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This winter is really great so far, but with no end in sight, sometimes I just long for warm rock with good friends. Go ahead, post more if ya want.

cool pics. I love photo onslaughts!

To see Jamin get his FWA in '07.

If no one bites on Jamin's offer, I have another FWA idea...care to come with?

and directing them to CC.Com.

Fuck that lame rag. A climb of this magnitude should be sent straight to Outside or Men's Journal.

I love the reaction of the belayer. None, other than look at the camera and laugh.

Cool. Looking at your photos, looks like you went up to that higher point and skied down that gulley a bit. I think in spring, skiing from near the summit would make for a huge descent down the S.E. side, depending on coverage near the road.

Ground fall clip. The bruthah was lucky. No lid to protect the noggin.

In reviewing my posts, I don't see anywhere that I've disparaged Shoreline. The new owners are from Laos, which is close enough for me. They can be from Butthole Wisconsin, so long as their food doesn't resemble that garbage from Thai Restaurant.

They're new. They just have to work out the bugs, get used to the locals...They'll be around for a while. For perspective...did you know three years ago the Wenatchee World voted the Wenatchee Skippers as "Best Seafood" restaurant in the area?

The Thai Restaurant serves exotic Chinese Food under the guise of "Thai Food". What about 'the Thai Restaurant' near Miller/Chelan Ave (I forget exactly)? The Thai Restaurant serves exotic Chinese Food under the guise of "Thai Food".

Truly, it's frickin' lame.

Spoken like a true alpine climber.

On a brighter note...Wenatchee got its first Thai restaurant, in E. Wenatchee, Valley Mall Parkway. Mai Lee Thai Restaurant. Excellent food, like you're in Seattle. Check it out. But I digress...

If you're talking about the Y, then I hope you're using "wall" in the loosest sense of the term. It's a sorry waste of your materials, Dub.

The road had X/C ski tracks and about 6" of powder, but that was it. No sled tracks as yet.

My turns are the ones on skier's right. Though the coverage turned out to be great up high, still you couldn't relax too much, wondering when you were going to get tripped up by a rock or stump. Travis was fueled solely on some Primus induced adrenaline. So, when you gonna get some wild snow in? Robbie? The lifts are making you soft.

We saw your rig when we came out. I could spend the rest of the season farming for turns up there, so I'll be calling you around the holidays.

Trip: Mt. Cashmere - East Shoulder Date: 12/2/2006 Trip Report: Mt. Cashmere is huge. It dominates the view west from Wenatchee. Heading down Sunnyslope, one sees the East Shoulder of the mountain shooting out, begging to be skied. Fortunately, Travis had the same sentiment, so we headed up. Without the snow, one also notices that there's a logging road that zig-zags up the shoulder, making for a casual skin in the winter. We started at about 3,200' and ended up at around 7,000'. It was therapeutic to feel the warm sun again, we both got sunburns. The smell of sweat and sunscreen and the heat reflected from the snow fooled me into thinking it was March, not December. The top 2,000' of vert was amazing powder skiing, over large hoar crystals. The bottom 3,500' coverage was thin, but just enough to allow us to keep the skis on and make careful turns amongst the stumps and rocks, occasionally finding filled in powder, all the way to the road. We tucked it to the gate from that point on. Gear Notes: 110-88-103. Approach Notes: 8 Mile Road to almost the 8-Mile Lake TH. Trav skinning up logging road, looking back north. Looking south towards Stuart and Co. Silver Spurs on Cashmere Looking west towards big slide mtn. Stopping point. The payoff. Great early season touring.

Would you allow your kids to ascend/descend w/o a harness? While we were coming down, I saw plenty of middle school-aged kids descending seemingly oblivious of the consequences of a slip on the polished granite. What I like about the cables is it's a landmark and an opportunity for someone who never climbs to feel a bit of the exposure and committment of yosemite. I definitely thought it was the crux of RNWF. I wasn't gripped so much as to the consequences of slipping, but rather afraid of the absolute embarassment of falling to my death in front of so many fuckin tourists.

You could freak the tourons out by slacklining the descent.

Choss Coulee.

Borrowed from Supertopo... Half Dome Cables Fatality Having descended the cables this spring, I was gripped, and I had my climbing shoes on and the weather was perfect. Like some of the people said, I'm really surprised more people don't die or get hurt going down the cables.