Blake

NAtional weather service (part of the NOAA) seattle-based "mountain weather" forecasts. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/forecast03.php although last august i did end up in a little blizzard on their "20% chance of precipitation" day. :-)

I think alpine rock is the most fun. I like routes that involve some glacier travel too. (ie lots of stuff on Stuart.. NEB Goode... etc) Lots of folks would say that full-on mixed climbing requires the most comprehensive skill set. How many posts until Dru tells us that the best kind of alpine climbing is the one having the most fun?

curve > straight. I like the WC ones on dyneema best.

Find War Creek pass... do a traverse from there, over reynolds peak, over Mcalester peak, South Pass, Mcalester Pass, Rainbow Ridge, Bowan Mountain.... and down to Stehekin or out to Hwy20 from Rainbow Lake. This is the area between lake chelan, the Twisp river headwaters, and Hwy 20.

yesterday you said the Tooth was your first climb. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/573419/an/0/page/0#573419 Early onset Alzheimers?

this it?

thanks Oly, I had actually somehow blocked all the cc.com images.. must have been a subliminal act of god judgement.

i somehow tweaked my mozilla firefox settings to the point where Picstures within posts are not displayed... can anyone help me figure out how to get them back again? They work fine in IE. Thanks

Still, if you are travelling from boulder CO all the way to WA state, with good sport climbing in mind, this is more of an Infinite Miss.

In NZ after people pass cops on the road, they flash their lights at all oncoming cars for like the next mile to warn them of a speed trap. we should do this in the PNW.

Spot the AlpineDave:

I'll be working somewhere up there again. I'll prob be there from late-june through late-sept. Send an email or message if anyone wants to go for a climb (even just around town) I have lots of ideas.

Sharkfin 7/05

It's .10d once you get in it. I couldn't figure out the V-hard overhang boulder cave start. shame shame

MisterE (or anyone else) have you seen or read Duncan's new book? God Laughs and Plays It looks like it could be a really good read. I've read a couple glowing reviews.

What happened Wayne? I'm still holding my breath.

It's mostly S/SE facing. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&amp...amp;layer=DRG25 Chris, you'd have a hell of a time getting in there now. When AviTripp and I were in there last October and climbed the Arete to the right of Mike and Darrin's route, the bridge over the ?Fork of the Nooksack had just washed out and we had to wade, which was difficult at October flows. I'm not saying access across the rivre would be impossible, but I'd be really interested to hear how it goes if you try.

I've heard E. Ridge of buckner is really really frightening, and it looks like such an ascetic line from Park Creek Pass. The FA was circa 1939 by a female climber as well...

MisterE described Sagitarius to me in the following way on our drive to index: 5.10a... and it's the hardest .10c climb you'll find. Should be called Sagi-Scary-ous. That had a psychological effect on me.

Sky skied stuff most people can't climb. Wallstein got a free ascent of some 5.13+ crack in Washinton Andrew almost got killed on Greybeard And everyone argued about Dean Potter and for some reasons there is a "pirates" forum.

How was the Ruth Gorge?

Andrew, Greybeard is not your mountain buddy.

Right now the Stehekin road runs 12 miles, ending just past the Agnes Creek trailhead, and 3 miles short of bridge creek, 5 miles short of Park creek, and 11 miles short of Cottonwood camp (where it had always ended.) A decision is being made about what to do with it. Make your voice heard. -Blake Stehekin group wants to keep road into National Park open to vehicles By K.C. Mehaffey, World staff writer STEHEKIN — A National Park Service proposal to turn the washed-out upper Stehekin Valley Road into a trail for hikers and horseback riders has met with opposition from some Stehekin residents. Stehekin Heritage members say none of the four alternatives presented by the Park Service are viable. They claim the preferred option — which closes the road to vehicles — would discourage visitors and residents from enjoying a large area of the North Cascades National Park. In March, the Park Service released four options for the upper 11 miles of the road, including eight miles damaged when the Stehekin River flooded in October 2003, and the last three miles of road that has been closed since a 1995 flood. The options include: • Doing nothing • Closing the road to vehicles • Reconstructing most of the road • Rerouting the road and asking Congress to change the boundaries of the Stephen Mather Wilderness Area. The Park Service fixed part of the 23-mile road last year, making the lower 12 miles accessible to vehicles. Comments on the proposal to close the upper part of the road permanently and turn it into a trail will be accepted until May 27. In a news release Monday, Stehekin Heritage said it’s asking the Park Service to include a new alternative that would rebuild a road inside the non-wilderness area strip, slightly outside the flood plain so that expensive riprap along the Stehekin River wouldn’t be necessary. Contractors believe the rebuild would cost between $600,000 and $1.5 million, instead of the $6.6 million estimated cost for rebuilding the road and riprapping the river, the news release stated. Heritage spokeswoman Roberta Pitts said in an e-mail that about half of Stehekin’s 85 permanent residents align themselves with her group’s goals. She said her group worries that the road can no longer be used to take hikers and sightseers into the backcountry. “Many of the most scenic hiking areas of the valley are now cut off to the day hikers. Fishermen are also a group that enjoyed using Bridge Creek for a day-use fishing trip,” she wrote. Cliff Courtney, president of Stehekin Heritage and operator of a shuttle service part-way up the Stehekin Valley Road, wrote that residents already fought this battle with the Park Service before it adopted its new management plan in 1988, when it agreed that the entire road would be maintained. “Without the road the crown jewels of the area like Horseshoe Basin and Cascade Pass become inaccessible to all but the ardent backpacker and the mobility impaired have little chance to see the actual Park at all,” Courtney wrote. Tim Manns, spokesman for the National Park Service, said the Park Service operated a shuttle bus on the upper road for about 20 years each summer. It ended the service after the 2003 flood, he said, and the future of that service depends on what happens to the road. The vans carried about 2,500 passengers a year one-way on the upper road, he said. Manns said that only a narrow strip of land — 50 feet on either side of the centerline of the previous road — is currently located outside the wilderness area. He said he’s not sure it’s possible to move the road outside the 100-year floodplain, yet stay within the non-wilderness strip. “We do want public input, and if someone has a good idea, that’s the purpose of the public comment period,” he said. He said the Park Service is proposing to close the road to vehicles as the most environmentally sound option, but will consider comments before making a final determination. ———————————— To comment Information about the proposal is at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ noca. Comment forms are available on the Web site, and can be mailed to Superintendent, North Cascades NPS Complex, Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284; faxed to (360) 856-1934 or sent by e-mail to NOCA_Superintendent@nps.gov. Comments are due by May 27.

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Julia, the lighter colored rockfall scar tht Chuck mentions is visible in your first pic.