payaso

All these shows are such crap! I read that the next Survivor is going to be in Thailand. What a cakewalk! What could be better than having to spend a couple months with no connection to the outside world on an island in Thailand! Ahh the fresh seafood,the coconuts, the women, and if they pick the right island you'd get plenty of awesome climbing too. I won't consider that show legitimate until they have it in Greenland, Angola, North Korea, or perhaps Winnemucca, Nevada. Oh wait, don't they do that every year and call it Burning Man? A $250 a head anarchy festival. Whatever.

Did it in July, beautiful area with no one around. Nice views of Goode, B Basin, etc. Solo could be tricky on the banded towards the top of the Glacier as it was starting to open up back then, but who knows? Fremont would probably be more likely to lead to success.

His email address is hughjess@hotmail.com I'm signing him up for the Oprah book club right now.

Hugh, no one cares who you are, what you climb, or if you climb. You are insignificant. Are you by chance from Spanaway? Your parable sounds like a Meth-induced piece of real Shakespear, brilliant! ADMINISTRATORS- I have an idea, how about creating a hall of shame for clowns like this. Post their personal information and passwords and let everyone go to town with it.

200 posts! Now isn't that special.

I've never been able to figure out why a horse is not considered a "pet" in so many wildernaess areas. If a pet is not allowed, why is a horse? How about enforcing blue bag rules for horses? Do they make em that big?

I think that being paid to climb is the big motivator for you, but guiding is no vacation. You are not "paid to climb" so much as you are paid to bring em back down alive while listening to them whine and complain about you. This will mean retreating off of routes. When you go up with your buddies and weather or health dictate that you come back another day, you just do it. If you have paid top dollar to "summit" something, the expectations are much higher, as though the summit of a mountain were a commodity to be purchased. You will have a very hard time convincing someone to pay you $ around here unless you are affiliated with a professional organization. I believe many of the guide services have "interns" who volunteer for seasons at a time until they have cut their teeth on a great number of trips. I know that the guide service up in McCarthy operates this way. On a short term basis you probably stand a better chance of working as a base camp cook cutting SPAM into moose and bear shapes for the clients. Heading out on your own could get tricky with all the gov regulations regarding concessions in the parks. Sometimes a concessionaire will have the sole contract to conduct all guided trips of any kind, whether they actually offer the service or not.

Thanks for the offer guys, but I think I'd rather spend the day working on 5.7's and 5.8's which is more realistically at my level. I'll get there someday.

No shit, leave early like everyone else.

Bringin it back to the top [ 08-30-2002, 06:43 AM: Message edited by: payaso ]

I'd like to do some rock or alpine climbing on Sunday and or Monday anywhere within at most 3 hours drive from Seattle. On rock I'm a little wet behind the ears but I'll sport lead 5.7, no trad experience (leading) yet but can happily follow or will try leading the right pitch. Have car, rope, etc..... Would like to check out Leavenworth or ???

The FS claims that money raised from these things will be re-directed to the areas that they are used. I've often wondered how this could possibly be true. If I buy mine from REI or wherever, how do they know that I parked at the TH for Shuksan, Whitehorse, Blue lake or anywhere else for that matter. They would need to at least survey the number of cars parked with and w/o passes to attempt to direct funds at the most heavily used areas. We need the LAWGODDESS to take this on for us! Come on sweetheart, what do you say?

Yonder Mountain String Band in Bham on Friday! Yeehaw!

Gotcha

View the President's response here! http://www.whitehouse.com

Don't forget to thank your employer who has subsidized and supported you for each and every one of those posts!

Haven't used it but I'm considering buying one of these Granite Gear packs. It looks perfect. http://www.granitegear.com/products/backpacks/mountain/alpine_light/index.shtml

The best place to get a job in Bellingham is anywhere outside of Bellingham. There you need a Master's degree to schlep cream cheese on a bagel at the Bagelry. You really have to create a niche for yourself in that town. Don't get me wrong, I really love it there. The best job to have as a climber up there would be selling marijuana. That's all anyone up there does anyway. You could get paid to hike across the border in N. Cascades, hit the Picketts, and then pop out at Mt Baker cuz the Border Patrol is always looking for people with big packs up at Ross Lake.

Haven't used em but they sure look flimsy! I'm looking at a pack made by granite gear, I forget the name right now. Gomedium.

Nothing eliminates the need for Blue Bags better than 2 Immodium 12 hours before the climb .

I like film too much, so I find the quality of my digital shots just isn't good for landscape shots (mountain ranges, etc.) unless the light is just perfect.

If those prices were for two, now that would be a lot better!

I had a pretty mediocre experience with a guide back in 97 on Cotopaxi. It was my first big mountain and I didn't know what I was doing or what I was in for. The guide didn't show a lot of enthusiasm, but I guess if you slog up that thing every week I can't blame him. It only cost about $100 for the two days. the prices in Peru and Bolivia sound a bit pricier. In Ecuador, it was worth it because arranging the transportation to and from would have cost like $40, and would have been difficult to get when you were ready to go. I don't feel like I need a guide so much these days, but if the price were right, it could be worth it for more reasons than simply finding the summit. If I go down there I might try and hook up with other climbers down there.

There is no such thing as a zipper that will never break. End of story.

The funniest one I've seen was on top of Mt Appleton in the Olympics, it was just a film cannister with some wet paper crammed inside. No, no herb I'm afraid.