lizard_brain

A lot of people just leave items they find just sitting on the rocks at the parking border by the Ezmerelda trailhead. I'll be there again the weekend after next, but I won't be going to Stuart (Ingalls), but I'll have a look for it there... (Mostly I just see hats & single gloves, probably lost in the parking lot...)

ROFL!!! Rolling On the Foil Laughing? (rimshot...)

Ah - that... Did you bother to do Foss?

You'll never need to clean again...

But if it weren't for my job, I wouldn't have all of this time to kill on CC.C...!

What's the stupidest poll you've seen on CC.C?

Helmet or not, when your grey matter gets whipped around inside your skull from high speed impact, it ain't a-gonna matter how well it's designed - it's scrambled eggs.

I was JUST having FUN.

Pringles! DUH!

So I am interested in doing the entire traverse myself. I have done the Pinnacle->Lane->Plummer->Denman->Eagle->Chutla->Whapaneyo trip many times, and have been up Foss and Boundary and Unicorn a few times on separatate trips. I was up Stevens once some years ago. Never been up Castle. My questions: Should I bother with Stevens? Is that just a black hole for time? I assume Unicorn can be scrambled. I have climbed it, but people were scrambling past us. Is there a scramble route up Castle? That's the only one I haven't been up before. I may go check that one out in a couple of weeks. I have a couple of free days - I'll play around on it, find the route I like, and make note of it. Then I'll link the whole thing together next July. Start with Boundary then either hitch a ride back from Longmire when I'm done, or just walk the Wonderland Trail from Longmire to Louise Lake and walk the road from there to the Unicorn/Boundary TH...

I asked someone in a climbing shop (I forgot where) why I can't use a bicycle helmet for climbing. They said a climbing helmet is designed for TOP impact, where a bike helmet is designed for SIDE impact. If that makes a difference. My helmet gets most of it's wear and tear from me taking off and throwing down my pack while it's hanging on the back, and from me standing up into rocks without looking up and banging my head. BAM! Saved a few bloody scalps with it.

I assume you mean this... (Taken from Boundary)

Chutla. Foss Peak.

...Elvis died?

It's the seams and joints I don't trust. Looks like it could burst on impact.

Prolly not.

The rap anchors are right off the top of the South Ridge. The SW Face is supposedly a class 4 scramble (though I've never been on it myself), there are no rap chains I know of there, and I hear it is covered with loose rock. It also looks like it takes you almost completly to the opposite side of the peak from Ingalls Lake, the approach that most people use. South Ridge takes you right to the top of the gully to the lake. From summitpost.org: "Southwest Face Grade I Class 4. This is the easiest route on the peak and has several variations. There is much loose rock."

Send him climbing up the route, while NOLS members pitch rocks off the summit.

HAWT!!!

You say that like I've been climbing more than once!

How about a pathetic thread...? I'll post a picture of myself climbing...

How pathetic can it be when you are bored with the bored thread?

Very creative! :brew: What can I say - I'm bored.