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No, all freshiez are mine! If I see you at my TH in BC, then I will slash your tires to teach you a lesson! Now that I have booties for my pit bull, I will sick Panama on all those who dare to try to stand above a run I will ski. He will feast on your blood while I lap the fresh!!! Good boy!

I voted for you Paul!!!

Moonlight skiing is da' bomb. Here is a picture of skiing the Roman Wall in alpenglow, before skiing the Coleman Glacier under beautiful moonlight, with the lights of Bellingham in the distance. The snow was really icy, but off the glacier we were treated to some nice wind-blown fresh in a few gullies. I regularly find myself even more awe-struck with the beauty of the mountains under moonlight than my normal levels of exhiliration.

BRO-BRA-How dare you suggest I have man-boobs?

He's just doing the tight-fisted bird, which always looks strange. Cool guys keep it loose, letting the fingers extend to the second knuckle, to show that they are saying fuck you, but aren't truly perturbed. As in, "You're a fuck-up, but I'm not gonna get all tense about it."

Indeed, the most courteous thing to do would be to straight-run at all times and huck as much as possible. I wonder how Extremo feels about this?

In my self-important, filled with delusions of grandeur opinion, the whole point of the backcountry is freedom. If you are not putting someone's life in danger, poach to your heart's content. If someone is standing above where your skis are naturally taking you, they should get moving if the almighty untracked on that exact slope is their utmost desire for the day. A thought: how will you even be aware of making them angry if you blast through in a whirlwind of faceshots, screaming at the top of your lungs? Anyone who could get angry at such a sight of delight needs some perspective, perhaps. Just to reiterate to the point of redundancy in the most rhetorical fashion: is it backcountry skiing if you have to ask someone's permission?

Jon, I don't mean to talk smack, but why are you squatting 300 and deadlifting 215? Are you doing really high reps on deadlift? I've always found deadlift to be a stronger lift than squats, as has every workout partner I've had. I'm sure it's probably just part of your training strategy, but I like to hear about different workouts. Once upon a time after a back injury I got back into deadlifts by doing sets of 20 and increasing the weight every week. I love that fall down and watch the stars feeling after a good set of deadlifts. That's some kinda high.

Dead lifts and squats rule!!!!!! I'm gonna go do some this afternoon. Just be careful and learn good form when you start, so as not to bust a gut. Stitches to the abdomen are aid.

It's all about the double helix and the medula oblongata. And lotsa and .

I would like to say I don't really think climbers are pussies. Climbers are the greatest, especially when they make a nice boot pack up something fun to ski. Peace be with you all

Nice troll. I won't reply to this, but I would just like to say I think it is bullshit. Now I'll leave this thread alone for all you pussy climbers who don't have the good sense and style to carry an extra twenty pounds up the mountain, and turn the approach and descent into a party. And I'd be happy to dunk on any of you in a game of hoops at your local indoor gym. -A rich white snob, who used to live in PDX and liked it there

If you like to jump stuff, there can be a small problem unless your skis are stiff. They have the same problem as the regular Fritschis. When you land, and your ski flexes (more the softer the ski), the bar on the binding stays the same length, and your heel will easily come free when the end of the bar escapes the lockdown part of the heel piece. No big deal, but something to consider.

All my fingers are back to normal. The worst one is some fraction of a mm shorter, and they get cold really easy. Other than that, no problems. You're all so jealous of my cool pictures and free meals (insurance) from a night in the hospital now.

It could take a while, but as long as it doesn't discolor and then turn black, don't worry. Hell, even if it does discolor and turn black, don't worry. Don't worry until it falls off, and then it's not worth worrying any more. I didn't realize my situation until I got down the mountain and took my gloves off. It can just kinda sneak up on you like that. I'll bet someone already got it, but... frosty

All right, my dog still rules, but here's one to show some of the crevasse action on the lower glacier:

Cool frozen waterfall between upper and lower north face: Our quicker option: I'd show more pictures but my dog rules, so forget it: Who wants to go send the waterfall?

How about some weekend in February? I'd definitely be willing to skin up to Cloudcap pulling a pony keg. That sounds worthwhile in and of itself. Maybe get drunk, talk some smack, and commence with an extreme skiing send-fest. I wonder if we could get Extremo Mtn Dude to show?

That does look like a fun climb. Should we have a cc.com event with a keg at Cloud Cap and go for it free-for-all style once everyone's smashed? Iain, is that a camel?

N_C: Whuz happenin? We probably COULD have just soloed, but watching Jeff scares me sometimes, so we used running belays on several sections. I set up one real belay where there was an icy step into the couloir we used to get to the upper glacier. I'll post some pictures this evening, the frozen waterfall was way cool.

Dru said: That's all conjecture. What I wanna know is this: Is sex possible in eleven dimensions? Furthermore, if you position yourself properly, maybe all the water generated while digging the cave can drip into a dimension that's curled into a loop too small to observe, leaving the snow camper dry and cozy in their four-dimensional realm of experience (space-time). I don't trust a string theory unless it's 9mm+ and treated to be water resistant, with a belay partner on the other end who has 10^6 essentials for every unit volume in phase space.

That site's a bunch of lame, made-up bullshit, and all the pictures were taken at Mt Baker Ski Area. What a joke. Who is that gaper?

I don't know if anyone will be attracted by such a description, Jeff, but if you promise to off yourself before the end of the first day, I could probably miss ONE day of school. I'll expect you to give me your bank cards and access numbers, in addition to cell phone and car keys.

That's sick, Dru! But remember, WINGS ARE AID!

Yeah MaryLou, why don't you just offer to buy Beck dinner and a beer? Here's an AT lesson, photo courtesy of All_You_Can_Eat: The 1:37 post, I'm loser number one!