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http://www.nevershome.org/download.htm These are kind of old, but who knows when the guidebook printing problems will be sorted out... Need a partner for Erie?

http://www.mvsta.com/ http://www.methowdata.com/mtnsports/wfmethow.cfm

I wonder what the act of dicing does to cause an increase of 54 calories in rabbit meat? Does this only work with rabbit? If I'm trying to bulk up can I dice other foods to increase their calories? Or maybe just choose not to dice, if I want to loose weight?

I sometimes use a heart rate monitor that claims to measure calories based on your sex, weight and heart rate. I've never worn it on a climb, but I did wear it once while mountain biking (mostly pushing) to the top of the rainier express at Crystal Mountain and down again. The calories worked out to just over 1,000 per hour on average. I weigh 175 lbs.

Marmot Den? Hard to tell without either the fly off or completely closed up. Does the fly have a clear plactic window? Does the tent have 2 front doors? Anyway, it looks like a Den to me.

Hike, climb, whatever. I only have one day this weekend and I'd like to do something fun and relatively mellow. Maybe I'll just take the kid up Townsend or Ellinor.

We were at the 6,000' camp Sunday. On the way up we heard that a climber had a broken ankle and was waiting for an evacuation. I think it was around 4:00 when we saw what looked like a coast guard helocopter circling the mountain. It looked to me like they were searching for the injured climber. They left and returned several times and from our vantage point it looked like they either landed or hovered very low around 9:00 or so for the last time. I hope everything turns out all right for him. By the way, B, good job on the summit! I summited Baker for the first time yesterday and the conditions were excellent up there, just as you described.

Cool, let me know.

Anybody interested in heading down to Hamma Hamma Sunday morning?

I'll be staying at the inlaws in Methow Memorial weekend if anyone's interested in some rock. Mazama? Washington Pass?

I bought the Highgear Axis (the smaller one). Be careful with that one, as some of the first batch had some sort of problem with inadequate shielding, which made the sensors sensitive to static electricity. The watch performed fine until you put it on your wrist. Then after about 2 or 3 hours it would give all sorts of strange readings, like saying the temp was -38 and that you were at 18,000'. When I wrote the company they claimed to have fixed the problem and offered to exchange. I ended up exchanging for the one with the little biner...the Altitech II. My thought is that all of these watches that have temperature funtcions are affected by your body temp when you wear them, and I see a lot of people strapping the watches to their packs or whatever, so why not get one that's made to do that. I've used it in the mountains a couple times now and the accuracy has been as good (within 30 or so feet) as the people with Suuntos. Also, I've never experienced barometric drift. Even at home it can sit on the shelf for weeks at a time and never change altitude regardless of changes in weather.

Man, I wish I could but the boy has a soccer game Sunday.

Anyone want to go up Ellinor Friday? Or Mt. Townsend, or something? I've been chained to my desk since February doing taxes and I can just now finally get out! I'd also be up for some rock, or whatever. I don't lead but can follow and will drive. John

http://store.karstsports.com/petm70okcar.html I get these in Port Townsend at the local rigging shop that usually has them in stock, but you should be able to get them online pretty easily. Type "petzl ok" in google.

Has anyone been up to the upper trailhead for Mt. Townsend recently? I usually go up through the Lord Lake road access, but Im wondering how passable it is with 4wd.

I've been using the PT Yukon HL for a couple months now. I bought it when I was trying to buy a Myo 5 that was out of stock. Anyway, I'm much happier with the HL. The one watt LED is very bright, I've even rigged it to my bike helmet and put away my Niterider which sucked up too much battery power. The HL is supposed to last about 45 hours on high power, 120 on the 3 smaller LEDs, and I use the lithium AA batteries for better cold weather performance. I can't say enough good things about this light. http://www.princetontec.com/press_release_eclipse_impactii.html