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I'm crafty with the machine so I made my own Gore-tex bivy. Got the materials at Seattle Fabrics and put one together. Zips up tight with a hood to stick your head through. Paid $70 for the materials. Looks professional.

Chevy Chase's Fletch and Fletch Lives.

Excellent Work!

McHale all the way! I have 2 McHale packs and I think they are the best packs made. If you are going to complain about the prices, don't even stop by Dan's place. He doesn't make junk! His packs are built to last! ON!

We could have done it in 1 day with an earlier start. The bugs weren't that bad where we bivy'd. Not sure about Peggy's Pond. All in all, Peggy's Pond is the shortest route.

to Squaw Lake (07/27/03). Glasses are a piece of shit but at least I got to put in a thread. If you can describe them (make and model not required), you can have them.

Excellent work CBS! The cat has left the seat. Must be lookin' for a bird.

Saturday we did Daniel via the Lynch Gulch/Lynch Glacier. Left the trailhead at 9:00am and took a healthy break at Peasoup Lake. Was on the Summit at 7:30pm. We bivy'd on the ridge down to Peggy's Pond. The south side from Venus Lake looks do-able. Without looking at a map, where would you start from?

Didn't get a chance to do Sinister when I was in that area in 1997. I would like to get up Agnes Creek someday at do both Agnes and Sinister as well as Gunsight. So many peaks, so little time.

Not too many do it twice.

We actually scrambled up to the summit on the northwest side. The rock was so loose on the lip just before the top. I think that was considered the crux. After rapping down the northeast side, I realized it would have been better climbing up that side instead.

Are you doing the B. Traverse? Funny to ask. (1) 50m rope will do you. Rap of the Northwest side. Loose rock but that is your only choice. You'll need (2) to rap off the Northeast side. Enjoy!

I've done both the May Creek via the Nohokomeen Glacier and Devils Creek via the complete North Ridge. I think the North Ridge is by far a better way to go. The May Creek route is ok to navigate up but coming down it is a bitch. Excellent Mountain to climb. If anyone wants info on it, let me know.

Don't forget Hellmer Hansen (Amundsen's mate), hence "Helly Hansen"

Love to do the 3 with you Coopah but as I say, "Been dThere, done dThat".

" Excellent! I read Scott's Diary also!

If this is a quotes thread than I will add my favorite. "In memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that nature renders, we had reached the naked soul of man." Ernest Shackleton describing the end of the crossing of South Georgia Island, May 20, 1916

I refuse to read his book "Into Thin Air". I met a climber that was on that climb and he he told Krak to leave him out of his book. So there ended up being one less climber stuck at the col. referenced in his book (story).

Two weeks is kind of short for a trip to Washington. You better cut out the Seattle site seeing than. Index, Leavenworth, exit 38, the Gorge if your talking about sport climbing. Alpine Climbing? Pick a mountain and go.............

Yes, Straight forward on the Silver Glacier with a little scramble at the summit. Good Peak to BAG. Better also BAG Custer while your up there!

Weather on the 4th was excellent. We went in on Thursday, summitted on Friday and was out Saturday by noon. You would have made it no problem.

Boy, did I start something, Let's see if I can finish it...........................

I mean i climb with him most of the time. Since my days off have shifted.... it's less of the time. Just rattlin' your cage...........Coop that is.

What do you mean by "he's my most of the time partner"?

On the south side of Sentinel there is a ramp that heads westward up, then scramble to the summit. The snow should run high enough to get you on the ramp. Spire Point has a couple of pitches to climb on the north side. You'll need pro for that. Formidable on the south side is class 3-4. I think I put in 1 piece to make a move. Spider on the south side gully will take pickets and crampons. LeConte is a scramble. Never made it over to Old Guard. Dome is straight forward.