cracked

Sure, but you're carrying the helicopter this time!

I'm happy with my down sleeping bag, but I've gotten my synthetic jackets wet several times in truly bad weather. I won't use a down jacket in the Cascades, you can't use them as outerwear when it's sleeting, for example.

I really don't have anything against bouldering, but the online chestbeating gets old. We know how kewl you are by now.

Of course, they discontinued them.

Oh, Ingall's Lake.

Just go to the snopark sledhead area, choose a trail that goes in the correct general direction, and head towards the mountain, and you'll be fine.

The mountains in winter. Smith when nobody's around. It's especially nice in January. I like going back and doing some of the ski tours that I did as a kid (hehe), brings back good memories. Places like Maxwell Butte and Black Butte in OR.

I think it's funny that people summit Adams in the summer and expect solitude and quiet.

golite Six Month Night. Get em on sale for 80 bucks or so, weigh as much as a DAS and warmer.

To be able to lash a foam pad using compression straps requires REALLY LONG straps. Long enough that they get in the way when you don't have a pad in there. I originally made mine long, but they got in the way, so I cut them down. Just have an 'extender' loop, like you say, of parachute cord.

woot!

w00t!

Might as well just chat right here!

It's not WOOT, it's w00t. Hello!

Immature reckless dangerous decking soloists.

I think you told us about this before. The store that starts with an 'm' and ends with a 'mot'? Do the returned items still have the tags on them? If so, I don't have a problem with it, I believe that FF does the same.

My God, that's something like ten miles one way. Wow.

From where did you approach? I'm only familiar with the Long's pass trail.

Maybe they were out of miox pens? OMG!

Holy shit!

I feel much more anxious watching someone who doesn't know what they're doing bumble up a well-bolted sport route than to watch a good climber solo something that they are obviously comfortable. If I see someone who I don't want to carry out around, I leave, wether they are a soloist or just a gumby with a rope.

offensive

Where is the GPS trail?

But I don't want to help you hobble down that gnarly trail.

I want to see justin and alpinfox battle it out. Like watching two s brawl. There is irony in justin's stance that nobody here realizes. Hey Justin, fergit about these losers, let's go skiing!