gapertimmy

i work in the mountains at a ski resort but i run the IT department here so I still ride a computer most of the day, but beats the HELL out of working at msft (sorry softies)

you are the ubb god jonny! all hail the keeper of the boards! have you fixed your server at work yet ? tee hee

if you go up clouds rest, i'd reccomend a bivy on top, not because you have to, but just because the view is so amazing. out of my 3 mos spent down there, the night i spent on clouds rest was one of the most memorable experiences.

i'm working bastards!

the asian prince is perhaps the best belayer i've ever had. always complimenting me on my form, and reminding me to keep my ass close to the wall. he'd say "make the move my brutha, you KNOW i've got your back" he's just a swell guy, what can i say?!

try the asian prince, he kicks ass http://www.geocities.com/asianprince213/

I've heard there is a cave where kind folks can go and hang out on bachelor, i'm dyin to know where it is, anyone know?

I'm a major advocate of any type of nakedness in the outdoors. As my tree humping picture shows, I enjoy getting intamite with the woods. The best 'dippin i've done is in the Yosemite backcountry after long days of working/hiking. The water is cold as hell but being able to sun dry yourself and granite is so very plab.

will... i'll meet up with you in P-town for the carpool

did either of you capture the illustrious Judd on film? That would make a quality pic for the front page . Thanks for posting, this was a great story -Tim

you need not look further than the gent from Bellevue who attempted to do the sisters traverse in a day from the south solo. he was due back on Sunday, and they are still looking for him. goes to show that even routes that are farily non-technical can be a major endeavour when solo. a sprained ankle could be your demise if you are deep enough in the wilderness (and near the canadain border grrrrrrizzzlllayyy)

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perhaps we could form a militia of climbers armed with ice tools and bottles of coors to patrol the suspect areas....

I think he was hiking from the devils lake TH and was going to go up s. m. and north in a one-day traverse. He was supposed to show up at Lava Camp TH sunday night at 9PM and his father was going to pick him up but he never arrived. He doesn't have a bag or any overnight gear... http://bend.com/forums2/article_view.php?num=266&aid=1929

Chinook is a very capable dog and I truly belive I can train his nose to smell out the human excrement know as 'spray' on this site. I love the campground analogy, that is so very true, and very ironic how it has come back to spray. You know though, life is just a big spray circle... we are brought into the world at birth with our parents spraying about how cute we are, and in the end people gather around a grave and spray about our lives. Besides in the end, it doesn't matter who cimbed the hardest, its who sprayed the most that really counts ------------------ just can't sit, gotta get jiggy wit it tcrawford@mtbachelor.com

maybe i can train my dog to not only eat human poop, but somehow he can also learn how to remove the spary from the boards, cuz in order to fully remove spray from this site would require a whole lotta time which i just don't got. Thanks for your post though I wish I could make every thread super meaningful beta, but then again, is climbing always filled with super-meaningful events? oops... i did it again, i'm spraying

perhaps i should go to pope's confessional, but i rented it this past weekend, i just couldn't resist i'm a sinner

s. sister got some new this weekend, and the south sloggit ridge is covered with fweshies. i don't know how long it will last but thought i'd letcha know ------------------ just can't sit, gotta get jiggy wit it tcrawford@mtbachelor.com

Speaking of turds, I've been meaning to bring up an important topic that concerns all cascadeclimbers: Fecal Accumulation on Trade Routes Mr. Pope's story reminds myself and I'm sure many others of the countless brown ones we encounter while in the backcountry. Poop happens, and it is evident by the piles of mr hankey's that pop up in the least expected corner of the backcountry. I swear that I would be able to easily navigate my way up routes such as the DC, emmons, and Adams S spur, soley using my nose and its built in turd sensory equipment. I have spent many nights in my sack, considering ways to encourage people to pack out their turds, or somehow remove these greasers from our alpine playgrounds.... I thought that "poop tubes" used by some people in yosemite (PVC pipe) may be the answer, but in our ounce shaving hobby, this is not an option... and then one night it hit me! The Means to Removing the shit from our Ends chubnook, man's best feces removing friend I was eating dinner at my folks house in suburbia, and i gazed into the backyard to see my girlfriends dog foraging around. He looked up at me, and to my dismay, he had a fresh brown one hanging out of his mouth. It wasn't his, rather it was a landmine left by my parents dog sophie. I was delighted with amusment, and my mom was really bummed out. At first, I thought it might have just been a phase... but then came the evening when chinook came in from the back yard, and Becky said "Chinook has yellow stuff all over his coat" too our dismay, he had been shit wrastlin with himself in the backyard, that sucked. Then I thought it was a curse when I was crashing at a snow park in southern WA, and chinook found some truckers churned chilli behind a tree and had a feast... the feces chub fest continued... in the olympics... on south sister... his appetite could NOT BE QUENCHED. Thus I have in a cage at home, the answer to all backcountry terd related problems, that answer is Chinook. I am going to make chinook available to rent on climbing trips. Not only will he remove all your fecal matter, but he also can carry a 35lb pack (eg case of keystone light). Act now, weekend reservations are filling up quickly! the master of the turd chubber- timmy [This message has been edited by tim (edited 06-04-2001).]

