Gaper_Jeffy

Here are exercises you can do to train for skiing: 16. Visit your local butcher and pay $30 to sit in the walk-in freezer for a half an hour. Afterwards, burn two $50 dollar bills to warm up. 15. Soak your gloves and store them in the freezer after every use. 14. Fasten a small, wide rubber band around the top half of your head before you go to bed each night. 13. If you wear glasses, begin wearing them with glue smeared on the lenses. 12. Throw away a hundred dollar bill-now. 11. Find the nearest ice rink and walk across the ice 20 times in your ski boots carrying two pairs of skis, accessory bag and poles. Pretend you are looking for your car. Sporadically drop things. 10. Place a small but angular pebble in your shoes, line them with crushed ice, and then tighten a C-clamp around your toes. 9. Buy a new pair of gloves and immediately throw one away. 8. Secure one of your ankles to a bed post and ask a friend to run into you at high speed. 7. Go to McDonald's and insist on paying $8.50 for a hamburger. Be sure you are in the longest line. 6. Clip a lift ticket to the zipper of your jacket and ride a motorcycle fast enough to make the ticket lacerate your face. 5. Drive slowly for five hours - anywhere - as long as it's in a snowstorm and you're following an 18 wheeler. 4. Fill a blender with ice, hit the pulse button and let the spray blast your face. Leave the ice on your face until it melts. Let it drip into your clothes. 3. Dress up in as many clothes as you can and then proceed to take them off because you have to go to the bathroom. 2. Slam your thumb in a car door. Don't go see a doctor. 1. Repeat all of the above every Saturday and Sunday until it's time for the real thing!

I've spent the last 2 wkend on the epic Palmer GLACIER and conditins just keep getting better and BETTTER. Here's from last wkend, 8/28/05: Today, 2005-09-03, it was even more epic: Ann and Andy just back from a 3 week SA ski trip came along 'cause they knew skiing was going to be super great. They weren't disappointed (ha). Lots of people in plot on both days lookin' at all the scenic bs: And if anyone wants to know how fing STELLAR the Zigzag is right now: W00T w00t w00t GO get it bros!

5b is looker's left gully. 3 weeks ago it looked like a deathtrap...

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Put away the skis? Huh?

Many thanks for the report and mucho kudos on the spicey downclimb and getting the face late in the season!

I just realized I'm practically out of Zardoz and I'm probably going to need it this weekend. Which, if any, of the gear stores in PDX sale it? Help!

SKI: Mt Adams-SW Chutes Date of Ski: 6/24/2005 Trip Report: Skied the SW Chutes on Friday in top to bottom perfect corn. The snow ran out at 7000', but other then that, conditions couldn't have been any more perfect. Lou Dawson in Wild Snows says this about this descent, "Indeed, even if you're a skiing atheist, and you manage to carve turns down this amazing line, you might be convinced that, yes, there is a God - and yes, the Supreme Being must be a skier." As expected there's not much snow at lower elevations, but up high it's really quite supringing how much snow there is. Photos: Mt Hood in the morning: Andy: Ann: Looking up at the chutes from the base: Wildflowers next to the South Climb trail: There's a more verbose report here on TAY. Go get them soon! Gear Notes: Dynafits. Tennis shoes.

Then why in the world do you care about weighing more? I'm 155lbs and I'd glady loose another 10lbs. Too bad we can't do some sort of weight swap?

Nice job! I hope you had skis

I always go up the moraine on climber's right (the Eliot east moraine), then quickly cross the snowfield underneath Langille crags (there's rockfall hazard here) and hike up the dome. Look for the use trail on your left once you cross Eliot creek and get into the forest. Here's the GPS map:

Yeah, I hear ya about the telemarkers . . The road to Cloud Cap is fully opened, it opened sometime last week. The "ruts" the USFS receptionist emphasised as bad are pretty minor (imo)

The first pic in this thread isn't recent, it was taken last year. The 10" ruts in the road (taht's sic the USFS), are 10"s wide if even that, they're not a problem at all. The road is in fine shape. Here's photos from yesterday. The northface: Upper sunshine route: There's skiing photos in the Freshieze zone forum.

Climb: Mt Hood-SNOWDOME SNOWDOME SNOWDOME SNOWDOME Date of SKI: 6/19/2005 Trip Report: Pics from yesterday: Ann spooning my tracks in the 2nd Langille Bowl: No one wishing to follow the pattern: With on short carry past the waterfall, we could ski about 5 minutes from the Tline trail. Probably will not go in another week though: Oh yeah, the USFS left me this love note: Finished day with this: Any questions? Gear Notes: DYNAFITS! Approach Notes: Watch out for Sasquatches

Fido can't keep from dropping his name. From his mountainspeedclimbing.org, "Their speed link-up was thoroughly timed by John Waller and others, who was Dan fido's 2003 Mt Hood summit timer. fido and USA Mountain Speed Climbing were responsible connecting Waller and Burrell/Bawkin together. Burrell and Bawkin are distinguished mountain athletes"

Carrie, Sometimes the USFS report is useful: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/recreation/climbing/conditions.shtml

I think the negative reactions to this can, in part, be blamed on Dan fido. Pre fido, speed climbing was something you did for fun. Now post fido it's no longer fun, and no one knows who to believe. I would like to hear more from UTS on how fido pulled-out at the last-minute from assisting on Hood. That's too bad . . .

Anyone have recent photos off Jefferson Park Glacier? If anyone gets any in the next 1 - 2 weeks please post--and yes I'll be bringing skis.

I think there are already organizations like this. In the Portland metro Oregon Humane Soceity has a Technical Animal Rescue group: http://www.oregonhumane.org/telethon/topics.asp#ohstar

Ditto what Iain said. The climbers were Buzz Burell and Peter Bawkin. On Hood they were suppose to be "guided" by Dan fido, however, per Bill Wright, fido came down with a knee injury and wasn't able to guide them. Too bad...

The file doesn't appear to have an extension on Dan's server.

The video is still there, he just changed the URL. you can see it at http://www.mountainspeedclimbing.org/Kel...rSpeedClimb It may help to save it to your computer before viewing it.

But if Kellogg does the climb in that time and then Fido doesn't come thru with the funds, then there will be no doubt Fido is not legit and he's a fraud (wait, are there any doubts now?)

Hey brock, where in Forest Park is Dan training?

Oh look, everytime you write H o w i t t now it turns it to Fido. Funny. I don't know why I care so much about this stuff, I guess I just feel bad for Kellogg. fido goes around slandering Kellogg and aggressively promoting himself to the media as the record holder when he's not. Should I just ignore this stuff?