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gotta be high enough to keep out the riff raff. What gun shooting, cheap beer swilling and home appliance dumping guy is gonna spend $150? (unless it is for bullets, beer or home appliances)

well the ladderball is Recreation and it is Equipment and they are Incorporated, so it is fitting I suppose. MEC does not get off so easy.

great photos! the easton is pretty damn nice when the parking lot is snowed in. where the snowmobiles still running around? hopefully you went past their allowed time frame.

you are by chance taking any anti-biotics or meds of some kind? I forget the type, but I have seen anti-biotics make people more sensitive to light. One guy couldn't use sunglasses at all. we had to make him a cardboard slit glasses over reg glasses to be on the glacier. Obviously you are not as bad as him, but maybe other meds have a effect as well. have you tried the old school glacier glasses, more aviator style with generous leather side shields. might prevent leakage better.

did a quick early hike up pilchuck this morning. there were LOTS of ski mountianeers coming up on my way down. might be a good place to learn or at least visit sometime in your ski free time. at least in the springtime.

a true pro can make something ugly look so nice. never has a industrial complex looked so good.

nice one Matt. going to colchuck glacier looks like a nice way to get down.

I got a message from access fund that the closure was on BLM land and that most of the climbing was on rec land or something. All the negative info may have been misinformed. or not. the best bet is to call the ranger station there. back when I got the falcon guide, it was way better than the 2nd ed bingham guidebook which I had been using for years before. hopefully the 7th ed of the binham got the weakness out of it. I have never had any issues with info from the falcon guide so I don't know where the "piece of shit" part comes from. but it is all a moot point since the falcon book is $900 used on amazon. really?

there is some online pretty comprehensive page for castle rocks. lots and lots of photos. unfortunately I don't know the link but it should still be out there.

I think the falcon guide (calderone?) is better than the Bingham one. Ditto on getting some info on castle rocks area too.

central area of burger and fries if you can stand the crowds. and the broken beer bottles. there is a good place in murrin park too. I am not near a guidebook right now but it is right below some power lines. walk up directly from the parking lot a short distance. Very good beginner cracks. maybe 5 routes in the same area.

[quote=Kaskadskyj If only you libturds could use prose like the Onion does, you'd be not only funny but likable. ;-) is there a right leaning equivalent to The Onion? Fox news is ridiculous but not funny. And creativity in news is not a good thing.

third what Dan and Rick said above. I have been climbing in the cascades for over 24 years now and always used a down bag and never had a situation where my bag got wet. (even in a 5 day Baker august monsoon sufferfest) Not sure where the concept that one needed to have a synthetic bag for around here but it sure is pervassive across the country. Maybe marketing hype? now if the person would be on some bigwall, slot canyon or deep caving..............

gots local videos too.

too funny and worthwhile the time to watch [video:vimeo]66479330

bull fighting, car racing and climbing are sport. the rest are games.

what no photos! lame.

I have gone up the easton and over to the deming glacier a couple of times due to difficulties with the easton. that part is fairly reasonable. I have also approached the n ridge from fairly high on the coleman before traversing under the coleman headwall. that was also fairly reasonable and done to avoid nasty crevasses. Seems reasonable to combine the two in this case. In no case was there difficulty with "seeing" crevasses.

just a thought, how about coming in from the easton glacier side, hike up to the pummice ridge and camp. early start, descend and traverse around to the n ridge. The descent takes you right back to your camp for the hike out. You get a nice little traverse out of the whole trip. Maybe less extra traveling than the hike up a closed glacier creek forest road. You don't get to preinspect the glacier travel with this version but the glacier is easier if you hug the roman nose and coleman headwall. (give both of those monsters wide berth though)

fast food joints and gas stations along the detour around the bridge will be liking the added traffic. Heck, maybe they even caused the whole thing.

there are possible detours both east and west of that bridge. college way on south of the bridge to another river crossing and back on i5 near the costco. And a bit longer in the scenic west side of the town in the tide flats tulip country. Prolly good ways to go in the wee hours of the night. Jam packed in the day.

holy shit. I used to boulder on rocks glued to that same concrete wall support. (other side of the river) I remember being kinda freaked out that some security would bust me as some kind of terrorist. Luckily for me and my alibi, it has been 2 years since I was last there.

you should be able to find those kits in climbing shops but it would be in some box in the back. may require some looking on their part to find. Are you talking about the double or single stem style cam? the single stem repair kits ore easier to find. If you ask nicely, someone here may even be able to give you one for free. I will check my repair stash when I get home.

never would have thought that climbing was so big in s korea. maybe that is why n korea is so cranky. maybe they lack good climbing?