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Took it myself, in a storm on the summit of Rainier:

Cool post too! I've never heard of this climb but it sounds (and looks!) really neat - man it would be nice to see more idea TRs like this one.

Well, if only all of us were so lucky to live at your house

Hah-haha, there is a quote in there by some Republican lamenting money not being spent fast enough

Better not, or else, right?

Heeheehee, I can't possibly leave this clowny thread without my avatar pic on it somewhere.

Huh, so getting cascadeclimbered is a new phenomenon kind of like getting slashdotted, no? Whodathunkit?

Dude, I don't care what mistakes you made on that climb. It sounds like your execution went fine given some lack of forethought. I bet your planning will be fairly bulletproof for the next few trips. But! If I run into you sometime then I'm buying you a beer for the week of at-work entertainment you provided with the TR and subsequent firestorm Keep'em coming, just don't get yourself hurt alright?

Huh? I mean, HUH? What sort of snowpack are you placing your pickets in? Gleaming blue snowpack? Proud owner of a couple of those Yateses It doesn't matter one bit what type you get, so just pick the prettiest colors. Mine are orange! They brighten up the gear collection quite a bit, especially since they never leave the house. If you really have to be anal about it, the T shape is classic and does the job, the L shape has a packing benefit and packs the snow diagonally outwards which supposedly helps (but your buddies will place the picket backwards so nevermind), and the guards on the top of the picket actually make it live longer but only if you're hung up on not tearing apart the rest of the gear. Oh, and did I mention the pretty colors? Cost more though...

Anybody have an opinion on rollerblading? I started blading to the bus a couple of weeks ago, have no idea if it will keep me fit. Am fairly certain it will keep me covered in scabs though

Let's guess the rest of your gear sizes #6 BD stopper yellow TCU #.75 camalot #1 camalot Did I get it right?

He's already the ccp. What more could he want? Of course, duh. Campus cleanup perpetrated in official capacity, no less.

Right, work is definitely a big issue.

Recipe for adequate, bomber toprope belay: Clip left bolt with draw. Clip right bolt with draw. Magic trick: Oppose gates. Magic magic trick: Use those nifty locking biners. Gate orientation when clipping the lower bolts is not much more complicated. On the whole, leading on bolts *is* a rather trivial exercise. Cleaning the anchors is far more dangerous. Anyways, enough thread derailment.

You're way off-base here, man. Why? You know how to back-thread, tie your knot and belay. A gym climber going cragging doesn't have to lead, or clean the anchors. Learning how to lead on bolts is a rather trivial exercise as well.

Try wrapping the tool shafts with hockey tape. Just don't get the tape wet and then plunge the spike into snow.

Ah, your stormtrooper would have been funnier here.

I don't really buy that. Gym-to-crag is a pretty simple transition safety-wise. TR-to-lead and sport-to-trad are far harder, and getting into alpine is the really dangerous bit.

Oh, don't worry, this is already taken care of, at least on campus. Gary always has his green graduation cape close by, and two of his office mates set up a sound system with a web front end to supply the theme music. Perhaps superhero of campus instead?

That stormtrooper seems ready to keep it up all night.

You'd have to feel qualified to get your panties off Greg_W's head first anyway.

Did you adopt a suitably self-righteous attitude? Reap the admiration of any fair ladies? Did the campus maintenance workers' union come after you with a vengeance?

Oh, I normally carry a roll of about nine dozen new rap rings, but you don't need any new webbing because you can just tie back together the tat left over when the previous set of rap rings was nicked. It's also very handy to have that stuff in place because it helps finding the location for your new anchor.

Fine, screw the other thread It seems the epic tent would make a lighter, less bulky alternative to two bivi bags. That is cool. Who wants to wait out a rainy day in bivi bag But, from what I've seen of silnylon (I have a silponcho) it would be very important to seam-seal carefully. I don't know if the Firstlight is factory seam-sealed.