marylou

My daddy was a most excellent backpacker/Mr. Off Trail Guy. Forestry student, lifetime log scaler, up high/steep crappy scree guy, no ropes. Dad was/is not a "climber", just a guy loking for an elegant line and/or a good adventure. Which probably explains my habits, neither good backpacking/hiking TR fodder, nor climbing TR fodder. Just Chosscades brushy loose fun stuff, with no unusual or extraordinary objective ever. Something in between hiking and climbing, not appreciated by either. The pictures of me, at maybe age seven, are pretty good. But in the end:

There's a lot of new stuff coming out tentwise this coming spring. Now is a good time for closeout, but this spring there's going to be a lot of neat and cool stuff to choose from, and not all of it is stratospherically $$$. There seems to be a new wave of fabric improvements in tent world this year.

Sorry dude, these credentials don't really set you apart. Try to understand this.

That's a gorgeous shot of Colchuck/Aasgard, Tod. Nice to hear the road is open again already. That didn't take long at all.

Well put, Sarcastico!

That's a tough row to hoe, though. Even when there's, say, bombast deserving if a good rousting in Spray, well, sometimes it's a little disproportional, or personal, or just plain ugly, and not at all funny. I see what you are saying Kurt, but you and I both know it gets WAY out of hand in here sometimes.

Um, I thought it was an ice cream sundae so I took a picture of it and then I buried it in the sand. Sorry.

Klenke is stupid uncreative peak bagger check it off the list

Snow fell last weekend Hot wind blew it all away Winter is trying

Matt, I agree with you too, I just didn't want to post because I figured I'd get dogpiled again.

Sage. Like the way the air smells at Smith in the spring.

CBS, you sure about that? Looks like they've been largely redesigned to me.

I picked up a pair of lightly used K2 alpine skis for cheap there for my new Rando setup. Most of what they have is mounted with demo alpine bindings.

Actually, more like stagehand's elbow. I know all the basic things about treating tendon problems, ice compression, elevation. Wondering if a brace (neoprene?) is a good idea, especially when I know it's going to be a very long or heavy work day? I'm generally anti-brace, as I am of the school that braces weaken in the long run, but on those long days I wonder if you think it might help. It's developing in my dominant hand, and I am trying to use the other one for pulling and lifting whenever possible. I'm already doing the Glucosamine thing for my arthritis, wonder if, given my line of work, there are any vits or mins that might bear consideration. TIA Courtenay.

That one's easy. Put skins on skis. Walk uphill. Take off skins. Ski down. The hardest part so far is how much Randonee gear costs. Yow!

1. Continue schooling on snow/avy safety 2. Randonee 101 3. Get rid of about ten pounds of FAT

Spray paint

Hi gang, Fern has a pair of ski boots that I might buy from her, problem is, she lives in Vancounver and I live in Seattle. Postage on ski boots is a bundle, so a little Climber Pony Express would be a big help. If anyone is heading by or through our respective locales, please PM if you would be willing to help us out. Thanks in advance.

My life is absolutely devoid of meaning. Anyone want to chatter?

Timm@y for National Security Advisor Alpine K for Secretary of the Interior, even though he is a tree-killer I'll have to be Secretary of Labor Greg W should probably be our freakish Republican Homeland Security Guy To the Top is Ambassador to Sweden Erden is the guy who heads up the President's Council on Physical Fitness, maybe co-chair with Wayne Jay_B runs the RNC j_b the DNC ...and by the way, yes, as long as there are abusive remarks of a sexual nature being made about me, I will continue to object. If that makes me "negative", well then, so be it.

This could have been such a fun thread, too!!

Dru, not funny.

The Nalgene is the best out there, with a caveat: there is a (handy) lock valve at the bottom of the hydration bag that makes it so you can't "backfill" with a pump. If that is not a problem for you, then gogogo.

Dru, you are killing me!!