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I know how hard it can be to make weekend plans, but this is a cry for help.

Ohh, so if it's an emergency, it becomes stronger. Excellent news! I suppose if it does break, it just drops down on to the carabiner, which is not a catastrophe. I've always laughed at Petzl's "not for organized rescues" line for some of their pulleys. As long as you are completely disorganized on a rescue, their gear will work fine!

Well that's pretty silly, because with a pack on a glacier, that's a pretty easy weight to reach. By giving a SWL, that seems to imply it would break at a higher value.

By "puke in cyrillic" do you mean speak it? Because that's what it sounds like to begin with.

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He's just that tough ladies!

maybe you could stick them under water in a sink when you puncture them. There's always the rifle range.

the real story here is phil liggett commentating the cycling. that guy rocks. "..oh, and there's been a crash! And I can think of a better way to pick grapes!" love him.

I don't have the Geo-Graphics map nearby, but it's probably the one you mention. Be careful relying on those dotted lines. Some of the routes (n. ridge of Middle Sister, for example) are not correct. The trail picks up steeply at the waterfall by Green Lakes, and it's pretty obvious from there. There will be some patches of snow to cross, some with a bit of steepness to them, but usually people have no problem with it. A hiking stick might be nice if you don't have an ice axe, but you could get by without them. The trail eventually meets up with the standard, Moraine Lake trail near a glacial tarn below the Lewis Glacier. From there, it is a sweaty affair up a volcanic ridgeline to the summit crater. Hope that helps.

The north face of Mount Hood in fall ice conditions is probably the best of the "standard" routes I have done on the mountain. The final ridge climb up Early Morning Spire is pretty nice in terms of position. The snow arete on NB of Mt. Fury is pretty incredible too, but that just may be because it's still in my mind as a recent memory. It's the point where you realize you are going to make it and you can actually enjoy the ridiculous position you are in.

Unfortunately, there is no good "walk-up" route on the east side of the mountain. However, you can meet up with the south side route from Green Lakes. This is actually a much better climb, in my opinion, then the standard south route from Devil's Lake. In fact, it was what got me into mountaineering way back when my dad took me up there as a kid. The route starts out of Green Lakes by a waterfall, and an obvious path. If it is your first time up a Cascade volcano, be sure to be prepared for fast-changing weather and potentially cold winds up high. If there is no wind it will be hot as heck though. Though you will see people on the Lewis Glacier, it does have crevasses in places, and there is often a large "moat" near the edge. Whatever you end up doing, take some bug repellent for the camp at the lake!

I call this one Dancing Medic in Meadow

HiLift Jacks still-life:

Disco SAR on Reid HW:

Some evening nuclear testing in Canada:

time to get your spot on wildest police videos

see? the rock isn't all that bad.

they need to develop skis that attach together briefly so you can shuffle out under the line and it looks like a snowboard track. you could periodically drop cigarette butts, and zumiez and flow stickers for additional convincing.

If I wanted to push up Access Creek to Luna Col in a day from BB TH I would want to be trying Fury in a day or something like that. No reason to suffer all that trail and bushwack, and then that long slog up the alpine meadows in a day otherwise! But it is entirely possible to do this. We were lucky enough to stumble right on a log jam to get to Access Creek. You should be able to get close where it just "feels right" to head through the forest after Luna Camp. The SE glacier route on Fury is very tame compared to the N. Buttress, especially from Luna Col, where the buttress route requires a brutal loss of elevation to get on it. It was all but a walk-up when we descended it in early July, if you give the right line a good study.

If I'm thinking of the right guide, this book seems rather opinionated. It all but states the Oregon Cascades are simply chosspiles of death, a combination of dull boredom and sheer terror and are not worth climbing. The guide then grudgingly spits out a few routes, frequently blabbing about why idiots even bother to climb some routes, with frequent skull and crossbones over some very nice lines (if approached intelligently, and during the right season). Oregon High is a superior guide (and includes the south side routes of Middle Sister, some of the finest ski descents in the state). It actually puts climbs in Oregon in a positive light, and rightfully so.

No Silnet gorts yet! Sorry!

Patagonia does this with their waterproof zippers too. It does clean things up a bit, and puts the zipper in the perfect location for venting hot gasses quickly.

I wonder if Conrad Anker will show so he can sign my met-5 battery