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But will Oprah be interviewing you about your expedition? "how do you go to the bathroom up there?"

Greetings from sunny Detroit, you guys have NOTHING to complain about!

If your favorite climbing area was not on the list, you may check "Bellingham"

Other....

Give it up...

It seems to be some new kind of Cunning Stunt...

Here is a link to the show archive from WBEZ's This Americian Life. You can listen to every TAL show with real player. This American Life Some favorites: Guns My secret life Fiasco House on loon lake

Hong bits

Sue let me climb with her before she was a rock star...

I just worked with the BEP's the other day, she is so hot!!!

The Alaskan way viaduct has some amazing splitters, I think of them often.

There is a really good snowpack in the southwest right now. Mrs G. and me have been touring twice in the last week, the snow is perfect...a solid two feet of base with four inches of fluff. Climbing is suddenly far away...

God, dosen't anybody burn skis anymore? ... In the day, (old testament, est. 1990) a guy would burn any old, broken skis as a sign of devotion. Hell, In 1989, I burnt a K2 Gyrator at the top of Tye Mill and I never had to buy another snowboard for 12 seasons!

The St. Francis dam collapse was pretty exciting as well.

We should talk. I was thinking about not making mine imaginary.

I'm with Head Space. Funny, I was just dreaming about that very thing. Except I have an imaginary prefab backcountry yurt.

May I add that Green Mountain is a good snowboard destination as well. An easy hike leads to nice turns. There are ample places to construct a booter*, and there are numerous small lines to drop. (* a good jump)

In the closing years of the last century, we would ski the southern slopes of Green Mountain. This little beauty was always some of the earliest turns in the PNW, due to slopes covered in heather and grass... Have any of you kids ever skied or made sweet love (like me) on the fine slopes of Green Mtn?

Let's just say that this is the canary in the coal mine. The west is running out of water.... Fast. Are you ready? I was out in Lake Mead the other day, pretty amazing to think that Los Angeles, Pheonix, San Diego, Las Vegas and parts of Mexico relies on a source of water...that is drying up at a rate of 20 feet a year. Click on this NASA link for the plain truth, be sure to hold your mouse over the photo of the lake. Earth Observer lake mead photos

My wife would not have anything to do with me for the first couple of weeks... she left me in the dust! I was in love.

I was up at the mountain yesterday, we have a really good snowpack going on, with a warmer first layer of snow that should provide for some good ice. The VHM was just a thin strip of white, not even close to climbable. Watch the link I posted for your awnser....After all, it is ice in the middle of the desert. As for the flows that seep out of the limestone bands behind Red rocks.... that is a long way to hike for ice that might fall off when you touch it. But it does look good! JM is much more of an expert than I about such matters.... We topped out on Rainbow mountain a couple of winters ago to the sight of a ten foot wide river of solid ice that dissapeared down to the climbers left of Rainbow wall.

Zion with the in-laws, no climbing....but man is it pretty right now!

Yes, do tell. Photos are always appreciated.

It is.

JM, KLAS 8 has a sweet weather station at the Charleston Lodge. the weather cam takes a nice photo of Cathedral peak. KLAS 8 weather