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Come to think of it, yeah I think the dog is quite a bit cuter than she is. I mean, for a dog. Not her I mean. I mean, I'm not saying she looks like the dog, just that it might help...?

No dude, I'm serious. She really is not very attractive in those photos! Not to me at least. Like I said, not my type. But she is smiling, so maybe she is nice...? Maybe I could see past her alarming visage to the kind loving person she might be? I mean, she has a cute doggie...

I say she ain't got nothin' on most mountain chicks. Hell she hasn't got enough fat on her to last one night, and it don't look like she could carry my broken ass out of anywhere, either!

Yeah there's a trough and some wands even. The trough goes through the Colfax Icefall debris field but even that is looking pretty benign.

Agreed, the real thing is better than a picture... I should hope.

Hell yes Selma Hayek could kick her ass and she would look so sexy doing it too! "Te saco la madra gringita, te juro! Ves esta aqui? Yo te haga comerla!"

Well sure, she could have a heart of gold but I can't tell that from the picture.

I'd give her the respect any human being deserved but I too share Cracked's sentiments... maybe she's just not my type. I'm definitely not down with the heavily plucked eyebrows either. Why do women do that!

As far as steepness it actually turned out to be little steeper than I was expecting, but it's not extreme. Depending on conditions, you still don't want to fall on it but recovery is possible.

Jason beat me to it, kind of... Skis! Just look at that topo. There's got to be countless couloirs to climb/ski in that area. Dang maybe I should take another year off and go to Alaska...

At Larrabee, those two cracks on the lower side of the train tracks are better than the "sand in your crack" one...

Larrabee does have a couple of short cracks. There are some descriptions here: http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/listArea.php?AreaID=1375 Oyster Dome has a couple 5.9/5.10 sport lines but they are short and not really worth the hike. The views from the top, however, are worth the hike... Mt. Erie has some good sport. It really isn't too far from I-5. For 5.10 sport I'd recommend the Orange Wall.

I went in there with a suit and tie on once and they were real nice-like.

you could fill _both_ yer packs and bury them Ah gawd dammit, I just got this one.

Oh yeah, well, after my extensive inspection of the belay anchors I had come to the conclusion that the picket system had 7 cumulative crust-layers and a non-shockload impact rating of 7.8 kN, and my voluntary backup from the buried shafts of one iceaxe and one ice tool provided a 0.9 kN redundancy.. Of course pickets are only as good as those placing them. I personally have never placed a picket that I would want to fall on. But then again, I've only ever placed pickets for fun...

I've messed around with pickets in soft snow too and they do blow out pretty easily just as Alex describes. Seemed in soft snow that a sitting belay with feet and a seat stomped out was stronger than a hastily buried 36" picket. Of course in snow that soft, you ought to be able to self-arrest pretty easily. And in an emergency situation, how much time are you going to have to "work-harden" or dig a really good trench? I agree in soft snow you're better off assuming your picket is not the ticket. Hell I think I'd rather fill my pack with snow a bury that. But I always assumed that pickets were only reliable in fairly firm, dense snow, preferably with some strong crust layers if you're doing a vertical placement.

Isn't that what - wears on his speed ascents?

both not true So you're telling me that you've done an 8-mile approach to a boulder problem?

I think bouldering is awesome. It's the quickest (and safest!) way to get good at doing really hard moves. But I think it lacks depth, and a sense of adventure. It's also a discipline in which you pretty much expect to fall A LOT, which is just not acceptable in contrasting modes of climbing, such as big trad routes. Plus you can boulder all day and kick all kinds of ass but there's neither an amazing alpine panorama at the end, nor an 8-mile stumble back to the car.

uh... cross your eyes more... or go to my uw site it has a couple of easier ones...

Yeah well the subject isn't very interesting, it's the idea...

Haha. No way dude I'm gonna rock the ice old skewl.

Yeah I just went with a 4-degree difference, which in 44" radius came out to about 3".