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I thought "freezing nucleus" was more appropriate with something immersed within a body of water, rather than the rime ice example, where an object provides a catalyst for the process of supercooled water vapor condensing and subsequently freezing on an object. Oh well, it wasn't a good analogy I gave anyway. I guess riming structures would be a "deposition nucleus" or something like that.

Without a condensation nucleus, water can remain liquid well below 0°C How on earth do you think people would climb Mt. Hood w/o the rime ice?

this opens up a lot of terrain

Yes it's bad, but I don't dwell on it anymore. I've put the skiing on hold and am getting other things done I normally set aside for the season. When the snow comes again (and it will), I will welcome it, but I'm having a lot of fun this winter w/o skiing at all costs. I hope everyone else is making the most of this unusual weather as well.

Yes I fear REI will corner the market on all static-coffee-mug-test-strength carabiners, including those shaped like hearts. And dogbones.

You should replace your dual-freq beacon. The requirements to make that beacon operate on both 2.2 and 457 make it a poor performer on both. The 457kHz standard was imposed in the US in 1996, making your beacon almost 10 years old at best. It should be replaced or serviced for that reason alone. Ortovox is notorious for troubles with customer service, though I'm sure some have had good luck with a beacon refurbish. They do provide the above service, however. It will cost you a good portion of a new beacon to pay for it. I recommend the BCA Tracker beacon, for what that's worth. I'm sure the other digital beacons are as good if used enough. I prefer to wait on "new" beacon designs such as the Pieps model to see what issues arise during the first season or two. They're also fricken expensive, even on "deal".

yeah I don't get it. there's at least two snowballs worth of snow over by the snowcats. why don't they just push that around and stuff. maybe they are worried about running over the new saguaro forest growing underneath the lift towers.

the power was out at my work the other day. I had to take a leak by the light of a cell phone. Let me know if you guys want more details.

The colored nalgene bottle index was getting a touch low in the Bend area. It's good to see they are proactively attacking this issue.

Mt Hood Meadows thermometer dropped below freezing today. Let the epic sickness commence

remarkably I had a great ski off of Hoodoo on Saturday (central Oregon ski hill). It's pretty low too.

where's that snoboy? whistler today? muahahaha and dru, quit trying to shove your avatars off on me. how do you tell I am online anyways? I thought I was hidden in that list. I can't tell you are online.

If you have double ropes you can rap "roam" w/o getting in anyone's way. I think white satin's upper 2 pitches in one would be really annoying.

yeah, by that time in 2005 you might be hiking under a high speed quad!

well duh!

Thank you to whomever took the hint from the Portland Mercury and took a pink paintball gun to that kxl750 billboard on I-5 in downtown Portland! Lars Larson you are a bloated windbag

oh, you can tour in those?

too bad there's all those monster ptex eating boulders on the worm flows stuff. takes quite a bit to keep those dragons sleeping

April 9th....this year??? BWAHAHAHA

Ahh, the magical season of 1976, my first winter on this planet.

grrreat video mr. t. hope bachelor did not get hit too bad by the giant hairdryer the past few days. mt hood is looking a little stark on the ridges this morning.

I thought the whole mystique behind tricams is there was no documentation for them and learning to use them was an art passed down from generation to generation around the campfire

What about Special K? I'd even add strawberries.

I really don't care about St Helens at this point unless I'm looking for a nice base grind.

good news! meadows temp is down to 44°F, from a blistering 46°F.