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the scramble climbs along a ledge in rather a hrizontal trend. I was up there a few weeks ago but didn't really look in terms of gear placement. A roped fall would probably involve some pendellum action. The ledge is maybe a foot wide. I'd say leave the rope and just climb the summit block if you feel steady on your feet.

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Freakin' snaffles

I'll stop by the Ballard Grill and Alehouse at 43rd and Leary Way around 7:30 if anyone else wants to show.

Shall we move this indoors to the Ballard Grill and Alehouse? Map

My notes say we followed a faint track to a basin at 5,000'. Then up a shoulder SW of the peak before dropping into the basin below the peak. This was nine years ago but I don't remember being blocked by cliffs.

In April, 15 years ago, I did this route. We got to the summit of Persis in just under two hours, but took ten hours car to car. The traverse starts a fair ways down the south side from the Persis summit, traverses a ways, then follows a chute back up and eventually follows the ridge. After passing the low point in the ridge (4800') there are a couple of steep snow steps, then a gentle rolling ascent to the Index summit.

I once did Granite, McClellan's Butte, and Si in a day; WOOHOO!

NEW YORK CITY; Well that just Chaps my hide.

dkemp said in this thread that he got within a couple hundred feet of Chiwawa's summit last weekend. You might check with him.

I was up there during an alpine biology class when I was in college. Some reason I was by myself up at Windy Pass, between Lake Caroline and Trout Lake. So I dropped my pack and scrambled up Cashmere from there. Seems like there was one exposed step across and then a steep gully to the summit. That was thirty years ago, but I remember it as a fun little scramble.

I've got a 93 Geo Prizm I bought 2 1/2 years ago. It's got 79k on it but it just sat for 8 mos while I was a 'climbing' cripple. I'm satisfied with it's performance. But a couple weeks back I was rear ended, which did a number on the rear bumper and trunk cover. It was considered a total loss but seems to run just as well as before. So I took a $400 (salvage value) hit in the insurance settlement by deciding to hang onto it. Still I recovered better than 2/3 of what I paid for it.

That's my lack of style, If you think it's lame don't read my threads.

And not having a rope with which to rap the standard route, Johnny said he retraced his ascent route to get off.

given the time and money (ability needed to jug up some sherepa-fixed lines while sucking 02 is pretty minimal) i would rate everest as pretty low on my list of things to do. i'd rather go to the karakoram, siguniang or garwhal with that much $$ and free time. there are also other people here who, apparently unlike you, danielle and annabelle, have enough imagination to think beyong a puff piece tick list. fuck rainier and denali too. And what with juggin them lines on 8k peaks she'll probably never find time to get any way near 25,000 posts on cc.com. geesh

voodoo

depends if she did it with oxygen or without. any peak in this day and age climbed with oxygen is just another wank fest- regardless of your age- period. and wether you are nice or a total asshole (i personally preffer to be the later one) has nothing to do with acompishment cryteria of high altitude climbing. This thread is the fuckin wankfest. At 20 with just five years of climbing it's not like your going to set any standard that's going to impress this crowd of hardmen and college climbers. I think it is a great way to spend her time and her daddy's money.

many years ago Johnny Jeans told me he soloed up hucleberry's west face while doing a number of peaks in the area.

Sure Klenke it's for real. Olyclimber said he'd show. and sounds like Laura wants to be there. I'm on my way. See you there.

Tenzing says as much in his book. I don't think he was a self promoter but wanted to set the records straight that it was a partnership between he and Hillary; with neither of them having to be hauled up. They swung leads and each contributed to the others success. Tenzing had been high on the mountain the year before with the Swiss. And as sherpa had done a lot of the route preparation.

Hey this thread is for us armchair climbers. Deal with your private issues via private messages.