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Do exactly the opposite of whatever is posted to this thread. Oh wait a sec...don't...er nevermind.

My Little Pony soundtrack running in a tight loop.

The most-climbed "route" is the south ridge, starting from the saddle between North and Middle. It follows the ridgeline until the summit pinnacles. Then you head out left (west side) and do a traverse to a gulley which shows up on your right. Cut up the gulley to the summit. This can be fairly straightforward, or spicy black ice. It is best done with a good covering of snow everywhere, as you can use pickets for protection. Otherwise, it is a sketchy affair of vertical rubble and unprotectable traversing on insecure marbles. Inexplicably, most people seem to like to climb this pile in late summer. There have been a number of accidents w/o snow cover. Other fairly straightforward routes include the Thayer Headwall from the east (access from Pole Creek TH) and the NW Ridge. All of these are most enjoyable and safest on cold days with good snow coverage (as is the case for almost any route in the sisters). However, since you are doing the n-s traverse, you'll probably be in there in summer. If you can find a copy of Oregon High by Jeff Thomas in the library or at Powell's, etc. it has good descriptions of these routes, with photos.

Wasn't mad max beyond thunderdome a documentary of the transcanada highway?

I think you are covered in the US. From AAC website: Link: http://www.americanalpineclub.org/community/members-insurance.asp

Yeah I saw this chick wearing an Abercrombie shirt with weathered numbers on the back, and she didn't even play for Abercrombie! She also had a friend wearing a "Rockstar" tshirt in glitter letters. She was anything but. Scandalous!

What do you mean; insurance to cover your expenses, or an actual contract to come get you? You can get the former by joining the American Alpine Club. Even though it is unlikely to be billed for a rescue in the PNW, having this cheap insurance is nice when the headline WHO PAYS shows up underneath a chopper photo in the next day's Oregonian and you can respond, go ahead, bill me.

All cars should come equipped with PA systems cranked to maximum. I-5 would be a dull roar. It would be hilarious.

Not sure about the midgets but the forecast was calling for bands of dwarf porn on catbirdseat's hard drive, changing over to elf-on-elf-on-unicorn anime by this afternoon. Probability 100% today, 100% tomorrow.

I love how porn is described in quantities like bulk oats or rain showers. Chance of measurable porn at Rocky Butte: 80% wed night, and 90% thurs. Winter porn storm warning for the foothills of the Cascades at Gov't Camp.

That sounds like a pretty reasonable, sustainable plan, but just remember to enjoy your early 30's too! Donuts taste good, beer tastes good, and life is too short not to enjoy that stuff. I'll probably never climb harder than 5.11 and I'm not going to suffer through life to do so. I certainly don't have the classic climber's build, and won't force that. Besides my skiing would suffer

the Princess is f'ing hot. almost as much as that girl in smurfs.

Yeah, you probably use about 2000 kCal/day just staying alive sitting here typing. You can expend about 1300 kCal doing an hour of hard running. You can approximate (very roughly) how much energy you are expending with a HRM (try strapping one on when you bike to work). I think bike commuting is a great way to lose weight as you have to do it every day, it happens in the morning when your body is probably at a bit of caloric deficit to begin with, and then you polish off the day by elevating the HR again on the way home. Nothing beats consistent, hard running though (from my experience). It is hard on your body. IF you can stand a treadmill and have access to a good one, it will be a lot easier on your knees and you can put in the hours. This takes some mental endurance and focus. Try doing a workout before going to bed, then another one in the morning when your body is depleted. This can be a sufferfest, but it will help drive your body to burn whatever it has (muscle, fat, anything it can grab). The key is to do something you can repeat over and over. If it is too much of a draw on your body, you can't recover, and you are wasting your time. A heart rate monitor will allow you to pace yourself over the week, though at some point you can outgrow it and know when you will be in pain the next day. As a physicist, you can appeciate how it is very much a thermodynamics equation. The question is, what can you consume that will satisfy you enough to not consume too much, and survive your active lifestyle, yet still maintain a deficit? I've concluded that it is not fun to maintain a caloric deficit all the time. You become edgy, though pretty energetic at times, sortof how one would expect one to be when having to survive in the wild. Hope that helps. I'm certainly no expert, but I have had a lot of coffee today.

You need to start counting how many calories that is. It doesn't matter what you eat, how "healthy" it is, etc. If you want to drop mass, what matters is the caloric content, and you know it. IF you were strictly interested in weight loss, health be damned, you could eat donuts in "reasonable" amounts exclusively and still lose weight. Baked potatoes, white semolina pasta, orange juice, etc are all very healthy items, but they pack a ton of calories. You have to cut portion size. The best way to do this is by counting calories and evaluating how many you burn from basal metabolism + activity. Get a heart rate monitor. A pain in the ass, but it will work. Decide if the weight loss is really an advantage in the mountains. It probably is, but you might lose some strength and endurance too. Then again there are not a lot of beefcakes breaking new alpine ground.

It's Smith Rock, you idiot.

If you burn more than you consume, you HAVE to lose weight. If you have a problem doing this, blow your life savings in Vegas and move to the Indian subcontinent.

Hot days are weather-related, aren't they? The 1042 medivac out of Salem has been around. Perhaps they were in Afghanistan or Kosovo when these incidents happened. Or an issue with the mast or nat'l park regs they can't take over a commercial contract. Or maybe they just were unavailable or unknown as an asset in WA? Unfortunate. The crash on Hood was the upgraded but heavier pavehawk. There is a certain feeling of sketchiness asking for even the lighter blackhawks (at least down here on Hood) though perhaps it is unfounded. People are a bit on-edge after that crash. It has to be pretty bad (or at least it should be) before they enter the equation. Obviously the pilots have the best knowledge of what is possible. That last crash was only at 10.5k. The 1042 seem to be doing really well on Rainier though. It just shows how little it takes for something to go wrong! If the 1042 gets sent back to Iraq you'd better start hiking (or crawling). Best not get in an accident to begin with eh?

There are not many mountain rescues "around here", but there are ones where only a helicopter will do. You are more likely to not get your helicopter ride due to bad weather than due to a shortage of helicopters.

you guys are disgusting, I'm outta here.

ah HAH! trolling successful. Now there is ammunition when the next thread gets chopped up by the mods. Jury, I present exhibit A, a moderator not only tolerating, but actually encouraging revolting discourse.

now that's good eat'n... err...that is I've heard that it... MODERATORS!

sidecut: 130-105-122 radius: 32.3 m at 190 cm construction: Power core: Sensor Wood That's right ladies, "Sensor Wood" I'll be here all week

I am so glad google will index this page.

Is that better or worse than what you make your money for? he just needs money for jugs.

I thought this would be about some gridbolting epidemic in hospitals.