John Frieh

Had it before? How bad? What did your doctor have you do to encourage the healing process? How long before you could run again? Wear rock shoes? How long did you avoid ice climbing/cold temps after the initial event? Etc?

Ketchup digger?

Then again Jake Porter could be a young Fred Beckey

Buy the book Rudy! You can read it to your kids @ night!

You got a paternity test I would if Mel's book is as h0tt as the Annabell Bond mustache man thread!

You're just going to have to buy the book if you want to find out Rudy! Who knows... maybe Jake is a sport climber!

Being that the protagonist never makes past 1st base in any of Mel's books it makes sense that Jake was based on Sobo and Porter :laf:

Any updates/pics/etc on N face? Is the road still closed?

IMHO any time learning body position, tool/pon placement, etc etc will only help you this winter. Get some

Alex said something about posting this on the wa state ice site

Back on topic... hope you've been doing your pull ups and calf raises: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?ab-70&unit=i ::

Whatever ratio it is having seen Bryan "in action" I can vouch they are coming to him... I'm still waiting for the day I open my email and find out he's dating my ex

If the weather holds CAN rockies this weekend.

:laf: You better be posting from the library dude!

Sounds like a plan assuming Bryan stops chasing the women and gets his homework done In other news: the CAN rockies...

winter dance pg 21

But of course not! It is though one of my favorite pics of that route Now let us all hope it comes in sometime in the next two weeks!

Mortgage insurance has been discontinued for non owner occupied properties by the major Mortgage Insurance Companies. 85% and 90% conventional loans for non owner occupied/investment properties are no longer available. :(

The other bummer about OIF week/weekend is all the motels/hotels bump their prices But yeah: camp bird road has some rad climbs

PDX -> Ouray: 19 hours in ideal conditions. If you're talking about the Ouray Ice Festival I would seriously reconsider especially if you hope to ice climb more than you stand around watching others ice climb. The problem with the OIF is it is so damn popular that you get to share a little ice with a lot of people which sucks for you. Dont get me wrong... the OIF is one big party but at least for me if I am going to spend that much cash to get there I want to climb as much ice as possible! IMHO you will get much more ice climbing in and will drive less if you attend the Bozeman Ice Festival (Bozeman is 12 hours away). I know a few people that will be attending the Bozeman Ice Festival this year (myself included). Less people and more ice and just as many clinics to attend as OIF. As far as flying vs driving to ice climb it comes down to how cheap you get your plane tickets/rental car vs what kind of gas mileage your car gets + how many people you carpool with. Obviously booking your tickets way in advance makes things much cheaper but depending on where you are going you could potentially screw yourself if conditions were teh suck when it finally came time to fly to your destination. I’ve known a few people that booked tickets to Canmore and the week they were there couldn’t really climb any of the routes they had been planning on/hoping for as the avy danger was out of sight. Other things to consider include most airlines have revised their carry on luggage rules and unless you travel really really light chances are you going to have to pay for a second checked bag (price varies airline to airline). As far as renting a car you can roll the dice and go cheap but if conditions are rough you might end up biting the bullet and having to buy chains or worse… not getting to climb at all as your rental car doesn’t have 4x4 and/or AWD. You can reserve a AWD/4x4 car but they bump your total cost. With that said I have flown to Bozeman a few times for 129 one way which is cheaper than driving unless you can get 4 people in a car that gets respectable gas mileage. Hope this helps!

Thanks for buying my girl and her friend a beer pink

CAN rockies are in now alpine routes in montana should be in sometime this month

No worries my friend... Ill see you this Wednesday... hopefully tailgating w/ me!