Blakej

oz are you offering to lead/teach or the opposite?

basic glacier travel and the general washington climbs. Not really planning on vertical ice but would like somthing that could substitute for shits and giggles if I want to try the vertical stuff but basically I'm new to glacier and snow travel so I need somthing to make those first steps but hopefully give some growing room into the more technical stuff. I would prefer step ins. any suggestions.

I looking to buy my first set of crampons and I've been looking hard at the grivel G 12 and grivel Air Tech. The question would be what am I loosing by going with the air tech besides weight. Are the shorter spikes going to effect me much? Are there any other models to look at for just basic first set type deal?

Actually been working on getting over to utilikilts for the past month. rbw... are the mammut champs insulated?

I've been looking pretty hard at getting a pair of the stretch/water-resistant/sometimes insulated pants such as the REI one or the salomon second skin and was wondering if anyone has an opinion at to which is the best one out there.

Actually I will be hitting Anderson The complete tentive peak list is below. As for when I'm not sure. I am going to start scouting some of the ridges early april to get an idea of what exactly I'm getting into and I still need to gain some Glacier experience As thats one of my big weak points. I definately want to hit all the mayjor peaks along the route but I'm still in the research phase. Probobly won't happen at least till early next year though. peak list elk lick, lacross, white mountain, anderson, chimney, christie, seattle, noyes, meany, queets, barnes, childs, pulitzer, ferry, stephen and carrie.

It seems that most of you carry some sort of protection on a regular basis but even if your stuck with out it can you really see just standing there and watching someone die while you potentally can prevent that. The percentage of people in the US with potentially life threatining diseases that you may contract from cpr is relatively low and as for if the guy is a victum of trauma or not if he's already dead what can it hurt. unless your a well trained medical professional who knows what hes looking at better to err on the side of caution.

The route I was thinking of was starting at Mt Elk Lick and following that ridge white mountain and chimney then over to seattle noyes and finishing up in the bailey range traverse. basically an east to west s across the park.

I recently was looking at a full topo of the olympics and saw a possible route for a east to west olympic high country traverse but I haven't seen any beta of this ever being done or attempted. Does anyone have info. I've been told some of the areas I am looking at crossing just aren't worth brush crashing through.