G-spotter

First of all you can try your various pack choices on with a harness and find the pack that overlaps your harness the least. I do this with rock climbing packs before buying a new one. A difference of an inch can make a huge difference. Secondly, with some packs you can replace a thick padded waistbelt with a narrow webbing hipbelt and get rid of the overlap this way. Finally if the overlap is unavoidable you can either get a pack waistbelt that has gear loops on it and use those instead, or use a gear sling if you can't get at any waist gear loops at all.

There's no I in team, but there sure is a U in dumbass.

Honnold & Haley could solo the moon in 72 hours single push alpine style solo. Discuss.

How about a winter with a nice stable snowpack and months of dry warm-ish sunny conditions?

The first party to traverse the Pickets skipped a bunch of peaks and so did a bunch of subsequent parties. So therefore Colin, Mark and Wayne's Southern picket and Wayne and Josh's Northern picket integral traverses were illegitimate because they did different things and took a different route than the first traverse party. Obvious, really

"The leader must not fall" therefore you can use crappy gear since you will never test it anyway.

Nope. It used to be a lot bigger. The remnant got more and more perched as it got smaller, then boom.

Just wait for someone who bought it to put it on a torrent then post the link.

Geikie is in the Ramparts, almost in Jasper - even though it's Mt Robson PP it's a long way from Robson. Rick Collier was the real deal. All 1300 summits listed in the RMoC South guidebook and ticking his way through the north...

Also of note, Rick Collier was killed this past weekend and several companions were injured when a ledge he was standing on on Geikie broke off the mountain. Record rainfall in early summer is leading to increased instability in the mountains this summer. No question.

Buck 65 - 20 Odd Years Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans

From today's MCR from Marc Ledwidge

It sure is cool to have such great terrain close to home. I think this is a first time I have seen a trip with Steph in it that actually has pics of her instead of taken by her.

I did the bypass a couple years ago and thought it was just plain ass, never mind the "byp" part. Would love to hear from someone that's done the south ridge descent. I saw on MCR that someone there said it goes pretty smoothly but you do need to bring crampons.

And on choss there's only one strand to be cut ::

Sum Ting Up, does that come with rice?

I dunno but he said it was 8 pitches of one-stick hero ice and then a 5.7 crux with four fixed pins.

Here we go

There's a bunch of pics in the Jasper Trails Alliance page on Facebook. Or the Jasper NP page. Can't remember which one offhand.

A friend went up the North Face on Sat and said conditions were ideal. Silverhorn is supposed to have a lot of exposed ice. Here is one of his pics.

Trip: Pocket Peak - via Slesse Divide Date: 8/11/2012 Trip Report: I climbed Pocket Peak via the Slesse Memorial trail over the August 11-12 weekend. I originally planned to go all the way around Nesakwatch Creek and come out the Rexford trail but it turns out this is more like a 3-4 day outing at my present pace. Day 1 I left the Slesse trailhead around 10:30 AM and made it to a bivi south of the border and pretty much due north of Pocket on the ridge crest by around 6 PM. Met one bear along the way. There were some spectacular views of Slesse, spectacular sunset and sunrise, spectacular meteors, but I had trouble seeing the latter thru the mosquito netting on my bivi due to the spectacular mosquitoes. Wow. I actually mistook one of them for John Scurlock's plane it was so large. Day 2 I climbed Pocket. First attempted the east ridge but was stymied by a steep and loose gap 2 notches east of the summit. Then up the rock at the right edge of the couloir on left edge of the north face. Class 3-4 to summit. Found a summit register with a signature in Aug 2011 from Kevin Thurner. You can read his full TR on NWhikers.net with a Google search. Looks like he climbed the original Tabor route on the south side, which is very steep heather. On the way out I met the same bear in the same spot. Think this dude is a frustrated skiier as he spent a long time playing on the snow, then took a massive blue shit before he left. This was a cool little trip into an area that gets neglected because it's in WA but most easily accessed from BC. I ran into several old pieces of wire and metal that probably date back to the 1859 or 1904 border surveys. Chinese Puzzle from the hike in. Pocket from near Labour Day Bear, day 1 Slesse group from the bivi North face of Pocket. I climbed the rock just right of the left-hand finger of snow then up the skyline to summit. This was supposed to be a shot of me busting a pole vault arch jump over the summit of Slesse like a dolphin show except that the camera went off too soon. Also, pictures look better if you smile. Big Bosom Buttes, you make the rockin world go round. Somebody should get after that steep clean granite on the east face of the north Butte. Same bear, day 2. I think this guy's been raiding the secret Canadian marijuana plantations behind the bomb range in Slesse Creek. Rexford group on the hike out. Gear Notes: Ice axe, bivi sack, bear bangers. Approach Notes: From Slesse Memorial and Propellor Cairn then south. Cross ridge SE of Labour Day summit at lower of 2 notches then gain divide. Follow divide south. After lowest col, better to sidehill into basin below Pocket than to keep following ridge crest due to annoying krummholz on crest.

Here's some Bypass Gl and North Slesse Gl pics from this weekend.

That stuff is unsafe now. You should mail it to me. I can ensure it is disposed of properly so that no lives are put at risk.

West ridge of North Twin Sister can be scrambled (Class 3) by moving around on ledges or low 5th class if climbed directly. Plus it's one of the most fun days you can have in the mts.