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the boulder field is a bad, bad place - i think some mischeavous marmot put all the cairns up there just to fawk w/ the tourists - it's best to stay down by the creek - all in all, the best time to walk up that damn creek is in winter/spring, when there's a boot pack to follow!

damned revisionist historians!!! great salmon though...

if you also skip the lower ridge than it's a very sane solo, albeit extraordinarily ghey for having skipped the two insanely best parts of the whole climb

is that you, pennywise?

but i thought it'd be so cool to chest-beat about running it out on a .7 sport climb! fwiw - the rock is all real solid and the climbing really easy, that's why i said it'd be a good solo, and yeah, if you skip that many bolts in a row, you'll get hurt when you fall - but if you fall off a 5.easy climb...

is that a freudian thing? soloing is better than climbing w/ a partner who's lame - or not climbing at all, b/c you can't find a partner soloing things that are easily w/n my limit is incredible fun - soloing things out of my comfort zone is mind-boogling terrifing and not something i ever do

usually doesn't happen to late june/early july google mt hood ranger station

all the cool people solo

a good solo too if you'd like to get a lot of excercise on easy terrain - most pitches you could skip 4-5 bolts at a time - an enjoyable backup plan for less than cooperative washington pass weather...

highlights of the weekend: - black ants all over me in the 3 a.m. field-bivy - tasty salmon w/ a nice cool pbr - watching a para-foiler get slammed in the snow by crazy winds - watching a 500 lb ice block miss a skier by a couple feet

why hasn't someone said "the worst climb is the one having the least fun" yet? jeez - this place is changing man...

dude - snake-handling rocks!

well, becoming jewish might really help you move up that ladder in some circles?

what was the pc-term for rednecks from the new "dukes of hazard?" - appalachian american?

I agree.....but they should rename it to ASSkick pass. ain't so bad if you JUST BRING THE NITRO!

make that 2 (well, actually reckon i'm bring 2 other folks too, so more like 4)

another tip to get their via asgard pass - the snowcreek approach was murder a couple of weeks ago, especially because of the mile after mile of shattered trees - it's also hard to stay on trail for the last 1000 feet to the upper lakes when its covered w/ a buncha snow

what's that route at smith lower gorge w/ the clibmer etched into the rock? that thing is sweet - i'll take graffiti like that

true dat a fun linkup too

umm, no solo climb is safe man - but some are waaay dumber than others not too dumb: ice cliff glacier on stuart stuart glacier coulior on stuart west ridge of stuart west ridge of prusik

so did european immigration into n america in the 16th century work, wasetchu?

ms word

went out to ozone w/ jim last night so gotta make nice w/ the fam this evening