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Nothing sucks as bad as gettin the rig stuck REAL bad and having to spend three hours digging it out with icetool adzes and jacking up each tire to build a new road out of boulders and smashing your finger between two boulders

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Naw, it's way more fun to have pickets on the side of your pack so that the branches grab and hold you back and then whap the guy behind you

I'm sorry, what did you say sucked? Oh, your little shoes for walking on snow. Yes, they ARE annoying, aren't they? I hate it when they drag on the ground and then also when they weigh you down SO much

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Photo3: Gatekeeper is rocky thing on right VOC IS OUT OF PICTURE AGAIN on right. Sir Dick out of picture on left. Rain God Mtn and Snowcap/Misty Icefield beyond. Photo4: Bulky thing is actually Nivalis. Sir Dick is *JUST* OUT OF PICTURE again on right. Could be Fire mtn in distance on left, but I'm not sure.

Oh, and in the first shot the bumps in the middle ground on right on the ridge is the only real crux of the McBride traverse. Icy south facing slopes to travel the ridge to get to south side of Hour. Not that bad though.

Ahhhhh, the McBrides . . In first shot yer lookin at the Forger glacier, unnamed peaks, but the Forger Gl Spires are clearly visible. Here's another shot that I took from the east: http://bivouac.com/img/photo/1800_forger.jpg Veeocee is out of picture left. Centre is Drop Pass, You can see the wicked run you get going down into it. (and the shitty escape to the Cheakamus )Awesome. isosceles and Parapet on right. Highest point in background is Mamquam (NOT PITT area. Yer looking DUE SOUTH). Huge east facing thing which you can see from a long ways away (ie Joffre) is unnamed sub summit. Second shot is yes, Hour and Minute. Nice look at the north face of Hour. Wicked ski run on the north face there. Cornice usually falls off Mid May. Frickin huge. McBride traverse goes around the other side to meet up with Luxor/Crosscut col. Left of Min Hand is Pyramid, You can see it in first shot on far right too. In first shot Spire Peaks are to the left of Pyramid, with unnamed ridge system north of Mamquam Icefield.

No, Tahini Road takes you to Mt Falafel

Oh, and the Shortcut Creek spur in the summer is gettin real bad too. Friend broke an axle last year

You can call Squamish forest office, but there's a massive slide on that road in the area of Buck that doesn't melt out until July. Seriously. If you went up there in May, the slide is about 200m across and 20 ft deep. This point is too far away from the start of the A-E traverse to make it worthwhile. I haven't heard of anyone doing this trip in the last few years since the slide started gushing. Too bad, I'd love to. Some folks on bivouac.com have pointed out the possibility of starting the traverse from the Elaho side of things, but this would be a bit exploratory I think. You could always start at Buck, go to Porterhouse and then come back. Best of luck

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I now have Thursdays off and I would be totally in to it, were it not that I crushed a finger yesterday in a 6am Chilliwack ditch/road work issue

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Awright, from the 86 CAJ. I guess I'm the only one here who has it . . . North ridge of Stuart w. gendarme to Sherpa, Argonaut's west ridge, Colchuk & Dragontail via walk ups, west ridge of Prussik

So say someone is planning a traverse and wants to pre-place some food and be sure that it's gonna still be there in a month . . . anybody tried to make bear/rodent-proof containers themselves? What works, if anything?

Evolution??

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There's something about the west side of the Sierras. I've spent good time on the east side and tho the climbing is good, there's just something visually magnetic in the air around Kernville and the Needles. One of the few places I have yet encountered where I would be emotionally happy living for a long time

IN an article in the Gobe and Mail today, freaky genius artist Matthew Barney says his most favourite place on earth is: Stanley, Idaho No shit, I can see why

Smith? Huh? Sure it's cool and I luv it, but it's never had a "spiritual" effect on me because of 1. People 2. Lack of "wilderness" This place trips my bones: This place feels powerful in its lack of history and the overriding sensation that it SHOULD be more known, like what you're witnessing is a cresting wave: