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Watch it with that "mouse-eatin" talk, sister!

Good, I'll have to try it then. I would like to do it as a day hike, going out royal basin trail, because that is the easy part and could be done with flashlights. Did you drop down into deception basin between Mystery and Hal Foss? And does that look like a possible day hike?

catbirdseat said: "Masks have also helped save lives. Tigers generally stalk and attack from behind. Human face masks worn on the back of the head confuse them. Several have been seen following people but not pressing an attack. In 1987 when the masks were introduced, 30 were killed, but no-one wearing a mask (Man-eaters and Masks. Cat News 11, 1989, p. 12). Since then it has become compulsory to wear a mask and only one has been attacked from the side. Tiger, tiger, burning bright. " Trask sez: Cornholer - There's nothing I'd like more than for you to dress up in a tiger costume and wander through the woods " catbirdseat said: "The traditional dose of acetazolamide, trask, has been 250 mg b.i.d. More recently, some doctors have been recommending 125 mg b.i.d. Supposedly, it works almost as well at that dose with fewer side effects, such as metallic taste, tingling in the brain, and of course, impotenance. At this dose it makes thinking much easier" trask sez: "That is weird. Last night I had a chicken taco salad at Taco Time (which was pretty damn good, btw), but the big shell is now extra. Fuckers "

We had a great trip up the upper dungeness river last year. We jogged, with packs, up the trail from the royal basin trailhead. Along the way we ran into a troop of boy scouts, who looked behind them, and decided to try to beat our pace. As scout after scout dropped out in exhaustion, we sprinted by their gasping leader. Went past camp handy, and up the no longer existant milk creek way trail. After some bushwacking at its wackiest, we reached the upper milk cr basin, and went up Mt.Fricaba. We wanted to go over one of the upper cols, and down into upper royal basin. Anyone do that? Is there a route that would connect those two drainages without too much difficulty?

Cornholer - There's nothing I'd like more than for you to dress up in a bear costume and wander through the woods during hunting season, you frontal lobe amputee. Hey Trask: Bite Me!!!

What's next, a new "Gay climbers Forum" ??? I'm glad I live in Idaho!

If you pussies are so afraid of wild animals, why don't you just stay in the city?????

I've climbed Mt. Meany. I am sure it is a better climb than Seattle, or Noyes.

Confirmed! Cowpie found on Mars!

So that's what happened. I was in Wenatchee yesterday, at the Chelan Co fire district 1 station, and a helicopter landed to pick up some SAR folks. They said they were heading out to Blewett pass for an avalanche vs snowmobile situation. I never saw anything in the news about it though. Did they get the guy out?

It's easy to say stay out of the mountains when there may be avalanche danger. But really how many of you do that? I go into the mountains whenever I have the time off, or the weather looks ok, or I have a partner pushing me. I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of avalanches through my years of experience, and courses I have taken. But a lot of that knowledge was obtained by sheer good luck. I remember skiing into the Trinity Alps one winter when I was going to HSU. We skied in during a big storm, as set up camp later that evening. In the morning I got up and looked behing the tent, and a giant avalanche had stopped just yards behind us. I never even heard it during the night. And on the ski out, we had to traversed through two giant avalanche debris paths. I was really lucky that weekend, and learned a lot. Too bad that so many young folks like I was, are venturing into the mountains and learning the lessons tragically. I agree that anyone going into the mountains in the winter should take an avalanche course no matter the cost or time commitment.

Who needs transeivers? Hibernate.

Capture this!!

A friend of mine went climbing in Andorra and went up pico de pederos. He and his wife had a great time, said that is the place to visit in Europe.

From the Seattle Times: Search-and-rescue teams are looking for a woman who was buried in an avalanche in the Snow Lake Trail area near Snoqualmie Pass. King County officials said the incident was reported shortly before noon today by someone using a cell phone. The victim was reportedly on the trail just north of Alpental ski area. Because of the avalanche danger and heavy snow, the state Department of Transportation (DOT) has closed Interstate 90 from North Bend to Cle Elum. DOT officials weren't sure when the route would be reopened. The heavy snow and avalanche danger have limited the search effort to highly experienced avalanche patrol units, said Sharon Reig, King County communications center supervisor. At least 13 ski-patrol members and workers with King County Explorer Search and Rescue and Seattle Mountain Rescue, along with two search dogs, are looking for the woman

hate smooth rock!

The matterhorn has an incredible steep face on the west side, overlooking the hurricane creek drainage. On the east side, it is pretty much a walk up from ice lake area, which is accessed from wallowa lake and the west fork wallowa trail. There is not really a north face, unless you are calling the nw corner a face. Also, there really is no peak between matterhorn and sacajawea, just a very high non technical ridge that connects the two. Sacajawea is usually climbed from the east side and thorp creek basin, or from the west. The grade is quite steep going up the west side, but not technical. Only the north wall looks bad. I don't have any info on the west face of the matterhorn though. Looks like a lot of work.

for president

Statistics suck! You can prove anything with statistics. -Homer Simpson

Bill O'Reilly, FAUX news, its really just entertainment for the Wal-Mart crowd.

Bill is sleeping with the right winged camp.

I prefer penguin pops.

I haven't use those, but I have a friend that did and had a bad experience. He was climbing the Emmons on Rainier, and had borrowed some aluminum crampons. Since most routes on Rainier involve rock and snow, the points were quite dull, not offering the security he needed. Coming off the summit at the high bergschrund, around 13,000 he slipped on the ice, no traction from those crampons, and did a graceful swan dive into the crevasse. After some ropework, he was retrieved intact and hiked down. But he said never never use alum.

Toss those pieces of crap

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