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FUCK ALL Y'ALL! :anger: :anger: :anger: :anger:

but it sure is a great time to sell beaters at a used car lot!

Here we go... http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP09/climbing-note-jourdan It's worth noting that he doesn't actually solo these routes all free, Dane. He goes ropeless but brings a small rack and pulls on gear if necessary in some sections.

Already done by Wilford Frank came back to Canada a couple years ago and soloed the second ascent of the Cheesemond-Dick on east face of Assiniboine. He's also done some stuff in the Wadd Range if I recall correctly.

1) park on Mt Baker Highway 2) hike north

deep hot biosphere, man!

Supporting sweatshop labour with Nike kicks.... etc.

Maybe it's Rhenium!

True dat

If you consider bailing from, not even the summit, but not even the top of the ridge to be "poaching"? FA to the summit & therefore first successful ascent was Bibler/Klewin no?

I had that pegged for random text generator from the second sentence Those things are so 2005.

They bombed that side of Quartz to set off an avalanche in "K2 the Movie" IIRC.

http://www.straight.com/article-168927/ice-climbers-feel-heat-climate-change

The 2004 accident was a pretty bad one. Basically the climb is way thinner than in Dane's photo, rarely "in", but these guys charged up on it because it was a "classic route" and pretty much marched smiling to their deaths. Maybe less hyping of these 70s routes is warranted due to climate change.

It's in Baldwin's "Mountains of the Coast" book. Look it up.

You should be nice to him. He's the one who's going to identify that impacted stool you've been man-pregnant with these last three years.

The problem with the Kitimat Ranges anyway, is that they were largely entirely overridden by Pleistocene glaciation, with no nunatak sticking out. This leads to long rounded ridges with steep sidewalls and a lack of really spectacular peaks that stick out above the general mass of rounded summits. The Boundary Ranges, Chilcotin Ranges, Lillooet Ranges and Pacific Ranges by and large do not have this same problem. I would've liked to put Stanton, Pointer, Pagoda and Bute on my list as well. John - the problem with winter is that all the snow sometimes disguises poor rock quality.

64% of registered voters is some sort of triumph? Who exactly are the 36% who didn't vote anyway?

Kick out the jams, motherfuckers! Obama lama, fa fa fa!

The Coast Mountains of BC are full of beautiful peaks, Limiting it to ten is hard. First we have to ask: What makes a peak beautiful? Look at the peaks around the globe universally recognized as beautiful. The Matterhorn, Assiniboine, Ama Dablam, Mount Fuji, Cerro Torre etc. They are all dominant peaks that draw the eye. They don't have another peak just as high right next to them. They are all pretty steep and pretty symmetrical - OK maybe Half Dome isn't and it's beautiful. They are all inspiring - peaks you see and you want to climb. So my list for top 10 in the Coast Mts. 1) Devils Thumb massif. Including the Cats Ears Spires and Witches Tits in that, otherwise Cats Ears by itself would also be in the top 4. 2) Wadd massif. From a distance it all looks like one peak, otherwise it wouldn't make my list. Seen from up close Wadd's not a very symmetrical or well-proportioned peak except from certain vantages, and having triple summits is a distraction. 3) The Apple River Spire. Not very big but pretty much my definition of a perfect mountain. 4) Needle Peaks. You see these things from 50, 60km away and go "What the hell is that? I want to climb that!" 5) Stiletto Needle. Same reason but it doesn't stand out from so far away. 6) Monarch. Not the shapliest mountain but so dominant in its location. 7) Desire Mountain. So well named. Hard to pick amongst the fringes of the Monarch, there are so many beautiful spires, but Desire has a cleanliness of form AND apparently really solid rock. 8) Hagwilget Peak. Oh shit yeah. 9) Silverthrone. Not all of the Coast Mts are these dreamy granite spires. Quite a bit is glaciated bumps or crumbly choss. Silverthrone manages to be both glaciated and volcanic and still beautiful. 10) I know I don't have the Judge, or Burkett Needle, anything from the Queen Bess or Chilko Lake areas. I was even thinking of putting Wahoo Tower on here. But I'm going to go with Black Tusk. It's so iconic.

three of those aren't even in the Coast Mountains

The only reason people might be able to do it with mammoths is because there are some intact ones frozen in the permafrost. Good luck trying this with, say, the dodo. No frozen dodos out there.

I've got Shields on some screamers and had no problems with freezing over last winter.