Rad

Excellent! Awesome terrain. Thanks for posting. Could you tell how good the rock was on the W Face?

Post-accident threads quickly move from condolences to incident analysis, and I think a signifcant part of that is to identify an error so that the reader can say "Oh, I would never make THAT mistake." This joins the parade of little white lies we tell ourselves to justify the risks of climbing. The reality is that bad things can happen in the mountains no matter how good or careful you are. Sometimes the only error was being there in the first place. Regarding the original post, we don't know the exact conditions at the time of the incident nor the Dr's abilities or risk tolerance, so I don't think we can objectively question his judgment. Part of the beauty of life is that we each get to make our own choices on this journey.

Falling rock, ice or snow can hit a climber and do major damage and/or cause them to fall. I'm very sorry for your loss

@JasonG is our guru

Mixed tapes are a way to communicate on an emotional and intellectual level with friends, girlfriends, others, sharing the stoke, mystery, misery, and more. Still cherish the ones I have in the basement. Still listen to them from time to time.

Fantastic! Congratulations on an excellent adventure. Seems like things went quite smoothly for you all in all. Thanks for posting!

Great shots of a great adventure! Looks like you missed the quintessential wet weather of the Pickets!

My variation on this is 'do what you can while you can'.

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I appreciate a lot of things here, have for many years, but the decline of user activity has been depressing. I would post TRs here if I could share them to FB, but when I try I get the message below. That means I'm only writing a TR for the few of you who actually show up here. If you fix this I would write TRs. Got a few good ones in mind, like a spire in the Grand Canyon... Anyway, thanks @olyclimberfor keeping the lights on. We should do a pub club once this damn pandemic thing will subside a bit. First round is on me. Cheers, Rad This URL goes against our Community Standards on spam: cascadeclimbers.com To protect people on Facebook from spam, we don't allow content that contains such URLs.

I hit local grocery stores, sandwich places, gas stations when coming back from trips, rarely eat in a restaurant or drink in a bar, but then that's true in the city. Sure would like to see climbers and hikers spend money in the towns near climbing and hiking.

Yep. That's my favorite moment.

Ask Lowell Skoog. He's done a huge amount of work digitizing old images from a variety of formats, including slides.

I found it hard to see the last segment of the film because there was a waterfall pouring out of my eyes. Knowing the ending just made it worse. I thought it was better than Free Solo. Peter Mortimer is a great visual story teller.

It's impressive to get detail in both the deep shadow and the lit subject.

You might want to mention what "high altitude" means in the context of your study. In WA, there's only two peaks over 12,000, and only 4 over 10,000. Far more over 14k in CA and CO than in WA. Most of us don't think any peaks in the continental US would count as "high altitude" as they're all under 15k.

I thought this was going to be a thread about a different Dan H!!! Scandal!

Pretty sure the NPS doesn't charge for rescues, so medical bills plus lost/broken gear.

"Ask me anything" - comments turned off for video. Guess they didn't like the armchair judgers

Yes, this is one of the best climbing films I've ever seen. Amazing climbing footage. Excellent interviews and narrations. Masterful story telling. Significant comments from many luminaries of climbing. Enough space to absorb all of it.

Just go ahead and contact a reputable AMGA guide, like Martin Volken in North Bend, and see what he has to say. Pro guiding service

Nice. You make it look like it isn't a pile of loose rubble.

That was their effect on us too!

Any idea when this will get fixed? Thx