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This issue I personally find disgusting. I mean, go behind a tree if you have to do that!

The current Climbing magazine has a comparison of alpine packs, though they might be smaller than what you're looking for (3000>4000ci). The Wild Things Icesac or the Cold Cold World Chernobyl get my vote. Alpine pack comparison

I lugged a Nikon F4 up there, so I will have some pictures when I get the film developed. I'll have them developed as prints and digital. Will post them in a day or two.

Congratulations! Let me know who bought them, I have a bridge I need to sell. Seriously, I was joking because there was a big sale at TNF, and some people decided to profiteer by reselling the stuff on ebay and this board. If it wasn't the case for you, then I will piss off, thanks. If it was, well then you're a shag-eared pignut.

Climb: Mt. Baker-Coleman-Deming [April 17-18] Date of Climb: 4/17/2004 Trip Report: Me, my little bro, and a friend went up on the Coleman glacier for alpine hijinx this past weekend. We had some specific goals related to the trip, mainly to see if we could survive 2 days together without killing each other, but also to see if it is possible subsist solely off of horsecock and moose goo. The road is still closed at 6.6 miles up Road 39, so we drove up from Seattle and hiked up and bivvied at the trailhead late Friday night. The next day we hiked up to a little less than half way up the Coleman glacier, seeing only one other group, a gaggle of Canucks on their way out. They had spent the night right about where the hiking trail ends on Heliotrope ridge. We started directly up the Coleman, but visiblity was almost zero (clouds/fog), and due to our lack of familiarity with the route we decided to wait to see if it would lift. In the meantime, we built a snow castle. Finally, around 6pm, the clouds lifted. My friend had plowed snow for us the whole way up, so while he rested in our Snow Kastle, me and my little bro decided to go up and figure out the route. We got as far as just below the pass between the Coleman and the Deming (just under 9000 feet) when we had to turn around because the sun went down and we had no flashlights. We witnessed some nice icefall off the glacier hanging off of Colfax Peak as we went by. We made it back down to Kamp Snow Kastle on the Coleman, and I spent a chilly night in my REI sleeping bag, which I believe must be rated at 75 degrees. That night was crystal clear, and probably we should have gone up to the summit then because the next day it was clouded over again. Our steps were competely erased from the previous day, and after heading up hoping it would clear, we decided to bag it because we couldn't see 10 feet ahead, and none of us were familiar with the route. As we headed down, there was a brief window of clearing, and we wondered if we had made the right choice. However, after drinking beer and eating pizza in Bellingham, and sunning and swimming out at Larrabee, we knew we had. Gear Notes: 75 degree sleeping bag, HC, Moose Goo, crampons (didn't use). Could have used some skis or snowshoes. Approach Notes: Road 39 is still closed at 6.6 miles, though with chains you could probably make it further. Followed tracks up to Heliotrope ridge, and then plenty of postholing from there up...

I just finished that book 'Feeding the Rat'. Pretty good!

- had that thing wrapped up anyway....

sticky buns?

steaksauce?

I heard about those. Beckey tagged them already... OK, OK, I'm full of shite. Where, however, did you come up with the definition of a "real" peak as being a ">400 foot prominence"? I'm not challenging you, just wonder where that definition came from....

Yum, I just made up a big batch of the Moose Goo stuff for this weekend. Tasty.

Well, then. Sorry you missed out on the sale. Good luck selling them at that price... There are a glut of them that were sold for $105.

I think you're talking about Harold Pinsch who wrote the forward to the first edition of the Climbers Guide to the Olympics. He climbed them in 1971. And no, I'm not Rainman. I was researching them a couple of weeks ago and book marked a link I found through Google. Harold Pinsch's obit...

In the Olympics, the Valhallas come to mind. That's probably just because I've never been there, and I hardly ever hear of anyone going out there . But you can count on them being lesser peaks with no close trail or road and a nice bushwack to get to them, where ever those summits might be.

For a rock climbing gumby such as myself, it is pretty good. Nice pictures and descriptions of each area. If you know the area already you don't need it, but it is nice to have some one's opinion as to the ratings of each route. If you don't know the area, it can definitely point you directly to the fun stuff for your skill level... If you haven't seen that guys website, here it is: http://www.deceptioncrags.com/

If you're talking about the Lil Mt Si (Exit 32 Climbing) book, I picked it up at REI month or two ago. I saw it at Second Ascent too. From the title, I thought you were asking to hire guide to climb Mt. Si...

#252 - Ear Rings #253 - Guitar

I didn't know Rush posted here. Is he back on that 'Hillbilly Heroin'?

Sorry, that is a bit much for those boots. I would suggest somewhere around $105 + tax. That's what the Northface Store would sell them for if they had them...

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I meant selling out of the back of my car. You need a watch? Bham needs a good climbers gear shop. A climbing wall is another business all together. If there is a decent wall at WWU, you'd be a fool to try to run one there anyway.

250 uses for an ice axe (Intermountain Climbing Club) #212 Prop for posing for climbing photos.

noddy

Coondog, check out this link... How much for the right one?