ivan

the picture reminds me far more of mt. adams standard route that i saw this summer...the two times i was on the hogsback it was either too early or too shitty to see so many jackasses (but i did see literally a 7 year old girl lashed to a rope being dragged along by a party of 5 while i was descending the second time, that and another interesting character skiing right up to the edge of the large smoking fumarole right behind crater rock)...i infinitely preferred the cooper spur, which has that neat simplicity of just going right the hell up the side of the mountain to the summit (didn't see a soul on that climb) so what's the Leuthold like? haven't been on that side of the mountain but the picture of yokum's ridge in CTCV makes the prospective scenery seem tight...

moving to portland from richmond, va (how the hell did i ever get into this hobby, eh?) and will be in the neighborhood and looking to climb hood the last weekend of march...i've already done the standard route and the cooper spur...was looking for something a little more interesting...anybody interested? email at ivanthedark@hotmail.com

i'm moving to portland from way east soon (around june, hopefully) and would definetly be interested in doing some climbing... i'll be in portland the first week of april looking for a job, and was looking to do a solo climb of hood...any interest? email is ivanthedark@hotmail.com