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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?

been a long time since I was last on hood, but are you saying that the hogsback feature has shifted to a nmew location and now it points to another chute? Or is the pearly gates not doable anymore? Crazy!

Darin don't need to traing to send big. he just gets off the couch and climbs like a monkey. Great photos as usual.

long stretches of alpine ice is different than waterice. Strange enough that I think 40 degree ice for long periods of time is harder than a 2 pitch 80 degree ice. Due to body positioning and distance of ice from body, standard piolet traction (usual WI tool swings) is awkward. Better to rely on the low daggers use of tools but you don't get that 'self belay" feeling. For me, the calves get worked also, even with pure flat work use or 3 oclock foot work. Maybe something to do with the fact that the legs may be vertical but the torso is usually bent over to get the tools in the ice, and this causes the calve muscle to be under a stretch while being flexed as well. Point is , expect it to be work even though is it lower angle if it goes on for a long time. Keep the technique efficeint and maybe practice the piolet ramasse to keep the calves from getting stretched. Stretch your ankles in training for the route.

frostbite freddie is hilarious. way to make something cool out of a sour thing. nice job!

there is a temp rating for sleeping pads I believe is called the R rating. I believe it is stated in the description for the products. I would say to compare that get a real comparison vs using someones opinion of the warmth differences. from the cascade design website neo all season has a r rating of 4.9 and the ridgerest is a 3.5 not sure how what a rating of 1.4 difference between means as to how much warmer that is. But you could say that the neo is "warmer" than a ridgerest.

before anyone gets their panties in a wad, i suspect that the above comment is sarcasm, a joke. Pins in the LTW is a bad idea. I would say that a trip up town crier would be a good prep for the aid on lib crack but it is closed till july.

Just what I need on that traversing around and hangin for dear life, some residue wd40.

index. or even if you got plenty of midweek free time, why not just go up and aid those 4 pitches of liberty crack a couple times? you would definately have the rack dialed in by the time you decide to go for it for reals. leave the pins at home.

from chad kellog http://www.explorersweb.com/kellogg7

If you have a moldable footbed, you do not need a superfeet inside. never seen the baruntse so I don't know if the sole is moldable or just the sides and tops of the inner boot. interesting feature for a mtneering boot. I don't think the superfeet were meant for going in a oven. maybe the best idea is to heat up the inner boot without superfeet but put it in when you take it out of the oven. having a pro do the work is a smart idea too.