. It will take all of April, May, June and July to get in good enough shape to climb up there anyway

Yes, it's a shame that Vantage is such a god-forsaken pile of choss, choss and nothing but choss. I hate that place and wish everybody else could go there and stay there, and leave the nice solid granite at the other places for me.

Not a big fan of toast are ya Schuldtzy?

Suck it up big guy

Dave da man

Next would be better, this weekend is already planned.

This morning I feel great, albeit somewhat unwashed.

Ya I wanna know who got drunk passed out under a table lost the tax envelope didn't make it over there at 11:59 pm and finally stumbled home in the morning.

Oops... does that rule out everybody except Trask?

Ya and 3000 views.

Ya for sure that's some excellent advice... normally something I've learned to live and breathe but this time we were so psyched about TC that we completely fixated on it. All we had was full-shank boots, no rock shoes. Driving past the Icicle crags as the sun came up to a clear blue sky truly sucked. But hey, at least we both salvaged a full workday, and hopefully we can take a day off midweek next week instead

Did he give you an earfull at the rock today? No, I keep going there at the wrong time of day so I miss all the fun.

whoa. can you get that on video? Ray might be able to draw a picture for you with Microsoft Paint. Would you really want that?

I wasn't really going to post, because I didn't really believe myself (does that make sense?) but here goes... SmilingWhiteKnuckles and I woke up at 2 am this morning at the gate on Eight Mile Road. The temp there was 50 degrees (yup, at 2 am). We started hiking 2:40 and reached the trailhead after 90 minutes of nice dry road followed by nasty postholing The temp there was 45 degrees (mm-hmm, at ~4:15). I was using a small thermometer attached to my pack strap. The pack was sitting on the ground ca. 5 yards from the car for a half hour before I took the 50 degree reading, the 45 degree reading I took while hiking. I checked with Wayne who has the same kind of meter and uses it the same way, he has had no trouble with it and neither have I. I'm inclined to think the readings were accurate, the air felt that warm. We eventually decided to turn around - neither of us wanted to start climbing at 8-9 am following a night this warm. Oh well. I heard today that the Colchuck Lake area can warm up like this, for short periods of time, so maybe this warm air will dissipate tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully all you guys that are headed up there this weekend have better luck than we did!

Similar to me. I get called "Fucking Trouble" as in "Stay away from that dickhead. He's Fucking Trouble." - Not to suggest that you and I were fornicating (fucking trouble) or anything. Hmmm. Boyo that's disaster narrowly averted right here. Just think, if you had not suggested you and Allison were fornicating there would have been hell to pay. Allison, Dryad, Dryad, Allison, it's a fine line to tread eh?

Hmm. They happen to be Seahawks cheerleaders any time after I was born?

Don't worry, Coach has a plan.

Sphinx sucks fart out of falling coils.

I've heard horrible stories of the outer crusts of people's eyeballs freezing solid at altitude. However, this only applies to people who don't blink. Anybody that heads for Denali should make sure they blink. Btw the increased oxygen permeability lenses are a pretty cool invention. An added benefit of these lenses is a slight combustion effect due to oxygen molecules that get stuck in the lense material. This generates sufficient heat to keep the surface of your eyeball nice and thawed out!