klenke

Why's that ironic? Seems perfectly normal to me.

Come on, Dru. You know worms don't crawl, they slither. Paula: question: you said you were on a glacier where the worms once were but are now gone. How do you know this? Do they leave feces traces, etc.? I will keep an eye out for your little oligochate friends next month. I may even go out on the Depot and/or Redoubt glaciers. ---Paul

Ah yes, one of those humorous moments in Klenke's history of climbing. But, Mark, you know you loved the excitement of it all. All that Canadian pot you were transporting incognito under the back seat must have been why you were sweating so much.

I actually measured those two routes a while back. From the point where you take the Arlington exit off of I-5 to Rockport it is about five miles shorter going the Darrington way as opposed to the Sedro Wooley way. But there's more to it than that. In going the Darrington way, you will be slowed down less often and for less amounts of highway since the towns are smaller (essentially only Arlington and Darrington slow you down in town). Whereas, the area around Sedro Wooley is one long clusterfuck of traffic with a lot more traffic lights. Then you've got to deal with possibly congested traffic on I-5 through Burlington and Mt. Vernon. All this and I'm not even mentioning that sorry ass town called Concrete. All told, my assessment having drove both routes a number of times is that the Darrington way is up to 20 minutes shorter each way. However, there are more food choices in Sedro Wooley, thus possibly compelling climbers to go that way back.

Just a little FYI: New name for Newberry Crater

bastards got your pole!

Maybe what you want is here. Or maybe it's here. Or maybe it's nowhere.

Well then. We could then gang rush him, pull his pants down, and tie him up to the nearest post. Then he'd be the "Full Moon Rope Up" for the day.

Clogs are my favorite approach shoes. They're wooden, so I feel that much more at one with nature.

Great Lance Schuldt. Maybe Team U.S. Postal Service will need you in 2004 for Armstrong to draft off of.

Great! A few of us were thinking of doing this route next weekend but it sounds as if it might be getting out of shape. Is this your consensus? The schrunds down low and the lack of snow at the notch make it seem less aesthetic if I'm reading your TR correctly.

For what it's worth (my outrageous fame, that is), I would definitely be interested in seeing a free-use climbing facility akin to Marymoor Park under I-5 someplace. You can contact me through this website if you need some volunteers (to try out the new rock ).

Thanks, Martin. Look out for a new mountain soon to be put up (well, within a week or two) on SP.com: Gypsy Peak of NE Washington. I figure at least one peak in the state outside of the Cascades and Olympics deserves to be put on that site.

The couple occupying the Oregon Butte lookout also clued me into the Seven Devil Mountains east of the Snake River. They were very faint thru the haze. I have had a desire for a few years to climb He Devil and She Devil but I've found very little info on the area. That could be a good thing if I felt like being adventuresome. I'll swing through there one day soon. Got to go back to the Wind River Range sometime anyway. When I do, I will check out the Seven Devils. I have this thing about peaks over 9,000 feet in the Eastern Oregon area. I know that the Seven Devils are in Idaho, but they're close enough to Oregon to get my attention.

I honestly don't remember if he made it. I do vaguely remember the video playback in my head, but I can't remember the outcome. For some reason, I want to say he caught a toe on the roof and thus did not land smoothly. I s'pose a search of the web could throw some light on the answer.

I have already climbed in the Wallowa Mountains, thus my mild excitement in being able to see them from Oregon Butte. I could also just vaguely make out the Elkhorn Mountains in the haze to the SSW. Your right back at ya.

Climbed Oregon Butte from the Teepee Trailhead yestreen in 65 minutes (what a slow poke!). If it weren't for the view of distant Willowa Mountains of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, I would have to rate the climb as But because of said distant view, I'll only say it was The trough for the spring below the summit was probably the most interesting part.

Josh, there was a picture of Stilleto Peak on Sergio's site (www.sverdina.com) from his Birthday Tour a couple months back. The image was taken from somewhere near Copper Pass ENE of the peak. Go to the Birthday Tour mountain page on his site for the pic. Sorry, I'm at a library computer in South Dakota, so don't want to take the time to provide a link for you. --Paul

Greetings from Edgemont, South Dakota, which is on the edge of nowhere. Getting ready to harness the power of Harney Peak (highest peak in this state). All of you who complain about this ugly peak or that ugly valley should definitely not travel to far east Colorado or west Kansas or south Nebraska. That's some of the most boring real estate out there. The endless nothing. The only trees you'll see are the ones homesteaders have planted around their homes. Anyway, congrats on Goode NEB. Told you it was a spanker if you don't expedite your progress. I see you guys must have used that broad bivy ledge I told you about 8,500 ft. Ciao. Got to run before this town puts me to work doing something time consuming and unrewarding...like breathing.

Stefan: we went up the way you did but it wasn't BW8 for us but something like BW4. Going this way through the forest, we eventually "stumbled" upon the trail higher up in the basin. The forest route is not that bad, just BW1 and 2 off-trail hiking. In coming back, we found the trail on the south side of the creek through the alder and salmonberry quite easy to follow. And in hindsight, we should have gone up that way by crossing over the creek where the trail "disappears." Of course, this was in late August/early September, so who knows.

Meine Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber: "Aha. I see snow [at the summit] makes for very different climbing conditions. Maybe easier, maybe harder. Nice images though."

Doch. Ich sehe der schnee machen für sehr uneinheitlich klettern konditionen. Vielleicht leichter, vielleicht härter. Nett bilder obgleich.

Corp. Caveman, try here.

Interesting parallel between your story and my story: I climbed HLP today (Friday) with a woman friend from Holland--thus the European connection--plus I too did not get a massage from a hot naked woman (though the remote possibility was at least there). And although I did not have rum, I did have a 16oz Budweiser stashed at the trailhead.

Hey Gary, how was the rum on Hidden Lake Peak last year?