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Anyone been up Garibaldi via Elfin Lakes/East Face route recently. Any beta? Should we lug snowshoes (group of 6 not everyone has skis) -- Thanks

Sunday, 16 May 2006 Anybody lose anything valuable on the the Heliotrope ridge trail on Mt Baker. Nice item found. If you can describe it you can have it back. I can only imagine what kind of joke responses I'm gonna get from this. But we really did find something valuable and if it was mine I'd love to have it back too.

ghez you guys get news fast. one of the missing climbers is a buddy of mine. I've been on the phone with his family on and off all day long and just heard that they have been found. so I came here only to discover that you guys apparently know that they were found before we did even.

yeah, here in bham we have two seasons: warm rain and cold rain.

It was in two weeks ago. 7 feb it was super-aerated: fun to second, but it made for a nervious lead. I doubt you can protect it. I also doubt it's thickened up since then, but I expect it's in prime shape for a top rope. Tabasco Kid however, was short fat and solid!

So, what's the current condition of highway 20 anyway?

what was that song that joe simpson had stuck in his head? that was like a bad acid trip.

no, there were at least 16 people there, maybe even 17! Either way we had a good time. I doubt I'll be able to make it this weekend but I hope you all have a good time at the gathering. Let 'em know there's still interest in a festival.

I've got an Olympus C-3000. it's a 3.3 megapixel. you can certainly get better. A year ago it was at a pretty good price point; I expect that currently somewhere around 5 megapixels is where the price/perfomance curve starts to drop off. It has a slight (3/8 second) delay between the time I press the button and the time the image is captured... pretty annoying and makes for a poor camera choice if you're into action shots. It doesn't take good pitcures in low light and it doesn't take good pictures when there's a lot of contrast between bright and dark (e.g. bright snow and shadows on peoples faces is a combination certain to produce a poor quality picture). the eyepiece viewfinder is a little better than useless. If I want a picture to come out the way I expect I need to turn on the led screen (which really sucks the batteries) and use it to see what I'm getting. There are models that have a slide cover that close over the lense and led screen to turn the camera on and off. I'd *highly* suggest a model like that for something that you'll want to take climbing (or do anything rough and tumble with.) In fact, just today, I was at the top of a pitch while helping with a climbing seminar and I asked someone to bring my camera up to me during their climb... now it has a crack in the led screen however, even with all my negative press, it's still a pretty good camera. There are a lot of other reviews of digital cameras at http://www.dpreview.com good luck.

hey guys, thanks for the kudos. I got a digital camera last spring and have had a great time taking pictures over the last year. klar404 mentioned cinderella from the east. coincidently, I just did that last weekend and'll be adding pics from there when I get around to it. happy climbing!