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Doing Cannon on the way out (doing the reverse of the route I described to you in that other thread) would work and would get you to the trailhead after tagging that summit in the quickest manner, much quicker than going down Aasgard Pass. Re: Enchantment: piece of cake from Prusik Pass (one hour, max). No worries. Fun scramble at the very top (unexposed Class 3+ to a flat perch with excellent views).

What a dweeb!!!

That would explain why you say corny things on this site sometimes. Can you speak Cornish? (No one can, actually; the language died not too long ago). Cornwall is nice country--moors and cliffs. Tintagel and King Arthur. What towns did you live in? I'll consult my mapbook. I lived in the Cotswolds for a couple of years then in Norfolk for a couple more. We also lived in Wolverhampton for a while at my late grandmother's house (29 Mancroft Road; I still remember). Those were some good years.

Corndog! Damn, girl! I'm jealous. I might just have to run down to the local 7-11. You know, where you bought yours. My mother is English so I'm half English (and half Texan, believe it or not) and I use to live in England in the early 80s.

If you're talking to me: straightjacket. Nothing more. Jockstrap fell off a couple of hours ago. Helmet also slipping too.

Cookin' is finished. Gormandizing almost finished too. Steamed broccoli and a chicken pot pie. Does it get any more gourmet than that?!!!! <--laffing graemlin

Actually, I do have to read up in some guidebooks for my weekend plans. That comes after I finish dinner.

Is less enough for ya?

I'm reading this post. That's what I'm reading. Kind of dry. But the laffing graemlin saved it.

But it was a serious question...sort of.

Jay, question: do you write your longer responses on a different computer tool (email, Word, etc.) and then transfer them to cc.com or do you write them all in cc.com? If the latter I'm impressed as the damn back-button "erase" problem zaps my posts into oblivion at least once per fortnight. If I had written a couple of paragraphs like yours I'd be seriously pissed if I lost it to the vast pit of cyber death.

I'm deeply offended... ...deeply offended that the fanatic/activist did not mention CC.com as an example in his diatribe. I will never get over this.

I liked the wind plants on Sim City 3000 but eventually they were not capable of supplying the load for my burgeoning city. The game gets stupid when you finally start making more money than you can spend. At that point I would only buy the fancy-shmancy solar plants and those ones that connected to a satellite. Fern: maybe they could put a giant net up over the dish.

There's this report.

Addenda to Snafflehunter's comments: It is a hump-and-a-half to go this way but it *is* the most direct. Here is a route description on summitpost. In addition, look for my pictures (Klenke) on that page as I went that way. Or don't look if you don't want my pics to give it away. I ascended up the steep slope directly from the trailhead instead of taking the abandonded road. Actually, I walked up the old road a couple hundred yards first. The lower few hundred feet was brushy but manageable. After that it's largely open forest north of the creek that drains to just south of the trailhead (see map below). I came to the spur ridge where the old forest fire boundary was. There is one short brushy bit (very large alders) at the flattish area where you cross the wilderness boundary. After that you take one of several gully options through sparse trees to the alpine above. Cross the alpine slopes slightly rightward to gain the aforementioned saddle. From the saddle I descended halfway to the lake then curled rightward into an alcove below the N. Face cliffs. I did this to avoid the ridge continuance from the saddle because it looked iffy. My way beyond the alcove (some snow in there) was Class 3 but with a few bits of scrambling Class 4 especially to get off the snow. None of it was particularly hard. On return, you can descend out toward Elf Ridge to the NE and go down a steep gully (might be partially snow-filled) . You can see this gully from the saddle. You don't have to go all the way down to the lake. You can begin contouring a 100 feet above it or so on boulders. Give yourself 5-7 hours to go up and 3-5 to go down. TAKE CRAMPONS AND ICE AXE.

Yes, all explosives should be manufactured on site. This includes building a manufacturing site in Iraq. [i know you were just joking.]

But how much will it cost to build and to maintain? Didn't you ever play Sim City? The Solar Power Plant was always $$$$$. "The contract requires no state subsidy and provides favorable pricing for ratepayers because tests have shown the Stirling dish technology can produce electricity at significantly lower costs than other solar technologies." -Alan Fohrer, SCE chief executive officer

On that trip I climbed, in order: Border Ridge, Cathedral, Amphitheater, Bald, Amos, Andrew, Peepsight, Freds, Van, and Sheep.

Speaking of three in a day, there was this feat done a couple of months back.

But of course. There's lots of untrod rock out there. Nice work, Blake. But no fair stashing a canoe. You should be made to suffer the flat 3-mile Stehekin River Trail like everyone else. Or you should at least stash the canoe for me next time I head up that way.

"This year only one person had seen the summit [of Cathedral]." You must be referring to me. July 2, 2005. Strange that no one has been up there since then.

I have the 1968 Russian movie of the book on hold at the library. It's been on hold for about 9 months now. Still waiting. The movie is 373 minutes (6 hours, 15 minutes) long and I'll have 3 weeks to watch it. Egads! Hope it doesn't come during climbing season. Oh wait, climbing season is all year for me.

