Gary_Yngve

old news... I first saw this site over three years ago, I think when visiting MIT and they were telling me about this Hahvahd prof who works with them and smokes phatty blunts before visiting.

One time, in New Orleans, I was drunk and had a really painful experience with hot sauce...

Add some lemon/lime sherbert, and it foams up too!

What's an ISO?

Anyone else been up recently? Seemed last year all the cool kids climbed NF Shuksan, and this year it's not the rage anymore.

Turns out I'm not modeling the curvature of the earth, but for such a short distance (6.4 km from Prusik to Stuart, the loss of apparent height is in centimeters...

Yep, and here's proof, a translucent rendering of the view from Prusik. Stuart is circled.

You can get durian gelatto at Uwajimaya. But I agree, I haven't seen Ketchup-flavored potato chips down in the states, except for the bag that a friend of mine brought from Canada... damn those were good!

Eric's head is C1... it's only A0 if I'm wearing crampons.

We poor college students get by just fine with water and Snickers; we save the money for

dude... check out my arm on libra crack... i can't figure out how the hell i made it look like that.

flebfleb hurt his ankle a few days ago while slacklining... not sure if he's ready yet... jule's doing buckner then... if you can't find anyone else, i can probably be conned to going... but i'd have to be back around 2 or so.

Seems to me like every parking lot for an approach into NCNP requires a NWFP. Bastards.

Yeah, I spent a while around the crux studying the holds, pro possibilities, testing how Eric's shoes feel on thin edges, peeing in my pants, etc. before I finally caught sight of the "thank-god" hold. And then after the rightward traverse, I protected with a small alien and realized I basically had to have a triple sling on it to cut the rope drag... and then do that crazy mantle... So, Eric, being the third climber, had some time to wait.

That might also have been when Eric8 was fetching his shoes that I tossed down to him...

http://www.mountainwerks.org/cma/2003/shorts.htm#INDEXCLIMBING4 has a description of the crux... it describes a long leftward hand traverse after the rightward traverse and step up. I walked [carefully] across the thin ledge instead of hand-traversing beneath it (which looked much worse)... weird.

TLG, Eric8, and I were there. I was a complete dumbass and left my rockshoes at home, but luckily Eric's fit my feet pretty well. Onsight-flashed Princely Ambitions (quite a heady lead, pretty sustained... I like it!!!), but hung on a piece on Libra Crack (a biner was being feisty and refusing to clip).

Ya, I was living in Atlanta in 1996... I can verify that being a local during the games is hell.

In the Beckey Guide, on of the routes near the Monte Cristo area (can't seem to find it right now) says something to the effect of, climb tree to bypass 30 ft bluffs.

Never mind, I'm a dumbass... I forgot I mentioned the rum in the summit register.

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=6

Quite tasty! I assume you know JohnnyQ? Hidden Lake Peak was such a fun trip! Guillaume, a French guy visiting our lab, summed it up quite well while at the summit: "With such great views, the warm sun, and the rum, the only way things could be better is if I were getting a massage from a hot, naked woman!"

I think you're being too hard on them... Shit happens. Small companies don't have the luxuries of huge stockpiles of stuff. They have to rely on other people for some stuff. Maybe the other folks dropped the ball and were late in telling Nunatak. To me it looks like: Shit happens. Tom got screwed over by one of his providers. He notified you immediately, apologized, took all the blame for it, and credited your account. This is much more than you'll get from most other places. You're really being too hard on him (though understandably you're mad).

Just called AAI and spoke to one of the assistants. He was really happy to hear it, and told me that he'd tell Dunham and the rest of the gang.

We ran into a guided group of six today at the steep section of Baker NR. Jay, one of the guides, was a total class act -- very friendly, offered to let us pass, etc. He told that he doesn't read CC.com, but he's good friends with Michael Layton. Anyway, a lot of people post here about the horrors of running into large groups on a climb, and this was not the case here... May all large groups be just like Jay's!