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If you guys want a skiing fantasyland in AK, take a look at the topo of the Juneau Icefield.

Dude... bringing a "Hansel" for the wide stuff is aid.

Nice! I haven't been on either of those routes and now you got me stoked!

I think the "flag fluttering" that those folks make an issue of supposedly occured when the flag was initially placed, not when the eagle took off. I believe the "fluttering" was actually caused by the wiggling of the supporting rod that holds the flag out. If you actually watch the video, it's pretty obvious that the flag is not fluttering like it would in an atmosphere. For an explanation of all the "moon landing is a hoax" evidence, see: http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/moonhoax.html Speaking of stupidity in space: Bush On Mars 2004!

Preparative stoke:

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Dude on the right looks like he has been skewered with a ski pole!

DUDE! You can't put JOKES in the lost and found forum! IS NOTHING SACRED!?!?!

Cool! Thanks to slaphappy or whomever for getting the website up.

[sarcasm] Yeah, that would make it OK. That's why it's no big deal if cops beat up homeless people, cuz nobody cares about them. Injustice ain't injustice if you don't hear about it. [/sarcasm] You are a real shithead apparently.

I think it stands for Deliberately Obfuscatory Mode of Syntax Or possibly, Delayed Onset Muscular Soreness. Geez, you didn't know that!?!?

The RuPaul Face? Could you please mark on this topo approximately where you found the tent:

On a totally unrelated note: I just thought this was a cool picture and wanted to show it somewhere. It's not mine by the way.

COOL! I found this on the web. I think this is our "Mt. Chakachamna" from Chakachamna Lake. If I am right, this view would be from the NW. Our coulior route was on the south side. A few more pictures at this site: http://www.giseis.alaska.edu/Input/sigrun/sumar2002/chaka/myndir/chaka6.html

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and glowing, on sea and continues and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. - John Muir The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. - Michael Althsuler Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. -Elizabeth Barret Browning

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. - Erwin Schrodinger ... time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra-sensory perception , and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time. - Frank Waters, Mountain Dialogues, 1981

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven - A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted . - Ecclesiastes, 3:1-2

Heya Will. I'll climb witcha. I'm free weekdays. Keep in touch.

After five days of solitary confinement in the tent, Fred emerges to say, "Hey, have you guys seen my napkins?"

Dru, Not as many as he brought on our recent trip to Juneau. We stopped at every McDonalds between here and Prince Rupert so he could resupply.

Summary: Brook Alongi, Fred Beckey, and I recently climbed a previously unclimbed 7530ft peak in the Neacola Range via a 3000ft, 40-50 degree snow coulior on the south side of the peak. Details: Fred and two others attempted to climb this peak two years ago. The two guys started climbing the coulior starting at midday on a warm day against Fred's advice. They made it about halfway up the coulior and were then washed down to the base of the coulior by an avalanche! No injuries, but that was the end of that attempt. While the peak is only ~70 miles SW of Anchorage, and is visible from the southern end of Anchorage, getting there is no easy task. We took a wheeled plane from Anchorage to a small gravel strip on the west side of Cook Inslet which is primarily used as a service station for the offshore oil rigs. We were then picked up by a helicopter and deposited on the glacier at the base of the route. We set up our tents, and started climbing. The route was straightforward and we stayed to the climber's left side of the coulior. The weather began to deteriorate as we approached the top of the coulior and a moderate snowfall with some wind greeted us when we reached the col. Fred was very tired at this point and decided to sit at the col and wait while Brook and I continued on toward the summit (we estimated about 200' vertical away at that point). I led up through some granite blocks and put in a piece of rock pro or two. We were trying to move very fast at this point because Fred was cold and nervous about being left alone, tired, on an untraveled peak, with 3000' of steep snow separating him from our camp. Brook soon joined me and we looked over a slight rise and saw the summit about 100 yards away and less than 100' above us. The snow was falling more heavily at this point and it was getting pretty blustery, so we decided to turn around and start getting Fred, and ourselves, back down. There were really no technical difficulties between ourselves and the "true" summit, so I consider our effort a "summit". If you don't, that's fine. We reversed our steps down the coulior with LOTS of face-in downclimbing and putting in pickets as running belay anchors since we were pretty tired at this point. A few pics of us descending: We got back to the tents after 15 hours on the go. Fred was pretty beat, but Brook and I hoped to do some more climbing in the next few days (unclimbed rocks/peaks everywhere!), so we went to sleep looking forward to some faster-paced activity in the future. This was not to be the case however as a storm rolled in and we spent 5 days huddled in our tents being pummeled by rain, wind, and snow without much pause. I think we had a total of about 3hrs of time over the course of those 5 days that were pleasant enough to get out of the tent for more than a pee-break. We did lots of reading, playing cards, sleeping, and listening to the rain patter against the tent. FUN! Finally the weather broke! Note whiskey: We used the satelite telephone to contact the chopper and initiate our retreival/rescue. We were so elated about the nice weather that we started drinking whiskey and inventing "glacier games". Here are the results as I remember them from my whiskey-affected state Event/Winner Ski Pole Javelin/Me Propane Canister Shot-put/Brook Ice-axe tomahawk throw/Me Half-eaten Horescock Hammer Throw/Brook Fred was not interested in participating in our silliness, but if he had, I think he would be a natural for the horsecock toss. In any case, we finally got out of there and flew home. We considered many potential names for the peak including "Horsecock Peak", "Mount GeorgeBushSucks", "Mount Snugtop", and several others, but settled on the more-likely-to-be-accepted-by-the-USGS "Mount Chakachamna" in reference to the large lake with that name just north of the peak. Chakachamna Lake is visible at the top of the picture. Our mountain, "Mount Chakachamna" is the point labeled 7530 at the bottom right of the picture. Our coulior is on the south side of the peak. There are lots more unclimbed peaks/rocks in the area like these cool-looking buttresses: although the rock quality did not look very good with a few exceptions. Thanks to Fred for planning the trip and making it happen. Thanks to Brook for the great partnership, patience, and calm demeanor. Thanks to Jim Sweeney and Art Davidson for their hospitality and for sharing their stories.

It is worth noting that with canister stoves the price of the stove is pretty insignificant compared to the amount you will pay for the canisters over the life of the stove (~$40 stove vs. $4/canister). They sure are lightweight/small/convenient though. I like my SnowPeak gigapower stove. I use a coleman propane stove ( camping) more than any other stove though.

Nice! Thanks for the TR. Pictures? Especially of Sentinel?

"climb your sixty meters and STFU!!!"