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sat: alpine antics in stuart range sun: cragging at tieton mon: laps and laps of perfect corn on hood not bad, not bad at all I agree.

depends if we are going up or down in that picture. either way, thanks for the picture nice work on prusik. amazing how many people know about cascadeclimbers in that area. basically everybody we met.

the one w/o skis. nice to put a face to a name.

my goodness that route gets crowded. much fewer people climbing today, good icy conditions though. good corn snow down below as well.

That was us on Triple C's. It sucked.

In case it was not obvious w/ the weather we have been having, this route is decidedly out of shape now. A friend and I got a ways up the runnels out of hidden couloir and encountered slush snow on granite and thin ice. The runnels were periodically being bombarded w/ rock and ice as well. We should have known better when we were postholing up the first section but we had to check it out firsthand. We did not enter the runnels directly at the bottom for fear of being nailed, but we had great difficulty getting back in there after we skirted on the right. There wasn't much in the way of rock climbing possibilities since it was all wet and snowy still, but worthless for ice tools. We rapped out of there and went up asgaard pass instead. It probably could be forced, but this route is obviously nice enough that it deserves good conditions. Damn I don't get my cc.com 3couloirs merit badge. Spent the following day at Tieton, chill as always.

nothing can compare to the epic ed viesturs' favorite pre-climb pizza thread I started on summitpost.com. 'bout time for another visit.

hmmm....that LOL smells of avatar

25 would be okay at 5am but 25.5 at 5:05am is totally unacceptable. Maybe asking for a tad too much beta, eh?

where was that thread about getting folks in over their heads via spray? dude first tells someone he does not know (I think?) to go solo the climb, and later in another thread, suggests it would be a decent ski. Just be sure to remember the 2 meter rule of BLS. If you have to walk more than 2 meters to do chest compressions after rescue breathing, you can legally discontinue CPR.

ssh blocked? oh the humanity.

please don't play with my mind.

looks like that coat's seen a bit too much uranium too.

catbirdseat's collection of broken r2-d2 action figures.

Mr. Natural I saw that premature snaffletop before you deleted it! weak!

who are the voyeurs? trask's harem?

I don't think scholler would cut it.

what it means is that it really isn't important to take out the trash.

no composite, here's a schematic that should explain Jupiter's relatively small size.

hands down I would trade 10 brutal face plants to avoid that walk down. I'd take 2x4's and duct tape to avoid it.

self-made french foreign legionnaire

perhaps it's a buddhist thing.

intriguing.