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Great shots! Helpful for many route selections.

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I feel your pain brother! Those runnels were a bitch, especially at the hour glass. Those chunks were viscious. And that big old shit you saw, that was Mike's , I could smell that thing from 50 feet You got ballz for goin out there solo, glad you made it back

sweet vid for sure

Climb: Mt. Hood-Sandy Glacier Headwall Date of Climb: 3/12/2004 Trip Report: Pain, Suffering, Haggard, with one hell of a smile! I decided to skip my last day of classes to climb with my buddy Mike on a classic in perfect conditions. Me met at t-line, and were moving by 11:30 p.m. wednesday night. We arrived at the illumination saddle in two hours, right on schedule. The traverse wasn't bad, with no crevasses showing. We then arrived at yocum, and found the traverse with minimal problems. This was lucky considering it was our first time on the route in the dark. We arrived at the base of the Headwall at 5:15, where we brewed-up, and I had some killer spegeeti. Mike continued to puke his brains out for the second time that morning. We began soloing, and covered the first 1200 feet of the headwall in 1 hour. The snow was perfect neve. Thats when things got interesting. Icefall started rocketing down everywhere. Pebbles to 25" t.v. sized blocks of blue ice screaming by whistling this sinister death march. We were taking a serious beating, and realized that if one fo the big ones hit us, its over. We arrived at the hour glass, to find runneled water ice, not neve. Mike soloed it with style, and then set up a belay. Thats when the big icefall occured. A big chunk hit mike in the head, giving him a serious concussion. I took a shot to the hand, crushing it on the tool in high dagger position. We simul-climbed the route to the top as fast as possible on perfect steep neve. We topped out just as the sun hit the wall. The decent took us 5 hours making the round trip time 17 hours. We went to Zig-Zag pizza for some food, when the funniest thing of the trip happened. We walk in looking like beat shit, and sit down. Everyone is looking our way wondering why bums are allowed in the joint. When the waitress asked Mike what he wanted to eat he ordered a 4 person pizza, a hot tea, iced tea, water and lemonade, for himself. She looked at us both not sure if he was joking, was homeless and wanted a shit ton of free food, or was trippin. Classic Route, Cheers Mike! Edited cause if forgot about computers and shit

+ Adrenaline Your circulation will be so f@#king high you will clear the passage ways indefinatly. I am calling it "osmosus circulation intiative", laymans terms beat your body to shit, and make it deal with the consequences In case your wondering I didn't read about that on jackmeoff.com, thats my own personal experience talking

PUMPY

, you've always been a sick bastard, stop trying to show off. Thanks to all you cats out there for making that one hell of a trip in the sun! Props to everyone for everything accomplished, and all the laughs. I would name all the shit that went down, but too many break throughs occured, and too many sphincer clenching jokes were laid down. Nick

Good so far Bomber construction MK3, with a vestibule that rocks for lightweight efficiency Customize your shizza with the mesh inners, and the extra guy points. Vestibule is nice for extended stays.

Early this morning I had a meeting with management of both the gym and rec. services to discuss issues that the community sees as a problem with the current operation of the gym. I was pleasently surprised to find two people with good listening skills, who took my suggestions to heart. It was evident that their goal and underlying purpose is to make the gym a better place for perpituity, which i respect. Hopefully the suggestions that were made will be taken seriously, and the gym will fall into a rhythm in the next few months that will benifit all users on many levels.

Yeah, 20 days left in winter . Lots of stuff must get done in the next 20 days. Time is running out

That looks freakin Sickkkk Nice relaxing day ridge romping

You bet your ass I will be there AAHHHHHH YEAHHHH

Very good points I am going to speak with management about the issues that I see. It is unfortunate though that management needs to be spoken with about something as trivial as customer relations in a climbing gym. People goto climbing gyms to have fun

In the past two weeks myself, and many others have been tossed out of the new gym for "inproper" climbing behavior. When bouldering your feet are not to exceed 3 feet in hieght , unless you have a spotter. If you are in the cave you must have 2 spotters. Doing a dyno, I was thrown out when my feet ended up a few inches above the foot line . I raised hell, so today, I was told I had to retake the belay check to climb. I informed management that it was "bullshit", and subsequently got thrown out again. THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT THE OLD GYM. POOR MANAGEMENT ON A POWER TRIP HAS TAKEN AWAY THE BENIFIT OF THOSE WHO USE THE GYM MOST Well spent money, good job

N E one wanna goto smith this weekend??? Weather is shit everywhere but the banana belt

It has helped me in the winter to navigate back to the truck in the woods. However, do your own flagging if its gonna be done, and then remove them on the way out. Or get a GPS Fuck flaggin in the bush. You aren't gonna see them anyways, so why litter it up??

Yeah, that ski looked freaking cruiser for sure. And all the way to meadows, that must have been like 5000 vertical , nice

Serious . Sounds very relaxing.

for sure Sounds like a good company on a good outing

Don't plant you're axes too deep. sensitivity to energy is a good thing.

Isn't chord center reffering to the center point in a circle, thus the center point of the chord?? Long time since I have heard that term

Nice

Did you put it to use this weekend?? Give me the low down man. How was the trip??