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Dwayner, say something! DWAYNER! D W A Y N E R !!!!! Where is the @#$% chap when he's needed?

Hahaha Ade, just when we think we're being funnier than shit the Brits pop up again with even funnier shit they're taking for real. Classic.

No dammit, that's not the measure at all because people only bother to rate you if your rating is inaccurate (anything other than 2 stars )

The precip started Saturday night and the measurement reports for the Snoqualmie ski area were that 10" had come down by Sunday afternoon. I was there and had guessed it was 12-15". I could easily believe there were more than 20" by Monday night. Whatever, doesn't really matter. There is fresh snow, it is consolidating.

What Erik said. Plus, whatever info you get today may be crap tomorrow. Last Saturday the Alpental area was all crust, ice and styrofoam and awesome for climbing, with minimal or non-existent avy hazard. Then last Sunday it went to 10" of fresh fluffness, was awesome to ski, but I think the backcountry access from the ski area was closed due to the chance of the new snow sliding on top of the crust etc.

Alrighty people, that's it, I'm breaking into the cc.com servers, fucking with the database to mix this thread with the wine thread from the other day, turning the result over to the men in the white gowns, and we'll finally have it on paper that you are all certifiably insane

You're forbidden to do anything other than work and sleep Gary so stop spraying and get back to it. Incidentally, does your advisor let you eat?

The chair thread is dead. Long live the chair thread!

I don't know about that, seems to me like he had one opinion on how his trip went and another on how the thread read - refreshing when compared to the folks who sometimes seem to apply the same opinion to everything. I like the spray, in spray...

Triumph is very cool but you'd need to be quite the alpine ninja to pull it off in a day. I failed to do it in a day plus an evening, because we got lost on the approach in the dark (wrong side of @#$% lake). It's quite reasonable in two days but lots of folks take three. If you have two or three days to do a single climb in that area I would also consider the South Pickets. I haven't climbed there myself but I've heard so much raving about Inspiration that it is starting to make my ears hurt by now.

Don't be so hurt, it's just tough on people to not make fun of you. Bear with me.

My sweet what? Maybe you can sign up for keeping track of the conditions around that belay check route? Are the trails up Pilchuck and Mt. Si in these days?

Eldorado and Forbidden are very accessible and have great routes. Given your constraints I'd look at Shuksan and Stuart before Buckner, Logan, Goode or the Pickets.

Can you recognize when people are laughing with you, and when they're laughing at you?

Well duh, of course I couldn't wait for the photos Dave I'm gnashing my teeth over waiting and not climbing it before the high pressure system dissipated, flu or not. Now I have to wait until who knows how many feet of fresh snow get settled. to you

The photos are all there (sweet!) but the image tag played a trick on you.

Did you two toprope a parking lot together?

Pope, there were ~15-20' of ~70 degree water ice close to the bottom of the gully. The rest was crusty snow, but what a nice, firm crust! Klenke, actually, there were tracks all over the place when we got up there. Nobody had bothered to tag the north summit though. For awhile on the descent down to the Guye-Snoq saddle I successfully deluded myself into thinking that the extremely faint footprints I was following were my own tracks from about a month ago, but that might have been overly optimistic, heh.

I also don't have any idea which name goes with each drip, but I was up there today and saw stuff that is forming nicely. There was a party of three playing at one spot, they had led and placed screws but told me the ice felt wet and soft.

Yawn

Depending on what you're doing it may not take much insulation to keep you warm. A less insulated boot might cause you to sweat less and a softer sole is going to be better for almost all kinds of climbing. I'm sure all the boots you're looking at are well made, it's the fit not the color...

Opt to bolt from bolt-or-not-to-bolt snoozefest

I cannot believe what happened here. Honest answers? You people need help

What CascadeClimber said.

I got much firmer snow/ice down low on Guye than up higher. Maybe all of Chair Peak was in the warmer air, which wasn't that warm anyway?