JoshK

Let's see...it crashes sometimes, but it is better than IE. haha...ok guy, sounds great. A web browser is a web browser. I tried firefox, it worked fine and it gave me nothing extra I needed so I freed up the disk space.

It has been snowing for several days here in CO now. It is pissing me off, I came here for 300 days of sunshine a year!! I want spring skiing!! On the upside I got in a few decent runs at a-basin yesterday on pretty nice packed powder. -josh

OK, I know there are some Colorado folks on here since this is pretty much the best climbing BB out there and we don't really have shit in CO. Anyway, if any of you are out there, hit me up. It looks like I'll be, for better or worse, in CO most of the summer, so I need to at least take advantage of shit here rather than bemoaning my seperation from the Cascades. People down to ski shit are an extra bonus too. hit me up, -josh

Ahh...I was confused about what route you were talking about Sky. I thought you were referring to the Nohokomeen glacier, or whatever it is called. I was getting a bit confused when you were talking about super fucking steep sections cause I remember the Nohokomeen looking rather tame. But now i see, yall did that narrower winding glacier...that makes more sense. Shit, even though I probably would have been too much of a pussy to actually ski all that sketchy steep shit up top I would have loved to go beat myself up with you guys on that marataon. What a cool mountain! Too bad you didn't actually summit so you'll have to return. Don't you think, Klenke? Again, nice job boys. P.S. Sky, I do have to say tho, that trip is pussy compared to the daunting approaches and rugged terrain of Quandary Peak, huh?

Skykilo and I skied Quandary peak the other day in a storm. Man the wind on the ridges of the divide just totally sucks. It was a great time tho...made an easy mountain much more exciting.

get the 1lb MEC basic bivy. It is cheap and made out of the bibler/integral designs fabric. It has no mesh, but you could sew that on pretty easily.

You got hit by a "coffee table" size rock and just took some minor damage!??! I call bullshit.

Maybe we will soon be able to hire Scot'teryx to guide us up Rainer??

When Paco and I did this we also left about 3am. I would have not minded another hour either.

Would anybody be kind enough to post a picture showing this line in context of the rest of the mountain? thanks, -josh

The news media as a whole is pretty evenly biased, IMHO. Some swing right, some swing left. Those that thing it swings heavily enough to either side to actually affect anything are pretty misinformed, IMHO.

Yeah, I can attest to Elbert being seriously blah... The good news is it doesn't take like to climb the mound.

Aspergers huh? That is interesting. I know a lot about it owing to the fact that I have somebody close to me in my life that has it. If he, indeed, is truthfully afflicted then the thing you guys all certainly think is a bullshit excuse may well be more valid than you think. In any event, the guy should definitely be spending some time in jail but i think the part about the judge uping the punishment for him "influencing consumers" or whatever is pretty suspect. I could see that being slapped down by an appeals court. The whole thing is sad tho. These people just end up looking even stupider than somebody who is dumb enough to buy a hummer2.

Now I feel pretty good doing this before it became the "climb de jour"

I think his point may have been that it seems pretty obvious (at least to me) that grading ski runs to flatten them out hurts plants and that higher altitude terrain suffers worse.

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Wait...a**US** district court!? Not some shitty state or county court? What the fuck. Honestly, this is what our tax dollars are going towards? You realize what just a fucking hour of this court's time costs!? Sweet Jeebus...

Yeah, i know that. I need to get down the SW. The summit county area is pretty overrated. It just happens to be near where everybody lives. I guess the southern CO rockies have had one of the best years in quite a while. Too bad it's such a drive for me. -josh

The cascades now have more snow than the rockies do at least around the summit county area.

Wow, that's awesome man. Someone will have to copy the annotations some day if we can get a super super clear day photo at very high res. Klenke, I'm sure you've done put I haev a pretty high res photo of the olympics from the 140th street overpass in Bellevue with the seattle skyline in the foreground. Let me know if you have any interest in it. -josh

I know this is a long shot, but I think there are some Colorado residents on here and I have no idea where to look for partners here. If anybody in the Denver/Boulder area is interest...I am thinking I might do a tour in the Bierstadt/Evans aera tomorrow. -josh

No...I was up in BC a few weeks ago and plenty of them do that too. BC and WA drivers are pretty much identical in my expierence. As are OR drivers...

I think the camera on a cell phone would be perfect!

My buddy had them withOUT the thermo liner and he frequently complained of them being cold.

He said conservative U.S. dudes, so that is what I assume. I would agree with dru's point hwoever...if they just posted it because it was banned then that is pretty pointless.