ashw_justin

dang. I weep for the glaciers.

There are some easy cracks at Smith. Just stay away from anyone with chalk. If you breathe any of it, it is highly contagious and you run serious risk of infection, resulting an intense and depraved desire to buy rock shoes that are two sizes too small and go "pull down on some sick little edges, bro."

No way! PBC is gonna be there?!

Be smarter than the sheep! Don't drive a major highway during rush hour... which apparently is all the time in the Snohomish River Valley. No I take that back. 5 AM is usually ok.

thanks! sorry for linking straight to your directory...

Ok here is Ducknut's photo taken from W. McMillan last year. We are in the red circle.

Oh ok, so you went a different way? I know there was a fairly easy ramp right around there. I want to say we came right down here:

A photo of the glacier edge. I think the ramp at left has a good chance of going...? Or so it did last year.

That rock is beautiful!

It appears that all of your pics are acutally .gifs. http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/bkrishna/pics/Adams/

Well we only had a day to work with. But even with a light day pack, my knees are still tortured. I guess in nice weather you could bivy on just a few more pounds though. How much does paragliding gear weigh?

maybe once my knee starts working again. The funniest thing about this trip was that it took longer from summit to car than car to summit. I never lost the trail on the way down, but my companion was intent on descending very very slowly, and I wasn't about to start talking smack to my boss.

Yeah we saw that too. I don't know who put it there, but if there was trail mix in it, then it could have been someone from the other part of our group trying to leave us a snack (they only went to the pass, and then drove out early). Being that it was around 11 pm at that point, we just walked right by it. I guess we should have taken it down though. I certainly would have if I hadn't been so spaced out. edit: or maybe it was someone's trash-cairn? I don't know. Anyway, I apologize for not grabbing it and thank you if you did. What route on Inspiration did you climb? I bet getting accross the glacier was fun. We did it last year about this time, retardedly without crampons. But it looks worse this year.

Well this counts as work because my boss was there.

thanks. Gotta say the best part of it all is just cruising around on those endless slabs. If my knees would just tolerate the de-proach better, it would be my favorite hike.

Actually I recently joined a lab that is known for going on ridiculous hikes, so I decided to test their mettle. Only the PI made it up West Mac... nevertheless I was a little surprised to be standing on the summit with someone other than just myself or the usual suspects.

Climb: another West McMillan Spire-West Ridge TR!! Date of Climb: 8/10/2005 Trip Report: Despite the obvious traffic that West Mac is getting lately, there is still way too much loose shit up there. So everybody, go climb it and try to knock off some of the loose rock on your way, unless -gasp- there is someone else out there, in which case try not to kill them. OK here are photos showing what the weather was like yesterday. Oh yeah and we did it in a day, with a time of forever, car to car. and some more photos here. http://students.washington.edu/ashwortj/NWMountains/WestMac.html Gear Notes: didn't bring crampons, the snow was soft at 2pm. Ice axe was sorta handy for self-belay in steeper snow. Approach Notes: Don't carry lots of water up the steep woods, as there is guaranteed fresh tasty water right after you drop over the pass. The crux of the climb was at the bottom in the melted out choss gullies. Maybe there was a better way.

All trying to feel like we have a little piece of divinity inside of us. How vain... the pathetic fallacy. But hey, why not? If evolution and biology are correct (which they are) then nothing about us really matters, so we might as well teach/believe in whatever the hell makes us happy. Like "God." Besides, it helps to keep all those damn little delinquents in line. God forbid people were to realize that there really are no consequences.

But how could you be dumb enough to start driving in front of a cop who knows you're drunk! That's your sobriety test right there. I bet the cop was real proud of himself too.

Look at all of those dangerous hippies, with their ideals and forward thinking!

fuck that's a bad trip if I ever heard of one

Dang Mike, that sounds freakin' awesome! Nice photos.

Well there's your problem.

There ya go.

no, it's not. The url's are not images.