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And walk down the skinny train tunnel hoping no train comes down the tracks and flattens you. i thought the train stops there so folks can look out? at any rate, that's how clint survived the eiger sanction!

interesting - and a bummer - but why bail back down if you can just crawl into the gallery windows?

...could easily be solved by a comet the size of texas striking the temple mount at several hundred thousand miles a second

perhaps he was training for when his tauntaun fails him?

"lighten up, francis!"

good lord, pat, you gonna go and mess w/ the man w/ no eyes now?!?

hood is a step down from rainier the avi danger is generally low below the hogsback at 10.5k, so unless the weather sucks you most likely will be able to get there - avi-danger generally isn't much of an issue on the dog route, so really just sacrifice your chickens to the weather-gods and, inshahallah, you will summit. march frequently has fantastic conditions. if things are good, you likely will have dozens of folks up there w/ you, so leave balls early if you wanna have some relative solitude.

i might be able to get out sunday duuude

you probably had to take that wire ladder to get around the plunge pool? saw no evidence of the wire ladder, though i'd read of it in the guide - we used the infinitely more ghetto rope'o'twine tied off to the shitty bush (tvash even added some knots to make it more user-friendly) - where is that ladder?

sounds like he's got a bit further to go?

I've seen a trip report on this site for that climb haven't I? I think I'll pass.....I like adventure as much as the next guy, but that might be a bit much for me. Sorry to focus on numbers....I'm happy to climb 5.4 or even 4th class routes that are fun, but I need to limit the search somewhat in order to recieve helpful answers. Otherwise people will suggest 5.10 routes I can't climb and glacier slogs I'd rather not travel for. That's all. Thanks for the help though, everyone. These are some really good ideas. ok - i wouldn't dismiss it out of hand b/c of me though check out the various tr's on it here - it's not dangerous, just very easy to get to, very long, very exciting, very scenic and spectacular, and generally a climb that anyone who drives up the rd to cascade pass must dream about doing, given its instantaneous and spellbinding effect on the first glimpse - it's a mix of vertical forest, steep heather slopes, rock-scrambling (the crux is a 1/4 pitch chimney that's more realistically 5.8), then steepish glacier (in short, every kind of challenge the cascade's can throw at you rolled into one big mountain route - doable in 2 days) And its even better in winter! dammit! yet another december to roll around that i haven't been able to get up it (noth through lack of trying) maybe on one of my breaks in january?

when in doubt, get a shaolin spade

Sounds like 'Sailor Bar Gulley' I think its like grade 2+.. mellow but fun. no way it was 2 - tall, vertical icefalls - 3 tiers i think - off the canuckistani 1 (maybe a 2 minute approach, but nowhere to park - big sign just before it saying no parking due to avi danger) - maybe 30 km's east of hope? huh, no idea then... wish we'd had time to stop and check it out - ah, the tyranny of time and family...

I've seen a trip report on this site for that climb haven't I? I think I'll pass.....I like adventure as much as the next guy, but that might be a bit much for me. Sorry to focus on numbers....I'm happy to climb 5.4 or even 4th class routes that are fun, but I need to limit the search somewhat in order to recieve helpful answers. Otherwise people will suggest 5.10 routes I can't climb and glacier slogs I'd rather not travel for. That's all. Thanks for the help though, everyone. These are some really good ideas. ok - i wouldn't dismiss it out of hand b/c of me though check out the various tr's on it here - it's not dangerous, just very easy to get to, very long, very exciting, very scenic and spectacular, and generally a climb that anyone who drives up the rd to cascade pass must dream about doing, given its instantaneous and spellbinding effect on the first glimpse - it's a mix of vertical forest, steep heather slopes, rock-scrambling (the crux is a 1/4 pitch chimney that's more realistically 5.8), then steepish glacier (in short, every kind of challenge the cascade's can throw at you rolled into one big mountain route - doable in 2 days)

Sounds like 'Sailor Bar Gulley' I think its like grade 2+.. mellow but fun. no way it was 2 - tall, vertical icefalls - 3 tiers i think - off the canuckistani 1 (maybe a 2 minute approach, but nowhere to park - big sign just before it saying no parking due to avi danger) - maybe 30 km's east of hope?

can't argue w/ that - slesse should be very high on your list of priorites, but it does come w/ the caveat that you gotta pay attention beforehand to the condition of the pocket-glacier that menaces its approach and can/has killed climbers before

if you want to experience badass cascade old-school alpine hardmanedness, make johannesburg's north east buttress a top priority - it's a grade v climb that's *only* 5.6 (and holy shit, only a 15 minute approach!!!) but is a prime example of how concentrating on #'s like that is just silly - if you don't die, it'll be one of the coolest climbs you've ever done, even if you can climb 5.13

bill, have you not noticed how much hood's glaciers have declined over your lifetime? i've climbed on that mtn for less than a decade and noticed major declines that can't be reversed by just a couple of years of huge snowfalls.

found this pic of yours from this year dru - goddamn i wish it had looked more like this! as it was, it was kinda more like a water-park back in virginia - a huge pissing cunt of death sent giant spurts of water out every few seconds that splattered over much of the 1st pitch - in the center of the formation there was an active waterstream coursing over the ice - it made the ice down low very interesting though, everything was coated w/ golf-ball sized diamonds that could be kicked through to add a little security the approach here looks way more casual too

we climbed the first pitch on the left side on very kewl/funky jeweled ice to a cave, then rapped on v-threads from there - the next pitch was climbable, though there might have been something funky going on above that as the waterfall was roaring - shit, the approach up the creek is (almost) adventure enough! y-day we saw a very impressive 3 pitch or so climb just east of one of the many tunnels near hope - wow, what a rugged place! my first canuckistani winter trip

i thought it was cool till my ma-in-law asked me to be her friend

cops were delivering subpoenas on xmas?

are any of your friends chicks, and if so, are they hawt?

i like the soudn of continously running water - pretty much sums up the experience for me nice folks - my father woulda lost his fucking mind watching me do such things