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they also filmed a Lassie movie with Elizabeth Taylor in Stehekin and Lake Chelan.

is that Cache Col in the foreground? I'd go with #2, it looks more fresh and crisp.

Climb: St. Helens - Weirdness continues 4/25-Worm Flows Date of Climb: 4/25/2004 Trip Report: Hiked St. Helens, skied down in the slush. It was very warm, and super crowded. There were mobs of folks everywhere, including some oddballs. There were reports of a naked telemarker skiing from the summit, and some middle aged ladies who dropped-trou to take a leak amidst the mob of 30+ people on the summit. We should have summited and decended earlier to hit better snow. Gear Notes: alpine skis for coming down. Crampons, axe, and snowshoes were left in the car,and it was the right decision. Approach Notes: good bootpack up, got real slushy by 12:00

I think he moved to Biafra

Right now on channel 14 in the PDX area they are showing some sweet Free Skiing videos from whistler, good music too. I've seen this show a couple times on here before, it's worth a watch.

I'm going to be hiking St. helens on Sunday, and skiing down (friend snowboarding). I've never been there before, and was wondering if there is anything special I should know. I'm familiar with the permit system and all that, but are crampons and an axe necessary? Any other approach/route/ski down notes? I'm thinking 5 hrs for the boot up, does this seem reasonable for some in-shape guys? Maybe it'll be so crowded that I can just follow the pack... Thanks a lot!!

Are these like Ski-blades?

Great pic! Which direction is which? (could the high point at left be Bonanza?)

You should have just sat on his wheel for the rest of his ride! (possible snot rocket opportunity if you could drop him at some point.)

I get a big kick out of the whole thing. "Mountain confessionals" come on! This good stuff, definitely spray-worthy.

I see you're checking out your ski trip terrain josh. Lowell Skoog did a series of pics along the PT that showed the 1950s era glaciers juxtaposed with the current sizes of today. Maybe someone has a link.

Any number of unnamed and often un-mapped little alpine lakes that are on no trail, and see more bears than people each year.

it's GWB's Niece, not daughter. Note the lack of public intoxication reports surrounding her.

Here's another along the same vein. http://store.yahoo.com/campmor/32694.html Retail sucks... buy cheap.

can't you use the 20% coupon on any one purchase?

The Lady of the lake does indeed have a monopoly, and they own the lodge at teh boat landing too! apart from hiking in from highway 20 (4hrs, flat trail) you can also take the Chelan Airways float plane up, which can go when you want it to, and only take about 25 or 30 minutes. However, this is more expensive so it's best to get a group together and split it. The boat company does have a "high speed" catamaran boat which makes 2 trips to Stehekin a day, but costs almost as much as the plane and takes an hour each way. So what trail from highway 20 gets you there in 4 hours? The shortest way I could find from highway 20 was along the bridge creek trail to the bridge creek camp. That is like 15 or 16 hours, which, granted, I could easily do jogging, but I'm not sure I could swing that with a big pack and skis on my back. Did you mean 15 or 16 miles instead of hours? Also, I'm sure that it would be more than 11 miles from the western Wash. end of the cascade river road, over the pass, and down to Bridge creek. When the road was NOT washed out, it was about 3 miles up to the pass, then ~6 miles to Cottonwood campground at the end of the Stehekin road, and a shuttle. The stehekin road ended at glory Mtn. last summer(~2.5 miles short of cottonwood)and it's another 4 miles along the road to bridge creek, which might be impassable to cars due to last fall's flooding. This whole hike would be even longer if the cascade river road is not repaired. Straight down bridge creek is 12 miles (flat, slight downhill) to the Stehekin road. It's 3 miles to the Fireweed PCT junction where you can take Mcalester creek to Mcalester pass(~6miles), then down rainbow creek to the Bakery(10miles). At Fireweed you can also stay on bridge creek/pct and it's 9 more miles to the Stehekin road, for a 12 mile total walk in. I know of people who bike it, which is a fast option, but mind the parkies.

That spot rocks! (at least until you have to fend off the marmots that invade your little rock forts.) I've always thought it'd be a great place for a snowball fight, everyone's already got their own pre-made base.

The Lady of the lake does indeed have a monopoly, and they own the lodge at teh boat landing too! apart from hiking in from highway 20 (4hrs, flat trail) you can also take the Chelan Airways float plane up, which can go when you want it to, and only take about 25 or 30 minutes. However, this is more expensive so it's best to get a group together and split it. The boat company does have a "high speed" catamaran boat which makes 2 trips to Stehekin a day, but costs almost as much as the plane and takes an hour each way.

Well, I think if bertuzzi had been there, his presence would have put them over the edge in this very close series.

That's a good point Klenke, I guess I was thinking "Least tagged of the prominent/published/higher profile peaks." Obviously unnamed high points along remote ridgetops receive fewer visitors than those mentioned. However, in regards to your "Circle without human visit" question, it's usefull to keep in mind that Indians had been exploring the cascades for thousands of years, and there was intense and widespread exploration by trappers and miners after that. These were definitely a hardy group of folks who weren't deterred by some harsh terrain.

Tupshin, Reynolds, Copper, Mcalester and Fernow are all tagged fairly infrequently (guessing on a couple). There is no way to know on a lot of peaks in the area, but Bonanza's prominence and "prestige" makes it more climbed than many fairly high mountains around there.

After watching both the Kill Bills this week I couldn't help but notice that David Carradine (Bill) seemed to really resemble FRed Beckey in some scenes. Anyone else see this? These pics aren't the best, but google only can do so much.

the thing I saw said the tires were weighted with bolts inside. All pieces are honda parts.

No tricks or special computer graphics... this is all real stuff. http://zerotrilogy.gotdns.com/jaysonblog/misc/cog.mov