olyclimber
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in fact, sometimes there isn't a solution, only acceptance (or denial).
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16 hours ago, JasonG said:
I love waking up above the marine layer in the summertime....
thats a lot of cotton
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I would suggest just writing the TRs though. I’m confident it will be fixed and you’ll be able to share them eventually to FB if that is your thing.
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1 hour ago, Rad said:
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.Yeah I know I need @jon to help with that one as I mention above. We need to send Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, to Jon’s house. I just don’t have the access to fix it.
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Wow really cold. Sharpen your tools. 14 degrees in Seattle?
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22 minutes ago, JasonG said:
Thanks @olyclimber ! I have ditched all anti-social media so this is it for me. Till death due us part. I've been here since the first few weeks and I will remain until the end (hopefully my demise and not the site's). I'll reach out to @jon And give him a nudge.... thanks again for all you guys do!
Thank you @JasonG we are all lucky to have you here, an incredible blend of alpine prowess and photography that has yet to fail to inspire me. I'm down to Instagram, so I can keep tabs on my son and his friends. But next year my goal to spend more of my "social media" energy here, making this site more useful.
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1 hour ago, manninjo said:
Hear, hear! Always appreciate having the site available for research, stoke, and more. Thanks @olyclimber and @jon! Dig the updated header / logo on the site too!
Thank you that was a collaboration between me and my son! I think it the first time we ever did something like that...he is 20 and in college and officially does some things better than ole dad now.
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Hey there I just put a little lipstick on this pig and moved a few things around. The site has some bigger issues, but I need @jon to help me with some of them...I just don't even have access/rights to a few things that need fixing. If you know him and love him
like I do, I think it would help to reach out to him personally and let him know you still love this place 
. I know Jon still does too, but life is pretty crazy and can send you off different directions and cliffs...I know he has his hands full, but any psych we can send his direction will help I'm sure. But please send him some love, I know that dude loves attention! 
To me this place represents a lot of things, but most important to me is that it is a site/community that is not trying to suckle every last bit of personal information off you. It is free, and you are actually not the product. This place is like the early days of the internet, which has now become a weird and terrible place in my opinion (the internet, cc.com was always weird, and sometimes terrible, but in a lovable way.). This place is a throw back to the exciting times of possibility, before the corporations and criminals took it over. So as the arc of time passes, and social media sites rise and fall, I don't know what the future holds...but it has always been my goal to keep the lights on with this site. They are still on. And whilw there are less visitors than in the past (and i'm not counting the bots, nor Dru's or his 50 avatars), we still have high quality trip reports rolling in, people finding climbing partners, and great info being shared.
So a huge thank you to those continuing to contribute to the site. We have had some big ballers roll through here, and we still do...and they definitely inspire. But also just the modest and "average" TRs are also awesome. The ones that make you think "I need to go check that out".
I would love to get this site tuned up and upgraded and off of shit lists. I don't use Facebook myself, but if you want to share there you should be able to. Keep things simple and running and continue to be a safe place on the Internet way from the data gathering monsters. I think if we can do that, this site will thrive off that alone. I think at some point adding back to local shop advertising to help pay for the servers and forum software, but that is it.
I hope you're missing this virus, and if you're not, that you recover quickly. Happy Holiday's and New year.
/p.
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ah....the treasures on this site.....
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20 degree temps supposed to be in the Seattle area next week. wonder what will get climbed?
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Ha I found it. How about this time capsule?
Anyway...the thing I was thinking of was Moose Goo:
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bump. still don't know what happened to my friend that night. anyway...found this improperly filed in "Spray".
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Spammer nuked. I always need coffee in the morning. After that usually oatmeal....but this thread has me rethinking it. Peanutbutter does sound good.
What was that meal/thing that people used to talk about on here? I can't remember what is was but I made some and it was pretty good. I'll have see if I can remember. It was something with honey and peanutbutter?
Also...renamed the forum!
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Awesome as usual you two!
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7555 m
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sounds brutal. 1.5 energy bars per day for six days. I probably could survive on Little Si on that.
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37 minutes ago, bigeo said:
What I get from that quote is that Marc had come to realize that he was not there to "inspire us".
Yep, that exactly what I'm talking about. Maybe its terrible for me to say it, but it's exactly that that inspires me most of all.
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still for sale!
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bump. its time....you or a buddy need some?
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1 minute ago, ScottP said:
Yeah, except in 2/4 time.
Cleary the Big Multi-National Appliance Conglomerate is waging psychops on us. After all, I hear everything is made in the same factory these days.
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I try not to @genepires . but i was no where near the human being he was at that age. I think "hoped I died before I got old" as the song goes. But this isn't about me, I'm ok with who I am and was and I still do aspire to be a better person because it isn't over yet.
This passage below from his blog @cheamclimber (Marc) that @Rad quoted in the thread from when he went missing struck me too as way more mature and brave of a vision for a young man. I admit at that age I cared way too much about what other people thought about me or what I was doing. That is the bravery, vision, and imagination that I admire. To step way from from all that. He was clearly unique. Perhaps that captures is the spirit of "alpinism" when it comes to the desire to leave the established path and find a new way up. And this is all apart form the audacity of his uncomprehendible climbing achievements.
From LeClerc's blog on his Emperor Face ascent on Mt Robson:
"It was now my fourth day alone in the mountains and my thoughts had reached a depth and clarity that I had never before experienced. The magic was real.I thought to myself that the essence of alpinism lies in true adventure. I was deeply content that I had not carried a watch with me to keep time, as the obsession with time and speed is in fact one of the greatest detractors from the alpine experience. I was happy that my entire experience had been onsight, on my first visit to the mountain, and that the route had been in completely virgin condition. One of the greatest challenges of mountaineering is in dealing with the natural obstacles the mountain provides. So often in modern alpinism, routes will be fearsomely difficult for the first party of the season, and then once the obstacles have been cleared, a track established or the ‘tunnels’ dug it becomes easy for those who follow.Climbing routes that have been cleared, with an established track,simply in order to attain the summit, or keeping time in order to set records is in fact reducing the adventure of alpinism more to that of a sport climb, and strips the route of its full challenge making it more of a ‘playing field’ of a team sports athlete or like a barbell at an indoor gym where a jock tries to lift his personal best.As a young climber it is undeniable that I have been manipulated by the media and popular culture and that some of my own climbs have been subconsciously shaped through what the world perceives to be important in terms of sport. Through time spent in the mountains, away from the crowds, away from the stopwatch and the grades and all the lists of records I’ve been slowly able to pick apart what is important to me and discard things that are not.Of course the journey of learning never ends but I’ve come to believe that the natural world is the greatest teacher of all, and that listening in silence to the universe around you is perhaps the most productive ways of learning. Perhaps it is not much of a surprise, but so often people are afraid of their own thoughts, resorting to drowning them out with constant noise and distraction. Is it a fear of leaning who we actually are that causes this? Perhaps so many of us are afraid to confront our own personalities that we go on living in a world of falseness, filling the void of true contentment by being actors striving to be perceived by the world around us as something that we ‘supposed to be’ rather than living as who we are."
[TR] Challenger, Crowder, N Despair - Eiley Wiley to Thornton Lakes 08/09/2020
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Great pictures! thanks for sharing.