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Probably not, it's cold and dark after work here now. And damn wet too! Getting motivated is tough. Ya got family, ya got job, you have responsibilities - you have blah blah blah and some more blah to keep you off track. How about just starting with a workout partner? I've been thinking about going for a hike in the dark up Balch Creek (inside of town) with a pack on, but have been wussing. Its much warmer next to the computer:-) If I had a workout partner, it would be much harder to blow it off. My best climbing workouts were when I had a partner and a series of play dates: otherwise, it just soooo easy to head home like a horse to the barn for hay. Thats for the winter anyway, rest of the year, go with Pink: after work I head out to a local cliff (which cliff is time and sun dependent) with like minded folks and we burn some laps.

Sweet sweet stuff jeff!

Hi John: Bill here. No can follow through on that request because the tip on the 5 gallon bucket which you gave Pete is FRIGGAN AWESOME dude. I haul those things around occasionally and opening them can be a bitch! Those guys stashed one out at Trout Creek with coffee makins' and all kinds of things in it, having this opening lid will up the ante 100% for stashing gear out in the woods so the wildlife doesn't chew on it. I have 2 lids on the way. Haven't looked at the Mazama site yet, but I'm sure it's great. I had to say thank you, and didn't want to do it on another forum! Later

Don't tell Joseph these are schite, he just bought one to take to Red Rocks cause he thought it was a better alternative than freezing near to death like last time. I'm sure there was a reason he wanted the lighter one.

I'd have to read that twice to get on 5.8.

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Like maybe "she'll" drink yer beer too, and has a sister? :kisss: Then who would have time for beer!

Nothing wrong with asking....I have no knowledge of the dude myself.

I think the thing is, Minnesota guy, (or anyone) that you need to not be GOAL oriented, but process oriented. Especially in the winter where the weather can just suck donkey balls. If you come out here from Minn with a goal of summiting, you may be tempted to squeeze in the summit and elevate your risk by ignoring things you need to be paying attention too, like the fellas last year. If you come out to hang with your bros and to enjoy some climbing, and are thinking "process" and not "Goal", then you (in my mind) increase the odds that you'll have a balls deep time of it and beautiful memories for years to come. It's like the guy Anderl says to Jonathon in the Eiger Sanction, "Jonathan, you're very good. I have enjoyed climbing with you." Dude is all about enjoying the climbing, the process. I don't know if that made sense. Maybe I should say it again? How about just hooking up with an existing CC.comer some of these dudes seem to get up there all the time and survive some heinous shit (search for recent Hood trip reports from which will shrink your testicals).

Anything worth saying once is certainly worth saying twice.

Anything worth saying once is certainly worth saying twice.

I only went up there like that once in the winter, (back before the weather coverage got good like now and Nixon was still president). Good weather coverage, like now for instance, where they were reporting that PDX would get snow yesterday but that didn't happen). Basically my thoughts are if you can stay on top of the snow (snowshoes or skiis or find an already broken trail), carry extra weight as it relates to better tent, more food, big fluffy sleeping bag, fuel, dress warm, etc etc. Catch that weather window you know you need and you'll be good to go. Oh, my single Rainer winter experience of heading up in that "good" weather window resulted in @ 3-4 feet of snow in the evening and decided (you can't sleep very well in that kind of weather and getting periodically crushed by the snow on the tent), to wuss out. You've been up there 5 times, you know what you are getting into. If it was me, I would have wanted to have been up on my choice of route in later summer to see what was what and work on getting my bearings. I highly suspect that there isn't a chance in hell you'll fall into a crevasse, but I once guessed a slope would not avalanche and was wrong about that too. Another time I almost guessed wrong about the weather on Rainer too, so theres some luck and pluck you will need for sure. I've never really used a GPS although I'm thinking of buying one to facilitate wandering around in the woods. From what I've seen, in whiteout conditions it would be so much supremely better than a compass/altimeter/map bullshit as you are getting frostbite on your cheeks trying to look at the damn things. I wouldn't head up with out feeling like my GPS and I were one, and I had that totally sussed. The good news, however, you'll absolutely have the whole place to yourself.

Oh no! (deer in headlights look), crazed exit for the door...........

Ha Ha! Thanks Bigtree ! You saved me from the embarrassment of publicly and incorrectly guessing King George the third on my 3rd try!

Joblow, it seems to me that it's almost always people like yourself that wind up doing the insane stupid killing things. You ignore facts, bend and rationalize your opinions, do NOT tolerate, understand or study others opinions: you attitude flys in the face of facts. That is, real facts, not the facts you are dreaming of. Thanks Sobo.

Old skool 4 sure.

BTW, I cannnot afford these expensive items yet, although I have bought some for presents - unfortunately, no one has figured out how set the F*ing thing to make it work yet. Drawer candy. Maybe better to just invest in porn. BTW, bought the lad an Altura that has the altimeter, ski run timer, etc etc and HE loves that F*ing thing. Carries it everywhere and ghas for over a year, AND it was only like $68 or something $ (US, real dollars, NOT loonie canadian dollars). Bill

We don't have compass's on the watches WTF ? NE? Why not SW? HAH!???!

Opps, sorry, Margret Thather. Damn, that would have been close. Holy crap, how did I almost miss that one? Whew!

Well Pierre Treudeau DUHHHHH. Well 5 to 7 of course...hmmm I just got back from Vegas, flew both ways. Always fly with your rack. It wasn't an issue, Ujahn heard about the nut tool on the way down, but boarded with it after they looked at the whole rack. You might put that item in the luggage. CArried the ropes too. Shit, you don't want to lose something like that.

I'm kidding Drew. I use to use a friggan' Jumar fer Chirstskes Mr Bigglesworth, and it never cut the rope, course, being a bit of a puss, if it got hard I'd grab it and jam it tight. I once was wandering by the base of a cliff looking for a belay and spotted Wayne1112 using one to TR a 5.11C and he didn't have any backup knots. Course, he's not a puss either....and didn't seem to be working very hard at it either.... Cloves work too. But they all suck IMO. Hey, dude, go get that ASAP and let me borrow it, it really looks like the schizznitz.

Too many words Drew, can you repeat it in maybe a sentence or 2, in somewhat less than 100 words perhaps so I can read it ? BTW, on that rope stretch thing you mention, please explain to Ujahn how he took a 15-20 footer 2 weeks ago when in fact it was because he was a FULL rope length out, a bit of wandering in the pitch, getting ready to step up again, and he was only 5 feet above one of 2 bolts on the pitch, cause I think he thought I was slackin' or yanking off and I wasn't as I generally do not pleasure myself when I'm 900 feet up. The have been some notable exceptions to this of course

Never seen one but it looks great spotly. Says: "Asap® Mobile fall arrester for rope For use on a safety rope. * Stops a fall, slide or uncontrolled descent. * Locks even if the device is grabbed during a fall. * Works on vertical or angled rope. * Moves along the rope without manual intervention (downwards and upwards). * Easy to install and remove at any point on the rope. Certification CE EN 353 2 Technical specifications For 10.5 to 13 mm semi-static ropes (EN 1891 type A) certified with the device. Comes with the OK TRIACT automatic locking carabiner. 350 g + carabiner (77 g) = 427 g. "

I SAW THAT THE LIL BOY SAID HE HAD NAMED THE BEAR "MOHAMMED" BECAUSE THAT WAS HIS NAME.

Same same, it's all the same over there.