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buck up lil camper

washington and oregon map

right place right time I think this site needs a map. I have no idea where most of these mountains are.

you forgot the part where you don't get to turn off the first beacon after you find it.

quote: It doesn't matter what beacon you have. Practice is essential I agree with this. I also consider the primary purpose of a beacon is to make it easier to find the body.

snoboy built an ice wall in Squampton once. I heard a story once about someone hanging a rope from a bolted anchor to 'seed' a free-standing pillar. The pillar fattened up nicely until one day it collapsed under its own weight and ripped the bolts out of the rock on its way down. Perhaps dramatic license and exaggeration augment the truth in this story but the lesson holds - ice is heavy and can squish you good, so be careful with your 'farming'

if you're going 'round the bend at least you're getting to travel

Soul Patch: a small area below the lower lip that does not reach to the chin; experienced a rise in popularity in the second half of the 90's; sort of a lower lip equivalent of the "Hitler"/"Chaplin" mustache; also called an attilio

it's not a goatee it's a SOUL PATCH

quote: Originally posted by jimmyleg66: I see tons of people in the backcountry without them. Aren't they worried about ditching them in case of an avalanche? Blowing an ACL on a hard bail? .... Is the added risk not worth the weight? tons of people in the backcountry have probably never thought about the risk to make an informed decision. Having taken the advice of avalanche experienced friends and colleagues, I have the Voile plates. If I didn't have them I would just compromise with rear-throw Rivas with fairly low tension on the springs as these tend to pop off on their own when they take a hard hit. Obviously this is not a high performance set-up, but it works fine for low-perfomance me.

quote: Originally posted by michael_layton: 3. Canadian accents get annoying after 15 minute American accents don't even take that long.

it's nice how those 226%-250%-of-normal systems limit themselves precisely within the boundaries of the great lakes

so you gonna bail? I need to know if I should find another ride.

thanks for the photos Col.

is there going to be a number of odd ... I mean an odd number of people there? I need some weekend fun too ...

mattp I was addressing the general not the specific, I have no quarrel with anything you have to say. Merely philosophicatifizing about taking comfort in words that are not actually very comforting when I look a little deeper.

do you know why your anchor failed Anna? That's seems like a pretty important lesson to sort out. I don't know that hearing 'it happens to the best of us' type platitudes should really be all that comforting. To me it just reinforces that sometimes we are all idiots right on the verge of killing ourselves. But seems to be a truth, that close calls are more frequent than you'd like. I've had some and I try and learn and make use of the lessons they continue to teach me in some cases many years after the fact.

you are welcome scott. if you see the railway cops run fast.

I have a casio Pathfinder that I bought at Costco. It is also bulky and ugly but less so that the Suuntos. I prefer it because it shows the 24hr barometric pressure trend as a bar graph. I took it to pretty high altitude and the altimeter seemed to get more inaccurate the higher I went (reading too low).

I couldn't figger if it was me or not ... it just looks like a helmet on a blue sweater. Is it Dug? he's almost as pretty as me

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: thank you...it took 10 posts of bull shit to finally get my answer... i just wanted to know what the area climbers' consensus was... no actually I answered it in the first reply. whatever