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I might be interested, let me see if the airlines get me home in one piece first. Will call you tomorrow.

I free soloed the route the other day, did not seem any harder than usual. must be me.

ok. Calendar butte then, anybody?

What about the Calavender butte area up at Lake Cavanaugh? Has anybody been up there this century?

I've snomo-accessed the Easton glacier. Let me tell you, don't turn your nose up too high to the slednecks, try sticking out your thumb instead. Hot lapping 4,000 foot runs with a 5 minute snomo-shuttle sounds just fine to me.

Wow, good shots!

Funny, I was just looking at it this afternoon.

Dru, You are saying that this: is better than this?

I am planning a fossil hunting trip up on the back side of Higgens this spring, will look for other rocks as well.

All my friends are gonna be there too.

Looking for a name, printed on the spine of the book. Book found last sunday.

Rock climbing is the new rock hounding. Roped climbing is so 2003, bouldering is the new 2005. R&D is the best easy roadside multi pitch climb in the canyon.

I am a frequent flyer, asile or window seat please.

Yes, you can easily manage the wetness.

Moof made good points, the SP ifs finickey for top roping, but does work pretty well for leading. This is too bad, because I really want to use it for running laps. Tried it in cold weather yesterday and it did tend to run a little bit before catching my fall. It's a little unnerving to jump off, I think I'm switching to semicircular "D" Mallions instead of carabiners to lower the chance of cross loading. The SP instructions are available online, so you can see what you are in for.

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SC, The biggest rapid? I just do the fun ones, shoot, even the most modest rapids are a whole lotta fun. You guys come on over this summer, we'll take you out in the Tumwater, got M/S/F setups for 4 people. Bring a wetsuit.

Very cool indeed Ivan! not sure about the name, but it seems to fit the activity. Clawing upstream against the current, squeezing between boulders and using climbing techniques( hand jams feel good underwater) to catch the next eddy. Rapids are a blinding mass of bubbles, prior underwater scouting lets you avoid where the rocks/ wood are.

Skulking is taking snorkeling gear to a river and swimming rapids, exploring eddies and "skulking" upstream from rock to rock in order to get to the top of a rapid. Of course it's quite exciting, but as with many things, scoping for danger is manditory. You can do a pretty good survey of a rapid as you skulk upstream. It sounds crazy, but you can sometimes dive UNDER a burly rapid to cross it, sometimes darting from rock to rock is the way. So there you go.. there is a whole community of skulkers in L-town who have been doing it for years, come on out after you finish with the fun that is climbing. Watching salmon and trout is a big plus, and discovering hidden treasure is common (...anybody lose a pair of sunglasses?). I bring the full wetsuit, fins, mask and snorkel, some guys use shorts and a mask. It's usually really cold.

Watching Van Halen play live reminded me of so many long forgotten great riffs. The band played most of VH1& VH2 lots of Diver Down, nothing past 1984.

so where exactly does a guy get to Careno Crag these days? Guy backhoe has developed quite the compound that seems to be smack dab in the middle of the old trail. I sure wish I had that property...

I mostly own last decade's model and rental equipment from 4 states, a booty rack, clothes from 1993 and a dead guy's hat.

I just need more Rubbermaid totes and a bigger garage.

Cleaning the garage has made me come to grips with my obsession. I have a lot of hobbies. Being active is a big part of my life, the problem is, figuring out what to do on any given day can be quite a chore sometimes. I pretty lazy, but the maintaining a 5.10 standard seems to be a good goal. 5.10 is where I really have to start trying, and it exists in most every hobby. Examples: class III/IV whitewater, skiing double black diamond, shooting 3" groups at 7 yards, accurate pattern making. Some of you might share my generalist tendencies, time to spill the beans, you 48" yakima rack with every attachment freak! A short list of things I'll do this year: Whitewater kayaking Fishing Gardening Mountain biking Furniture making Overnight backpacking Snowshoeing Rock Climbing Sewing clothes XC skiing Fossil hunting Remodeling my treehouse Pistol shooting Skulking Sea Kayaking Photography Compass, UTM and map practice Snowboarding Hunting Gold panning Snorkeling Maybe I'll just read guidebooks all day.