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Skis! Splitboard!

It was raining at 7000 feet on Saturday morning around sunrise. Some cold temps might generate some refreezing. It should be light rain all week so maybe this will pack down the snow.

The funny thing is that even though we are completely honest about what we do, there is very little that we could be construed to be guilty of. Just think if this were a snowmobiling, fishing, hunting, four-wheeling, or you-name-your-sport forum. I bet there would be some serious dirt. But I think as climbers were pretty damn, almost pathetically, conformative and law-abiding...

man he sure looks fiesty. meowr!

Part of respecting and accepting each other is being honest, being able to debate and to voice criticism. Reagan deserves better than having us all blow perfume up his...

Hey they're not dead either! But don't let that stop you from pissing on them...

Hitler? Dahmer? McVeigh? Harris and Klebold? Some do deserve for their names to be smeared in shit for the rest of eternity... but Ronald Reagan is not one of them. Neither are Michael Moore or Fidel Castro... and I don't think they would like you talking about them as if they were already dead! However I think it is still fair to continue political discussion (or criticism), as long it is genuine, even following the death of a political icon. That is just part of the life (and death) that a politician choses for him/herself. It's part of their importance and significance.

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Went looking for my ice tool at Baker CD high camp at sunrise on Sat. Didn't find it, got rained on. Got home, found message from the guy who did.

Did anyone else see ExtremoMtDude's guest appearance on South Park?

Cool... I've been up to Sehome a couple of times only the top section. I also want to go do more routes on the Orange Wall at Erie. We only got to do one last time before it started raining.

Anyway, did the bouldering go down? Will there be another chance to get schooling (schooled) by Distel?

Nope. And I even looked for 'em.

Quiet you! Someone would have to be climbing the Roosevelt Glacier to run accross my glove... Luckily the one old glove and one new glove complement each other...

FOUND! But I didn't know that when I went up to look for it again in the rain...

It goes like V1-ish.

Okay I'll try to fill in the blanks. 'Has anyone ever floated (rafted/canoed/kayaked/swam?) the Skykomish River from the High Bridge (near the town of Gold Bar) down to Sultan?' Is that what you meant? That stretch is class II, 18 feet per mile, 8.5 miles. The Skykomish is running at around 7000 cubic feet per second, which is a high flow. What kind of craft do you intend to use?

Whatever man. That's only the beginning with this post. It makes very little sense, and I'm a WW paddler.

oh yeah it's on the Coleman-Deming route...

how do you float a high bridge I don't understand what you are talking about. I'll hazard a guess: are you talking about kayaking/canoeing a class I stretch of the Skykomish River?

no way man you lose like 10 of your last 's for that!

Wul dang, ain't that what the shotgun's for? ...you know, to help cut the tree down. (sorry, couldn't resist )

pshh... life is a fatal accident.

Lost on Thursday, my ice tool is almost definitely sitting in the snow somewhere along the cowpath between 6000 and 7000 feet. Please PM me if found. I can describe its uniqueness.

We were just heading out from the Mt. Baker high camp around 2 am to climb, when all of a sudden this huge streak of orange and red set the sky ablaze. What a sendoff!