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I had the pleasure of seeing one of Ed's slideshows in a small setting and talking to him and regardless of how fe cells he has left, still a smart and nice guy! Pretty bad ass climber as well

Isn't primal scream that blue tape route in the gym that every gumby starts to shriek about after grabbing the orange pusher crimp!?

too bad neither of you guys are up for just a day trip on sunday......or are you..?

sounds good, have fun out there and post a TR!

When I was in china we ran down this mountain probably about 2 miles of pretty steep trail. I seriously had trouble walking for two days. As everybody else has said, it's killer on your muscles, and I think slowing down immediately also has something to do with it.

Under the Red Flag by Ha Jin

A few pictures are up from the climb of persis, but also check out the bouldering section, I put up some pics from my trip to bishop with Erik.

I'd be up for something on sunday if possible. I can leave seattle anytime after 4pm saturday, not sure if that works for you, and I would have to be back by sunday night. uber alpine start, super lightweight? Kind of a tight schedule, but let me know if that works. Erik said north buttress of colchuck is a good climb.

arcteryx bora 30 ($70) for day trips, dana design glacier ($180) for long trips

I wish I could climb 12c .......

I just got the single pattern

yeah have you used it?

just blew all my money on a much needed 9.6x60 dry!

what material is it made of? how much does it weigh?

oxygen is aid

sounds shitty

was thinking more along the lines of amber

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I'm just building up my resistence to hypothermia. I figure if I get it enough times, then eventually I will either become completely hypothermic and never have to worry about it, or it'll just feel nice and cool. Currently training to be strongest hypothermic person.

Yeah but those numbers are terrible, did you see how many people they asked???? 602 How to manipulate statistics. I find it hard to take a survey seriously that is supposed to give a cross section of a nation of 200+million people when they only poll 602. IMHO

yeah, it ended up only being a squirel, but when we were on the summit I think those little were eyeing the

In the Gear Critic forum: Trask: I think that's a great idea. Thanks Tim. Allot of people around here are assholes and screw around with everybody's posts. I'm tired of that childish behavior, so your new gear review idea is the bomb.

22march, 2003: Well no one else wanetd to go out in the storm except for Leejams, so we decided on persis because of the no avvy hazard factor. Went up to the west ridge, and the first 1/3 of the climb was simply on the climbers trail. Had snow for the last two thirds of the climb, some of it was pretty deep going in well up to your thighs, but since the storm was blowing so hard, most of the loose snow near the top was crustrific. Got up to the summit and simply could not see more than a few hundred yards in any direction. The descent was where it got really interesting. During the duration of the climb the wind has been blowing very consistently with gusts up to around 60. It started to snow when we left the summit which turned into a nasty frozen rain. A little below the summit we heard a loud crack, and realized it was lightning. We figured it was a freak occurence and kept going down. The sleet started to pick up and the gusts were around 70 (Lee has been in 100mph winds and said that what we were in felt about the same!). We stopped for a minute and there was a huge flash directly above is followed immediately by a couple large cracking sounds. So since we were extremely close to the lightning, we stayed in the trees and started to run down the ridge, we got down about 100 yards and found a tree that had this streak of bark just shattered off of one side, and all the bark was lying around. Took a picture because how often do you get to see freshly struck trees? Made it back down to the car, and there was sun everywhere!? We had spent a good 4.5 hours in dense clouds with snow and high winds, and here we were ready to get a tan. Climb was a great little conditioning trip, not difficult, but was fairly fun being in snow most of the time. Good half day trip, didn't need any gear besides some warm boots and good windproof apparel! -Luke Have some cool pics that will be up in a few days.

kind of last minute, but does anyone want to go out with the storm and climb something alpine on saturday? all this rockclimbing with minimal scenery and adventure is getting old. I thought about "attempting" del campo a few weeks ago, no clue at all how that would be during the winter, probably a really bad idea. Anyway PM please in need of some alpine climbing.

well it looks like saturday isn't going to be the day to go anymore.....anyone going to be in 11worth on sunday?