It's probably 38k of non-level terrain. And if he did it as a loop with the same starting and end point, then that would obviously work out to 19k up and 19k down. I've hiked in the Lake District (climbed Scafell Pike by way of Bow Fell). The way the English are, every damn bump has a name. (And so does every swale and hollow and dale and borrow.) I don't know his connecting path but there are several ridges and dales and trails to contend with. It would be interesting to see the route he took. I would say the majority of peaks can be connected without descending more than 500 vertical feet. But to get from one disconnected ridge to another would require a lot more loss and regain than simply 500 ft. All in all, I am impressed. Now what about that guy who did the Tetons loop in something like 6 hours? I think it's Teewinot to Owen to Grand to Middle to South Teton and back to the starting point (Jenny Lake?).

Climb: Elija Ridge-From the east over Pk 7160+ Date of Climb: 8/6/2005 Trip Report: Mike Collins and I both would like to gain access to Heaven without having to die first. So we visited Elija to consult with him... After a peaceful car-camp at the East Creek Trailhead other than Mike waking me up at 5 minutes to 5 O'clock just as I was throwing something into a trash can in my dream (dammit, I might have littered in my dream world!), we rolled up the highway a few hundred yards to a pull-out at County Line Creek. The boundary between Whatcom & Skagit counties is here. We started hiking up the hillside at 5:40. Soon we were on the long NE ridge of Pk 7160+ ("Tarheel" or "County Corner Peak") and treated to a view of Beebe Mountain to the WNW. We noticed the many large avalanche swathes cutting through the lower forests and realized how fortunate we were to have cloudy weather when we climbed it in late March. Beebe Mountain from the ESE: We continued up to our first objective for the day: Pk 7160+ (600P). It's an attractive looking peak from most angles and deserves an official name. I propose "County Corner Peak" because of its location at an inside corner of the border of Whatcom County. But Dan Sjolseth had previously called it "Tarheel". Pk 7160+ from the NE Somewhat tenuous Class 3+ scrambling on friable downsloping ledges go us high onto the south shoulder and a final scramble on an exposed fin. 3 hours to here (4,400 ft of gain). Views from there were outstanding. Views from Pk 7160+: Snowfield Peak, Gabriel Peak, and Beebe Mountain Also to the west was our primary objective Elija Ridge: A quick descent to the 6,300-ft pass got us onto Elija Ridge proper. It was getting hotter as the morning wore on. We knew there wouldn't be any water en route so purposely toted more than usual. Our second objective was the East Peak of Elija Ridge, named "Joseph Peak" by Stefan Feller and Tad Summerset after they climbed it in May 2002 but called "Ezekiel" by John Roper when he climbed it long ago. Ezekiel seems a better fit than Joseph. Here is the approach to the East Peak: We angled up steep sometimes grassy sometimes rocky slopes to the ridge immediately east of the East Peak. The East Peak (Pk 7521, 401P) was only a short distance away. A tiny snowpatch provided a frozen refill to my Nalgene. The East and Main peaks of Elija Ridge We signed the wet register on the East Peak. Stefan's paper was soaked so we transferred his entries to another piece of paper in there, one left by Don and Natala Goodman last year. A short scrambling descent got us down to the notch between the summits. From there a direct finish along the ridge looked to involve some exposure so we crossed a slope leftward to an access cleft onto a rib. We then ascended this rib to a false summit where some Class 4 crest scrambling was necessary to gain the final summit of Elija Ridge (7739F, 2019P). Fun yet nervous stuff. Later on the descent: "Did we climb up this arête?" "Yes we did." "Scary going down." "Yes it is." Roughly 5.5 hours from car-to-summit. Fortunately, a cool breeze freshened us high on the ridge. This breeze would be leaving us soon. There was a nice bivy area at the summit. The Goodmans spent the night there on their traverse {Panther Creek to Cabinet Creek}. Views from the summit: Gabriel Peak, "Ezekiel Peak", and Cosho Peak We pretty much went back the way we came. Mike had run out of water and I was on my last drops. Instead of going back over Pk 7160+ we chose to angle across the southwest slope to gain the saddle on the peak's Southeast Ridge near Pt. 6740. Pk 7160+ from the southeast: We then descended to the lake below the peak. After a short delay for me to soak my feet in the water and for Mike to soak his brain in nap land, we proceeded down the drainage to approximately 4,200 feet whereupon we began a hard contouring descent leftward to avoid the canyon of County Line Creek farther down. Car-to-car time was 11 hours. This was not a technical but a leisurely no stress outing. The lake at the head of County Line Creek is simply wonderful and the larches above it would be beautiful come fall. A great place to take a date for some solitude for a weekend. Gear Notes: Extra water Bugs are not too bad except for little mosquitos at the lake No need for ice axe. Approach Notes: Park at the point where the highway crosses the Whatcom-Skagit county line. This is a short distance up the hill from the East Creek Trailhead. Walk back down the road 100 yards and take to the slope on the other side of the creek. It's mostly open travel. No problems.