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That climb takes lots of cams, or hardly requires any pieces at all... depending on who leads it

This weekend, all over the couch. How was the weather up there?

Hey... Sloth, weren't you supposed to be bivi'd below Triumph last night? What happened? Too much ? Did you guys climb it Saturday morning?

What's the "complete Pickets Traverse"? Beckey's red book says "In August 1963 Alex Bertulis and Half Zantop made the first alpine traverse of the Picket Range, a 10-day trek..." Do the 10 days include both S and N Pickets?

That was kinda short notice Matt

I got photos of the NE Face of Fury, taken last Saturday/Sunday. I heard a couple of folks might be interested - send me email if that's you...

If you've climbed Crooked Thumb I'd like to hear from you...

Yeah baby, now that's what I call thread creep! Woo-hoo!

For the record, I was being sarcastic. But hey! We can turn this thread into a sprayfest instead

I took the boots to Ramutas and the lady there said sure, we'll stretch out the toebox, it'll be $7.50 and come back Wednesday. I was a bit surprised... I mean, shouldn't they want to know something about the shape of my foot? I wasn't too thrilled with the visit and I took the boots back home with me... Maybe I'll also check with Dave Page. [ 08-16-2002, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

Hey, take it easy, I get the message - you're a gal, not a guy. Fine by me, go somewhere else for a date though. Didn't somebody else also mistake Trask for a guy or am I the only moron around? [ 08-15-2002, 10:35 PM: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

Arcteryx gets this year's nomination for most slicked-up, pretty-looking, pain-in-the-butt navigation-nightmare of a website. It should be illegal to spend this much money on something and get a result that useless.

Yeah, dang, no more five page TNF slide show announcement posts, complete with yelling, boo-ing, thread creep and other goodies. A sad day.

Hehe, that's pretty funny, I thought Trask was male. Live and learn, eh?

I had rock shoes resoled there, worked out great. I have this pair of aggressively sized (small, I mean) mountaineering boots that are just awesome for climbing but can be quite painful when descending on trail. People keep telling me to take them to the bootfitter. What the hell does that mean? What does the bootfitter actually do? Anybody know?

Cutthroat S Butt, Glacier Peak Sitkum, Challenger from Hannegan Pass to Ross Lake, in the last month.

Yawn Anybody up for some climbing? How about spraying about climbing? Can't believe it's Sunday morning and I'm reading this crap.

Hey, it says we all qualify... I got one extra point, how many did you get? If you choose your climbs to maximize the approach, do you lose five points?

I bet the Cap'n has some dingleberries for you there, Bianga Pighead. I don't care about the occasional name dropping, for sure - Bakey is what, 82 or 83 this year? Isn't he born in '29? The man's a freaking inspiration. I bet when a lot of us hit 40 we won't be in the kind of shape Beckey is in at 80+. Just lay off.

quote: Originally posted by 666: I dont know what's so damn hard about WALK THE FUCK OFF THE MOUNTAIN when someone is capable of walking up to the summit and bivying next to you Wow, that's embarassingly naive... It's fairly simple. The guys who walked up to the summit to bivi knew what they were getting into and took the gear for it - full Goretex body armor and all that (heavy) stuff. On the other hand, Lammy and the harem (heehee, that just sounds too funny to let it be ) were going light - which generally means run like hell when the weather shows up. Too bad they were asleep when the shit hit. Makes you rethink the going light bit when headed off for multiday trips - or at least it should [ 08-04-2002, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

I thought the Bone was easier than Classic Crack. It's got something to do with the size of your hands and the size of the crack... Then I thought the easy stuff above the step-across on Canary was mind-numbingly scary and far harder than the actual step-across. Anyway. It's all relative. Or maybe I'm just weird Oh. My mountain spankings: Baker always storms on me. First it bitch-slapped me on the Coleman-Deming, turned around somewhere between the col and the wall in some kind of a rain storm. Only time in the States when I've experienced rain drops going up, higher in the air. Previously I was certain rain always falls to the ground around here. Then I went back to try the North Ridge and that time I didn't even bother getting out of my sleeping bag after peeking out of the cave. The summit might as well have had ambush spraypainted on it in a 300' font. Yech. Had and instead. I'm X summits for X attempts on all the other volcanos, what's with Baker? Eh? [ 08-02-2002, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

Now where's Cavey funny signature image when you really need it, eh?

I've been thinking about getting that book but there are new editions of Beckey and Nelson guides in the work and there is only so much cash I'm willing to drop on guidebooks... Doesn't the Kearny book have info on some climbs in BC too? Is it good? What's a good book for alpine routes in BC anyway? [ 08-01-2002, 11:33 PM: Message edited by: fleblebleb ]

I'll save you the trouble of looking up the Uemura chapter in the Wickwire book. There is already more information about Uemura's crevasse poles in this thread than in the book, because if I remember correctly the book doesn't mention what he does with the poles. Try digging up some books on Eskimo/Inuit survival techniques instead. You might look at the Wickwire book for the first chapter though, it has some insights into solo glacier travel.

Heh, that's a good one, why wouldn't we want to climb with you Lammy? Because you got a ride in the twirlwing? I bet that as far as the SAR guys are concerned that cell phone made the difference between a straightforward "let's hike up there and get them" and a full-blown scouring of the entire mountain. I mean, it's not like you would have been any less stuck without the phone... I'll climb with you, no problem.