JoshK

"Among them, Lhakpa Cela, a sherpa, broke the record, finishing the ascent from the base camp in the span of 10 hours and 15 minutes. Appa succeeded on his 13th climb, becoming the most frequent climber of Everest. A 15-year-old girl, Ming Kipa, became the youngest climber." Wow, considering how much we heard about the roskelleys, et al. it's amazing this is the first I've heard of all of these accomplishments, which are far more impressive. My parents hired a sherpa to help out my mom in the garden occasionanally at their old house. His name was Lopsang Sherpa, and a nicer, harder working man you would not find. He offered my father and I the opportunity to trek with him in Nepal some day. I'd like to take him up on that offer some day. -josh

If you are me, cheap is better. I break and lose so many pairs of sunglasses it isn't funny.

pretty soon the women of the board will start to bicker over which one is really carrying ExtremoMtDude's child.

BTW, how is this crap any different than tight rope walking? And why is it called slacklining if the whole point is to stretch all the slack out of the system!?

http://www.slackline.com/Detail.bok?searchpath=403e9811f5711f590d55&start=1&total=23&no=12 BWAHAHAH some webbing a few biners and some rope for $225! I need to start selling shit like this to peoplen for massive profits.

so what the hell is the point of this slackline thingy? You just tie a rope between two points and walk across it?

I consider an avalanche that kills no people but destroys some snowmobiles a benifit to all.

Walmart and the entire Walton family can go fuck themselves. I'm ashamed to admit I had to spend $7 there once for some cheap socks. It will be the last penny I ever spend in one of those god awful places.

holy shit. why the hell would anybody do that to themselves on purpose!?!?

Ouch, that sucks. I can't believe people would pull that kind of sorry shit.

Wow! This one specific guy says Bush is great, so I guess he is!

Sure, I'll post a pic when I get home, I have plenty. Is the interest because the peak doesn't get climbed much this early in the year? That little itty bit of rock beneath the now-departed summit boulder is the only part that was exposed for us.

"It's advisable to gain an extra stone in weight" What the hell is a stone of weight? Are we talking small stones used to hurl at snaffles or a large stone you'd trundle down to smite your enemies?

I find the first <insert nationality> to <insert some accomplishment> stuff bullshit. As far as I'm concerned he was just another guy who climbed everest, and like you said, 10 years after the first climb. Touting the fact that he was the first american to do it simply highlights the fact that someone of another nationality did it first, not that somehow this was a great accomplishment on a global scale.

Hey fuckstick, that's what the was for. the denotes winking, joking, etc. ya thick headed dolt.

twintips suck cause they can't easily be used for tent stakes in harder snow.

BWAHAHHA

Oh yeah, those were always great for science projects. Some kid in my middle school mad a hovercraft out of industrial fans, blue tarps and plywood. That was pretty cool. It's only real drawback was it needed a very long extension cord to go anywhere.

I remember hiking somewhere in the mountains of arizona when I was a kid and geodes were everywhere. It was the primary rock in the area it seemed. Very fun collecting them.

Klenke, the summit consisted of a 20-30 degree snow slope leading to a very athestc knife edge of snow, and as eric said, 2 feet of rock. It wasn't technical, but it was definitely exposed. A firm axe self belay was helpful here.

yikes, scary. it was an active weekend avy-wise. Had to be moving with your eyes and ears open extra wide.

It sounds like am. border peak. I have some picks from shuksan from almost this exact day last year that I could scour up to confirm.

Slogged (or diet slogged as eric called it) dome peak with Eric (Ivan) this WE. left car 12:30pm saturday. Stopped by rain ~5:00pm saturday, approx 9 miles up the approach, 3 miles up the bachelor creek trail. set camp in woods to stay dry. hiking by 5am next morning. cold and foggy. reach itswoot ridge around 2pm after much postholing misery and slow going. visibility is shite, cannot see route at all. set up camp around 3pm on a small ridge 1/4 mile past itswoot ridge. wake up at 2am hoping to climb. visibility is about 100 feet. repeat this process every hour until 7am when it miraculously clears up all of a sudden. Hmm, we still want to do this? yeah, but we gotta haul ass. leave camp at 7:30. miserable postholing all along traverse across basin. from 7400ft+ plus snow is hard. thank god. summit at 11:10. yay, very happy. shit, snow softening very quickly, 20 miles back to car. let's fucking move. snow is utter slop. much miserableness back to camp. watch giant avy scour slope we need to cross. good...slope is now safer. bad...shit, that's awful close for comfort. much hot and miserable sweating back up to itswoot ridge, down to cub lake, back up to cub lake pass, back down to bachelor creek, through the brush and to first night's camp. last of food is eaten. down to downey creek by dark. hellish 6 mile trail walk along downey creek with boots utterly soaked and empty stomachs. feels like we are walking on sponges. car reached at 11:40. damn...suiattle river road is long. yup...darrington still sucks. smokey point jack in the box is reached at 1:30 or so. 4 tacos, 1 dbl cheesburger, a chicken fajita pita, 2 large fries, a large coke and a large sprite is consumed between us. home at 2:30. summary: unbelievably beatiful area. definitely more work in may w/ unconsilidated snow than it would be later in season. a good honest ~35+ mile weekend with lots of elevation gain. met our goals of a good non-technical, yet demanding, scenic outing with no other people seen on the normally heavily jackass infested memorial day weekend.

To second what MattP said, we witnessed several slides in the north cascades this weekend. One in particular was quite large. On our way out on Monday it had warmed up quite a bit and I was released two seperate slides (intentionally) by cutting slopes we needed to descend. Neither was fast enough to kill you (unless it rode you over a cliff) but it certainly highlighted the instability that the quick warming brings.

erik, I thought you just stayed on rock!?!?