JoshK

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.

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.