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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that! The flying cliff glisade had to be one of the cooler techiniques I've employed in the mountains before. Very fun indeed.

Stupid Whitehorse...damn it. But it's right by the road and a town, it's an easy mountain, just like mount si, right? hehehe.. Hey, it was fun to get out with you guys in the weather yesterday anyway. Unfortunately like everybody else, I hate to fail and not give it another shot, so I guess that means I'm commited to at least one more bushwhack on that thing. Lee, as you were saying, I really think May after the typical big spring avy cycle will be the time on that mountain. Most of the gulch should still be covered in snow, but the risk will be lower and the snow consolidated. As a reward, the bushwhack should also be dry. All the snow on the slide alder made things "interesting" huh?

Hey, I didn't say I wasn't still thinking about getting one REI had them on sale a few weeks ago, but just the dark blue color. I want the red one, but nobody seems to want to sell it to me for anything less than retail.

They use XCR on the shoulders and elbows? for more abrasion resistance. THat's an awesome jacket, but a complete ripoff.

A bunch of my friends race in amatuer rally races. Their car of choice, for the most part is mid 80s Audi 4000s. You'd be hard pressed to convince them that they don't stand up to off road abuse considering they have hundreds of thousands of miles on them and still beat them up in rallys.

LOL. Yes, you are right, this applies to cars...built in the 1970s that is. What you fail to mention is that manufacturing techniques for unibody vehicles have improved immensly due to the fact that every manufactuer uses them now. You should definitely give Subaru and Audi a call and tell them that their world rally championship cars are crap and cant handle the rigors of being driven balls out over crappy terrain at 100+ mph. But I'm sure that's nothing compared to the stresses of rolling slowly down the cascade river road.

a meat locker too...I'd like to climb some overhanging slabs of beef.

It looks like this was mine: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB5&Number=58833&Forum=All_Forums&Words=2450&Match=Username&Searchpage=2&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=58833&Search=true#Post58833 FWIW, I ended up doing the north ridge. I can't remember if it was that same weekend I mentioned as being predicted sunny in the post, cause I got hailed and lightninged on and shit.

It means yet more glacial recession... DOn't get me wrong, I like dry rock, but I like my glaciers too.

Maybe I am being naive (I dont know shit about this stuff) but it seems to me that 2300 cases in a country of well over a billion isn't very many. And considering it only has a 3% fatality rate in third world dump, I guess I'm just not totally freaked out. Can somebody give me a reason to be?

That mile will be nothing compared to the 4 miles up you did on the bridge creek road just to get to the 5 mile long trail that got you to the 1/2 mile walk that got you to the 3000 foot climb up Dragontail.

Sweet pics, pete, thanks for posting!

Only 6 or 7 feet of snow at WA pass, that's pretty depressing.

Trav, when do you plan on going in? I was considering heading in that way Sunday. -josh

Not that it'll be any help, but I went up Navaho early last winter. The view across into the Stuarts is awesome from there!

I generally roll mine up. Then, as soon as I get home I fully open it up and hang it to air dry. I think as long as you are doing that, how it is for the little while in the pack probably doesn't make a big difference.

Anybody think there is a snowball's chance in hell they'll have the road open this weekend?

8 singles, 4 doubles. I, too, like the bluewater sewn spectra runners. light and strong. I don't always carry all 12, however, it depends on the route. doubles come in extra handy on alpine routes for slinging horns, trees, dead bodies, etc...

I should start a website dedicated to bringing folks together for duels stemming from internet trash talking. We could take bets, etc.

The integral designs silshelter looks awesome! That might be one of my next buys. I've heard they do suffer from condensation bad, but I think creative shelter construction could help this out.

For anybody who hasn't seen the MEC lightweight Bivy, it's pretty sweet. http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=118583&FOLDER<>folder_id=590703&bmUID=1049349972721 As far as I can tell, integral designs makes it for them. It's basically a totally stripped ID bivy. It's made out of their nice waterproof/breathable fabric (same stuff as ID and bibler tents), but lacks zippers, bug netting, etc. at only 1 pound, I think it's a great comprimise between the glorified garbage bags and the full on bivies.

I'll take that second pic. Bomb the first one. Mmm...I've never been a huge pamela fan, but man, that's a great pic...

I swear you must be the most cynical person I've ever "met" But, yeah, you're probably right. I do, however, think she was a rescue of opportunity considering they had her holed up in some hospital in a largely coallition controlled area.