lizard_brain

Let's see... Doesn't like reading threads about bolting, so starts a thread about bolting spray...

Climber Barbie:

Are those your measurements?

Yeah, I understand... At the TH the other day, as we were getting back, this guy and his wife pulled up in a pickup and told me they heard there was a 'trail to the top'. I said yeah, sort of. He kept looking back and forth between his wife and the trailhead. He looked like some middle-aged blue-collar good ol' boy. I told him we just got back, and it 'took us two days', and that there is no trail above 9,000 feet, just snow to 12,278 feet. He kept shifting in his seat and looking back and forth. I was trying to give him the message 'it ain't easy' and 'it ain't for beginners', and I gathered from his body language and the way he was looking at his wife was 'we oughta go fer it!' I gave him a couple of scare stories and left it at that. I figured if he did try it, he'd burn out well before the Lunch Counter anyway. He was in jeans and running shoes. 'D'ya think we could make it in a day?' 'That depends on how fast you walk 15 miles and 7,000 feet up a 12,278 foot mountain, 3,000 feet of it off-trail in snow.' I have no idea if he went for it, but it was up to him. But I don't care anymore. It's up to them. I didn't say 'go for it' or not, I just gave him the info. Okay, I did tend to be negative because I thought he had no idea what he was getting into. But the original poster sounds somewhat experienced, and Adams is nothing for someone with experience, just a matter of routefinding. And on weekends, that's not a real problem on the South Spur, just follow the conga-line of 200 other hikers and climbers and skiers and snowboarders and Boy Scouts and Mazamas and moms and dads and kids and dogs going up and down that thing. It's relative to who you're talking to, and the route you're talking about...

Hey, that was the 70s! But I bet he had a high stroke volume...

I know, I am an exersice geek.

It used to be thought by doctors that athletes had bad hearts from all that exercise, that their hearts were 'sick and unhealthy'. Doctors actually believed this up until the 1950s. It was in the 1960s that physicians started studying the effects of running and exercise on the heart, and then the running boom happened in the 70's. (Remember 'The Complete Book of Running'?) There's an article about it here.

There's something called 'stroke volume' that I am just dying to tie in here just for the name... (Here's the boring part) Your heart pumps so much blood per minute. You exercise more, your heat ventricles get bigger and stronger and pump more per beat (I just wanna say that again... pump more per beat...), so your heart doesn't need to pump so fast to circulate the same amout of blood per minute, so it slows down. Same amount of blood is circulated, stonger, healthier heart with bigger ventricles, pumping more per beat... More efficient for keeping that morning wd.

That's when I first wake up. Daytime it's around 58.

My doc says I'm 10 pounds overweight, but I'm healthy enough that it doesn't matter. Resting heart rate 38, etc. He does say though, that if I lost 10 pounds, it would take almost 10 minutes off my marathon time. He knows how to motivate. Forget about 'live longer' and all that crap... 'You'll increase your marathon time by about 10 minutes!' He's tricky...

Well, as for the South Spur of Adams, I've done it a few times, the last time was a couple of weeks ago, and I carried my crampons to the top and back. No, I wouldn't go there without crampons and an ice axe, but I'd also say there were no fewer than 200 people on that route, and any route that I don't have to rope up for and use my hands on is a 'hike'. It's a walk-up. Nothing technical about it. No more technical than Camp Muir, in my opinion, just steeper and higher. Not a climb, not even a scramble. Just a steep walk. As for solo? Just be able to find your way on snow if it clouds over (which it has, half the times I've been there). By the way, I'm not saying do it or don't do it, never did. I'm just giving my opinion of the technical difficulty of the South Spur of Adams. And my opinion is - there is none.

I like this one better: BMI Linky

You can do it. So many Americans have. We're rooting for you. Go for it.

Busted for DUI and posession less than 2 weeks after leaving rehab? Death pool, anyone?

South spur of Adams isn't a climb - it's a hike.

Yay!

Yeah, like maybe between the pictures...

Two's company, three's a horde?

On weekends, maybe. I was on the Coleman route a couple of Monday-Tuesdays ago, and we were the only ones on the summit. Perfect weather. There was one other group headed for the summit as we were going down. They were hours behind us. Another team was on Easton, but we never saw them on the summit. Don't know if I'd call that 'hordes'. 2 groups 4 hours apart on the Coleman and another group on the Easton. But I digress...

X-Ray vision.

I get free coffee from a cousin that travels regularly to Columbia and Guatemala on business. I have a Mr. Coffee on my desk at work. MMMmmm... Free Columbian coffee. I figure I save at least $500-$600 a year over what I would pay for it in the cafeteria at work. There's a 24-hour Starbucks drive-through near the I-5 on ramp (Northgate) near where I live. I hit that one on my way out of town on weekends. I am set!

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"Yo' momma"

Not trying to sell it, but the Feathers is close to you, it has some beginner routes, and it tends to be protected from the weather when it is rainy on the west side of the mountains. On the other hand, it can be crowded or busy, especially on weekends, and noisy on Saturday nights (party!), but you can drive off and camp away from that, usually.

It's about 10 posts now. Go back to bed, lizard brain. I would, but yo' momma peed in it.