Blake

I am looking for a room mate in Bellingham (there are curently 2 of us in a 3-bedroom house). Young, friendly, not super messy, and outdoorsy/active would be cool. It would be starting in April. No fixed lease or minimum time required. Rent is $275 and the house is about a mile north of Downtown. If anyone has any ideas, its much appreciated.

Anyone have a link to the near-death TR?

By this logic, all climbs of the notorious 10d Squamish offwidth "Pumpline" are in bad style, because the FA was a Free Solo, and now nobody is "respecting the style of the FA".

Squamish and index were both dry over the weekend.

Thanks Kullaberg, I emailed you at your FiveNineClimber address.

No way. They are both honest and genuine people who speak like a normal person, not a cliche-based politician. I feel like they probably both respect each other's commitment to principles and intellectual honesty. However, Paul's world-view starts with the premise that the federal government does very few things well, and hence should do very few things. He believe that the federal government should exist primarily to preserve freedoms and liberty, and that more power or authority given to a central administration paves the way to abuses of power. (See Bush Adm. 2001-2009) Nader basically starts from the assumption that unregulated market choices of buyers and sellers will create bad social conditions, and these conditions should be corrected prevented through federal government intervention. They agree on common sense issues like: Cuban Embargo, Drug War, corporatism/subsidies, government transparency, limited foreign military involvement, secret prisons, and Habeus Corpus.

Congrats to Max Hasson! Leavenworth climbers, representing in South America. All the tired smelly climbers drinking at Gustav's last summer might have Max to thank for getting their and brought to the table. Patagonia Sendage

Anyone willing to oblige a local guidebook author by providing a climbing picture of the NW face of Liberty Bell? If you have a picture, it would be most appreciated. Thanks! BlakeHerringtonATgmailDAWTcom

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=708690

Edited to add: Grade V route on the (NW?) Face of Agnes Peak, and grade V route on the N face of Storm king, featuring ~3,000 vertical feet of climbing. SE Face of Dome Peak. Of course SE Mox peak has not even seen a First Ascent by any route.

Does anyone actually know when Skaha will be both legally accessible and legally climbable? Dru, please do not reply with useless information that is not a known date.

Panos, if you are in Seattle you could always swing by Pro Mountain Sports and ask Jim himself.

Darin, per prior particular prognostications, your precise peaks are periodically and perilously poached. Please provide plentiful pretty pictures of previously posted potentially-perfect projects.

In my view, someone is only "Christian" in so far as how their ideas and actions reflect those of Christ. With this criteria applied, little about the modern church, our nation, or many self-professed or born-again evangelicals (and their political positions) is particularly Christian. To me, the original poster's message is fairly "Christian" in how closely it resembles the admonition of Jesus to "Remove the stick from your own eye, before picking out the splinter of another." I'd suggest that christians who seek to convert others to their political or religious persuasion via arguments and name-calling would better serve their purpose by keeping fingers off the keyboard all together.

There is essentially no climbing in Bellingham. After driving and approaching, you can generally be at the base of a poor-quality single pitch route in about 60mins from town if you go to Mt. Erie.

Dan and Forrest are the only ones who have made it to the base thus far. If I remember correctly, they didn't succeed except for the first pitch or two. I know of 4 parties who made an attempt and none successful. Nice going on that one Carl & Jim. That route is getting the best of the alpine repeaters. Give it another couple of years...and a worthy partner. It wasn't just Dan and Forrest who had made it to the base, because there was more than one set of bail gear on P1. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/587517/site_id/1 Now a 2nd, 3rd ascent, FFA, plus a couple more failures, all in the last 2 summers. There are heaps of routes without 2nd ascents! Ignoring all the new routes from the last few years... How about: Flying Buttress on Redoubt NE Face of Tower Mountain Central Pillar on Swiss Peak Yvon Chouinard Route on Cutthroat Peak South Face of Cathedral (Looks great!?!) W. Face of South Gunsight Directissima - E Face of Colonel Foster - Vancouver Island

Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell both voted NO on this one. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00020

Things are kinda divided up along the geography chosen by FB for the Cascade Alpine Guides.

I didn't climb it, but I would like to do it next year. He finished up the bolted belays at the stations. Scott Johnston of NCMG who posts on here was working on it with him, so maybe someone at NCMG will post the topo at their location in Mazama, like they did for other new routes. If you want a partner for it next summer, I am eager to give it a go Eric. We might even find Bryan's tennis shoe at the base somewhere. This climb is in the vacinity of "The passenger" and within conversational shouting distance to the climbers' left of the Direct East Buttress.

There is both a Mazama cragging guide, and a Bouldering Guide coming out soon. My understanding is these will be two separate books. As of January, I was told that he was finishing up the Bouldering and would soon move on to a book of alpine routes at WA Pass. However, this will be ONLY unpublished routes. A full WA Pass guidebook is somewhere further out on the horizon. Last summer he pointed Dan and I to an area about 15 minutes up the road from the Mazama store called the "Prospector Wall" (~15 min approach). This wall was MUCH better than "fun rock" and should be in the new cragging guide.

This seems like more of a personal wish or personal vendetta than any kind of real analysis. The whole point of my post was to re-iterate that most states (and hence most electoral votes) are pre-determined Dem vs Rep so electability is entirely based upon how well one appeals to independent voters in a handfull of states. Everything else is unimportant.

Recent polls indicate that hispanic voters are going with Hillary partly out of an aversion to voting for a black man. Blacks are largely in favor of obama because of race. Race has the potential of playing the decisive role. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/770277#Post770277

I've heard a few people say that either Hillary or Obama is unelectable because there are too many racists or sexists who will vote against either one. This statement ignores the reality that ANY democrat is extremely unlikely to win a state in the deep south, and wont need to win one in order to be president. When discussing so called presidential "electibility" the only people that any candidate needs to be "electable" to are the swing voters in about 5 states, such as Ohio, PA, Florida, Michigan, Missouri. The fact that a bunch of racists or sexists in Alabama wont vote for Obama or Hillary is completely meaningless, because that state (and the rest of the south) will automatically vote republican anyway. In Summary: Unless you think that non-partisan (read: independent-minded)voters in key swing states are largely going to avoid women or black candidates, then using this criteria to evaluate "electibility" is foolish.

Corn ethanol is the stupidest thing imaginable. I think that having political importance in Iowa (and this myth of the american family farmer as a cultural backbone) is the only thing keeping our tax dollars paying for such a stupid program. http://www.newsweek.com/id/107575/page/1

My predictions: Obama beats Hillary McCain beats Ron Paul bets Huckabee P.S. the voting/ballot for democrats is completely meaningless and will not be used to assign delegates. If you were going to vote in the democratic primary, instead figure out which Republican you like least, and vote for one of the others!