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Or take the poles out and lay it flat just in case. That is a drag dude, freakin gear is to expensive period.

Make that 3 of us, as I took a slide as well just after entering the couloir. Felt safe, got sloppy, took a ride to a great landing on boulder below. Good job on that gendarme pitch. Probably the better way as the other was wet slab, after kicking steps through the snow with rock shoes on.

Way to go guys! 3 niner's in a day not to shabby. But ehemm, why didn't you tag Bonanza as well it is just across that little creek.

DB, you have to much time on your hands.

Went to Brooklyn a few times.

I have thought of this before, just in case I won the lottery and would have to go with Chelan.

Way to go sayjay. wondering if either lake is melted out yet? And this area is beautifull in the autumn as well with the larch trees by heather lake.

That was all the special ed teachings you's guys handed out to me.

I would agree with you there ironman But home free from there and whoever put those pins in that wet crappy slab

I agree dude! Ton O fun!

Ha the only admiration was me watching these 2 hardmen in action. Small pack=fast travel and they had there shit tuned. Good job guys

Hooked up with Mike from back east for a 2 day romp up the ridge. Damn cool rte, excellent rock, great weather, in a stunning area! Guide books tell it all so won't go there. Highlights from me were entering the couloir, just above the bottomless slide the snow gave out and went for the big ride down rapidly. Lucky for me there was a huge boulder above the moat to have a perfect 10 landing. Spent the night at the bivvy sights above the couloir where the wind roared and the temperature dropped and it must have been -30 (Ooops wrong thread ). Actually it was a bit nippy but what a cool place to spent the night. Next day we let the weather calm down a bit and warm up so got a bit of a late start but no hurry. We had a great climb and were loving it. Soloed the beginning and then what we thought was the first 5.7 pitch turned out to be like a 5.9 pitch to a dead end and ended up seeing the true rte way below and rapped down to it. Other than that pretty straightforward. We swung leads and Mike ended up with a sweet 5.7 slab finger crack that I tried to talk him out of but NOOoooooo. Anyway, I had some cool leads and did pretty well I think for my first real multipitch alpine climb. I ended up with the first lead after the 75 Ft rapp down from the gendarme across the wet,icy, crap . And this is where we met up with pete and erik and the only climbers on the ridge. Those guys were rocking and passed us up and doing it in 1 day . I was hating my large pack watching those 2. But easily made the summit from there. The roller coaster trip back to the car was freakin long. Erik warned us the trip up to longs pass would suck it did. But what a great 2 days!

Right on Tom!

Way to go Josh, damn sure had the day for a summit

Way to go Mr. Gowens Bet ya had a good time over there.

Sorry pink floyd and boubon took over, wiill call yu.

HA, thats the 3rd time for me humpin up all those switchbacks to that "virgin lake" which was pretty much an ice cube cept for the bug eggs etc...waiting to hatch. Dude check your pm's I think you got some of my gear from Black.

Nice job Brett, hard to tell with that sweet pic to see your trademark lead with a smoke hangin out there How was the bergschrund?

Did kyes peak south rte with Nolan yesterday. First time in the monte crisco area for me and figured might as well climb the highest point to get the lowdown. Typical cascade climb, good trail turns to climbers trail which peters out and find your own way from here suckaa. The summit block was as wierd as I had heard, funky shit. Superb day, partner, and excellent views from the summit. Wise to fill up the jugs at virgin lake!

Nice shot. Wonder where he took that shot from?

Okay what is it allready

Or try something a bit further east as it melts out quicker over there. The hike/walk from the old town of Trinity up towards buck creek pass is nice. Views straight up at Buck and berge Mt's are cool.

YUPP

Now if the thread was started Cell phone,GPS, or one of those mp3 things, I would go with the mp3 thing. Someone told me you can put like hours of tunes on that little disk.

Bonanza? Whatever it is nice shot.