Ed_Hobbick

Still looking.

Hey. I might be up for this. Let me check out these tr's.

Anybody up for a moderate alpine climb.

Want to climb Guye Peak on Wednesday?

I want to do it again. Anybody want to climb it on Wednesday?

Trip: Alpine Lakes (Alpental) - Improbable Traverse Date: 10/2/2010 Trip Report: Alarm went off, hit snooze, alarm went off again, rolled out-a bed. Met with Karl Shmid at the trail head. The traverse looked impossible at first. Karl said that it was probably possible. I said that I kind of doubted that but would give it a try anyhow. After finding the correct line across (go out about fifteen feet, up about 10 feet and then over to the the ramp) we made it across. It looked to be roughly 5 or 10 thousand feet down. Sickness factor: 7.5http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/504/medium/Guye_Peak_014.JPG[/i

I'll be avail on Wednesday. What do you want to climb? Guy Peak?

Partner Found (KtSchmid)

Hello, Tomorrow Sat. any one

Climb it tomorrow? Ed 206 412 3820

Hi Ed, I watched the short Youtube video by the documentary makers. It looks like they've already scoured the local historical societies and archives for newspaper clippings and photos. I didn't have any luck finding any archival film footage. The University of Washington Libraries Special Collections has a large collection of family photographs and home movies. Again, the documentary producers have likely already searched these. For instance, they have a collection of images from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition (a big fair in Seattle in 1909) donated by Victor Galbraith (Victor Galbraith won the Mt Baker Marathon in 1913, so they may be related). You can search the photo collection at http://content.lib.washington.edu/index.html, although they've catalogued and digitized only a very small portion of their immense collection thus far. You can also search the UW library catalog, which returns info on some collections with photos of Mount Baker (no film, though, which doesn't mean they don't have any, it just means that they haven't catalogued it yet). For example: Henry Engberg photograph collection, 1909-1918: The Henry Engberg photograph collection consists of photographic postcard prints and nitrate negatives of hiking trips, mostly to Mount Baker, made by the Engberg family and their friends. The collection contains views of various mountain summits and glaciers, as well as photographs of the hikers. Accompanying notes indicate that Paul Enberg may have used this collection for a meteorology study. Dose family photograph collection 1903-1912.: the Dose family photograph collection consists of photographs of the members of the Mount Baker Improvement Club, the Dose family, the Dose real estate offices, and homes from the Dose Addition in Mount Baker Park. As I said, I didn't have any luck finding archival film footage. I usually search the Internet Archive. They only have 145 clips from 1913 and earlier. Interestingly, the first clip that appeared in my results was of a horse-drawn fire truck produced by Thomas Edison: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A%28movies%29%20AND%20date%3A%5B1800-01-01%20TO%201913-12-31%5D. For books, Google Books is the best bet because they've digitized thousands of books, and all books that are no longer in copyright (1922 and earlier) are freely available, like this one from 1916 that includes info about the marathon: http://books.google.com/books?id=qpkdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22Mount+baker+marathon%22&hl=en&ei=83tjTIOUCcG88gausvyFCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20baker%20marathon%22&f=false For newspaper articles, the Library of Congress's Chronicling America website will soon have digital copies of Washington newspaper articles published between 1860-1922. The digitization project started a few years ago, so I'm guessing it will be completed within the next year. It's really hard work to digitize and catalog, so it takes a while. Tracking down relatives of the marathoners is a rather time consuming process. The first step is to search Ancestry.com for census records and the death dates/locations of any of the runners. Ancestry.com offers some info for free, but each Seattle Public Library branch has access to a premium site with more info, which can be searched free of charge. If the person died in Washington state, you can email the Seattle Public Library (http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=info_help_ask_email) and ask them to search for an obituary. If they can't find one, then they send your request to the Washington State Library. The obituary usually lists the names and locations of next of kin, so then it's a matter of constructing the family tree using a combination of Ancestry.com and city indexes (now known as phone books--early versions often listed the names of the husband, wife, and kids). Sorry I couldn't come up with more promising leads. It's hard work reconstructing history . ~Linda

I e-mailed your post to Seattle Library Librarian that I know. I'll get back to you later with any leads gained.

Super Cool!

Hello Steph, Something to consider on your overlay would be to add Mark Fielding to the route that you have marked "Becky Route". I know Mark and believe that he led the crux on the first ascent. He was AWOL from the ARMY at the time, he turned himself in after completing this climb. He said that the ARMY was "really pissed" when he got back. He said he spent A LOT of time filling sandbags during his time in Vietnam. I have his phone number if you want it.

Infinite Bliss is sicness maximus

disregard

Climb early on Monday? Ed

Partner found.

Leave tomorrow at 5:30am

I'm headed up to do the N ridge this weekend. I like to climb routes twice, so get a hold of me and maybe we can do it.

Mr Gecko, your posting like a poser. Let's keep the Climbing Partners forum free of spray.

How about tomorrow?

No but I think he is associated with Dragon(C2).

There is no way that I could climb it that fast.

How fast do you want to go?