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Note, founder's name is John Wood, not Woods.

To rule myself out as a contestant to give you guys a fighting chance.... Okay, no one got this last time I thrust it forth in the name-dropping game. So, what peak is this: Mysterious Peak Rising Above the Ubiquitous Clouds that Make up This Sorry State for Most of the Year. No, it's not Jack's Spanker Mountain.

You win you snooze. You snooze you lose. It's all about getting the ordering right, folks.

If you're talking about the peak at the base of the arrow, then that is Luna Peak. Beaver Pass would be at the top end of the arrow.

Bonanza is a Cascade Classic. That alone is reason enough to go climb it. And it's not chossy at all (at least for the Mary Green Glacier Route). Don't know about any other parts of the mountain. Here is a picture of the mountain from Fortress Mountain in late September 2000: Bonanza Picture. The Southeast Ridge is the long crest on the right.

Lambone's Folly

Preppy sweater? Hmmm, I guess so. I'm like a secret agent. Must have many different wardrobes so as to blend in. I guess my HQ information blotter was wrong. They told me climbers are all a bunch of preppy college kids. Next time I'm going with the heavy, plaid lumberjack shirt. I have an alarm on my piece of shit 1981 Honda Civic. The alarm is currently disconnected since it is about 13 years old and "acting up." I got it while in college when my car kept getting broken into. They weren't trying to steal the car, obviously, but what might be in it (hint: I no longer listen to rap music because of their thievery). So now, many years later, people wonder why I would have an alarm on a POS car. Why do I always have to tell them it's not about the car itself but protecting what might be in it (CD changer, stereo, spare climbing gear, etc.)? The car has since been broken into a half-dozen times in the last 13 years, last time was February 2002. Oddly, as much time as it's spent parked at trailheads, it's never been broken into at such a location [KNOCK ON WOOD]. Still, though, I don't know how much of a deterrant a resounding alarm horn would be in the middle of the hills.

I bet ya 10 to 1 all of these break-ins are perpetrated by the same small group of hoodlums (at least the same group for each geographic area). You've got the I-90 Prowler Angels, the SPH Spittoon Gang, the MLH Milf Hunter Posse, and the NCH Narcotic Dealer Wannabes....or some stupid punk-ass names like that. To them, I say: shove your up your and your own terds, scum bags!

I really seriously doubt (like am 95% sure) that NO ONE has done Maude, 7FJ, and Fernow in one day (less than 24 hours). Maude and 7FJ can definitely both be done in the same day--especially from a camp in Leroy Creek Basin. But Fernow is a loooong way over. On the map, it doesn't look that far north of 7FJ, but, trust me, it is. As for traversing over to Fernow from 7FJ, ha ha ha ha. Note the name of the mountain: Seven Fingered Jack. The summit is, as far as I recall, about the third finger (middle finger?). There are at least three more fingers leading off toward Fernow on the ridge crest. All of these are extremely precipitous and would require much rope work to traverse. The east and west sides of these crest crags are steep. When I climbed Fernow from the Leroy Creek/Phelps Creek junction in one looong day, I went up over the saddle left of 7FJ, dropped down into the Big Creek drainage, and contoured the basin toward the prominent snowfield coming down out of the Fernow/7FJ saddle. There is a small glacier you skirt in the drainage. It is not a problem because it is out of your way. From the saddle it is class 3 scrambling on ledges, mostly on the east or southeast side of the summit massif. All in all, it would be much easier to descend westward off of 7FJ down gullies in the cliffband to the saddle above Leroy Creek Basin then climb over to Fernow by the way I just described. Here's the way I would do this trio (quatro) of peaks: 1. Day 0: Leave Seattle later in the day so that you can get to Leroy Creek Basin camp by near the end of the day. It will take about 4 hours to get to camp. 2. Day 1: Climb Maude and 7FJ. You could do these in either order. By doing a high traverse between the two, you can avoid some elevation loss back to the basin. 7FJ is climbed via the easy upper west slopes (talus and boulders with some scree gullies). Note that the North Ridge of Maude is craggy so traversing low below its west flank will be tedious, but it is doable (this is the way I climbed it). Alternately, you could drop down through the saddle north of Maude in order to complete that mountain via the North Face. 3. Day 2: Go for Fernow by the head of Big Creek. Look across the valley at a nice waterfall plunging down from the lake between Dumbell and Greenwood Mountains. If you have extra time, try and climb Copper Peak on the continuing ridge north of Fernow. The key word here is probably "try." Copper is a mean mountain. It's much more noticeable from Railroad Creek and the town of Holden. 4. Day 3: Hike out. Alternate order: by doing 7FJ and Fernow on Day 1 (requires an extra three hours and would obviously mean Copper Peak is out of the question), you could probably do Maude on Day 2 and get out on the same day. This option also could allow you to do a carryover to Maude and then run the ridge southward to Carne Mountain in order to get back to the car in a loop. I like loop trips. There used to be a trail on that ridge. Might be pretty abandoned looking, though.

What are you up to now, Brian Almighty?

