COL._Von_Spanker

Maybe all you non-seattle pub club complainers should take a lesson from the Bellingham pub club and choose another night, then you can see whom all the real hard core drinkers are.

I always gettem mixed up. I fixed it in the tr.

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Sperry Peak Circumnavigation TR. Matt P and myself departed Saturday morning, 5:00 AM, from the park and ride on 145th for Sperry Peak. Sperry peak is a mountain between Seattle and Canada and lies in close proximity to mountain loop highway and vesper peak. We found the road to be clear enough of snow to make it to the vesper peak/ headlee pass trail head. There was some questionable scraping that nearly thwarted our attempt to drive more walk less but the subaru prevailed and I still have my muffler. The hiking began on a snow free trail for about a mile until we reach the first clearing, at which point we abandoned the trail to drainage our way up to the north face. The clearing was covered with enough snow to hide all the holes but not enough to cover the brush, which was a chore but manageable. Making our way up the drainage towards the NF, we had to decide which of the many sub-drainages to take to get up to base of the route. Opting for what looked like the most direct route we found ourselves on some crappy slush with lots of running water. At the going got a little steeper some small steps slowed me down some though matt managed to wallow his way up with east, we through in a quick belay, at one tricky section, which was to become the only "technical" climbing of the day At the base of the NF we found the conditions to be similar to what we saw below, slushy and rather wet, which we decided would be an interesting wallow-fest, but not for us that day. Though it's definately a worthy route, and I plan on going back. So continuing around the mountain we got in some good exercise and even tossed in a rappel to access the glacier below Vesper. Once at the saddle between Vesper and Sperry, the summit of vesper seemed so close, and the weather was so great we just had to get to the top. I thought I saw tracks along the ridge so it was even more inviting, though the tracks were merely a mirage. 30 minutes after leaving the col we were on the top trying to figure out where everything was. I think I asked "what's that mountain and where is XXX" about 100 times, but it didn't seem to bother Matt much. After soaking up the view for a while we headed on down to Hadlee pass and on to the car, hiking the last sections on the trail by headlamp. We stopped for dinner and coffee in Verlot, not bad fare when you are hungry enough. Though I ordered breakfast and they wouldn't poach my eggs and they didn't have sausage even though it was on the menu. Matt: Feel free to add anything that I may have overlooked.

The same rules don't apply for international business. For example, La Sportiva Europe and La Sportiva America are two distinctly different companies, though they share a name. So when La Sportiva america see's it's customers buying from european companies who buy from La Sportiva Europe they see loss of business. That is why if you buy lasportiva's in europe the warranty isn't covered in the states.

Alpental Ice; good place to go on the way back from something else. Frenchmans Choss pile can be fun when it's cold snd shitty in seattle and in the 70's there, but for the most part I don't really get a huge kick out of climbing there. Things I like: Mt's everywhere, lots of adventure to be had. You can see the mountains all the time so they're there to reming you what you could/should be doing. There's stuff for all skill levels.

There is great touring around baker, though as I'm sure you are well aware, it is avalanche territory. A hike up hemispheres and then out to shuksan arm can be nice, and like mr natural said table mt is good. I may just drop da scrilla and mob da lifts cash-money style

They have recently updated the site to have sections for your location, which they didn't used to have, they just had a currency converter. It probably recognized your IP address, or has some sort of cookie. You can probably delete the cookie, though in the end you'll robably be charged the same.

Damn, I'm leaving on Feb 2nd. I'm only gonna be there thursday night through sunday night, but I figure I can squeeze a little bit 'o' climbin' in.

I don't know if I can swing that. Any of your friends willing to take a cascade wanker under their wing?

For all those who might not know vegas is near red rock canyon

Join the ham-bone contingency for some beers, and what not. A poll on the previous thread was discussing boundary bay as a possible destination, though I think the Beaver was starting to jump ahead.

In case anyone cares, they have $4, 32oz beers (micros too) across the street at the sloop in case you need a little pre/post pub club priming. Lockspot: 3005 N.W. 54th Street Seattle WA The address is sort of deceiving, if you go down market through ballard it's just past stone gardens, right at the ballard locks.

I climbed some ice near source lake weekend before last. It was fun.

That area is know as RAP wall.

Hmmm, interesting concept. Trask did get rather offended when I made a joke on his thread about Mike joining back up; deleting his posts and what not. So how did trask know that Mike was joining up again in the first place?

Since most of you losers are online and own computers, I have to ask; Does anyone Medal of Honor Allied Assault? Adult gamer geeks unite.

Here is a photo from a similar boealps (or mounties) day. We were the first on the top (thankfully)using a running belay of about 2 pickets. There were 3 times more people than you see in the photo

Regarding the sportivas: The synthetics will not keep your feet dry if it starts to get wet. This can be attributed to a number of factors. One, erywhere there is stitching there is a place for water to penetrate. Two; washington is wet a hell. I have the trango s' and they get wet. I'm not sure how to combat this as snowseals not the greatest on synthetic and fabrics. Sometimes I wish they were more like standard leather that I could put a normal waterproof coating of snowseal on before each trip.

I postholed and wallowed in snow for 12 hours.

Yes there are many. Any Takers? BTW, I thought David Parker has suggested the New Orleans?

If you go to boundary be sure to wear your carhartts and mountainsmith fanny pack.

For once I agree with you. But a good system is BB for happy hour (4-6, $2 pints) and then of to 'the beav'. Though I know I wont make it up before 6. So my new amended system is to stop at the skagit brewery and fill up my nalgene and drink it on the way. I'll start a b-ham pub club thread.

I'm going to vegas at the end of the month. Anyone want to climb there? Or know anyone that wants to climb there?

It's not our fault you live in tacoma/sno-ho. And if blue collar is your argument, than I can assure you that there are plenty of places in seattle that could be classified as blue collar or Whiskey Tango. I gotta go change my depends.