Blake

Coming down from WA pass on Monday, I got a speeding ticket. I was coming down the west side, about 3pm. Here are the details: Bright sunny day I had just passed a motorhome 73MPH in a 60MPH zone I was coasting (to save gas... 75 miles between gas stations!) Really clean driving record $132 ticket from the WSP Any advice or ideas on what to do? I really don't feel like i was endangering the public safety, I had just gotten around a trailer and hit a steep spot on the hill. The court date (if I want one) is only in Mt vernon, so not too far away. I have never dealt with this kind of thing before, so any advise is welcome.

nice write up Billy, the 5.10 finger crack should not be missed.

I am graduating from WWU next month and taking the whole summer off work to climb. I have some partners lined up for a few things, but I also have lots of ambitious (crazy) plans and ideas. I'm intersted in long classic alpine routes (NR Stuart, West Face CBR...) or maybe looking into a few new climbs or major cascades traverses. I want to get some stuff planned out on the calendar. I'm also always up for a a few days in Squamish or Index as well. -Blake

anyone find or accidentally end up with a green and a purple stuff sack from the tent area at ski-in?

Did anyone snag a green and a purple stuff sack from the tent area this weekend? Iam missing them...

I have two camalots for sale. Both are pre-C4 version, but in the smaller size where the weight difference is very small. Both look almost new and work just like new. .5 (purple) .75 (green) $30 each I also have three slung hexes. A #4 Chouinard, a #8 Simond and a #9 Simond. The two simond hexes are nearly identical in size and shape to Wild Country hexes. They would easily take the place of much heavier #3/3.5 cams on alpine routes. $4 each for the hexes, or $10 for all three. -Blake

Sometimes after a long day of climbing (or a moderate day of climbing in hot weather) I get a strange thing in my inner elbow, where the muscle seems to "seize up" and basically gets very tight and hard and holds my elbow at a bend. It is painful/diffcult to straighten it out. I can see the inner-elbow muscle bulging and it feels sore when I touch it on those days. Any ideas, advice, input? Is it a muscle imbalance I can train to avoid?

That's horrible, those guys are lucky they were gone by the time John got back. I wonder how likely they would be to return if a decoy car were left there and the climbers watched it from a ways off...

I'll run morning laps with you if you want to get up early and go to the powerline wall or something, but i'd have to leave by 11am. you should come up to WA pass this weekend for rock Brandon.

How about Julie's Roof, up above Dr. Sniff?

I can't believe nobody is heading up from the Seattle area on friday... come on, carpool anyone?

If they aren't adjustable, I'd take anything around 49"/120cm Thanks! (I'm guessing they are non-adjustable)

any chance you are going to the ski-in?

I want to buy one ski pole or adjustable trekking/hiking pole. I am not picky, and I'm sure someone's got one laying around. -Blake

what time saturday morning?

where was the loose rock on Frigid Air? I remember all of the non-scrambling sections being really solid. Nice TR, I'm sure that there are heaps of climbs down there which don't get climbed often, but are *** routes.

Anyone want to carpool up to WA pass on Friday afternoon or evening? I can drive or a be a passenger. I have a ski rack. If you are from the Seattle area, I'd meet you in Mt. Vernon, and we could leave a car at a friend's house there. -Blake

Anyone want to carpool up to WA pass on Friday afternoon or evening? I can drive or a be a passenger. I have a ski rack. If you are from the Seattle area, I'd meet you in Mt. Vernon, and we could leave a car at a friend's house there. -Blake

Anyone think that rock climbs at WA pass will be dry?

Where would THAT be?

why?

I wonder if someone could now pull out the mangled bolt and fill in that hole? Shouldn't be any reason not to, now that it is useless for climbing.

what?

Anyone else been paying attention to this guy? Last night in the debat he basically told the truth about why Bin Laden attacked us on 9-11 (a quoted by the CIA and Bin Laden himself) and he got attacked for it. Then Giuliani interrupt with this crowd-baiting emotional appeal and wins the biggest applause of the night! Anyhow, even for someone like myself that disagrees with some of his policies, its very refreshing to see a national politician more concerned with truth, reality, and convictions, than with winning sound bites and riling up the crowd of South Carolina GOP faithful.

If new style camalots, i'll take the #3.