Weekend_Climberz

Well this is a very easy question to answer. At the risk of sounding like a racist, the reason my friend Ala says he won't go is because no black person is stupid enough to go out in the woods with a bunch of white guys with ropes.

Nice trip report. Where you the guys they thought got caught in a avy with those other unfortunates?

Hey, those sound great! I wanted to correct you though on that first route you had listed. It's actually Fuhrer Finger, named after Hans Fuhrer who first climbed it back on July 2, 1920. That route is the one with all the speed records as it is the shortest route to the top. That's an awesome list though. There's some really great routes on the west side of the mountain, too that aren't too technically difficult. They do require a little more committment though as they are a lot longer hike in. Cheers.

This type of crap pisses my off sooo bad that I can hardly sit here and just let it happen. We should all make a pact to put spikes on trails and slash any tires of people who think they just go ripping through the backwoods endangering hikers and other more respectful users. This is another example of how ignorant and out of touch our president is with people who feel that pristine countryside is something to cherish and not take advantage of. There has to be a lawyer reading this right now who feels the same way. If we yell hard enough towards the east and those morons in Washington D.C. maybe we can make a difference. Finally as a warning, if I catch you riding your motorbike/ATV/4-wheeler out where I used to hike in solitude be prepared to get your redneck ass kicked severly! You will need to buy new tires and you will be walking home.

quote: Originally posted by slothrop: How will your site help you get out more? Assuming you already have a job, won't running a site just take up more of your time, preventing you from getting out as often as you'd like? No, it just means that all my trip reports and route descriptions are getting horribly back-logged. This is something in which a little thought and planning (and a lot of coding) has resolved, fortunately.

quote: You'll have a tough row to hoe, and you need to decide what your audience is. Trip reports for Talapus and Dewey Lakes aren't going to cut it if you're looking to be a climbing site. Much of the website terrain is already covered too, depending on your style and interest. This site, Scott'teryx's NWOG site, Summitpost, Alpinelite, ClimbingWashington, and probably a host of others I'm unaware of, not to mention many regional folks great personal sites have the issue covered from many different angles and styles. The presence of ads on your site suggests you're trying to make money doing this? That's gonna be even tougher. I recommend you conduct an in depth survey of what's out there, and consider what you can add or do better, treat it like writing a business plan. Soliciting trip reports from this site will not make your idea a success. good luck. Thanks for the input. After looking around for the past several months, the thing that I've found which is an advantage over other sites is that I use streaming video rather than having to download each clip. I've heard that there has been problems, but on all the machines I've tested it on, it works fine. The only problems I've encountered is if an older version of the player is installed. For the adds, I'm not using them to make money, just to help promote my site around the web. This has worked really well, and now I need to expand the content. Hence, the beginning of this post. To be honest the real reason I am doing this is to get out climbing more than I have recently, now that I have a digital camera/camcorder. I really wish I had that thing a few years back when I was on Rainier, Baker, Adams, Glacier Pk., Burgundy Spr, Three Sisters, and all the other misc. things that I did when I was more in shape. [ 11-12-2002, 06:00 PM: Message edited by: Weekend Climberz ]

This is my personal website that I'm thinking about expanding into a larger more general climbing site for Washington State. I'm looking for some people who would be interested in doing some climbs and writing about them on my site. http://www.weekendclimber.com

quote: Originally posted by spiderman: I would like to climb something tis weekend, and am open to suggestions. Any takers. I was probably going to sport it at Exit 38 for a while on Sunday. Along as the girlfriend says it cool. [ 10-01-2002, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Weekend Climberz ]