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SO HOWS THE NASCAR CIRCUIT THESE DAYS

they all look a little too chummy if you ask me

Great to see your friend got such a nice sample of Oregon. I didn't want to leave the top. Literally t-shirt and shorts weather.

Mt Hood looks like it's erupting at the moment...what do those building lenticulars mean for you and me my friends? FRESHIEZ FRESHIEZ FRESHIEZ are on the way!

hey, ran into one of your compatriots, Cynthia from DCSAR at Timberline this weekend for some avalanche stuff.

go easy on those bruins, they play rough beefchub.

Trask was that guy arrested at the bass masters championship who hid 6 bass in a cage in a tributary. was busted with sheriffs video camera as he dumped them in his boat. priceless

that's more fun than just following what some guide book tells you. I hate climbing with people who demand we stay on the line by the inch to what the book says. Mt Hood was made for exploring gulleys

I think it was an ice axe and some other stuff. The cave was totally buried though and we had to direct them over to its location. I'd be surprised if they find the gear. Probably will have to wait for it to melt out (which should be like, oh, 2 days until there's no snow on hood again?)

you went past the reid and didn't notice??? seems people who overshoot the entrance to the hourglass wind up in the south exit gulley on yocum. pretty sure almost every inch has been climbed over there as people bail, get off route, etc. maybe not though! there are a lot of variations on things that are not in oregon high. sounds like you had a fun adventure though.

you could buy 2 pairs of high quality boots for volcano climbing for the price of one pair of nepal extremes.

for hood and rainier you don't even need to shell out for the nepal extremes. Plenty of high-quality lines have been climbed in Makalus with great success.

well there was no one climbing our "route". We had the summit to ourselves, but as we were heading down a band of mazamas was heading up to pick up gear from the snow cave of their compatriots from the previous weekend.

Inspired by the previous cc.com crew heading to the DKHW, a friend and I set out Friday at 3:00am to climb Devil's Kitchen 1c (in oregon high) hoping the recent storm had filled in the bare spots that kept the previous group out. We went over to the gulley and found too much bare rock at the start, so we went back left and made up a route through a bunch of gulleys to gain "1c" again just above the bare spots. Below is a picture shred took on his trip, and I modified it w/o his permission, sorry Pat hope that's okay. The gulley variation we used took really good screws, good solid water ice, but unfortunately this was at constrictions were crap rained down on us as pro was placed and cleaned. Otherwise we used pickets. We had to traverse far right above as the sun was hitting the pinnacles above, knocking down large chunks of rime on the main line. This put us up on a pinnacle looking down on the upper parts of Wy'East. It took a fairly sketchy unprotected traverse on loose cobbles and slush/mud to get down onto snow. The traverse over to this cobbley stuff was on mashed potatoes with some stimulating exposure. The summit was windless and calm. The start of 1c variation would be very nice indeed if iced up. Will head back to try some other variations up there, but we need some more snow and it needs to cool down! Was up on some avalanche training the rest of the weekend and it's like May up there! The frick'n bergschrund is back.

hmm....maybe!

maybe for sandwichs in the park

someone please give that guy the real thing

don't mess

he does it all for the nookie, the nookie. at least he did.

nah they're both bad.....really bad

should be set up nicely. Don't climb to near to that new Wx coming in and you should have great conds. High freezing levels, but can't have everything.

how to order a half-double-decaf-half-caf 101

enough of this

"Big O" patrons