chris

Can you tell us more?

Have you given Yates a call and asked them?

Timmay, please... Who here runs a search for threads less than a week old? Anyone? Buhler? So could the default Date Range on the Search function be new than 7 years, older than 1 day? Instead of newer than 1 week, older than ? I usually use the search for a general subject - only on two occassions have I used it to track down a specific thread. I'm frustrated by having to reset that date range every time I do a search, and this way I wouldn't have to unless I could remember "about" when a thread was posted. What do you think?

Cool. Check your PM's...

Where? I used my best book 'bot and came up empty.

I've been struggling to search for this book online without an ISBN, or to find an ISBN for it online. Can one of you post an ISBN?

I'm one of them. Not to get off topic, but the impact force means everything to me, and Beal's have the best in market.

From the Beal website, http://www.bealplanet.com/portail-2006/index.php?page=duree_vie&lang=us

Its a little tarnished.

How ironic - the public getting upset for the government actually doing something rational. Fact is, Americans perceive paper bills to be more practical (ignoring the cost of production and distribution), so until the $1 bill is eliminated, we'll never have a succesful $1 coin. And our politicians can't even have enough spine to push that through. Personally I've spent a lot of time in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, all of whom have $1 and $2 coins (not bills). It wasn't a problem.

Lillooet is forcasting a high of -4 on Friday!!! Jordop is obviously a "half-empty" kind of guy...

Who regulates the camping? Is there a provincial park ranger station somewhere's? EDIT: Ahhh, the power of Google. After living in Jackson Hole and visiting Mazama a bunch, the rates weren't too rediculous. Just more than what I can afford. If I could justify spending for a little more comfort, I would!

OK, so while I'm sitting here waiting for another draft of my dissertation to print out I flip through the Beckey III book (2nd ed), and on page 224 I notice on the map that a "private jeep road" accesses a lodge on Quiniscoe Lake. Can anyone tell me anything about it?

dude has too much free time

Thanks Paul, Don's link didn't work for me (said "server not found"), but the second link is.

Wow! Not what I had heard - thanks for the link Paul. Sounds like ski cutting is mandatory until we're confident that this 12-18 inches of heavier snow has bonded.

I can't help but notice that while Lillooet is having daytime highs around 5, Pemberton is around 1-2...

Is there an online topo service similar to www.topozone.com for canada, especially bc?

Snbowpack has bonded well to the surface in every report I've heard, which fits a cooling trend. Since the snow has fallen very consistently in the past 72 hours, I wouldn't expect distinct layers to have formed. HOWEVER: I will be looking for windpacking after last nights event, and watching the temperature tomorrow. In my injured state, I'm not supposed to go skiing or lift more than 10 lbs. But I plan on digging a pit near Mt. Baker on Friday, weather permitting. Of course, skis may be the most expedient method to travel to the pit site...

I'm trying to find weather stats for late September on Baker, Shuksan, Boston Basin, and around Mt. Triumph. The forecast models on www.nws.noaa.gov would be fine, but I don't know how to look at past forecasts. Can anyone help?

Thanks everyone, We're chuckling that everyone has assumed that my hesitation to see a MD has been financial. It's not! I'm well insured. In another career (almost seems like another life) I was a paramedic and I hate going to the ER for something that isn't an emergency. Friday was a Unviersity holiday so my regular MD (at the University clinic) wasn't available. Its not a big bulge - probably the size of my thumbprint - but I'm having to reduced it every hour or so that I'm standing up, so I'm probably going to get eval'ed for surgery. Its a simple outpatient procedure, and will only sit me out for a week. Thanks to everyone who posted here and PM'ed me too.

Shouldn't have to verify anything, IMO. If you are on belay, you should be on belay... That said, if you have the time, it's not such a bad idea to wait for acknowledgement. I agree, but all too often I see teams at crags have the following script: The climber reaches the anchor, clips in, and says: "OK, OFF BELAY" "OK, YOUR BELAY IS OFF", his belayer responds, and proceeds to take the rope out of the belay device, or feeds several arm-lengths of slack out and lets go of the rope. A few minutes pass by as the climber unties from the rope, threads it through the anchor, and carefully reties back into the end. "OK, TAKE", the climber calls out. Wait a minute, my internal monkey cries out. Didn't he say "OFF BELAY" a few minutes ago? This new command results in any number of scenarios, some as disastrous as you can imagine. I've watched belayers scramble to suck in slack and re-thread ropes into belay devices. I've witnessed people getting dropped, near dropped, and die. Another reason I get scared climbing at crowded crags.

I found 6mm to small to handle, and have compromised with 7mm static line instead. I rig it like you've described, with the knot on the "skinny" side of the rap ring. So far, I haven't had any problems.

DPS is the shit. I'm doing what he says.

Arc, With the road as damaged as it is, I think it will amazing luck if they get it open in time for a one night ascent. You better get ready for a 7+ day expedition!