Patrick_Beebe

The federal gov should reallocate funds from fighting wildfires to paying timber companies to thin in forest-urban interface zones. Paying the timber industry by allowing them access to larger, healthy trees in previously untouched areas is a mistake. Next, stop the madess of squelching every fire that starts. I know, they are getting better at this, but they've still got a long way to go. It's a hard road due to the last 50 years or so of highly effective fire suppression. Can't just stop squelching 'em, because then we'd have an environmental disaster. Of course, we can't go in and thin everywhere (thinning requires roads to get trucks in), because that would be another disaster. Thin the urban interface zones to prevent damage to structural elements, and over the next decade or two, slowly let the accumulation of underbrush burn itself out in remote wilderness, letting natural fire cycles resume. just my $.02 (i'm refraining from paying out the whole grand or so I have to say about bush and his bogus environmental "advances" )

That sounds cool to me - i'm a n00b at WI climbing, but got enough alpine ice under me belt to hopefully make the transition easy. Don't have a job right now so that makes me preeminently available. Also makes me a cheap bastard. anyways, definately would be a sweet roadtrip...

I have a Sierra Designs Omega CD tent for sale. I am also selling it with the footprint. This is a value of about $330 dollars. I'm offering this tent up for sale at $150 obo. I got the tent brand new in 2002 and only used it twice. It is an excellent 3/4 season convertible tent. The two times I used it were both in the snow on Mt Rainier in the winter - it performed quite well. Why am I getting rid of it? Simply because I got a single wall tent shortly after and prefer that to this one. Pictures of actual tent available upon request. I live in Eugene, OR but I can also arrange for pickup in the Seattle area as well, given about a week. Or I can ship it, but you have to pick up that tab. Email me if interested. patrick@beebehome.com Thanks!

I'm free to climb all week and next weekend - looking for people to do alpine or ice climbing down here in oregon. post or pm me.

little late in posting this, but I thought the route information might be useful to someone... soloed diamond peak via it's north ridgeline. snowshoed in and camped at south base of peak 7138. starting at ~6am started out for the mountain. Gained the ridge early on (7500'). stuck to it as best as possible, climbing up and over the first gendarme (4th class) - alternatively, you could scoot around it to the east. ridge turns right (west), ascended slopes and short ice couloir to gain top, then wove my way through rime ice coated rocks to reach a saddle. continued on ridgeline, turning to the left (south) and staying above rock formations. Rest of it is just a slog to the top - but there is a small (~20') rock formation partially blocking the ridge; climbed it for fun (3rd class) but it could easily be passed on the right. watch out for the cornice to your left - i had it break from underneath me with the fracture line about 6feet from the edge. got back to camp at 2pm. picture is looking north from summit, about 2/3 of the route is visible. fun route - has anyone does this before? - i would recommend it as a good winter climb - in the summer it is probably all scree and boring.

i'm relatively new in town and this sounds like a great way for me to meet some of you local eugene climbers. plus, can't argue with a chance to drink some brew. hopefully i'll catch the next post on this in time..... hey, soloing is fun but sometimes is a bit limiting

Looking for a fast climber interested in doing the sisters marathon... we'll do the full six - little brother, north sister, middle sister, south sister, broken top, and bachelor - all in a 24 hour climbing rampage. i'm thinking of using bikes to get from broken top trailhead to bachelor... in general, also looking for anyone interested in alpine or multi-pitch climbing in oregon ... i'm thinking of taking a trip out to the wallowa mountains later this year and doing some peaks out there.

Was recently turned on to Eureka! tents and I was amazed at how cheap they are. They seem to carry some decent stuff, and the weight on their Zeus Exo models is pretty nice. I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience with these tents. I'm looking mostly for a light 3+ season (happy with my bibler torre for all winter/alpine use )

someone gave me a pair of the green superfeet and i thought they placed too much pressure on my arch. but... after ripping the plastic support off the bottom of them, I found they make great cushioned inserts! if I were to buy inserts, however, i would go with just the cheap spenco's that have the cupped heel... much less expensive than superfeet

was up there 3/28-29 - got a late start and camped out on the crater rim - amazing sunrise! conditions were good, even though weather/avalanche reports were dubious - snow pack in good condition from what I could tell (probing with poles/ax) right about the crowds though - must have passed 30-40 people going up when I came down saturday morning, and that was all before 9am! crazy crazy crazy

I've typically just gone via the USGS maps. You have to work your way up the roads until they stop, then take off on a boot path that leaves the right side of the road (not marked at all). If you're too far north, you end up scrabling steep heather. Too far south and it's brushy as hell. It's a route that is done quite frequently - just talk to anyone in the area for more detail (AAI or BaseCamp in Bellingham are two good places).