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This just in.... WATCHING PAINT DRY FORCES WOMAN TO POST ON CASCADECLIMBERS!

Scared Silly, do you still think in original stopper sizes, with the half sizes thrown in? I know I still do, and a buddy still hordes his old half sizes and hardly dares use them for fear of having to bail with them. I think I left one of the original very early RP's on the south side of Johannesburg on an uncharted descent. It's about 80' off the snow somewhere on a logical down lead skiers left of a big waterfall. Sounds like a project for John Frieh and his old gear obsession.

If it's the trail hike, Harry's got it right, it's just a simple 15 mile or so jaunt down the Bridge Creek trail, pretty much downhill all the way. You could make it much more interesting of course: Over Easy Pass, down Fisher Creek, up onto the Douglas Glacier (or slabs below the glacier) of Logan, over the shoulder into the N Fork Bridge creek, and down to Bridge Creek that way, much more alpine and scenic. There are other alpine traverses around Black and Fisher Peaks, Silent Lakes, and Fisher Pass. The trail is sort of like tuna on white bread, but if you're looking for more info on it you might do better on nwhikers.net

Nice to get a report and pics on something that doesn't get much traffic. Thanks

Time will tell. I took my stepson out climbing at various times since he was 2-1/2 years old. He found it fun enough, but not a passion, until he wound up in college back east and decided he wanted to be a climber, not just go climbing now and then. You know, learn to lead and place pro and go climbing with all sorts of folks, not just the old man. We did a day of education at the Little Smoke Bluffs in Squamish (excellent place for it) and he was off and running. Now he's swinging leads in the alpine, doing the occasional trad FA with the wire brush in his teeth, ice climbing, dry tooling, and leading at the same level as me. You've just got to play the long game, make it as fun as possible, and not push, just provide opportunity. You've also got to be prepared to be perfectly happy if he chooses something else entirely. Last weekend near the start of the East Ridge of Forbidden

Here you go Toad, the tag has to end in .jpg for it to work Oooh, looks like she's adjusting her gaiter belt, how sexy!

That's the back cover of my first venture into publishing, all of about 50 copies out there in the world. Note the thin bamboo bong in the grasp of the center Scumbag. At one point in time it was outfitted with a keeper cord, and wound up fixed on Bong Ledge at Mission Gorge in San Diego.

What size number does it say as compared to modern numbering? Half sizes?

How about you bivy at Sharkfin Col? Adds somewhat to your morning on doing the N Ridge Forbidden, but an East Ledges descent along with some inventive traversing (and perhaps a couple rappels close to Sharkfin) would put you back at camp, and you'd be well set to do Buckner. Odds are you'll have to carry over Buckner. Bonus is that by camping on the far side of Sharkfin Col you can be in the Forbidden Zone rather than Boston Basin Zone and getting a permit will not be a problem, and you won't schlep your bivy gear back and forth across the northern portion of the Boston Glacier. If you're dead set on the N Ridge bivy sites, you could just continue rapping down the NE Face to the glacier.

The Daily Olympian reports the accident to have happened on Condor Buttress.

Damn, it was fairly empty up there despite all you folks being around. We headed up Sunday morning, chatted briefly with a couple about the virtues of hiking poles, hid from the burning orb in Goatboy's now empty campsite, exchanged pleasantries with someone from CBS's party coming down from Sahale, sorry to have missed you Brian . I was sort of surprised to just walk in and get a permit for BB on 4th of July weekend.

Cop was probably freaked, because as I'm sure he's lectured people before, if you run into the back end of the car in front of you its your fault. Some cops are cool, some are real jerks. Kind of like climbers, eh?

That's a wild clip, thanks for posting that.

Great story and wonderful photos, thanks! Looks like a splendid adventure. How about a little annotation on the pictures?

Profile looks right in Ducknut's second shot

Great photos, I always thought that thing on Stuart looked PDH. Thanks for the TR. It would appear you've worked through your fear of trad?

My, how we've missed you!

Depending on the shape, 110 acres can provide a pretty reasonable buffer. Making an income there that will pay your mortgage is an entirely different matter.

Yeah, and now Sleater-Kinney too.

New England in general is not nearly as paved as a Westerner might assume. I've heard JayB's part about resurgance of NE forests before too. All those trees out there are soooo cute, they're just like real trees but smaller. You know, kind of like the mountains.

well, guess I'll know better than to say "Alex, I'll take lowland Canadian geographic history for fifty."

Pretty flat in the 'Wack, innit? Bet there were a lot of trees there 91 years ago.

Are you sure that isn't a picture of a bunch of loggers in BC?

Well! Bill, I believe your razor sharp size whittling may have inspired Nosoup to delete the original gripe!

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