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Hey, Heading off on a traveling adventure to South America and South Africa...looking for a super light tent(enclosed) and a super light sleeping bag (16-20 ounce range)... Anyone looking to unload anything like this? If so, email or call! Thanks! Tim Halder therunningdog@yahoo.com 206-851-9980

Awesome job guys! Way to get after it! Damn, Tom...I leave to go skiing for a week and look what happens...congrats! Funny it's not named Wilkes-Booth Peak, eh? Bravo, good chaps!

Indeed Sofa King. And awesome.

So awesome! Thanks for sharing those photos. Wow.

Damn, that looks like fun. Curious, how many chainsaws did you bring along on this trip?

Thanks Jason for another great trip and write-up. There wasnt much snow up there, but at least there wasn't any choss. I am still recoiling and having PTSD from a summer of choss. No more choss until late July please. No more choss. And, BTW, tele boots climb surprisingly well. Get that corner of the toe-piece on a tiny ledge...bomber. Hiking 15 miles in tele boots is a lot of fun, too. Highly recommended.

Hey Folks! So, I'll be in Bolivia visiting family in April. I'll be available to do some climbing/trekking in Bolivia from April 10-30 or so. I realize it is a bit early in the season down there, but if anyone is going to be in the area, and is interested in some alpine adventures and exploring...shooooot me an email. Also: I'll be in S. Africa May-June for the World Cup. I'd love to find a partner or two for climbs there. I'm interested in pretty much any type of climbing...and open to ideas. Getting up a big 6000 meter peak in Bolivia would be cool...and doing some trad routes on Table Mountain in RSA would be sweeet, too. Sweet! Send me and email or let others know if you think they might be interested! Tim Halder therunningdog@yahoo.com 206-851-9980

Sweet! Nice work guys! I had no idea what any of this Brawndo stuff was, but it sounds like I'll need to watch the movie now. And now, a few notes about Brawndo, courtesy of Wikipedia: -Brawndo: "The Thirst Mutilator" is a sports drink advertised as rich in electrolytes -Brawndo is used for virtually every purpose, including crop irrigation. Water is only used in toilets. -Over time, the electrolytes in the Brawndo have accumulated in the soil, killing the crops and causing a food shortage. -Half the country works for Brawndo Corp.

Hey gang, a rough line of our route up and down can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/halder.tim/BigFourMountainDec1009#5412412266694152626 It was a great day out and a great access ramp to the NF picked out by Justus. Goes to show that a little bit of recon can pay off. Thanks Justus! Sorry mountainmatt, I thought we were going up the ol' Dry Creek Route or I woulda called ya...honest!! :-)

That's gotta be the most photogenic drainage in the state!! Looks like a fun climb to talk and laugh about AFTER you're back at camp. Just another tick mark during your "summer of obscure routes", eh? Nice work!

Thanks for the write-up Jason. That was a fun, if somewhat sketchy, day out. I've never been on a pile of rock in the Cascades that was less generous with quality rap anchors. Definitely Repulsive!

Cool trip guys! Blake, I like how you saved this for a few months before posting it. A great read on a ridiculously rainy day like today! Thanks!

So, I love my family and all...but, I'll be in Phoenix for a full week and would love to get out climbing in Prescott or wherever. Actually, I'd just be stoked to get out for a hike in lieu of sitting in front of the TV. Again, love my family...but sometimes you just need to get out of the house, right? Anyone going to be down there that same week, or know anyone who live in PHX or FLAG who would want to get out? Thanks, Tim therunningdog@yahoo.com 206-851-9980

The official website put together by TJ's family. http://www.tjlangleymemorial.com/ They plan to have a nice photo slideshow up on this eventually.

For those of you that knew TJ, there will be a memorial service for him on Friday, from 3:00-5:00, at the new Mountaineers location at Magnuson Park. Thanks to everyone for all the kind words. His friends and family are so grateful for the support.

Jason, thanks for the quality write-up. It was really amazing how many facts were wrong in that media report, but I guess it doesn't really matter... TJ was one of my best friends and one of favorite climbing partners. He got me on board to climb Washingtons 100 highest mountains with him, and we spent a lot of days the past few years hiking up choss piles and slogging across large glaciers. Yeah, some of the mountains were nasty choss piles, but it got us to random parts of the state we never would have gone otherwise. TJ was at #83/100 after his summit of Clark Mountain last week. TJ and I spent a month in 2005 on an expedition in China, and many of those days we spent hukered down in a tent, playing gin(he always won more games than I) and telling stories for hours. Always a guy to get his friends' back, at the end of the trip, he punched out our drunk expedition leader when he pulled a knife on me. He was a great climbing partner and travel buddy, but more than anything...he was a great friend. One of the most kind and genuine guys I have ever met. I already miss the guy. Rest In Peace, TJ. Tim Halder

Hey folks, Looking for information for our friend TJ who left on Sunday to climb Clark, Luahna and Buck, with the intention of being back on Tuesday night. TJ Langley is about 42 years old, 5'-11', grey-ish shoulder length hair, most likely has a blue/grey small-ish backpack, blue patagonia rain shell. He survived a bear attack 10 years ago and has some manly-looking facial scars. He was going to climb these peak via Little Giant Pass and a Napeequa Valley base camp. He moves very fast in the mountains, and is rarely late getting back. Espcially with the good weater we have been having we are surprised he is this late. His car is still at the trailhead. Any info? Please call me, or Deputy Gene Ellis with Chelan County Sheriff. 509-630-7541. Thanks, Tim 206-851-9980 therunningdog@yahoo.com

Looks like a sweet route! Nice work, guys! Thanks for the detailed write-up, too! Ahhh, to poach pitches from Blake...

