kurthicks

check yo e-mail man...

jacket tenatively sold.

nope. otherwise i'll use those to make some spring leashes. going as a set only... edit: Also OR Overboots. 3 denali trips. some field repairs. size XL. $40 Julbo Epic sunglasses. very small size. brand new in box. $50

Tools, screw and picket are tenatively sold.

I've got a lightly used double/half rope (8.6x 60m PMI) that I'd let go for $60 shipped. PM me if you want to talk more.

More to come over the coming days. Grivel Machines, liberty leashes, nearly new cascade picks on tools, nearly new Mixte picks, some dings on the shaft. $225 OBO shipped. BD 13cm express screw. used. no falls. typical cascade rust. $25 shipped. SMC picket. $5 plus shipping

if you plan to do that cleanup some time after rope up, like the next weekend, i'll be happy to contribute.

you better keep the techno so we can get psyched before climbing. someone help the guy out, he's an upstanding gent.

I saw a bunch of helicopters flying up the Icicle today. Lots of searchers seem to be in the field. Best wishes.

The article mentions that the fibers are not fused and therefore do not show evidence of a shockload. I don't know if that is the final word, but that is what the initial examination showed. just sharing another perspective from someone whom I believe.

madsen's chimney in leavenworth?

recovered from climbing Slesse by cragging in leavenworth. fall is here!

some use the "ring string" -- a small loop of 3mm cord tied with a double fishermans a la your prussik cord. girth hitch the piece of spendy metal to the cord and voila!

It might be by the fixed pin just below the roof, above the 5.8ish cracks? I belayed under the roof at a semihanging stance and Chris lead through, finding no challenges. perhaps we belayed at the hardest move. hmmm...

I have some photocopies from an old "summit" magazine or something that describes this area. there is at least one topo of the cragging area in with the text. perhaps I'll dig it out some day and post it here.

duh. look at the descent information.

yea, but the 'fang' is still too small to use comfortably with gloves on. come on BD.

read the recent trip reports for the NE buttress... take LOTS of water as there is none once you leave the old logging road.

here's a classic "my friend said" to add to the rumor mill. She heard it from her friend in YOSAR. Supposedly, the route he was rapping overhung, so he had the end of the rope anchored to the next station, forming a "J" in the rope. he rapped to the bottom of the "J" and was batman-ing up the (static) rope, when he fell before clipping in with the sling to the anchor. the resulting shockload blew his belay loop apart. let's see if that's what ANAM publishes.

it was a fun route and a good time climbing with Chris. Not a bad first route together! with all the beta from this post and steph's tr, everyone should have no troubles at least getting to the trailheads!

Nice work. Chris (512dude) and I climbed it a couple days before and found it similar in nature. the 5.10 climbing is nowhere to be found on the lower headwall. wierd.

I've got a pair of 44.5's that I'll sell you...$275. one denali expedition on them.

Eric, is this a catastrophic failure or are there obvious signs (cracking, deformation, etc) before they fail? Thanks.

go ice cragging on the Eliot glacier.

eldorado was bare rock 2 weeks ago.