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It has got to be sailing.

I agree that what Beck is planning is worthwhile, it is different from what a lot of people are looking for in Rope Up. There ought to be two separate events on different weekends so that people could go to both if they wished. Sometimes you don't mind structure and other times you just want to party. I think the sponsored even ought to be much earlier in the season, such as early September and the unsponsored event at the original October time slot. Spring might even be a better time for the sponsored event with gear demos, because that is when people are in a "buying mood" anyway.

Mary, Welcome to alpine climbing! I'm pretty sure that you will need to get a more comfortable pair of shoes for long alpine climbins such as Dreamer. They can't be two sizes too small the way many sport climbers wear them. You need to be comfortable for several hours. The ones you have are fine for cragging where you can slip them off between climbs, but they are going to kill your feet if you keep wearing them in the mountains.

Who wrote that TR anyway. Whoever it was is a professional. That is quality writing.

Yes, but Charlie has already found a buyer. I ended up buying a 1988 Acura Integra for $1000. It runs good and I should be able to sell it easily unless I give it to my son.

I've rebuilt my totalled truck, but I can't get it insured before the State Patrol inspects it and they can't do that until Sept. 4. In the mean time I need wheels. Does anyone have an old car they aren't using that they would like to rent for a month for cheap?

My feeling is I don't ever want to be without my altimeter. GPS is good but not a replacement. My altimeter is analog and doesn't require batteries. It always works.

So is someone going to tell the story associated with the carcass photo? It appears to have been skinned.

DPS, why is you location given as Issaquah? That's not where you live or work. How's the house project coming along?

Mention of Larry the Tool in the Fall Rope Up thread led me to dredge up this old thread. I have some questions about Larry. Seems to me that almost all of the complaints with the exception of MattP's are related to failure to display a valid parking permit. There was one in another thread where he hassled two guys coming off Stuart for drinking beer. Has the Tool been sighted this year? Has he hassled people for reasons other than Fee Demo violations at trailhead parking lots? Has anyone been hassled at road side crag parking? Has anyone been hassled for avoiding Snow Creek Parking lot by parking down the street for Careno and Purina Crag access? Has anyone been hassled for failure to carry a Wilderness Backcountry Permit? Has Larry ever set foot in the backcountry? I think it hightly unlikely.

I think that we should do some informal trail maintenance as well as the official FS kind. A trail is a trail. People are going to use it, it might as well be well-built to reduce erosion. The FS is never going to sanction the informal trails to the crags. To do so would mean they are responsible for them and they can't afford it. As long as no one tells them, we can do as we please. I think someone has done a marvelous job on the trails at Castle Rock. That is what we should emulate at Careno Crags.

Anyone up for a chat tonight. Now.

One steel tank left for free and one regulator (ScubaPro) for $10.

As we were hiking up the Emmons Glacier, one of the guys on my rope team looks up and says, "Hey, I see another rope team coming down". I thought, WTF, we were the first team out of camp that morning. I can't be. I looked up and said, "Dude, it's just Mars". "Oh, duh". The planet was just above the skyline of Rainier and it was as bright as I'd ever seen it.

Iain packs as much thought as anyone can into a single sentence. As long as the post doesn't exceed one line, he's golden.

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger, Danger. Loose daisychain. Secure it.

Beck, tell us more about the trail project. I'm into that kind of thing. Are we talking about FS trails or unofficial climber's trails to various crags? Is it one trail or several?

Congratulations all three of you. Wayne, now I am really, really looking forward to your upcoming slideshow. I can't wait.

Doc, what's there to get? Maybe some of us don't want to get it. I find myself siding with Fairweather on this issue. Oh the horror, the horror.

Timmy's not telling. It's one of those things where if you have to ask, you'll never understand.

The weight belts are gone.

710 am. The Dori Monson Show.

Having seen the topography with my own eyes, I can better understand the predicament that Mountaineer party was in last month. They were trapped in that saddle with the wind howling like a banshee and threatening to blow them into the bergschrund. The snow bridge is small and it is understandable how it might be hard to find in really bad visibility. If you run along the schrund blindly, you actually have to go back uphill to reach the bridge, which would be quite counterintuitive. They may have stopped just short of reaching it.

Nice TR. June is a far better month to climb the Corkscrew. The glacier is simpler to cross, although, the river can be a problem then. Choose your poison.

That leaves Cascade Crags in Everett and Pro Mountain Sports in Seattle. Give them your business folks!