kailas

The thing about climbing is it is an unforgiving sport, you do one thing wrong and you can die. Like not repelling properly, which seems to be the most common problem people have. I beleive if you can survive your early days of learning to climb,esp mt. climbing, then you can be an old climber. The only thing you can do with these incidents is try and not repeat the same mistakes.

I thought this web sight was about the Cascade mtns not an argument about CO sucking. Besides going to Vail on a ski trip doesn't make you an expert about discussing much of any thing, really. Those SUV driving crash dumbies are fools that just moved to CO because they heard it was extreme!!

Better get a pair Swaterfall!! I hear not many will be in the country until next spring, and then only selected shops will have them.

If your worried about thatlittle route don't ever go to the Alps and climb. You have to put yourself in danger all the time.

Top roping aint ice climbing, leading is, the rest is what city-slicker gapers do!

I've got some Beal double ropes and have climbed about 600 pitches of ice using these, they're lookin great. I usually climb rock with a heavier rope, but the doubles come out on the Alpine multi-pitch days, mainly for weight and abseilability. Beal works for me.

Nice to see you getting outdoors TLG.

They spoke english they just didn't want to communicate with silly Americans. If the Midi lift was closed they had good reason.

Snowed down this way 7 days straight, at least up high, expected to continue this week as well. Cascades usually get more snow than CO can only dream about, thats why u have glaciers!!

TLG, will do. Did you see those pics of Imgrahm falls, WI sick!

Check out ice porn in this forum, enough said.

The winter of 76-77 I remember well, the weather was warm and sunny into Jan. Rocky Mt. ski resorts first began thinking about snow making equip. But by the end of Jan into early Feb. it began dumping snow and by the end of the season Meadows had 125 inch base. There's hope, but I'm not too optimistic.

Word on the street is that she and her friends snuck into the woods just before the repel and smoked weed, so she must have lost her focus alright, she's pretty messed up. FYI been so warm here the park is looking pretty ugly, over a week of 50+ temps. What a crazy 'winter'

Plexus, people are mortal, they die. No matter what policies you implement they will continue to die. What is with this American mentality that everyone should have a long life guarantee. It's all about the laws of statistics. Wolfs, same here, no one ever heard of a beacon back then, just wasn't as many gapers in the B/C. Now that the magazines are pushing that riding, the B/C is full accidents waiting to happen

Aren't you guys a little old for the Cali Bro-Bra lingo? Livin the dream at Bachelor, is that posssible?

I've lived in Colorado my whole life, 40yrs, and I've never seen it rain in Nov. or Dec. well it did this year. In fact its rained a number of times this year, one time all night. We usually get a few hours of rain that turns to snow, not hours of rain. Global warming is upon us!

I talked to friends that live there and they said Railay was barely hit by the waves.

Nothing wrong with that action!

lawgoddess, are you trying to get me in trouble? Swaterfall, should have gone up there with an old pro.

Dude aren't you on toprope?

I thought all you guys were up in the PNW shouldn't you be talkin about PNW ice climbing? I mean the PNW is where it's happening, right.

It's much better in the PNW little girl! It was 15 below last night, too cold. Oh by the way, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the Silverton ski area, and yes AAron ane his wife are a little strange to say the least.

Early ice, Swaterfall is the red line, I'm the green line.

As you can see, ski companies aren't about skiing they are about enviromental destruction thru building hugh resorts, especially with golf courses. When will it end, when every decent place looks like L.A.? There are enough ski areas in the world now!

guide books suck, bring out all the wanna-be city geeks and over crowds the climbing!