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Anyone interested in some rock climbing tomorrow? Trad or Sport, pretty much any grade. Pm or Call. 208/755/9008 Joe

Arden, Do you know Brad Gilbert? He is a FS employee in CDA. Bob Loomis would have his number. Either way, I think Jim works for the FS in CDA because I'm pretty sure Brad has mentioned him to me before. Good Luck Joe

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Looking for an experienced partner for either of these routes. Anyone???? thanks, Joe

Looking for a Ice partner for the listed dates. PM me. Joe

Sorry to hear about your job. Bummer. I am available weekdays next week, Oct 21-24. Alpine would be sweet. I don't mind the cold. Joe

Snow? Sweeeeeeet. We'll be climbing Ice soon.

Alright Dirtyleaf or Sisu. What would you like to do? I am planning on arriving before noon on Saturday. I am available all day on sunday. I climb in the 10's comfortably. Open to suggestions.

I have the new sizes. yeah I know they are not out yet. I know a guy....anyhow. I was impressed. I save them for the times when I need gear now. Very wide range to say the least.

Harley? Which one?

Thanks for the beta on Cashmere. Cold rock is good. Snow. Ugh.

Thanks, I do hope to find someone.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Canadug. You are a real cheerleader. You should buy a headlamp. There are a bunch of them on the market and they make pre dawn starts and post sunset returns possible. Still Looking...

So, no one is interested in the desert. How about one of the S Face routes on prussik in a day. Weather pending. Looking good so far on NOAA. Will likely change.

Anyone??? Probably going to have some sun. I'll climb most anything. Joe

I have used the rewoven 8 to tie cord before if I anticipate needing to get it untied for bail anchors, threads, etc.

Anyone here have lightweight AT bindings mounted on waxless skis. It seem like there is quite an offering of skis out there that have some real sidecut and waxless bases. In my experience most of my approaches could be accomplished on a waxless ski instead of using skins. Anyone used the Alpina Lite Terrain? I suppose the next question is will these skis tolerate having Silveretta 500's mounted on them? Of course the info on them says any NNN, 75mm, SNS, blah blah blah. Experience??? Thanks, Joe

When you Stuart lake approach did you follow the trail all the way to Stuart Lake instead of the Mountie creek XC route. Just curious. Is there a trail around Stuart lake and then an approach up the slopes at the end? Thanks, joe

Awesome, thanks.

No problem. I appreciate the input.

NW Butt. The rocky protrusion between Razorback ridge and goat pass. 5.9 Traverse??

Who here has done the NW Butt of Mt Stuart. Looks like it might be a good way to variate the W ridge. Looking for beta/suggestions. Once topping out on the butt is a rope needed to gain the W ridge route? Thanks for the help. Joe

Trip: Mill Creek, Hamilton, Montana - No Sweat Arete Date: 7/31/2008 Trip Report: Having never been up Mill Creek before and having a strong desire to succeed on something easy, Bigbro and I chose No Sweat Arete in Mill Creek outside Hamilton. FWIW, if you have the Rock Climbing Montana Falcon Guide the photo in the book sucks and is hard to interpret. The Approach description is spot on. As far as descent descriptions go, just use the Dihedrals East descent. For some reason that was too hard to put in the book. Finding the route....When you end up in the amphitheatre below the huge walls wondering where to go, choose the easiest looking low angle arete just climbers right of the large obvious gulley. Go up the arete. It looks loose, but it is actually quite solid and puts you in some spectacular positions. Awesome. About 4 30m pitches. Don't dick around with any of the 2d,2e,2f variations that go to the top of the formation. They are loose and suck. To descend follow the big 4th class ledge to the gully. Go up and over the gully. Descend to the east. CARRY OVER. THE DESCENT WILL PUT YOU WELL AWAY, APPROX 1 HR, FROM THE BASE OF THE ROUTE. This would be an excellent first alpine climb. Routefinding, approaching, and descending problems abound. Nothing too hard though. Have fun.

Looking for a partner for Backbone CTC on Friday. Have gear and experience. I won't be running up the trail, but I am no slug. Probably won't be a speed record of any sort. PM me.

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