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Marmot down jacket. No hood but a very warm jacket. Brand new condition. Green,size XL. $65. Shanahan down jacket. Size men's L. Red, no hood. in great shape, hardly used. $25. Koflach plastic boots.Womens size 6.5. In great shape. $60. Platypus pack with bladder. Good shape. $15. Taxi Groove shortie skiis (75cm) with mountaineering bindings. Great shape. $60.These are great for getting off Rainier without having to haul heavy skiis. Chouinard Vapor barrier liner. $20. I will barter.

Yup. Call me.

All this gear is still for sale. The bindings are not hinged. Just bales in front and plastic heel clips on back.

Still for sale.

Not to worry. Leave that to the sheep. I have a chainsaw and tree climbing gear. Yep. Spurs. I'm for liberal yet tasteful cutting back of trees at Index. Get permission and set a date.

I'm from Montana and I just bought a boat. I 'm missing your logic here. Maybe because you are from western Washington, you are wet behind the ears. Try focusing. The shotgun approach isn't working for you.

Trees grow back Rocks dont Trees grow back so fast that if we do not cut some back occaissionally, we will not have anyplace to climb in a decade or so. The only reason we can climb at Index at all is because of the work of many at stripping the moss, dirt, and brush out of the cracks. And cutting back at least a dozen trees since I started climbing there 15 years ago. This is the Pacific Northwest. If you don't scrape a surface clean frequently it will turn green and grow a friggin tree. I am for good environmental practices in our forest. I love trees. But if we do not trim back some trees at Index from time to time, you will not be able to climb there. Just hike around the hillside above the Garden Wall or toward the Upper Town Wall. There are lots of examples of what the Town wall looked like before the trees were removed. Why don't you go climb there?

The more pitches I get under me, the safer I feel during a fall. If I can fall the length of my rope and not hit the ground, that's a good thing. Most of my falls were during first ascents. A lot of those lines just didn't go the way I thought they would. I didn't know for sure until I pushed it as far as I could go. Somehow, though, I just never got excited about crags like the Coulee. It's better than not climbing. But if there is a big route or an alpine ascent to do, I'm not gonna be climbing or training on a crag.

Two newbies and I were up at Muir in the rain Friday night. It started raining at about 8000 and didn't stop until about 10PM. I got up at 4:30 to check conditions and it was windy and cold. I dug a pit and found the top 8 inches frozen, the next 18 inches unconsolidated wet granules, and a hard ice surface below that where the water was collecting. We packed up and came down. That was my first stay in the hut. Where were all the dope smokers I've been hearing about?

Done. Check yours. Call me.

Thats what we're looking for... We'll be climbing Ingraham Direct Monday morning and there is supposed to be a ridge of high pressure building by then. The ceiling has been pretty low 5-8k feet when the marine layer moves in, so hopefully we'll get to look out over a sea of clouds! The only thing that worries me are the high freezing levels. 13K THIS WEEK!!! We'll be coming up the other side (Tahoma) and descending your tracks. Keep us out of the gapers. With this sunshine we've been seeing, I'm hoping for a little consolidation to take place. I plan on getting real early starts so I don't have to be on any snowbridges or avalanche chutes when they are soft. Afternon is for siestas.

Tahoma

If you get an 'A' on your paper, what do we get?

I've watched em do it at my house. Are you calling me a liar?!

http://www.a1-autoracks.com/cargoroof.html See #682. Mine is as wide as it is long but is the two color job. Probably about 8 years old. I am in Redmond.

excuse me, but how can one have no smells on a vapor barrier liner? Besides, my farts don't stink.

Anyone been up there recently? Planning a trip up there next week.

$35. This is a full size carrier about 4X4. It comes with a Yakima rack but one stay is stripped out. It can be ordered from Yakima. I have keys for the rack and the carrier.

with good behavior you're out in 3-5 for murder in this state no big thang I have always prided myself on being a peaceful guy. When I got ripped off and I found out who did it, I got my stuff back and told them off. Big whoop. They laugh at you afterwards for months or years. Make a difference. Kick ass and cut loose a few rounds. The bastards need a steeper learning curve. If it don't hurt they won't change.

I have watched the squirrels do this to the cedars in my back yard. We sit in our breakfast nook and they sit in theirs. We eat muslix and honey nut cheerios, they eat our cedars. Actually, I think they use it for their nesting cushions. Pretty soon you will see a bunch of little rats with bushy tails where before there were only two.

Exactly. It comes up to my neck baffle. I got a longer one.

Platypus pack with bladder. Good shape. $15. Taxi Groove shortie skiis (75cm) with mountaineering bindings. Great shape. $60.These are great for getting off Rainier without having to haul heavy skiis. Chouinard Vapor barrier liner. $20. I will barter.

Went up there with a lawer friend a few years ago. We started left of center and went up ledges into corners to a big ledge. About 4 pitches. 5.8. Rapped down left and searched for water. Found none. Two snakes. Lawer won't go back. Excellent rock in blazing sun with no available water after mid summer. Endless possibilities. I would consider setting up base camp on top of icicle ridge and find snow off north side. Spend four or five days and do as many routes.

That's only for getting them to bed.

Olivia and Meredith are 7 and 5. Besides starting fires at cc.com bbq's they can climb. Olivia started when she was 1.5. She did a hand traverse across the fireplace mantle to get the mask her big brother was keeping from her. She did her first 5.7 this spring. Meredith doesn't like the hights yet so her idea of climbing is to bounce around at about 4' off the deck. She has a blast. She is a gymnastics whiz so climbing will be easy for her when she gets over the hieght issue. But the point is, I have always just tied harnesses on them using 1" tubular webbing and a few strands of chord to hold things together. It is good to look at a manufactured harness to see what they do. I put a diaper harness on the bottom and a twisted sling over their arms with the twist in back. Tie a chord to the back of each leg loop and then tie it to the waist loop and then tie it to the bac of the chest harness and then tie them together so they stay in back. Then i girth hitch a loop through the front of the diaper sling and untie the knot so i can put an end through each side of the chest harness and loop it hrough twice to hold the chest harness together. Tie it off with a ring bend or water knot. Clip to the loop in the chest harness. They have not complained yet. Except when we don't bring cookies.