Nice work going apeshit on Stuart guys! So cool to see some new terrain covered on that big boy! Damn.

Nice write up Jason! Another great climb to add to the list! I am slightly superstitious and refuse to take the harness off until objective danger is completely absent...even if it means getting caught on camera wearing a 'Mountaineer Tuxedo.' Go get this mountain soon. Even Japhy Ryder can't save you!!

We found a camera on the summit of Liberty Bell on Saturday. Email if you think its yours. Tim therunningdog@yahoo.com

Hey, Ed. This is Tim Halder, remember me from Toastmasters. I have a lot of flexibility these days, weekdays fairly free and I have a ski pass up at Snoqualmie as wel. I think we had similar experience and interests, from what I remember. Perhaps we should get out sometime? I'm pretty up for most anything, but I dont climb real hard ice or anything. Maybe we go do something easy for first trip? I'd like to hike up Mt. Index from the easy(back side)...this includes some biking on the approach. Me open to ideas! Tim Halder therunningdog@yahoo.com 206-851-9980

Good work guys and Nice pics!! Hope to get out with you Skagit guys soon!

Ignore this post. Camera has been found! :-) Thanks Tim

Trip: Reynolds Peak - EENE Ridge Approach Date: 8/31/2008 Trip Report: It was 6am somewhere on the Twisp River Road, and TJ and I had just spent 3 days doing some hardcore peakbaggin' (Big Craggy, W. Craggy, Oval, Courtney, Star, Abernathy). Feeling a bit tired after lots of vertical travel and celebrating my birthday with our friend Pabst the night before, TJ and I were on the cusp of bailing on the last mountain on our itinerary, Reynolds Peak. We almost succumbed to temptations of breakfast and good coffee in Twisp, as we were anticipating a nasty bushwhack to get up Reynolds from the Twisp River Road approach. But we mustered up the energy to get going up the trail, and what we found was a great hike and scramble with very little bushwhacking at all. We took a seemingly untrammeled route which we called the East-East-North-East(EENE) Ridge. I havent seen a TR for this specific route, so here goes.... We hiked up the Reynolds Creek Trail for few miles until we got to about 4800 feet, at that point we left the trail and headed left, down towards Reynolds Creek. We saw a few traces of trail here, and some orange tape at the point where we crossed Reynolds Creek, still at about the 4800-4850 foot elevation.From here we hiked uphill, with Reynolds Creek to our right until we arrived at the base of an immense slope of slide alder. It's one of the largest swathes of slide alder I have ever seen, and just thinking about what it would take to get through it makes me cringe. :cry:Anyways, from here we traversed left below the slide alder until we arrived at the base of a boulder field filled with bright, clean granitic rock(Boulder Field #1). We hiked up this for a couple hundred feet to it's end, then hiked up and left until we got to the base of a mossy boulder field (Boulder Field #2). Again, we hiked up this boulder field to its end, then traversed up and (mostly) left until we got to the base of a bigger boulder field with clean, bright granite(Boulder Field #3). We hiked up this field to its end, exited it to its left side, then continued mostly up, but somewhat left for several hundred feet until we were on open slopes and at the base of the EENE Ridge. At this point we had encountered some brush, but not very much at all...it was really quite pleasant! :tup:A few hundred feet vertical feet of walking up on the east side of the ridge on slabby, dirty, but easy slopes brought us to the crest of the ridge at about 6300 feet. From this point on, the route was straightforward and really fun. Most of the ridge is simply hiking, but there are a few spots of class 3 moves to spice things up just a bit. Climbing on the EENE Ridge: We had wide open views on both sides of us, even though the weather wasnt so great we had awesome views of east side peaks. We climbed straight over point 7038 and continued on the ridge until about 7300 feet, where we dropped down to the left and continued up easy scree and boulder slopes to the final class 3 summit scramble. TJ scrambling up to the top of Point 7038: The top of the ridge from Point 7038, with Reynolds Peak behind: We arrived at the summit a bit over 4 hours from the car. Going down took us about 2.5. Stepping across a chasm on the way down the ridge: Another shot on the ridge: It turned out to be a great day out, and a rewarding routefinding experience. I think this area would make for a good ski, too. Also a cool hike because didnt see traces of anyone after we crossed Reynolds Creek, except for the summit register. We eventually got GOOD FOOD later that day in Marblemount to finish off a great trip of top-100 exploration. I drank heavily that night. Approach Notes: Uh, I think I over did it already.