JoshK

we found conditions decent today. a little soft crossing the coleman, but nothing bad. the alpine ice on the NR and icefall were fun.

and wonders for my sunburn too. ouch ouch ouch.

used the C/D for a descent today (on skis, actually) conditions are good. if you climb when the snow is hard, I can't imagine flotation would be needed. things seem to have consolidated well.

Agree with Eric. That's a *beautiful* area of the cascades, but from what I saw the NF maude route wasn't that impressive. That said, I still have an interest in going in there and hitting all 3 of those 9000s in one shot. I've also heard from 2 seperate people now that the entiat icefall route is more fun than NF maude if you really want to do a route on that side of the mountain. something to think of...

Good quesiton, forrest, a bit confusing that climbing media would report just the ascent as well. BTW, in your first post it should be "when dan made up the story about his first climb" not "when dan did his first climb"

5.10 my ass. None of the tools that get dragged up everest free climb that, dude, it has ladders and ropes strung up it. How pathetic is this? "In 1975, China tackled Everest with a 410-member team."

"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.