Hey thatguy, were you thatguy who left the three Heinekens in the bag for usguys, ugguys being Bill and me? If I'm right, you were the one I saw drinking a Heine last night. We never formally met, so I can't say for sure if that was you. Thisguy who I think might be thatguy was wearing a blue fleece vest.

Well done Toast. Or, Toast well done. Or, unburned Toast.

Not to worry, piwi, my last name has been transmuted into many other forms many times. I always come out golden in the end.

Amen, brother sloth man! I now quit this thread for good.

Third paragraph. First use of 'wordsmith': "By intellectuals, I do not mean all people of intelligence or of a certain level of education, but those who, in their vocation, deal with ideas as expressed in words, shaping the word flow others receive. These wordsmiths include poets, novelists, literary critics, newspaper and magazine journalists, and many professors. It does not include those who primarily produce and transmit quantitatively or mathematically formulated information (the numbersmiths) or those working in visual media, painters, sculptors, cameramen. Unlike the wordsmiths, people in these occupations do not disproportionately oppose capitalism. The wordsmiths are concentrated in certain occupational sites: academia, the media, government bureaucracy." He initially uses the word 'wordsmith' here to label one side of his argument. The others would be non-wordsmiths (he cites "numbersmiths" as his example). From then on, he applies the label 'wordsmith' regularly throughout the essay. If his point was solely to say that a wordsmith has a tendency to be a left-wing, anti-capitalist intellectual, then I think this is an error because it is a sweeping generalization. So what if someone knows how to write, how to be a wordsmith. I have written poetry, a novel, critical views, and professed/instructed, and would consider myself a 'wordsmith.' I am not a left-wing anti-capitalist intellect, though. Two of these three things I'm not. I'll let you choose the one I am.

The essay/article sucks from a prose standpoint. Guess the author is not a wordsmith, I mean intellectual, I mean anti-capitalist. Hell, I don't know what he's trying to get at. An essay for the sake of an essay, ignored by many, forgotten over time, and archived on the dusty lowest shelf of history. My question is: why the hell does he use the word "wordsmith" as a catch-all for intellectuals opposed to capitalism or intellectuals of the far left? Right-wingers can be wordsmiths too. In short, the ability to write has nothing really to do with your political/socio-economic views. My opinion is he should have found a better word than wordsmith. I guess you could say he should have wordsmithed his way past 'wordsmith.'

Punkbusters!

Those punks: you should have seen how fast they irrupted into our shelter once we made that initial move to go home. Must have been 20 teenies hovering around the fire like moths at a porch light by the time we finished cleaning up. Heck, they probably trashed the place and we'll get blamed for it. Could have used you then, Beck.

You're 12? Can I play with you?

Take her on some stretch of the PCT near Rainy Pass. Then rock climb something interesting you might pass. Figure out some loop trip if you can that can be done in two days.

TLG must be bored. Unfortunately, I don't have the graemlin translation booklet. ?????

I mentioned this in a thread about 6 weeks ago but I can't find it. So, in lieu, on my calendar I put in that the road to the Stuart Lake Trailhead will be closing at the Bridge Creek Campground bridge at midnight, July 14. I don't know if this is referring to the midnight immediately following Sunday day or the midnight immediately following Monday day. July 14 is a Monday.

Very feasible and the preferable way for me when I eventually get around to climbing that obelisk. My late friend Don Dovey once told me he and his partner climbed the entire technical portion of the West Ridge in 45 minutes in a simul-climb/running belay. That would kind of make me want to descend and climb it again.

This is not so easy to answer, as it would depend on physiological factors that I'm not knowledgeable on (i.e., I'm not a doctor but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn). If a freefaller were to pass through his own sonic cone, would the pressure wave rupture his ear drums? I don't know. I think it might be more dangerous for him to loiter at the barrier and oscillate back and forth across it so that multiple "sonic booms" smacked the ear. This would be like standing right next to a huge speaker and having someone turn it on and off repeatedly to a 150 dB max volume. As for it killing you, I doubt it. Although the aforementioned oscillatory scenario may eventually rupture more than your ear drums. It might be like a high frequency acoustic wave constantly pummelling your body (like the use of acoustic waves to break down kidney stones). What we need is someone like Norman Clyde to pipe in with the physician's point of view.

As long as you can force air out by creating a greater pressure of air inside your lungs than the local atmosphere (even if it is going by at 600 mph), then you can breathe out. You can breathe in as long as you can rarify the volume thus created in your lungs when you flex your diaphram at a suitable vigorousness. Air can be forced into the lungs (this is why mouth-to-mouth resuscitation works), so it might be wise to turn your head perpendicular to the air flow. This we've all experienced, like when putting your head out of a car window traveling at a high rate of speed and facing into the wind. You may remember these tough guys on TV about 10 years ago (some religious body builder guys) that used to blow up massive balloons using their lungs. The worry was that they would fail to maintain a lung pressure greater than the significantly increasing back pressure in the filling balloon. The ensuing irruption of air from the balloon back into the lungs can rupture the lungs. At least they said it was a real possibility. Maybe it was exaggerated. I don't know. Oh gee. I'm so sorry Dru. NO PAGETOP FOR YOU!!!!