JoshK

Dude, it's ghetto speak.

GRRR...then it should have a .fr domain extension. F'kin weasly frogs using U.S. domain extensions!

Well, looks another fairly shitty weekend in terms of weather. At least the snow levels will be dropping down to something a little more reasonable. What is everybody's big plans?

Wow, as if we needed more proof this week of the fact that the french suck.

Yeah, he wont be the youngest, that's bad reporting.

"Mountain Hardwear designs, develops and markets the most technically advanced equipment and apparel available to outdoor enthusiasts and professionals, many of whom are icons in the global mountaineering community." BWAHAHAHAH...whatever This fits, columbia is cheap and mountain hardware sucks. It's a match made in heaven.

You should sue and get some $$$ for using your property without your permission

I realize that. My point is grazing cattle suck...wherever they are. It's not like threads dont drift from time to time around here.

My point is that in many parts of central and south america the chain saws are being used to destroy the forests in order to let more cattle graze.

Yeah, I've heard that coffee ain't so nice to the forests too. I can certainly believe that.

No ragging nescessary. You get the same thing no matter the size of the mountain, to a certain point. I think we all pretty much consider going up rainer in the summer via the D.C. a glaciated hike, but try pretty much any route on rainer in the winter and you at least better be prepared for shit to hit the fan.

My point is using land to allow cattle to graze is bullshit, period. It's what a huge portion of the rain forest is being ripped down for. Why? So this fat ass nation can eat mcdonalds cheap. I'm not a vegetarian, and never want to be one. I enjoy a nice fat steak every once in a while, or a burger for that matter. But the fact remains that the price we pay in order to let fat asses eat beef every single day is quite high, but in terms of public cost and cost to the environment.

Oh, but we should definitely be subsidizing ranchers, cause as we all know, raising fucking cattle is the best food-per-land deal around. IDIOTS.

Hope it works out for you...it's pretty warm up there.

Something tells me that the river doesn't care much about the border.

I didn't think the fraser was *that* much bigger? I know the columbia is longer, but I can believe the fraser has more flow as it's drainage is not only more northern, but isn't it more westerly?

Please tell me this is the name of a drink and not actually a milkshake made with tequila, cause that sounds really sick!

Dru, it does seem to me that the B.C. forecasts are a bit more conservative. It looks like they tent to err on the side of caution and would rather bump to a higher level than a lower level. I guess this doesn't surprise me; I've actually been surprised sometimes that they avy report in WA wasn't higher when I've gone out and found scary conditions. Actually, my closest call with an avy to date was during a period where "low" conditions were forecasted. From what I could see around me, the snowpack actually held quite a bit of danger that wasn't mentioned in the forecast. I suppose this could have been due to local effects in the area that I was in, but you never know. I'm certainly no expert. I just take the avy forecasts as a general go/no-go helper for the entire trip and evaluate the conditions as I go along. I think I almost always err on the side of caution, mostly as a side effect of not knowing any better, and I figure being alive is better than not.

SNOWPACK ANALYSIS..... Periods of very strong winds and very heavy snow accumulations were seen from about last Wednesday through last Sunday. Sites near and west of the crest accumulated 4-7 feet of snowfall during that time. Sites east of the crest accumulated less such as Mission Ridge with about 1.5 feet. This caused a major avalanche cycle near and west of the crest with many storm cycle soft slab avalanche incidents but no fatalities. Generally decreasing winds, much lighter precipitation and more stable surface crusts Monday and Tuesday combined with substantial snow pack settlement to reduce the avalanche danger. Total snow pack settlement at sites near and west of the crest varies from about 1-2 feet the past few days. An exception was Mt Baker which accumulated another 12 inches of snow on Tuesday. Heavy rain was generally seen on Wednesday in the southwest Olympics and in the Washington Cascades near and west of the crest from about Mt Rainier north. Many sites near the Cascade crest had roughly 2-3 inches of water mostly as rain with Mt Baker picking up over 4 inches. The loading and weakening by the rain and warm temperatures should have resulted in some large natural wet snow avalanches in the backcountry in this area. We have only one initial report so far Thursday morning of such an avalanche in a back country area in White Pine Creek east of Stevens Pass. Sites at Mt Hood had almost no precipitation Wednesday and another several inches of snow pack settlement. SOUTHWEST OLYMPICS...WASHINGTON CASCADES NEAR AND WEST OF THE CREST MT RAINIER NORTH... High avalanche danger above 4-5000 feet and considerable below Thursday. Avalanche danger decreasing Friday becoming considerable above 5000 feet and moderate below.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and eliminate the grand canyon. I'll get rid of the great smokies while I'm at it too...

Dude, see above...Howse of Cards...that's "sick". It's an amazing, impressive piece of climbing in an amazing place. The penalty for failing is great. Chris wanking on some oversized rock in the forest is not sick, no matter how hard you try to say it is. Well, I suppose if he fell, he could sprain an ankle.

Ummm...near alberta and with the ocean in the foreground?

I think the hurcules is supposed to be pretty burly. Jim sells them at his shop and I think I remember him saying he was pretty impressed with it. You may want to give him a call.

He probably just assume you were bagging on a spelling mistake, since that is what most people on this board seem to love to do.