JoshK

Ohhh...we need that greamlin. He's cool. Was browsing through a copy of alpine select today at bookstore. Didn't know your pics were in there Dru; very nice.

I'm with you dulton. Even if you do want the weight, taking water and dumping it is a lot better than gypsying a bunch of gear onto your pack just to look like a tool. I also agree that simply speeding your ass up is better excercise and a lot less wear and tear on the joints. I suppose I can sort of buy the rationale that if you are training to carry weight, then carrying weight is good.

I'll bite... I think I would be a mountain goat. They climb very well, get to explore the high country rather than stick the valleys, and just seem all around pretty cool.

OMG...THIS HURTS TO WATCH. THIS COUNTRY IS RUN BY IDIOTS.

I dunno, yanking down a pillar on yourself could be just as deadly

TTT, as you get on the quad chair, about 30 seconds look up to your left. Above the forest and out of bounds zone there is a pretty obvious face/slab/something high up. It's pretty much the only non-treed area on that ridge to the left of the chair. I hear it gets skied every once in a great while, and you'll get arrested if you get caught. Disclaimer: I *think* the name is shot 8. I may have my shots mixed up. Tequila, vodka, it's all the same.

I got there relatively early - 7ish, so I caught the gaper show on the way down. It wasn't just the plastics and giant packs some of these folks had, but full alpine regalia complete with helmets, ice axes, and one dude with - I shit you not - wands!! .. but hey, if I wasn't such a gaper myself I would have been somewhere other than si. LOL...man, Si cracks me up. It's always good for a laugh. I ran up last week during the pouring rain and saw all sorts of madness. One guy had these giant ass 36" alaskan powder style snowshoes strapped to his pack. I guess he needed them for the 6" of slush up on the summit!

The news is dumb, like usual. Whistler didn't receive 770cm of snow, and like somebody mentioned, the news probably got their info from that report. 770cm is somewhere near 25 feet. I wouldn't be too jealous, even whistler's web site reports the conditions as "cascade powder"

Ugh, those belly dancers are nasty. Drop them on Iraq, I'm sure that'll scare them into submition.

Your taxes done on the same schedule as ours, dru?

Note he did say "or anything else fun" You should probably be able to find yourself a good climbing objective or two during the week no matter what the weather. Don't push and try rainer or anything else that exposed if the conditions don't cooperate. You may also want to list your technical background and experience so potential partners can see if you would fit for a climb they have in mind. Good luck, -josh

Shot 8 at alpental is always a perfect example of this. It starts to develope creep cracks and if you are lucky enough to big around when it goes, well...it goes big.

gotta agree with you glasgow. I have vipers and recently added the fang things you talk about. Also very nice pinky protector for those of us who tend to destroy our pinkies often. I've found the combo of anderoids + fangs (both come and and off very easy) is killer. the anderoids are particuarlly great because i have the security of the leash for alpine but can easily get out of it to climb leashless and it's not dangling in my way.

That boulder field above the from like 4000 to 5000 feet on the eldorado approach sucks ass. I was thrilled, however, to see a path slashed through the slide alder at one point, however. slide alder is one species of tree I am more than happy to have killed.

Yeah, I actually have just two hammers on my ice tools because of this. I dont find the adze useful enough to warrant the risk of me hitting my clumsy self in the forehead with it!

I think I'm gonna skin up the road and down to the trail to kennedy hot springs. Then I am going to force myself to sit in that cesspool of a hot springs as a punishment for the horrible drinking binge I subjected myself to last night.

Is it just me, or is sportclimbing lore pretty inane? TONIGHT AT TEN! LIES, DECIET AND MURDER AT THE LOCAL CRAG! WHEN SPORT CLIMBING'S BEST TURN BAD!

Well...no shit!! Since it apparently isn't obvious, the majority of good climbing in the cascades is in washington, so that is what 95% of the book is going to be about. Oregon high is orgeon specific, so of course it'll be better for oregon.

No doubt... and what the hell is this suposedt to mean??? "then, after a 24 hours pause in Chamonix where Philippe Magnin was made look after engelures with the hands"

That's why you gotta climb when the weather's good. I got a few pitches in this afternoon. I'm drinking and snogging on the weekend. Maybe I'm dense, or sheltered, but what is snogging? Is it like slogging? Or is it like ?

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.