Gaper_Jeffy
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Did he bring a dog with him for verification?
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Here's my speculation. The mistake this party made was this: Instead of staying at home and sitting in front of their computers pontificating on Internet forums like babbling idiots about things they have absolutely no clue about, they actually went climbing. That was their mistake. They should have just stayed at home, sprayed on Internet forums, and criticized others with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight.
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Going to bed.
I'm a Troll? I searched, and this means I am an uneducated lurker.
I grew up in a spot so remote, we had a Scout Camp on my Farm.
I would go out with what I could carry for a month at a time over summer breaks. We'd have to look for squirrels and rabbits to eat (Hard to find in the wild, but not in the suburbs).
I've even made Turtle soup many times, and eaten Brain sandwhiches more than I'd want to admit. GroundHog and Raccoon are the worst, too much fat and Grease. I called it at Possum, I won't eat that stupid ass tree climber.
I do live to eat acorns, but you have to leach(soak) them in water for a wek first, as they have tanic acid that will shut down your digestive system.
I LOVED going out in snow waist deep, and building a snow cave to sleep in. We used to build a fire, get the snow to start to melt, then put it out to freeze into an ice dome on the first night.
I did this all the time from grade school, thru high school, and kept doing this thru college. Started doing again as a father of 2 boy scouts now living in the subburbs.
So F!ck you if you think I'm a poser. I've made more than my fair share of traps, and gutted and skinned and preserved plenty of pelts. Pour that salt down the RacoonTail.
I also used to turn in the Groundhogs ears for 50 cents. I bought another box of 50 .22 shells with that 50 cents for the bounty every week.
If I hadn't met and married my wife, and had my 2 boys, I'd hang all the time above the treeline.
OMG - this is one of the most unintentionally hilarious posts I have ever read. Thank you ShiniGami for the humor in light of such a bad situation. You're like Borat for CascadeClimbers.
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Here's an interesting Mt Hood story from 1976 that I had never heard before. It involves a party of 3 who spent 13 days in a snow cave on Mt Hood and were almost written off as deceased:
Oregonian: Survivor of '76: If we made it, they can too
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Anyone check the telemtrys this morning? It went absolutely nuts on the mtn last night. MHM's telemetry shows 2.3"s of liquid precip since 8pm. That equates to 23+"s of snow up high. The temps were very warm, so the precip fell as rain in the parking lots, but up high it would be wet heavy snow. I'm sure the avy danger has to be even more insane then it has been the past few days.
http://www.nwac.us/~nwac/products/OSOMHM
http://www.nwac.us/~nwac/products/OSOTML
My friends tell me when I post excessively about storms (which I always do in a skiing context), I jinix them. I'm hoping I can do so now.
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Sorry for the thread drift, but I really want to respond to this as I just spent a bunch of time Googling PLBs and MLUs.
I presume a MLU is the same as one of these things called a Personal Locator Unit selling for $599 US:No an MLU is not the same as a PLB. The PLB communicates with a networks of satellites and will work anywhere in the world. An MLU sends out a terrestrial signal that can be picked up by an MLU receiver. Googling MLUs, I actually found a post here from PMR Iain describing the differences:
Land-based PLBs are becoming available in the lower 48 states (perhaps specifically the PNW?) after a pilot program in Alaska proved to be successful. They are very similar to the EPIRBs used on ships. Once activated, they are spotted by satellites and a location (if a GPS unit is attached or incorporated, otherwise it uses the frequency to triangulate) is transmitted to Langley, Virginia. They in turn contact local SAR resources to go find the beacon. They have coordinates to find the thing, but the beacon also transmits on the standard ELT freq. long used in aviation to find downed aircraft, so you can find them that way too. They will be pretty expensive for awhile yet. Some SAR groups are starting to train with them now, but I've yet to see one in the Oregon mtn rescue community. The "Mt Hood Locator" is still in use, but it is much more simple, using basically a bear collar system. It still works well, and was in fact used this January to pinpoint a lost group near the summit of Mt. Hood.The rescue Iain is referring to in January 2003 I believe was a party of Mazamas who not only had a MLU, but had multiple cell phones and GPSes and were on the southside of the mtn where there is cell reception. If the Mazamas were on the northside, they probably wouldn't have been able to use their cell phones to request a rescue, so it would have taken longer before anyone went looking for their MLU signal:
http://www.pmru.org/pressroom/headlines/hoodstranded011203.html
Again, sorry for the thread drift. It was the Oregonian who brought the MLU subject up.
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The locators are a *@#$% farce. The press will be all over this. Of course if you can not get in range they do not doing one @#$% piece of good. Let alone people on the hill to help. They naturally fail to mentioned this little fact.
SS,
Can you clarify what you mean by them being a "farce." I am assuming you are speaking of the mountain locator units??
They have been used in the past on the mountain and signals have been picked up from the summit at Timberline Lodge.
