Phil K

It looks like you've got your links out of order; for example, clicking "South face of Tupper!" loads previous pic of N face of McDonald. At least on my computer.

Such an awesome place- I love that Hamill Quartzite. How were the snaffles?

Heck, you can arguably even skip the sunscreen.

That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

Doooh!

N. Face of Fury?

Anyone here have any more info on yesterday’s (6/24/18) accident on Stuart? News reports so far seem to point to a slide from the snowfield below the false summit onto the rocks below. This seemingly innocous spot may in fact be the statistically most dangerous part of the whole mountain. My wife and I were taking an extremely mellow hike up off the Foss River when we saw a USCG copter go by about 1:30 PM. It flew up the Skykomish valley then turned S and flew roughly over Decpetion Pass. A bit later I could make out with binoculars an aircraft circling Stuart in the distance and knew something was up.

I'd suggest standing well back in case of avalanche. Bring your longest lens.

Speaking of disasters in unexpected places; if you end up doing the Colchuck Col route despite the dire looking video above (I’d never expect to see a major avvy there, it seems so benign.), be careful descending from Asgard Pass. How many fatalities have we had there recently from people glissading into a moat/hidden waterfall? It’s actually a really cool route with a fine alpine feel and not much real difficulty.

Worse. That was some pretty major incompetence on the C-H, but we’d have possibly been in over our heads, and definitely would have frozen our asses off had we continued. The Headwall route was pretty much in the bag. Winter, too IIRC.

Good times! I’m pretty sure that I made an attempt on the Coleman Headwall with Jeff Street and this guy. He talked a great game; studly Iranian alpinist, climbed various 4000m peaks, very fit, etc. We started to suspect something was amiss five minutes from the parking lot when he’d disappeared behind us and took a looong time to catch up. Next “morning” (middle of the night), the conditions were PERFECT; full moon, crisp hard snow, no wind, perfect visibility, and he totally screwed us! ‘Took twice as long on the approach, then once things started getting a bit spicy, it became extremely obvious that he was in no way fit or competent. We pretty quickly decided that he was an unacceptable liability and bailed. I’m still pissed when I think about how great conditions were that night, and how he lied his way onto our climb.

Is that with a dog or without?

We were up that way years ago, following in the footsteps of Tabor & Crowder. A fair bit of elevation gain as I recall........ How far beyond the first top-out did you go?

Yeah, it usually seems pretty late in the year for high elevation lake fishes by the time the larches turn. This is another area that has been on the radar for some time. Now I'm inspired.

How was the fishing, Jason?

Nice photos (as usual) Jason. This is one of those areas we'd looked at in Red Fred and on maps and thought about getting into.... if it wasn't such a PITA. Now, thanks to you, age, and infirmity, I can completely write off the notion. Thanks!

Maybe a nomination to SCOTUS? He seems a good fit in the Clarence Thomas mold.

Good times. My wife broke her nose doing that.

Cool. I haven't got my CAG with me right now, but I think that's a Becky-Leatherman FA. He (Phil Leatherman) prolly hauled a Hasselbald up with him; you should appreciate that.

Thanks Obama!

Cesare Maestre should have had one of those; would have saved himself a lot of work. We are living in the age of narcism, and DAYUM this is an awesome tool. I vote suck for 95%+ of how they'll be used.

Nice GIF Oly, but aren't we supposed to be staying on topic? FW: referring to this Faux-rageous incident as "one of the shitlowliest things you've ever heard of" seemed a bit excessive and worthy of calling BS on. And yeah, those guys effed up royally, as we're still seeing today. Not that BHO has really done as well as he should have dealing with the mess.

As opposed to, say, falsifying intelligence to justify starting an unnecessary war which directly led to somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 deaths, destabilized and entire region, and sent billions of tax dollars up in smoke? Yep, pretty much.

Always saw him as both. Which kind of reminds me of..... Oh, never mind.

Always saw him as both.