ken4ord

Well speak of the devil huh fenderfour.

Crampons aren't necessarily required, though I would definitely recomend an ice axe. I was up there two weeks ago and had no problem climbing the gully with sneakers on. The snow was soft enough to kick steps without boots. As for 76 versus Glacier, I have only done the Glacier Basin trail. Glacier Basin trail is pretty staright forward.

If you are talking about that wall you see once you crest Dragontail, yeah I agree that wall looks sweet.

You can also do the rap in two rappels, ie single 50m rope

Hey nice job you guys on that new route. MisterE thanks so much for the use of the poles for the hike out. Luckily no damage except for a some major bruising all over my foot, including my toes. Could have been way worse. Maybe that will have to be the next Dragontail route to add to my list of climb to do.

I am out this week cause of my ankle, but next week I will be up for a ride.

jon-- ya gotta ditch the pink spandex. you're confusing folks! only you and richard simmons where that! Speaking of Richard Simmons, did anyone see Who's Line Is It? Richard Simmons was on the show, damn horny little bugger dry humped all the regulars on the show. It was by far the funniest one I have seen.

Wow, so sorry to hear about that. That's crazy. Glad to hear everybody is ok.

Climb, the forecast isn't that bad.

My doggie wasn't a lad, he was pure bred mutt.

Good Ride last night Slothrop.

Anyone interested in running up Backbone Arete this weekend? Ken

I am going to buy a new stove too, it gonna be the pocket rocket. I have owned XGK and whisper light both are good, but not that light.

Yeah Zoko or as I use to call him at time Zokie was awesome, poor guy is probably not living the same life he use to live when I was around. Ah the mountain bike rides, the climbs, the swimming. A toast to Zoko and all mountain doggies. I agree you T Nolse lab pic is the ultimate in mountain doggie photos.

Bummer about the fires up there those people already have it hard enough.

I went ice climbing with my dog one time and didn't tie him up at the bottom. I thought he would just have fun running around. Well we started up the climb and he followed clawing his way up an easy grade 2 by our standards with ice axes and crampons. I thought he would turn around but he made it up 200 feet to the first belay, he was scared shitless though, you could see it in his eyes. So my girlfriend grab him and tossed him over her shoulder and I lowered the two of them. Zoko was a nut, he could climb 5.5 slab pretty good. I always thought it would be cool to get him a rescue harness and make up some stealth booties to see what he could really do.

I would say sort of like Yosemite ratings little easier than Index. It is sort of hard to tell since it was only two routes in a new area solo. So that may have been partly to blame on the difficulty. The second route I did was a down solo of a 5.0 which felt more like a 5.6 (80degree corner with a hand crack). The rock quality is really good though and same with gear availbility. The town is nice too.

I climbed a very nice 5.6 called Angel's Fright I think it was like 5 pitches. Like someone said sort of stiff ratings down there.

Funny story about the movie. I was trying to tell some co-workers that they should go see the movie. They had this look of disgust and wonder, what a movie called Touching the Boy could be about. They had just heard me wrong.

Oh yeah I forgot Pink Cadillac is still in. Thanks

How is Icy BC looking, is it in?

So true, I remember being out there for three weeks after the first couple weeks I got used to the buzz of rocks flying by.

I was up there on Sunday, thanks for the steps, it made the snow gully much easier in sneaks. BTW you climbed that thing again, I thought you did it last year, just can't get enough choss, eh?

Yo somebody is in a good mood.

Hey Minx I was down there this spring, very cool area tons to do. Given the time of year, definitely go there over J-tree. If you need to borrow some guides I have the Tahquitz and J-tree guides.