Jake

Yes that would be nice. Maybe I should just shoot myself now and get all the suffering over with.

So I have been afflicted with moving to the east coast - Washington DC actually. Between hearing all my friends in the PNW tell me about the snow and watching ski movies, I'm gonna shoot myself any minute for moving out here to the land of ski resorts with 400' of vert. Sooo, where are the best ski areas on the East coast? Places that have snow, not ice and are tall enough to actually get a few turns in before you get to the bottom. Any good places worth visiting?

So just how many times have you watched this thing to figure that out?

Nothing better than strapping nitroglycerin to yer back and wandering up K2.

Now that sounds cool. How would one go about setting something like this up anyway?

The Vertical Limit is on TV. My afternoon is no longer wasted as I can watch the best climbing movie ever made!!!

RSS Feed? what's dat?

Isn't there Little Jackass Mt. on Ross Lk? Also Shetipo (Shitty poor, i guess) Creek up the Entiat.

No tax dollars need to be used. Just declare that anyone on the volcanoe needing rescue is out of luck. No rescued will be attempted due to the dangerous nature of the volcanoe. Go at your own risk.

I couldn't care less if somebody is up there on the mountain when it is threatening to erupt. If somebody takes the risk, fine with me. In fact, they ought to allow any crazy fool who wants to go up there go - so long as it is clear that being on the mountain is extremely dangerous and should anything go wrong, no rescue will even be attempted. People should be responsible for what they do. If they want to get themselves killed on the mountain, fine with me.

Beats me. Would be cool to see an eruption though.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/09/26/helens.quakes.ap/index.html Possible eruption coming soon on St. Helens?

atmospheric co2 has increased 35% since the beginning of the industrial revolution (~1850) and 20% over the last ~45years. http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/07.htm compared to the last 400,000years Good graphs. Thanks. How accurate is the data they get from ice cores? What exactly do the measure in the ice cores that allows them to figure how much CO2 is in the air? Is it CO2 itself in the ice and then they just extrapolate that somehow to get concentrations in the air or what?

Story somewhat like this in Wenatchee World recently? Speaking of helicopters, one flew by right underneath us on the W. Ridge of Prusik a couple weeks ago. Cool.

So how much CO2 has been pumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution anyway then?

Eyed Ruby from Ross Lake all week a couple weeks ago and wondered how many people had wanted to suffer enough to climb it this year. Thanks for answering my question.

Imagine you've already had your trip, but if not, the area out there is really cool, but not a super lot of climbing. Not really a lot going on at Teapot Dome - not really worth hauling a rope out to climb just Teapot cause it's a really long ways out there. We climbed it a couple years ago on our way to Cathedral. There are a couple real short - 40' routes that are easy and a couple longer ones it looks like (but still not more than 60'). Bauerman Ridge, if I remember right (on Wolframite Mt.?) might have had some potential. There is definitely some adventure climbing to be had around there, it takes some exploring to find it though. No climbing to be had at Horseshoe Basin though. Definitely check out Cathedral Pk. and the stuff immediately north of it as well as the great rock on Amphitheater Mt. if you head that way. That stuff is some really nice granite in a great location. If you want more info, I can probably look at a map and pictures and jog my memory.

Well the article is archived and you gotta pay for it. Can anybody paste the text here?

Hughes 500D. Apparently hi-line birds.

Oh man I can't stop laughing at those quotes!

Oh yeah? Try this one. "It's high time everyone knew what's going on, as it's the only way to get the public to fess up the money needed to build the weapons systems needed to defend humanity against whatever it is they have in mind - and the killer asteroid that's scheduled to wipe out Earth in 2017."

Whoah what a great site. One of the funniest I've across in a while. Woulda liked to have seen this one! "As I was shuffling things around, three F-15s raced from behind the mountains in the pic onto the scene, trying to box it in by coming at it from all four corners of a square at the same time, at slightly different altitudes. The three F-15s circled in from behind the mountains in the pic, going about 1,100 MPH, at about 20,000 feet. The one on the left veered way left to encircle from the south, the right got the north, and the last last, the east. Then they slowed down. Then an F-16 screamed in from about 50,000 feet from the west, and then they all punched it, and headed for the spot where the big light was. The UFO instantly disappeared before the fighters even got close (as soon as I saw the fighters, I turned around to make some defiant comment to the UFO, but it was either gone, or it was still there, cloaked with the light out)." How the hell does this guy know how fast the planes were flying and how high they are? Circling supersonic F-15s? Yeah sure - when you are going 1100 mph you're pretty much flying in a strait line - not much turning going to be happening. As for an F-16 at 50,000 - that's pretty much their ceiling and there is no way you are gonna be able to identify what altitude something is flying at - let alone see an F-16 at 50,000. Wouldn't even hear it. Got give the guy props for entertaining story though.

Yeah sure bouldering (or buildering in downtown Leavenworth) is fun. I do it all the time when I don't have a lot of spare time or a partner. However, I would vote for Don't Forget Arete as a very short fun climb. Of course, all the sick alpine or just plain exploring and finding your own crags or mt. routes is the shit and is really the way to go.

Huh? Not sure I understand. Are the skis trailing along on the snow or do you have skis banging you on the elbow throughout the hike?

This one looks cool.