Alpinfox

I climbed Stuart Glacier Coulior in May of 2002 wearing uninsulated leather hiking boots. My feet got REALLY cold and I lost feeling (or had tingly/weird feeling) in pretty much all of my toes. This lasted for several days which bothered me because I was leaving for Denali at the end of May. I decided to go to AK anyway and just tried to keep my feet warm and pay lots of attention to them (wiggle wiggle wiggle). A week or so after the end of the Denali trip, I got feeling back. Toe warmer packs are a great idea.

I'm surprised the (other) science weenies have left this error uncorrected for so long! It should be 9.8m/s *s! And of course, your actual TIME of descent would be given by square root of 2h/g where h=height and g=9.8m/s*s AH.... I feel so much better now. Is that ankle back to 10*10% now ML?

I also took ginkgo before going to Denali and did not have any AMS problems. Anecdotal, but that's two of us. One of my partners got AMS at 14K and took Diamox and was fit-as-a-fiddle within 12hrs. However, I think he was taking Ginkgo too, so I guess it didn't work for him.

Bwahahaha!!!! Holy shit! Is this Catbirdseat!?!?!?

Alex said: It is technically easy, yes. The crux of the route has always been the weather and logistics. Not always:

$20 instead of $10 now.

Ken near top of first pitch: Ken at the base of the second pitch: Ken leading 2nd pitch: The left side of Amazonia wall; our second climb went up the left skyline to the base of the pillar near the top and then cut left (because Ken wimped out, HA!): Ice formation on the center of Amazonia wall comes from the "Luxurious Drippage" mentioned in the guidebook. The bending of the icicles due to wind was quite impressive: If Ken would get a digital camera so I could have some nice pictures of ME for a change, then I wouldn't post embarassing pictures of him like this:

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bp could charm his way into an NSA meeting. Dat boy is SMOOOOOF!

you gonna get the first ski descent? There was some snow on the ledges of north facing climbs (Ginger Cracks) when I was there last week.

The full-length version of that well story is in "The Wild Muir" which is the same place I got the Mt. Ritter story. It's a nice collection of some of Muir's first person accounts of his more death-defying adventures, but it seemed a bit ragged and I think reading his books is a better way to get to know Mr. Muir. The first story in the book is about young Johnny Muir and his brother's excursions onto the steep roof of their Scottish farmhouse in the middle of the night. His brother slipped and nearly slid off and then froze up. Johnny had to rescue him and talk him down, all without waking up the parents which, apparently, would have been worse than falling. Muir was da shizzle.

For literature's sake: BadumBUMP

Wasn't me.

I have a WM ultralight and I haven't been disappointed, but I don't have your fat ass problem. It has been warm enough (when I wear my belay jacket inside it) on winter trips and a June night on Liberty Cap with high winds (inside a tent). It's really light and appears to be very well made. I wouldn't mind if they put a small draft collar in it though. Check out the WM "Megalite" which is the fatman's version of the Ultralite (64" shoulder, 1lb 8oz, 30deg), but not as warm. http://www.westernmountaineering.com/ba_MegaLite.htm I have heard that REI tends to overestimate the warmth of their bags so I am skeptical that the subkilo is as warm as they claim. Also, in my limited experience handling one, it seemed underfilled and the down was kind of clumpy. REI bags PMS does carry WM Ultralilte and some other WM bags. Don't know if they are in stock. Email/call www.promountainsports.com

and it was shot ON LOCATION which is pretty impressive.

Dru and Kurt, There is a rap sling girdling a tree on the descent from "The Kone" (I think) at Darrington. I didn't have a knife with me or I would have cut it off. Snaffles ain't doin' their job apparently. Silly thing is that there is an easy walk off to climber's right/skier's left of this rap sling -it's only 15/20m off the ground - so it is not necessary at all. I don't think are too interested in chewing on nylon unless it has a lot of salt in it (pack straps, old ropes, clothing, Dru's codpiece, etc).

I didn't see no red miata in da lot yo. When I wasn't lookin' fur you, I did some reeeel nice climbin'. Ginger Cracks with snow on da ledges (sweet route) and Olive Oil (chimney thrutchin' wif a cuple nice pitches in da middle) for multipitch trad, otherwise did the sport monkey gig. Got my second 5.12 "viagra falls" THUMP THUMP . My favorite sport route at RR is "Running Man". Damn nice route. Climbed wif da GF, dbb (aka Alpine Dave), and a coupla docs (I'm accident prone so I like to keep at least one around at all times). All fun peoples and we had a merry old time except for dat rappeling in the dark fiasco when GF got her hand caught in the belay device. She's OK now, thanks for asking. Visited Grand Canyon. Reel purty wif da snow and all. "Desert View" is the best view of the canyon if ya ain't gonna hike. I'd post pictures (I got lotsa good uns) but my housemate destroyed my computer while I was gone so I can't download em from my camera. How bout that shizzle! Ya'll just hafta wait. Peace Out -AF p.s. WHO WANTS TO GO ICE CLIMBING!!! caveat: I'm a newbie. edit: YO YO YO! Alpine Dave in da HIZOUSE: http://students.washington.edu/dbb/cragging/red_rocks/red_rocks.htm

A bumper sticker I saw recently: FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK!!!

Here's a little campaign poster I just made. ME! I made it! Hear that minxy!!! p.s. So how do I make the image appear in the post without uploading it to the photo gallery first and then linking it from there? p.p.s. Thanks Mr.N

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I be dere wif my GF Dec. 15-24. Watchu wanna climb? You up for Prince of Darkness? My GF ain't.

Cooper Cooper Spur? (yeah it's in Oregon, whatever ) Saab I-5

You wouldn't have gotten the job if 4/8 board members went to "dumbfuck U" and your identical twin candidate also went there. Nepotism not respect. Actually nepotism means favoritism towards relatives, but you know what I mean.

That's nepotism not respect for a "good school".