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Oh man, look at the snow level in those pics! http://clubtread.com/forumPix/39000/39092.jpg

You back? what is the VIMMFFFF over already? G. Lake was slurpeeish on Feb 5, probably worse now http://bivouac.com/TripPg.asp?TripId=5431

okay I'll take that down, it's the beer talking Hey E Canadians ARE nice. I only got in one fight today. Thre rock won

Skis needed here: And also here:

Cool you found a piece on that chossheap! How did the NW buttrash look

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I think the NF of Bear would make an excellent retreat in winter

The couple was good friends of my family. I think the photos are a touch morbid, basically since you can feel looking at them the point at which they would've said, "shit, we're fucked now." Documentation of the moments after this realization amounts to a transgression of something too profoundly personal for publication.

Hey I heard that. Yeah, the Logan/Stump and BOB are very similar routes in many ways. It will be an amzing feat by an incredibly strong party moving in blitzkrieg style that manages a repeat on BOB! Whew, what a horror show that route is, glad I'll never have to wrestle with those gargoyles again!

Please report back as to which partner killed the other. For full effect you should be sure to camp out for all of the trip and never visit a restaurant. You'll be clawin at each others' throats after two days

Way to get at that one! What's gonna be the perfect conditions for that I wonder, all this melt-freeze should be fattening up everything by now

Not in the Cascades, but this was a very cool one I saw last summer off the Duffey Lk Rd in BC:

Continued reliance on gas hungry vehicles only gives money to terrorist-supporting countries. OR: If we weren't giving them money for gas the terrorists would be poor and easily motivated for hatred against the US. Discuss . . .

The question is why would you go to Lillooet this weekend when the weather is showing 100% chance of ALPINATION

Secret Scarpa sale you missed becuasse of jet lag

I saw him down at the gym last night asking for info about the origins of the "Blue Route" -- looks like it has a messy FA history, either the guy with the beanie, or the guy who always climb w/o a shirt.

Trail is fine w/o misery shoes, summit ridge is two feet of snow with snags and rocks everywhere

This drink is sometimes called a RED EYE. Saw it first in an awesome coffee shop in Tofino.

Hey fuck you punk, in most years its a goddamn snowstroll. Try it right now with 4" of snow and 1" of ice over rock and its another matter

Paul topping out after emerging from the sketchy ice runnel

Ice low down

Climb: Mt. Harvey-Lean Cuisine Date of Climb: 2/13/2005 Trip Report: PaulB and I climbed the N face of Harvey today. Conditions are extremely thin right now, there was about 4" of snow on the boulders at the base. A couple of Swiss guys we passed on the logging road seemed almost insulted that we would even try it in such conditions We hummed and hawed at the base. Wasn't a lot of snow but it really didn't look that steep so we started up and found lottsa bits of snow over rock, but also some nice bits of genuine ICE We busted out the rope for two pitches, the first being a half-pitch of 6" wide runnel of ice about an inch thick over rock. One shitty half-driven screw for pro. Lottsa snow over rock sketchiness Another bit of ice which we simuled, then the endless slog to the summit ridge and a bit more of simuled ice. Trail down was snowshoed up nice. Total rt was 9 hrs. Very nice and likely a lot more challenging than usual right now with the low snow (no more than two feet on the summit. Most years I have been up there there is about 3 meters) Gear Notes: Took 2 pins, 2 screws and 2 pickets. Used it all. 2" stubby screws woulda been nice

Yeah, you all read the same article and it was purely speculative. As far as I am concerned (which 'aint a hell of a lot, to tell you the blunt truth of the matter), the more huts the better. As the sledhead crowd has aptly demonstrated, you hafta stake your turf, cause the dicks in Victoria aint gonna do it for ya. I have a big problem with the Kitsilano Birkenstock crowd wanting to protect wilderness as a complete no-trespassing area as if it were the crystalization of our collective guilt for the Industrial Revolution. If we want to sell BC to its citizens as a pristine wilderness area, we must have the faciltites to ensure they can access it. Fuck, I wanna see huts all over the place. The model whereby we demarcate wilderness as void of humans is the most pathetic ANTI-environmental idea. /Rant out

You know, this is really where an unlined nylon pant comes in handy; no WPB pant is gonna feel much better than another IMO and besides, once the DWR is worn off nothing breathes at all.