Here's one story that shows they didn't work when needed from 1997:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64622192.html
I have no experience with MLUs; I've never rented one, and I can't think of one person I know who does rent them. However, everyone I know has a cell phone.
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OregonLive has a story up about how Mountain Locator Units would have helped locate the climbers. What ran thru my mind when I read that was this: if the powers that be would provide decent cell phone coverage to the north and east sides of Mt Hood--like 99% of the US has--that would have provided equivalent, if not more, assistance to rescuers than an MLU. The cell phone is one of the most common electronic devices, so why can't the most climbed glaciated peak in the US get decent cell phone coverage on all sides and on all networks and bands? Someone should go ask the Tmobile spokesman that.
Anyhoo, sorry for the slight rant.
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Why is it that in 2006 the north and east sides of Mt Hood do not have better cell phone coverage?
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This thread needs some porn. This is from the Wyeast on 5/14, a day after your trip.
Porn:
Nap time:
Skied out all the way to HRM. Fun day.
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Great photos again. But jesus christ, don't you guys ever have to work?
PS: I once tried to make that logo my avatar on TTips but Mitch removed it.
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I'm having menstrual pain.
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SEATTLE - A man has pleaded guilty to trespassing in connection with a fatal horse-sex case.
James Michael Tait, 54, of Enumclaw, was accused of entering a barn without the owner's permission. Tait admitted to officers that he entered a neighboring barn last July with friend Kenneth Pinyan to have sex with a horse, charging papers said. Tait was videotaping the episode when Pinyan suffered internal injuries that led to his death.
Tait pleaded guilty Tuesday and was given a one-year suspended sentence, a $300 fine, and ordered to perform eight hours of community service and have no contact with the neighbors.
The prosecutor's office said no animal cruelty charges were filed because there was no evidence of injury to the horses.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051201/ap_on_fe_st/wa_bestiality
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Hehe. You're welcome to send that.
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Tell her you're a Telemarker with a large collection of kneepads.
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So who has emailed her?
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I found this hilarious post in the "Women seeking Men" section of Portland's Craigslist:
http://portland.craigslist.org/w4m/109639705.html
Want to buy me a season pass to meadows? - 28
Reply to: pers-109639705@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-11-07, 8:16PM PST
I'm guessing that no you don't, and why should you blow your hard earned money on some skanky broke Creg's List ho just because she wants to snowboard this winter? I mean who does she think she is? These are two very good questions. In defense of myself I'm not a skanky ho, but I've decided I'm willing to act like one upon receit of one season pass to meadows or timberline. Do you want me to act bubly and dumb and obsessivly interested in your penis for the season? Would you like that? Done. Want to tease me, condescend to me, blame me, or call me your mom's name. Okay. Whatever. I can take it.
I can buy us power bars, drive, make peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches (like marge makes so the jelly doesn't run over the sides), and suck your cock until you come when ever you want. Something you should know about me though: I'm the kind of girl who doesn't date much, but when I do, I go dutch. Also, I look like the kind of girl who doesn't date much, but when she does, she goes dutch. Does it matter? I'll blow you while you watch whatever kinky porno you like.
I can pack us coffee or cocoa, and you can board alone if you want. I'm not even very good. Think about it. But hurry. I think that 4X4 or 10X10 deal ends on the 13th. Feel free to make the deal contingent on specific nonsexual (yes, I'll clean the grout in your bathroom) or sexual (yes, I'll jack you off in the car) requests. Think about it. Portland can be boring in the winter if you don't try new things and meet new people.
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Man - why do people have to bump two year old threads? I'd like to edit my initial post to be blank (can you do this for my timmy?). I don't want to be stiring stuff.
Reasonable people can sometimes get into really silly arguments.
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Ski crampons are for pansies and telemarktips readers!
Of course 99% of telemarkers don't/can't use ski crampon as their bindings are incompatible w/o a lot of fiddling.
Ski crampons are useful if you want to keep your skins on as long as possible (who wouldn't want to do this?). They're very common in Europe. If you were on a tour like the Haute route and you didn't have ski crampons, the Euros would look at you like you have two heads.
Even with perfect skinning technique there are many things you can't skin up w/o crampons that you could.
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Anyone see the forecast for the weekend? It's gonna...
...snow.
PS: While I'm skiing Sunday someone is going to be physically relocating my server so these photos will not be visible on Sunday.
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Go AT. Save yourself the pain.
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Since I missed that date, I will do my part to help make the wood supply "lighter" this winter.
Snowdome Skiing?
in the *freshiezone*
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Will - Are you referring to Snowdome itself or the crossing of the Eliot glacier via the first bench to get to the base of Snowdome? A lot more people now cross the Eliot to get to the base of the Snowdome then did three years ago.
The crossing of the Eliot is pretty crevassed and I think warrants a rope if you are going to walk across it early in the season. Snowdome itself has crevasses, but a lot less than crossing the Eliot and they are in spots where you would expect them.