dmuja

WTF? Whats up with groups of teenagers being allowed to walk down the street or wait at bus stops while carrying large sticks or baseball bats! I see this shit all the time in Seattle and its like "oh well, nothing wrong there.." Ive seen cops drive right by them without blinking! Is this some constitutionally protected right or something? Seriously, one should be able to draw down on them on sight and tell them to drop the weapon or else. jmho

I have it on good authority that this is in fact kevbones friends leaving for their climb of Mt Doom on Saturday morning.

Bye bye Mr insurgent man.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwIWtQgtHc I don't know why I posted this..just bored I guess..sorry

From an email exchange with my partner on the Thursday before going up Hood on Friday night/Saturday morning "Right now it looks like our only window is about 24 hrs from Friday night to Saturday night..... While on the mountain Saturday, one could look west and see the weather approaching if one cared to look. 'nough said..

Yep, someone should do a search and recovery cost analysis on this---> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/02/19/winter.weather.ap/ compared to the occasional resources needed for rescuing kevbones friends..

If you go up or stay up in bad weather and end up unable to get yourself down you should not have been there, period. These people needed a rescue and they put themselves in that predicament because they could not deal with the weather. What they learned is that if they cry for help, someone will come and get them....DUMB!

Anyway, Next time I climb Hood - after they pass the stupid person locator device law - Im going to go up in a wind breaker and tennie shoes with a marginal WX forecast because Im ..well...an "optimist", and then when I get a little cold Im going to activate my stupid person locator device, and I better get a fuckin rescue!! In fact, I better get a chopper ride off that mountain or else Im GOING TO CALL EVERY FUCKING LAWYER I KNOW AND SUE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF THE STATE OF OREGON AND MAKE YOU ALL PAY! There, I feel better now... PS - Thanks to Cluck and Iain once again.. To the dude I called an idiot, you prolly didn't deserve that, sorry, Im just more paranoid than usual and the voices in my head are GETTING LOUDER! To the rescued climbers, Im glad your safe, now GO FIND ANOTHER HOBBY BECAUSE YOU AND YOUR GROUP ARE FUCKING IDIOTS!!!

How about being smart enough to not go up with bad weather coming in? Gee ,,, theres an idea. Reliance on post incident recovery/rescue gadgets is not very smart, nor is it what moutaineering is about. These people were stupid or thought it would be fun to get rescued and get their names in the news. The news media eats this shit up. And self reliant mountaineers pay for it all with more regulations and less freedom.

barkernews, Monitor this..you work for satan. The media sucks, lies, and almost never gets it right. They are about hype, entertainment and profit only, accuracy only matters to those ends - face the facts (that is if you could actually find them). CUINOZ, your statement is stupid and meaningless. Your an idiot.

I speculate that the Tauntauns are being eaten by Wampas as we speak, and frankly at this point Im a bit unsympathetic.

Mmmmm...LLLL...UUUU.......mmmust....activate....nnnnowww! WTF people? Just because it was a nicey nice day Saturday doesn't mean Sunday or the rest of the week will be that way! This was a clear case of idiots ignoring the forecast I think.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/5923071.html

Update TR: Saturday Feb 17th Was up there yesterday (Saturday) morning and about to try a solo of the ice step when it released a 3-4 minute long shower of ice (some the size of a foot ball or larger). It was a beautiful sunny (windy) morning but I was alone (no one else yet on the upper mountain!) and thought it would be bad to get nailed so I backed off. Some amount of avy hazard was present rounding Crater Rock so I sought out the flattest route to gain the Hogs Bk. This slowed me enough to let the sun become a real factor once it hit the Pearly Gates - like turning on the "release ice now" switch. Suggestion: If youre gonna do the PG ice step (its still there) I suggest an early start so that the sun is just rising as you are on the Hogs Back and about to enter the chute. Any later than this and you may get nailed from ice fall in the chute imho (not fun) due to the sun. Fun day none the less.. D

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/PQR/SABOR

found it thru another site! "Getting better next week!!!!!!!" Hmmm.? Looks like Saturday is about the only decent day to me so far that I can tell - till much later in the week though Saturday Partly cloudy, Warm (maybe too warm) Sat night Likely Snow Windy Sunday Snow Showers Windy Sunday Night Likely Snow Showers Monday Chance Snow Showers, Snow Monday Night Likely Snow Tuesday Snow Tuesday Night Likely Snow Showers..

I Cant access the avalanche forecast on NWAC website right now ??? Anyone got the latest avy report or beta on Mt Hood for Friday thru Saturday night? much appreciated D

note to self - "file pick sharp". Thnx Ivan! I also told him that if is was actually "technical" ice, I would lead with both tools then he could jug or Id belay (Pull) him over it.

Yup, I jus told my bro the same thing, so I get to try one of his tools now!

Can you say "RUN OUT!" ? also, brits should learn about fall factors, or maybe try using "dynamic" rope..(nod nod wink wink)

Thnx Dino, my bro and I thought it might be fun to try the step if its still there next week and if theres not to much crap coming down it as we're going up, we may go left also.

Jus wunderin if the "vertical" ice step is still there - anyone been up lately? 2 Tools required? Recent pics look like the rock on the sides is coming out early this year no? recent beta appreciated.. D

Next peak im on, I'll remember you and this thread mountainhesh.

This really deserves its own thread. My favorite quote.. Ben Stewart of Greenpeace said: "The AEI is more than just a thinktank, it functions as the Bush administration's intellectual Cosa Nostra. They are White House surrogates in the last throes of their campaign of climate change denial. They lost on the science; they lost on the moral case for action. All they've got left is a suitcase full of cash." If I was the God thingy, I would just take a big'ol shit right on the United States.. and it would only land on the bad people.

bitch'n!

So if they really knew they were racist, but didn't act racist then everything is ok? I say, "Ban the N word!", then harmony and love will break out everywhere!