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Nice work Radek, ignore the banter. I would love to meet up with you guys again for some craggin. Drop Josh a line.

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I'm down with that. Do you have a climbing partner or just trolling at the park? PM me or call me at home 389-7153. I'd be interested in some early morning backside or marsupial stuff.

Where did you encounter 45+ degree slopes on the N. Ridge? I've been up there a fair bit and haven't seen anything like that. How far off the ridge were you? I agree that run-out can be a bit un-nerving when it's icy/windy.

More power to ya. Anytime you need a place to stay in Bend look me up. Good times in Vegas.

Can you say "avalanche danger". Timmy give me a call, I may be down for this trip.

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What route are you looking at? Just be really cautious of the West Rib/Milk Creek Gully if it hasn't slid yet. It basically always has a decent size release this time of year when it warms up. If you see some fracture lines up higher and there's no new snow you should be good to go. Last year we went up in May/June and there was 15 feet of avy debris at the base of the gully. What day are you going in? I may be up there as well.

Well put my NBA 1st-round draft pick center/climbing partner. With the weather forecast I feel pretty lucky to be able to climb that thing. Yeah, the visability basically sucked but still a great route. Thanks Ivan for getting us down without taking the Elliot slide. All in all an excellent adventure, the hike out was fucking comical. Trying to keep up with a 6'7" madman rocking out in the rain. Nukified.

Sorry to miss you. We went out to the Marsupials on Sunday to avoid the masses. Place was pretty empty out there. Sounds like you enjoyed yourself and that's all the matters. Nice job on your leads, impressive. Feel free to come down and stay anytime you want to pull on tuff.

Surfing in Mexico. I'll be back on the 14th.

Climb: Hoody-Reid HW Date of Climb: 3/5/2005 Trip Report: Slept in the lot Friday night, arrived at 10:30 pm, woke at up 2:30 and started up the slog. Easy going till the top of the Palmer. Post-holed over to Illumination with only a few people headed up the S. side. Took a break at the saddle to listen for rock/ice fall. My plan was to solo Leuthold's but after dropping down the sadddle the wallowing began. The post-holing was sapping my energy so I cut up early on the Reid HW hoping to cut over to Leuthold's up higher. Crossed the Berg easily and headed up and left. Conditions changed to wind slab so I search out the firm snow/ice. A bit of ice chunder raining down but no rock. Cruised through a really fun ice chute and then realized traversing over to Leuthold's wasn't going to happen. Got a bit off track, had to downclimb some steep neve and then headed up the left-most gully of the HW. Topped out on the rim and rested the aching calves. At this point I was too pooped and it was warming up so I headed down. The whole day I only saw one other party(I think they did the far right side of the HW) on the entire west side of the mountain. A good dozen or so peeps on the S. Side and I passed a couple of parties coming up to the West Crate Rim route. I still got your glove if you read this, couldn't find your car in the lot. Super fun route, lots of variable conditions, didn't expect the post-holing to be so grueling. Bringing the split board up was huge. Rode the groomers down to the car and ran into Letsroll. Big up to Letsroll for hand delivering the PBR to my car. How about a CC.com mud bog in the lower lot? Gear Notes: Ice axe, extra tool, poons helmet for ice bombs need stronger calves Approach Notes: Lots of post-holing, great neve and ice up higher.

Gotta say it just don't get any better than that. Untracked bliss with a beautiful alpine setting, and only 1/2 hour skin from the snowmow. I'm still high from those runs. Thanks to gapertimmy for making it happen, and navigating the sled through wicked bumps. I got home to 2 ice cold buds in the fridge, took me about 10 minutes to pound em in your honor.

THis works great for getting most of the twists out. You need a bit space, I use the block I live on. Run the rope out end to end, have on person hold one end. Clip an atc/belay device right next to the person and then run the device all the way to other end. You will push all the twists out the other end. You'll see the end whipping around long before you get there. Also you have twists going the other way(toward the person holding), this can be taken care of by have the person switch hands or better yet start from the opposite end. I usually do this every month and my ropes run clean after that.

I live in Bend and couldn't disagree with Skeletor more. REI will have a huge impact on smaller outdoor gear stores. How is Redpoint not the perfect climbing store? WHat more are you looking for? Plenty of opportunity of outdoor gear in numerous spots without REI. REI is perfect for Washinghton D.C., not for Central Oregon.

Even with the new snow a 4x4w/clearance shouldn't have a problem. I was camping up there over the weekend and got dumped on, probably 12-15" at around 8000 feet. Good turns to be had on Sat and amazing turns on Sunday. Then we had to slog our way out and find the trail. Split board skin track available for all part-way up Chambers Lakes and up towards the Hayden. Thank god for the burly truck that put the track in up the road. Otherwise my Suby Legy would of had a hard time getting down in the freshiez.

That's the forecast for the Seattle area, we're talking about Bachy. Speaking of, 1" of new! Oh boy.

Where did you get this forecast? Is this the Mt. Bachy super secret radar? Everything I've looked at is higher snow levels, like nothing under 5000 ft. I'm not questioning the almighty GT, just inquiring for my weekend plans. Good to see your still kicking.

I concur on the weekend, perfect temps and lots of sun. A little crowded on Sat. so we headed to the Marsupials and had the place to ourselves. Almost got a sundburn. Sunday it cleared out a bit by noon but the wind picked up. Still like spring out there, but wait it's supposed to be winter. And DFA, the real secret mexi-spot is in Metolius, better know your espanol.

Just punched the road in all the way to the trailhead. NOt to bad but sad that we have that little of snowpack. UP to Pole Creek/Hwy242 junction (about 7 miles in) any AWD vehicle can get in very easily. About mile marker 8 the ruts are anywhere from 6-8 inches but powdery snow. A vehicle with clearance needed to make it to the trailhead proper. Skinning from there. Besides the NE slot all of the routes up on Middle and North Sister look excellent for climbing. Probably ok for riding/skiing but fresh powder on hidden rock=ouch. Go out at get it. Oh yeah,no toilet paper in the bathroom up there.

you deserve it tim.

Bachelor is for sure lacking steeps. Big mountain riding? no way. Being a Bachy pass holder for the past 6 years I would verify it's an awesome mountain for free-riding powder away from people. If your getting caught in the flats on NW it's because you don't know where your going. If you've never had a bluebird powder day on the summit your view is very biased. Launching the cornice can be quite intimidating. Bend is lame? keep your bullshit comments to yourself, I wouldn't live anywhere else right now. mt. biking, skiing/riding/backcountry/ tons of bouldering , Smith Rock. If you consider this boring you might want get outside more often. Back on subject, being a Bachy local I would agree it's not big mountain riding but consistently gets good powder and is rarely over-crowded if you know where to go.

The TH is right off the highway, so it's always open. I'd say about 3.5-4 miles from TH to summit. Lots of blue diamonds too follow up to the PCT.

I've said this before but here goes. Bring a couple of tall boys or a pint of whiskey and bribe a 'biler into giving you a ride to the Wilderness Boundary. It'll work everytime and save you a bunch of time/skinning. Let me know if your looking for a partner.