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From I-90, take Ex. 32 in N. Bend. Head south on 436th Ave. SE (which turns into Ceder Falls Road SE) for about 3 miles and park at the lot to the right. From the parking lot follow the signs that say "Rattlesnake Ledge Trail"! In fact there is some climbing around the ledge.

I crafted two of these this feburary for a snow school with my high school climbing club, The Bushwhackers (The Bush School- absolutely no affiliation with dubya). We dug 2 mammoth snow caves on the east side of the alpental/chair peak basin. With duct tape, strong epoxy, and two layers of pliable, but tenacious plastic sheet. They are most effective at moving large masses of loose snow away from the worksite, like out from infront of the cave entrance. But when the snow gets too consolidated this thang is virtually useless unless you want to etch some pictographs or something. We brought it along only because we had extra room on our sled. I wouldn't bring it next time unless it was car-snow camping If nothing, it makes a fine sled over snow that has been rained on for 20 hours and is super-saturated with 3.5 inches of rain on feb. 21

A friend and I were climbing the West Ridge of Stuart last June when a beachball-sized boulder shifted on to my partners ring finger... luckly this was two weeks prior to his break-up with his girlfriend and his was still wearing his mammoth ring. Injuries: Just a little deformity... to the ring that is. He was glad to have a piece of jewelry that day. -That overhang at the UW Rock has seen many injuries: Another friend peeled off the overhang and got his arm beneath him, compound fracturing his radius. He stood up and walked across Montlake Blvd. to the UW Hospital to get treated.

Here is the new Bushwhacking Club website Check it out: The Bushwhacking Club Homepage

Anderson River Group, B.C.? (The fractures in the rock look a little different than those characteristic of the A. River Group)

Mazama/Winthrop, the Methow Valley in general. That or the lively town of Monte Cristo. 10 saloons in 100 meters of boardwalk!

You know this thread would be a lot "cooler" if the title was spelled correctly!

Righto Bro! That there is a picture of a Bushwhacking Club member on a sucessful climb of Constance(s). Check out our website at The Bushwhacking Club Websource At the moment it sucks but soon the internal links and images will all work! Check back soon!

The Alaskan Way Viaduct has a sweet #2 width crack running up each of the columns. Good fun lapping up and down it by headlamp in the urban jungle night for something different. Possibly this could all change when the city engineers "retrofit" it. Be sure to say off it during and earthquake!

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Jackson Hole, before or away from all the GAP stores and such and over teton pass in Idaho Driggs are my votes for Rocky Mtn. "dry" towns

I scored a Casio SEA-Pathfinder at the REI garage sale for pennies. It's got a thermometer/barometer and other pretty much useless features. Doesn't have an altimeter; I guess the elevation doesn't vary enough out there on the "sea" . The only problem is that the temp. and press. readings get screwed up by the moon's gravitational pull every month or so, and I have to go into the chemistry lab, use the barometer and thermometer in there and let it sit in that room for a period. And that's all I have to say about that. [ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: headmasterjon ]

My opinion is that it is quite possible to hurt yourself even at the relatively low elevations we have in Washington. Conditioning has nothing to do with it. Sleep at sea level, drive to Paradise (5,000') and hump 50 pounds of gear to Muir (10,000') all in the same day sometime. If you don't feel at least little queasy you're a mutant (or lucky). A couple in England maintain this set of documents on the subject of altitude and acclimatization. High in content, low in images Really nice work. Steve & Judy's Altitude & Acclimatization Page

With help from my retired Boeing engineer neighbor I made a quality snow saw out of plane fuselage aluminum (perfect strength, thickness...). I cut a pattern in the blade as serrations and heat-molded a piece of PVC pipe over he handle and molded it to my hand. It has been used as a saw in Yellowstone NP and the Tatoosh. It also makes for some bad-ass samurai photos in the snow.

Dude... Candle lanterns are invaluable when winter camping. In a tent, or snowshelter just 1 can raise the temperature like 10 degrees! Clown! [ 12-13-2001: Message edited by: headmasterjon ]

AH! Someone has internet search skillz!

Well, because its a NA Classic you can find a bit of info. here: http://naclassics.com/climbs/lotusflo/beta.htm But it's preaty damn meager. Also, I think there's a web page on the "Cirque of the Unclimbables" Just search around. There was an impressive photo on this month's Snow News newspaper.

Also in the plans are a 200 bed hotel and a snowbird-like tram from base to top! What a shame.