JoshK

Yeah, snowshoes suck, and I ski when I can but there are still things that snowshoes do better.

Relax, the poor guy is probably just overwhelmed with anticipation of leaving the hellhole of the flatlands. He is also dillusional thinking every weekend is going to be good weather for him.

Erik, unfortunately the gym I workout plays about the shittiest music possible. When I'm working out with my roomate, I don't use my headphones, and I pay the ultimate price for it. If you haven't heard it, you are lucky.

John Mayer (sp?) sucks, and they play that crap constantly. The "your body is a disneyland" or some such shit song is the worst. Please discuss.

I excavated about half the snow depth off the bridge last year. It's a good way to stay warm while waiting for a partner

Yes, getting turns all year around here is easy. The thing is come august and september I can find a hellavu lot better things to do with my spare summer days than ski shitty snow littered with rocks and suncups.

OK, I just went to that fish product's web site. WTF is up with the first picture on this page!?? http://www.fishproducts.com/catalog/productlinefs.html

Cracked, you haven't lived until you have had an epic. You should try it sometime. I suggest Whitehorse, for starters. When I tell people I want to fail, they look at me like I'm crazy. Maybe if I go for the Eve Dearborn Memorial or Girth Pillar I'll fail. Who'll go with me? Cracked, I'm down to fail. Let's go take a shot at something nasty and shiver our asses through an unplanned bivy!

The fucking RIAA suck ass. I fully ecourage anybody and everybody to do whatever possible to fuck these jackasses over.

Relax guys, give it a few decades, and BC will be ours anyway, along with the rest of canada sans quebec.

I think ben harper has always sucked, personally.

I take it you went in through surprise lake trail, from scenic on US2? How far down is the trail still snow covered? Do you have to walk w/o skis for a while?

Yup, I celebrated 1,000 with a brief mention on the "WA 50 classics" thread. I wish their was a way of tracking posts my time, date, etc. with graphs. I'd like to see how it coincides with my downtime at work. Probably very closely

Alex, I'd have to disagree with you on this one. I think it depends on what type of climb you are looking for. Right now price is going to be a very steep snow climb. We did it late (november last year, which would be more like Oct in a normal year) on purpose. Later in the season it's more of an alpine ice climb. If your point is that it's easiest right around this time, you'd probably be correct. That's a fuggin' active glacier, full of big slots and lots of falling stuff later in the year. Yay, post 1000.

Town is mearly my basecamp, and every climb is my attempt to squeeze through the weather window to the summit.

or any number of other colorful words. I like to leave room for my readers to truly imagination the swearing they would have done in my place.

These fucks attack the very things that make our country what it is. Changing our constitution and bill of rights plays into their hands, and isn't going to get us any further along with catching them. Asscroft is a moron and we are better off without him and his racist self.

JOSK DONT FORGET THE "IMHO" OK, OK, in all fairness, before I get flamed, I was being fecitious here. I had heard that from many people before we went up to try it. In reality, I thought it looked awesome. Probably more technical than it once was, but cool. It's a long approach for sure, however. We would have had it, had my @#@(*#@ crampon not come off.

Yup, that's chance of showers according to the NWS. it snowed non stop from when we left the car to when we got back, albeit the snow level had moved up a bit by then. What shocked me the most was how little the snow had consolidated over the past week. I had expected to find it knee deep up high possibly, but when we turned around Tom was up to his waist in it.

scoped out price glacier last year. It's garbage compared to what it used to be. Not worth the time...

No, but it's USEFUL for growing crops. Anyway, the second sentence sums up my point. Quit bagging on the US, you sound like a fucking prick. I'm sure your a nice guy, but the anti american shit is getting old.

Yeah, and 50% of it is about as useful as Siberia. Quit trollin', wanker. Go back to whining sour grapes over your lack of ice climbing this winter.

Yes, the pink tricam owneth all.

Ahh, good to hear the boot pack is back. That makes for a much nicer time of it. How was the weather Colin? It sucked ass on the west side of the crest...

cbs, what route did you do kyes by that second time? You mentioned a carryover, so I was curious if you went up the columbia glacier, down it, or none of the above. I was thinking of climbing it from the blanca lake/columbia glacier side some time in a long day.