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considering becoming a drug lord there don pete?

fahq pete! an all around interesting winter for you this one's been! glad your bts'n'peces escaped - hope bill's alright - that pic of him in the cave is classic misery!

nope - nothing wrong w/ roping for the reid at all - just do it right if you do and don't take false comfort from a rope if you have no pickets pulleys prussiks or practce for self-rescue i've never heard of anyone fallng and getting hurt on luet's - when has that occured? not doubtng you - just haven't heard of any instances since i moved out here

beeeeeaauutiful - totally covered and rimed up - the other conditions monday were less than ideal though as it was quite windy and a nasty cloud system started rolling in just before noon which would have made me start feeling alot nervous - near the top of luets i saw what appeared to be two climbers bailing off either yocums or the sandy though - heading back towards illum gap from the toe of yocums. don't know what their story was. i'm a little surprised not to hear any board-types sprayign bout having done yocums over the past 2 weeks...guess all the real hardmen have been up north

climbed this too the day after - i don't ski but when i was on it in the mornign i can't imagine trying to slide down it - quite icy! the best part of the route has to be the final trudge up cathedral ridge - the wild exposure over to the summit is most tranquil, especially int he super narrow parts in a howling gale wind chill was -40 monday morning at the summit, according to my handy-dandy rei thermometer chart.

saw that stuart tr - wierd. luetholds is routinely done solo and/or unroped - i'm just encouraging folks to enjoy easy routes in the hills even if they can't find a partner. at any rate, being roped together is almost pointless if you don't also know how to extricate your partner from inside the crack. hope you get find a partner or get out anyhow...

for what it's worth, luetholds is probably a more reasonable solo than team climb - the angle is very low and it would be annoying to place picketts the whole way up - if you can find someone to simul-solo w/ its cool, but perhaps more fun to be there alone - as of monday, there are no crevasses to be wary of.

afraid to say something least i get nailed as a sycophant - still it's always nice to see a local boy playing in the Bg Leauges! wonder how long for ths thread to get negative?

oddly this image inspires a great hunger in me

anyone else see the irnoy in the amount of testerone getting thrown around in a thread about an estrogene-based climber? i was actually confusing the ice cliff vs ice fall - i remember mtnhigh's frend gettng stuc in a crevasse on the latter for a scary long time (in wnter and surely dead w/o a partner) what's next pandora?

Why is not smart to solo? (versus any other route) ummm - b/c of the gazillion monster crevasses along the way? as said above though - hannah does def have an advantage in that she's quite light - well schooled on that mtn - and she's a smart enough chic to mae good judgments for herself

"oh look! a people mover!"

have hanman change the title of his thread then so the almighty flame lords don't descend on him then i'm digg'n cc.com right about now - many sweet tr's of late and i'm betting after this weekend it's gonna be fawking sick

i would only be able to respect this if you were female and single...er, that is, female and soloing nice job beyotches!

i dont' get it - why can't i see the attachment. my knee's almost healed - when's the big party, john? i need to get out soon befor ethe new child total lockdown goes into effect...

i'm kind of at a loss at this manufactured drama. i know both hannah and tex and think well of both of them. karsten - you're usually way positive man - folks are just giving pandora the high five for doing something cool and scary enough. i myself would not solo that route, and that alone makes this thread worth my time to read. chill out brother.

no fair!!! hannah wieghs about as much as a pack of cigarattes - if i went dancing across all them goddam cracks my gargantaun ass would plummet all the way down to china for anyone even heard i was gone... nice job girl - now what's your daddy think about all that? kinda makes me rethink my plans on turning my own daughter into an uber-mountain-machine.

very bad feng shui

glad i don't ski - otherwise i might be tempted to do such silly silly things

someone go do yocum! a sprained knee and an amazingly pregnant wife will keep me chained and sad all weekend pics look awesome and the freezing level's at 8k tomorrow during the day...

i'm all for preventing thread drift, but i really don't see any harm in randomly inserting shots of hard-body chick athletes with asses resembling sweet-sweet cinamon doughnuts into mundane gear/technique threads...i may be just be a ragingly XYY kinda chromsone freak though

i don't see how roped solo in the alpine is different from the crags- there are plenty of old threads on that topic if you care to look 'em up w/ the handy search feature

walter bonatti did all his badass shit solo (and in winter), mostly difficult roped aiding

meth or mash?

as long as you're up there, right?