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Nice route. Ray's slides are killer.

OK. But if you do a search on me you will find all sorts of embarassing personal adds all over the web. That doesn't mean I'm not abnormal. So I can still post here right?

I am not pointless crap. I am a dignified dung beetle.

Yeah. Let's delete anything JoshK doesn't like in spray.

My s.o. gets back from her 3 month vacation in 30 minutes.

You gave them better service than they gave you. I will be wary of doing business with them.

Ve vill purchase all deese tings fur funf ReichsMarks.

Woops. Forgot this part. The Beckler river road takes off left immediatly after Skykomish and before the bridge. The Foss river road takes off right immediatley after the bridge. It is not easy to forsee so slow dow down a little after the bridge.

A month ago people were doing the back side of Dragontail without crampons but moving very slowly. Good luck finding much left going down Asgar.

Check out the Foss river road or the Beckler river road (which meets up with GregW's suggestion at Galena summit). Up highway 2 past index and Skykomish. There is a bridge immediately after you pass the turn to Skykomish (Beckler river and Skykomish come together immediately upstream). The Foss river road has some options that will get you really high and near some lakes (one is up the trail about 100 yards). From there, you could even do Malachite peak. The Beckler will have some nice camping along the river and a few places up high with nice views.

No problem. I wove a bivy sack with it. Hope you are not allowing a dangerous plaque buildup.

It's when you go blind that you have to worry.

Very nice.

The SW Butt of Flathead has several variations too. On our first attempt on MHE, we got baked and had to retreat. We had saved one gallon of water at the base of a tree about 100 feet down from the route. At about 5 pitches up Bruce dislodged a fist sized rock that bounced left, right, left, right, right, right Blewy. The water was gone. I almost got in on the 1st ascent of Marvin's wall too. But there were already three and it sounded like a waiting game.

I came up to do the route about 11. The party of three was still working on the second pitch. I elected to check the base of the N Face for booty rather than risk eating rockfall. Found 1 screw, 1 ancient, soft iron piton, a sling, one full package of dental floss, an OR overmitt and liner, and several energy bar wrappers. Continued over to the N ridge. It looks interesting. What a day.

Nothing says "No Mormons here." like a chick with a whip.

OOOOOOUch! My girls hated that part.

Yeah but she gives good thread drift.

And a right arm.

OMG! You changed your avatar pic. I am, well, rethinking things... Tell us those Mormon missionaries didn't get to you.

If only I would have had access to this information prior to my first encounter. She will probably never speek to me again. Oh. And climbers beware. That rough part of your fingertips that allow you to do heinous crimpers is a handicap in the unlighted regions. Do not attempt crimpers with your tongue and you will have a backup.

She looks horny.

Not from the Ingalls side. water will be scarce. There will probably be some snow/ice in the gully at the bottom of the rap from the base of the gendarme. Bring prussiks. You do not want to miss the gendarme.

You must meet Icegirl.

What route were you doing? SW Butt? When I was doing 'A Modern Home Environment' I kept looking over there at a beautiful hands to offwidth crack that just kept going. Must have been 4 pitches. At the top was a refrigerator sized block that looked like a stiff breeze would knock over. That crack is east of the standard route. Probably never been done.....