what about this... if a skier gets lost down here at mt. bachelor, they are automatically billed 1k an hour for the rescue efforts and that rescue would probably only involve some ski patrol dudes and no chinook choppers! hmmm, interesting. I'm not really for or against public funding of rescues, I just get upset when rescuers get seriously injured or killed during a rescue effort. when i was in yosemite, i thought it was facinating to watch climbers get plucked of the nose for whatever reason by rescue crews, and i know the rangers love going for rides in the choppers down there! touchy topic for sure! The fellas are very very lucky that they were scaling a peak where such a talented crew of rescuers and choppers were available to come to the aid!

there was also an article in outside mag where some journalists attempted to climb ski i believe hood, adams, helens, and rainier in four days. i think the failed miserably though... and the "ski" of rainier was only from muir down, cheaters

I don't know of any web cams from my side that show s. sister, we only have 2 pointed at bachelor itself... maybe I can aim it at sister for the summer

tt- Jon and I were on the South sister this saturday and the snow isn't looking very good, and what is there is going quickly. The cascade lakes highway opened up last week, so access is fine, but the forest service is in full force with their trailpass ticket books in hand i suggest stoping at mountain supply in bend and getting a no trail fees sticker to piss em off. Anyhow, Jon and I were sloggin up the hill (s. side dog route) with chinook the wundermutt, and there is minimal snow until you hit moraine lake, from there, the snow is melting quick on the table, and likewise on the ridge to the summit. We spoke with some folks that skied it this past saturday and said the turns were cruddy at top, ok in the middle, and cruddy at the bottom, real thick heavy cascade cement. His comment was he wished the snow was the same as this time last year, but with this year's sunny weather... i guess that about sums it up! bachelor is closed as of memorial day weekend... you can see the dwinidling snow pack at the web cam www.mtbachelor.com. we recieved a trace up here at bachelor last night, but nothing that will help with the snowpack conditions on s. sister :< Sooo, unless you are planning on skiing the glaciers on the sisters, you might want to rethink your plans! Let me know if you decide to come down though, I'd love to tag along on any adventures, and if you need a place to crash, the unabomber shack is always open! cheers timmy ps- I have a view of South sister from my window here at bachelor, so I could give you an up the minute update if needed... sorry I had to brag, but i have a sweet view from here! i'm trying to get a webcam setup from my window, but getting a private ip punched through to the isp is a bit tedious here. [This message has been edited by tim (edited 05-29-2001).]

We got a couple of inches of new at bachelor yesterday, but it has already melted off the roads, and is rapidly coming off the hill as well. Its starting to get rather warm, and I would come prepared for some sloggin! -timmy

Capt.Hoser I think you're just jealous to still be working at msft :razz: although i did just pick up some nice pink spandex while shopping for my alter-ego superhero Microsoft outfit, captain xp... well thats a different story. But the pinkies might go over well at smith eh? my job at microsoft female report on my recent trip this weekend to bachelor, i encountered an alarming number of alpine honiez pullin beer at the mountain and renting skis out. i was unable to make contact with any of the specimens due to my girlfriend hampering furhter research. once i do conduct research of these speciwomen, i will be opening up a new subsite called alpineviexens.cascadeclimbers.com... due to launch in 4Q 2000. Stay tuned for furhter press releases. hot liquid magma i think having active bulging magma filled earth crust near my house is exciting. plus it makes you realize that you need to climb the peaks of oregon before they all blow up. heck, the bulge can't be as bad as the highly active mammoth mountain in california where hundreds of acres of trees are killed by gaseous fumes rising from deep within the earth... very cool. i can see it now, the big bulge will burst just as rocket man floats into the atmosphere... only in oregon!! BUT, I will gladly trade the risk of a volcanic episode to sitting in traffic on I5, 405, and 90 ANY day of the week i'll post an mpg of my morning commute sometime next week, hee hee seriosuly though if you guys want to come crash at the unabombah shiznacky you're more than welcome. You may leave reaking of old shag carpet fust, but you will have a belly full of black butte porter, mmmm [This message has been edited by tim (edited 05-10-2001).]