Alex_Mineev

I've been there last year in September. It is solid AI2 with overall ice climbing for 4-500 feet. It is protectable. The ice will be very hard since it cools overnight and becomes very cold in the early morning.

Goat. We met her after topping Long John Tower pitch. We chose right-hand variation to save some time and not deal with ropes, but ended up unpacking the rope for just one move that seemed to be too exposed. So, we just topped the pitch when she came from somewhere above, made this look and casually proceeded down the route we just climbed. Oleg and I instinctively squized our heads into shoulders expecting to hear sound of falling goat body. But she was Ok!. Respect! Why she? a minute later her little kid wizzed by us and jumped into the same abyss not even looking around. How do they do it?..

Trip: Stuart - WR Date: 7/28/2007 Trip Report:

what lens / body was used? nicely done

ditto pics are very good sounds like a good outing

no I do not, but Mike has link on his blog to this report: http://www.cascadecrusades.org/SkiMountaineering/rainier/fuhrerfinger/ff2007/ffmay2007.htm

rip doubts

thanks CBS I would say it was not harder than last September...

Burgundy spires Team captain At the col 300ft below the summit Bell and Kangaroo?

here is a distant shot of the massif this Sunday from Silver Star approach (sorry for the size of the image):

MSFT has a group of activists who have deal with RMI and the park. Each MSFT client would throw at least $2k and get a guided climb from RMI. RMI guides these ppl for free, so all the money go to the park. Last time it was about couple dozen ppl who participated in this program. Now, MSFT itself treats these donations as legit and doubles the amount. So in total park gets couple dozen times $4k at least. Not bad IMO.

Ok, I just did not want to create another thread because of a single picture and I guessed that the model might checkout this thread anyways and would find the photo

Some girl climbing Midway on CR

I got good feeling no money can buy I think it's nice seeing some local names in NYT

NY times article http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/sports/othersports/20outdoors.html?_r=1&re

I would not worry about friend being bored I suspect it's him (see this TR): He came back to the car 3 hours before us to have beer. Not sure who had more challenging day

about 10k

what are the rules of using the lookouts? I assume no permits of any kind are required?

Thanks Oleg, that is basically a TR Next time if we go this route again, I would bring the rope but wait with roping up till the real need. I expected more amounts of less stable snow and shittier ice but it was quite the opposite. I regret we did not make more shots of the action, but we were sort of in a hurry for two reasons: Pete was waiting in the car and I had to be in Seattle before midnight (which I barely managed to do).

Trip: Mt Hood - Reid HW Date: 12/31/2006 Trip Report: Words to come, pics first

from the article: "The phone continues to register a signal with the carrier, T-Mobile, though no one has tried to use it, Wampler said." This is a good sign. Phone would turn off within few minutes if the battery gets cold. It's amazing though that the bettery still runs - my cell phone works at max 6-7 days if always on and I do not talk on it.

According to the news video ( http://www.katu.com/news/4905801.html?video=YHI&t=a ) the last phone call was from the north side: The diameter of the circle is 500m

I was thinking about ice, actually. May be Kautz or Edmunds. Trying to scramble some time for WR Stuart, all these dreams )

Goatboys and us were the only ones on the route. Can't extrapolate on other Saturdays.