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The tourons who got their car stuck 2 feet from the pavement were by far the highlight of my weekend. BGWAHAHAHAHAH

lee, thanks again for the great climb! mucho fun. erik, it's a great day climb, save for a bit of choss down low. lee and I were both in the mood for a relaxed weekend+bivy, but easily done in a moderate day. great solo to a very cool summit and awesome views!

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Too bad the canucks can't brew a decent beer.

Holy crap, this is the funniest shit I've read on here in a long while.

plab was some shit the seattle prep tools around here said during high school. I have no fucking clue how it ended up on cc.com or in the climbing community at all.

will ferrell kicks ass. if you can't see the humor in this movie you've got a poor sense of humor, imho.

erik, that's funny, cause everybody I know who climbs the N face says it's boring and they'd only go back to climb the entiat ice fall. in any event, ice lakes are really cool. worth a look on their own right.

I think pearly gates is pretty fun. also, the walk to snow creek wall is *not* shorter than to pgates unless you are going some roundabout ass way.

I'm youngin too. it's newwer, came out a few months ago, but for some reason I think it flopped. stupid american public, they don't know what they are missin'!

old skool kicks ass. bought it the other day

Yup, that was us. We started up the trail then decided we should at least start a ski traverse by skiing.

For ultimate small size: Pentax Optio For sweet ass camera with reasonable size: Olympus D50

The worst of the weather we got was monday night and tuesday pretty much all day. monday afternoon on was just visibility issues, but tuesday morning the crap started in for real; rain/snow/wind and real bad visibility. it slowly improved overnight tuesday night/wednesday morning. The skiing however, was excellent. it never got really cold so we got pretty good consistent spring corn the entire time. We never needed crampons and the lack of completely sunny skies until the last day made the snow stay slightly less than completely sloppy.

Hmm, that would have been nice 5 days ago. THanks for the update. It'll be nice to not have to walk that part.

Thanks, Matt. I did a google search earlier today and spent a good few hours reading about the south cascade glacier and the various things studied there and on other glaciers around the world. Very interesting. Also, about the NWS, that was tounge in cheek. I completely agree. Predicting the weather is a science we really don't know a whole lot about yet and they do the best they can. Actually, with the forecast discussion that we had last seen, we were at least able to guess that we'd have an improvement in the weather and we'd be rewarded for not bailing out. In conclusion, my complaint is with the unpredictable cascades, not the weather guys. Seriously tho, we got exactly what we expected for June in the NW. Everybody who I had spoken too about skiing the traversed seemed to have some sort of similar story about that area dumping on them no matter how good the weather was supposed to be.

It . Getting snowed/sleeted/rained on for 2 hours at 5800 feet when the forecast was for "partly cloudy" and FL 11,000 is pretty shitty tho. Way to go NWS. I'm starting to think they should just start forecasting "we haven't a clue" for the cascades forecasts since they seem to get it right about 20% of the time.

Yeah, I've seen the comparison pictures between 1962 and 1996. Very sad. Interestingly enough while the lower glacier has receded a huge amount, it seems there are new formations of glacier ice higher up around the cirque that weren't there in the 60s. Maybe I was misinterpreting the pictures. Lowell, wouldn't think of harassing the equipment. We figured it was for studies of some sort. I was just quite surprised it wasn't officially marked. It wouldn't be that hard to see somebody messing with it, considering what an oddity it is out in the middle of a sea of ice. Klenke, didn't go in that way. Came over from le-conte/sentinal saddle. The came from the cascade river road, which is still blocked 2 miles from the end thanks to the laziness of the park service in getting a mud slide cleaned up. The road is clear of snow other than that.

No. What's it look like? We saw some concrete poles; one on the western flank of sentinal, the other on the S/SW flank and one up on the hill opposite of lizard peak. Any clue what they are for? It's odd the poles on the glacier itself weren't marked officially in any way. Somebody could have easily ripped them out and messed around with them, moved them, etc. i'm surprised they didn't have some notice on them. Perhaps they expect (rightfully so) next to nobody will be on the upper south cascade glacier. Also, what are these things marked "gaging station"s on the USGS maps? Same thing?

Strange things are afoot on the South Cascade Glacier...

Yup, I mentioned the serratus icefall in another thread. Awesome pack for the price. Considering you can even mail order it to american from MEC (unlike arc'teryx, who gouges american consumers even more), it's a great deal.

Alpinfox, quit being anal. I've never cared much about summit registers (I'll sometimes sign them if they are there, but it's no obsession), but if some people find them interesting, who cares. It's often interesting seeing the names of people you know or have heard of in the registered. The summit register is about the least offensive form of pollution I can think of. And yes we can do something about the roads, etc. Vote george W shithead out of office for starters.

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=15001&FOLDER<>folder_id=587843&bmUID=1055522900396 I have one of these and I am *very* happy with it. great size, very light (ligher than an arcteryx khamsin 52 or 62) and good featuers, all for $100 real dollars. I used it on a 5 day trip and was quite happy with the comfort. It carries well and is quite useable.

Got away with a 16oz western mounaineering highlite (40 degree rating) and an ultralight bivy on the ptarmigan traverse and slept warm every night. Never even wore my down jacket. sleeping in your clothes + hat go a long way

Huh..maybe Glacier ridge. I thought the trail goes up something called kennedy ridge, then crossed right below the kennedy glacier to get to the ridge leading up to kenney peak (jeezus...what a shitty chosspile that thing is) and the slope up to the rabbit ears?? Anyway, skikilo, no problem for the steps. Did you guys ski down the frostbite side or the sitkum side? The frostbite side looked like a really great ski but we were tired from the hot long day and didn't want to walk across and up that stupid crater again.