JoshK

as i'm sure you've heard a million times, there are good fats and bad fats. In the grand scheme of things, nuts are high in good quality fats and contain some protein to boot. I often carry them with me in the B/C. And you can't be the taste.

1.) I dont give a shit about posturing one way or another. Clinton (or bush, or whoever) can be religous in their private lives all they want. It's went the politics of this country get influenced by the family-value crap religous right and their ideals that the problems start. 2.)This is the most idiotic fucking thing I have ever heard. Ripping down trees and poluting the earth ruins it. If you are too fucking stupid to realize this, you can't be helped. 3.)Again, it's not who it's coming from, it's what they want to do. the christian right in this country is a powerful (and frankly scare) force that, if they had their way, would have us living in a single language, single religion barracaded society. 4.)Whatever. I hope the debacle of the last few years wakes up the large group of seldom-voters and helps get rid of that schmuck.

Dustin, Matt and co. are right. The approach is long for a short climb, but the area is so beautiful, and the overall experience so great it's definitely worth it. In summer, I used only a few cams (mid range sizes), a couple of stoppers and a large hex or two. Go up or down based on your experience on rock of that difficulty. Again, snow may change things, so if it was me, personally, I'd err on the side of more gear. One thing to consider is getting off. On the summer it's 3 or 4 easy repels off the north side off blocks that are already slung with enough webbing, etc. to choke a donkey. It's possible that some of that stuff is snowed over so you may have to get creative. Somebody who has climbed it during this time of the season could probably be of more help. Have fun and bring a camera!

Erik, I'll pay you to stop posting in all caps.

mmm, sailors. You like semen...err...seamen...do you? Couldn't resist..

Eric's comment on WR prusik is the same as what I would say. It's a *very* short climb for walking all that way, and it's much easier than the 5.7 rating would have you believe, at least in summer. For that reason, I bet it would be fun with some snow on it combined with another climb in the area. There is some sort of 5.8ish chimney variation on the last pitch that I took which was pretty fun, but god knows what that would look like with snow in it.

You looking to do W ridge of prusik?

You're lucky. I sweat like a hooker in church as it is, get me scared shitless on some hot rock in summer and it's even worse. I'll take my chalk aid thanks.

Shit, seriously, I get that same thing. It's things like this that make me wanna smack somebody.

Saaaweeet pics!

I saw the pics. Looked *beautiful*. Great thing to wake up to.

The south american developing countries are huge culprits. Not only polluting like shit but ripping down their rain forests to raise cattle for fuckin' mcdonalds.

Somebody tell him we don't want a christian fundamentalist government here either while he's at it.

I know this isn't what you were looking for, but I was up there around this time last year, and you could drive to within 3 miles of the trailhead. Remember last year was a heavy snow year with a particularly high amount of snow at the lower elevations. My educated guess would be you could get pretty close to the trailhead, maybe within a mile. Again, that's just a guess, so don't rely on it for any real planning. It's a great time of year for the sulphide glacier route. Take skis, it's an awesome ski outing, and the summit pyramid was great neve last year, rather than a loose rock gully.

Hehe, I'm just kidding guys. Freshies, esp. in May rocks. I hope to get out touring in the next couple of weeks.

I prefer it to be in number of cocaine bails I can smuggle...

My guess would have been SFJ, but the relation with the other peaks looks wrong for Entiat and Maude. Sometimes it's misleading tho, esp cause I haven't seen any of them snow capped.

6 inches!? You're getting pumped over 6 inches!? You sound like a Coloradian!

Good quote, skisports. trask I was being fecitious and it was meant as a "no shit sherlock" to scottp.

It's a sorry state of affairs when that shit is considered art.

trask! you plagerized!

Sweet attempt, I eyed that peak a few weeks ago and wanted to climb it. Good call on turning back when you had enough and keeping everybody safe.

Hehe...shit, I dont care. I'm bored at work, probably like him and everybody else on here.

You're talking shit to people over the internet, time to reevaulate your life, tough-guy. "Hi pot? yeah, this is kettle. Just thought I'd give you a call to tell you how black you are" Riiighht...I do a lot of shit talking around here for no reason. If it makes you feel better to get on my case, feel free to, I could really care less.