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Looking to do Girth Pillar this weekend but a little leary of conditions on the ice cliff glacier. Can anyone shed some light on the matter?

Found a pair of glacier glasses on Mt. Adams. If you can name the type, who the glasses are made by, and the trail I would have found them on they are yours.

I lost a pair of climbing shoes, Orange Mad Rock velcro's, at Right Off rock at exit 38 on 5/31/09. If found please call 406-270-3157

I have three days off during the week and I am looking to do some goodness. I am interested in doing a ski descent of Adams or Silver Star, some general climbing up in Sasquamish, or an Alpine Route in the North Cascades. My number 406-270-3157. Let me know what workds

Looking to climbing in Porto Chico end of March and early April but I am a little concerned about the violence that has been happening. Anyone have any beta on the treat in the area, if any at all.

Did a few pitches of climbing on the ice @ Alpental and everything was good as of Thursday the 29th. I would get the climbng in while you still can though. It was nuking down rain on Friday, I know I was skiing in it, and I am not sure how much longer these climbs will stay in with the warm conditions.

Why not find a new boyfriend that climbs then you can just give them to him.

Sweet I look forward to your ice report

Has anyone been to the banks lake area recently? I am looking to go next Thursday but I don't want to waste a trip.

I have Jan 9th - 12th free from work and I was hoping to find a partner for some ice climbing. My hope is to head out to banks lake for a day and half then maybe swing over to Leavenworth for a day and maybe squeze a day of skiing @ Stevens on the way back depending on how we feel. My number is 406-270-3157. PS: I have been climbing ice since last season, most of it is on Alpine stuff. I led my first WI climb a couple of weeks ago, WI3.

I have Jan 9th - 12th free from work and I was hoping to find a partner for some ice climbing. My hope is to head out to banks lake for a day and half then maybe swing over to Leavenworth for a day and maybe squeze a day of skiing @ Stevens on the way back depending on how we feel. My number is 406-270-3157. PS: I have been climbing ice since last season, most of it is on Alpine stuff. I led my first WI climb a couple of weeks ago, WI3.

I say no the Via Ferreta because that will bring more people to the park.

I am looking to go check out Alpental and see what is in. Anyone interested?

Or you can just bug me for mine...Dan E. I have found from using the Cobra's that they are amazingly strong and light weight. The carbon fiber also does an amazing job of deadening the blows you make. As for the hammer, I find the hammer on most alpine and ice tools to be kind of worthless, to small. I find the best rule of thumb is to flip the tool and use the top of the tool to pound in pickets and use the hammer only for clearing ice.

We were up there sunday and it wasn't in

I heard about you guys when I was down there this season. We ended up trying the route in early July, I think your group and ours where the only attempts on it, but got turned back when got to the snow ramp to access the ridge and found a 40ft section had melted out and was now rock. Also cutting across the face to gain the summit wouldn't have worked when we were there because it had melted out as well.

I just heard about about this. I didn't know Ryan well but from the times I did climb with him, his glee for climbing and positive attitude was contagious and he will be sorely missed. My condolences go out to his family and his close friends

Lets first set the record straight. ReviveX, Nikwax, etc... don't restore water proofness. What they do is restore the DWR, durable water repellent coating that is on the spell fabric, probably nylon, so the fabric doesn't get soaked. This being said the one of the best things you can do to restore the DWR coating, depending on the age of the garment, is to put it in the drier. The heat helps reactive and spread out the DWR. Another thing you can do is iron your garment using the nylon setting on your iron. Don't believe here is gore tex website. They will tell you the same thing I just did. http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite/home

Yeah we saw you guys up there. Glad to see you guys made it. Your bivy site was much cooler then ours was but it sounds like you might have traded. We summit a couple of hours after you. Just curious did you guys stick to the ridge or did you do the snow traverse?

PS: If you were up there this weekend there is a good possibility we may have seen you while we were doing it.

Thanks for the update but a little late. We went and found out the old fashion way what the snow conditions looked liked. And I agree with Abe, Bruce, if you take the left gully you shouldn't have problems getting to the notch.

Looking for some one that has been up there recently and knows what the snow conditions are like on the Torment section

I actually work at a shop and there is no way that REI would sell used climbing gear. The problem with climbing gear is the second it walks out the door REI has no clue what has happened to the gear. If that individual ended up hurting themselves and it came to light that they sold a used helmet they would be looking at a huge lawsuit

Scratch that I have already found a partner for those dates. I am still looking for an partner to do alpine and steep ice/snow during the week, no glacier slogs unless there is a couple of pitch of sweet sweet candy(read:rock/ice) waiting at the end. I can lead up 5.10, though I am a little rusty right now cause I have been focusing more on ice/snow stuff, and I tend to have three days off in a row during the week so I am willing to get back into the backcountry a little further. Let me know if you are interested

My hope is due a route on Rainier, Kautz Glacier route sounds good, but I am open to suggestions for these three days