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Damn that looks great! Good on you boys! Has this thing been climbed in summer? Who's gonna get the first SUMMER ascent?

The guy that fell was probably on the standard hiking trail, but here is a trip report and description of the North Coulior route in case anyone is interested: North Coulior of McClellan Trip Report

If you find a pair of a penny, they prolly ain't worth buyin'.

You are going to remember the girl in the red top you saw in the parking lot last weekend. You are going to talk about her incessantly. Then you are going to steal a bunch of napkins from McDonalds and walk around with your fly open.

You guys rock. Fantastic.

That's reeeeeeeeal nice there Pope. So what did you climb?

That beer shrine/pizza place is good. I hope that isn't the place you are talking about that closed down!?!?

Here is a picture of a squeeze I wriggled through in a cave in the Snoqualamie Pass area. I think I had to take my helmet off for that squeeze, or maybe it was a different one. I agree, it's pretty freaky. I went through a squeeze in Colorado in which I could only move when I exhaled. With my lungs full of air, I was stuck!

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The Finger of Fate is nearby and has several popular moderate routes on it's north face. Do a google search. There are also a couple of trip reports to be found in the California and Everywhere Else forum. Use the search function to find them. I've never climbed in the Sawtooths, but it looks cool. Post a trip report here when you come back. BTW: It's "Beckey" not "Becky".

EP holds are.... PEOPLE!!!

Hey sweet pics! What kind of work were you doing in the park? Just curious.

Colin has wanted to climb the NR of Stuart in winter since he was 5 years old!?!?! He is even more badass than I thought. edit: I am certainly not denigrating the accomplishments of any of the FWA folks this year; they have all been impressive efforts (except for those hacks on Cruiser), but in a normal winter, I don't believe many of those routes would exist. I don't mean that they were EASY this year (again, with the exception of Cruiser), but that the ice/rock would have been buried under so much loose snow in a normal year that the routes would not be feasible/possible/safe. How many more FWAs will we see this weekend!?!

Dru: Winter ascents must occur during the calendar season of winter. It's just too complicated, subjective, and arbitrary for record keeping purposes to try to establish what "winter" conditions are, so we simplify it by using the calendar; even though it's not a perfect descriptor of conditions. It is a unique characteristic of winter routes that they can be quite different from season to season. That's just part of the game. However, I agree with Olyclimber that many of the FWAs this season will have an asterix next to them (if not in actual print, then at least in the minds of those who know what it was like) stating that this was not a typical winter.

Is the song order always random or can you memorize the order of the songs and therefore find particular songs that way? Olyclimber has one; why hasn't he contributed his two cents. Nudge Nudge.

I lost a black Mtn Hardware glove somewhere on the trip out. If you go up there sometime soon (and someone should!) and you see my glove, I'd appreciate it if you would get it back to me. This weekend would be a great time to climb Cruiser!

Any data on what caused the variation in carbon loading back before the internal combustion engine? I can see cooler temps leading to less abundant plant life/algal proliferation and carbon fixation dropping in response - but its not clear to me what would cause an increase in CO2 emissions over time cycles like that. The trough-to-trough interval seems like about 100,000 years. Interesting data though. The average CO2 concentration recorded at Mauna Loa (climate observatory station) in 2003 was 375ppm. That is well above the top of the scale of the graph shown above. Click HERE for all CO2 data from 1959 to 2003. Interesting indeed.

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Don't forget the other fun little items that say, "I'm outdoorsy":

My email: Hi Teresa, I hiked the Eklutna Traverse about 13 years ago and it was one of my first real backcountry experiences and still one of my fondest memories. I remember sitting on the porch of one of the huts overlooking one of the glaciers (can't remember which one now), and seeing a wolverine come loping down the glacier - the only wolverine I have ever seen in the wild. It covered a distance of a mile or two with incredible speed and then disappered over a ridge. The opportunity to have such experiences are increasingly rare in this day of expansion and population growth, and it would be a shame to deprive future generations of such opportunities by spoiling accessible wilderness areas such as the Eklutna Traverse with snowmobile traffic. Those loud, obnoxious, and polluting machines will ensure that no wildlife will be seen in the area. Furthermore, they will result in the deposition of trash in the area, the overuse of the huts, and increase the potential for injuries requiring expensive and dangerous rescue efforts in the backcountry. For these reasons, I urge you to deny Glacier City Snowmobile's request to operate a for-profit snowmobile service on the Eagle Glacier. Sincerely, - -

He was a white house plant in the press room, put there to ask "softball" questions. Further evidence that the administration manipulates the press and has no respect for the role of journalism as a check/balance for government. The fact that this plant was operating under an alias and is really a gay male prostitute just adds a tasty Enquirer-flavored glaze to the whole "affair".

For the record, I would buy a FWA of NR of Stuart ice cube tray.