MisterMo

Thanks. Sounds right. I rarely see people on that route. The waterfall, BTW, is dry or close to it much more of the year than back in the day. I think it's because the timber up top has regrown and so stream runoff is much lowered.

Stillcrankin's modesty is here only exceeded by his capacity for indignation (see post a ways above). He did an early ascent of the Waterway route with Dick Emerson before, I think, he was old enough to drive.....using swami belt, pitons, and all the rest of the memory lane bullshit. A feature of the route (which I haven't climbed)causing a certain amount of trepidation/awe/reluctance back in the day was a section of supposedly un-nailable 5.8 (gasp) up high somewhere. I am so pissed that I cannot remember who Stoddard's partner was on the FA.........and I just recently parted with all my old mags & such.

The worst movie ever made.

Yes, no, maybe..........an alternate point of view: I swore years ago to never be a slave to family for the sake of family. Those relatives with whom I have some common ground beyond genetics I've spent many a good time with. Those with whom I share no common ground I rarely see. None of us has to spend holidays or days off fidgeting uncomfortably in the company of people who've seen plenty of one another after the first five or ten minutes. It's not for everyone but it works for me.

Flattered, I am. PM an email, I'll send the hi-res when I get a chance. It's not a terrifically good negative though.

I've got several fast/sharp Nikkor AI lenses, for which I once shelled out a bunch of money. I'd like to be able to continue to use them. The D70 will accept, but not meter through, AI lenses. The D200 will do both in at least some modes. While correct exposure is not as fussy with digital as it was with Kodachrome, TTL metering is still something I'd like to have. That's one reason I haven't gone to D70; another is that while I'm less happy with the results, carrying my little Canon point and shoot is a lot less work and hassle than lugging an SLR and 4 or 5 lenses.

I'm very close to going out and plunking down for the D200. Unlike the D70 it will accept and meter with all my old non-autofocus Nikon lenses of which I have several very good ones. 5 or 6 fps, I think, 10+ megapixels. Very close to the D2X in many respects and at $1600 is about $3000 or so cheaper.

Might as well list all the 8 mile cracks since you're there, eh? Deception, Right Forking. Left Forking, Nauseous Also, mebbe: Givlers Dome, Madsen's Squeeze Chimney, COD at Castle Rock Do people climb at the crag at the outwash of Rat Creek anymore or is it a victim of Private Property?

Given your North Cascades geographic parameter I think I'd suggest taking a whirl at getting up Sibley Creek/Hidden Lake Peak. Don't know the road situation, but I think you could figure on having to pack your skis a ways regardless. I bet you can ski above where the trail leaves the timber, but I also believe ski conditions will be less than orgasmic on any exposure just now.

Link Pretty good page with a lot of info on stuff I never thought much about until this thread. If you scroll down a fuzz there's info on sealevel fluctuations on the order of 100m for various reasons. Back closer to the original topic: I almost never use my compass. I use my altimeter both to satisfy my curiosity and, in periods of poor visibility and geographic confusion, to help figure out what's what and where's where. I don't own a GPS. Among GPS owners I'm curious A)How much the things get used for shits and giggles?; B) How much they get used for navigational necessity?; and C)How much they just get lugged around doing nothing?

Probably too late but perfect here yesterday and this morning. Lotsa cars at the LTW.

yeah, it's called GPS Which doesn't work worth a shit in the timber, among other places?

This may or may not help but I'll try: An altimeter and a barometer are really the same thing. They both measure air pressure which tells you both your elevation above sea level and/or what the weather might do. Since barometric pressure varies with the weather your altimeter will often show that you've gone up or down several hundred feet while you've in fact been fast asleep. Unless there's been some techy invention I don't know about it's necessary to check your altimeter a couple of times a day against known elevations to correct for weather caused changes. I don't know but would guess that giving you "pressure reduced to sea level" would be an effort to make those numbers read normally for sea level so you can compare to Harry Woppler saying the pressure is 29 point such and such. A millibar (one thousandth of a bar) is a standard unit of pressure, in your case, atmospheric pressure. Hope this helps. What make and model is your altimiter?

I caught an interview with him on the radio a while back. He described being picked for the movie by people who came to his class. The banjo playing was done by someone reaching from behind.

Longest consistent commute would have been Index-ASARCO, about 90 miles one way for periods of months. Dumb, yes, but less grim than living in a motel in Fife. My longest time commuting one way would have to be 9 hours (or was it 7?) getting from Stevens to Index & being on the wrong side of a wreck. That's like less than walking speed.

I won't call you anything but I will beg to differ.........with a lee aspect at that elevation the Colchuck Glacier should be pretty heavily loaded just now, right on top of the ice layer. I wouldn't want to be on it until it's done a freeze thaw cycle or two to glue things together a bit

I think the Anderson of Anderson and Bell was Lou Anderson, an architect and climber. I'll dig thru some of my old stuff & see if I can find more info.

(off topic) Beale was a great guy. I climbed with him a little about a decade before you did. He was one of a handful of people in that age group who were cool to be around at a point when people that age tended to be the enemy............no idea what became of him. (on topic) I didn't recall Beale being involved with the UW rock but I thought Bob Phelps had a big hand in it. He was, I think, a fuzz younger than Neal & maybe more likely to be around. Beale was pretty active in the Mounties; there may be people there who could point you in the right direction.

Assorted dismembered chicken parts Canna creema mushroom soup Cuppa sherry Cuppa sour cream Canna mushrooms plus some real mushrooms Stir all the wet stuff together; dump on top of the dismembered chicken parts (in a shallow pan, natch) & bake at 350 for an hour and a half or thereabouts. Serve with rice. If you ditch the empty cans you can deceive your honey that you actually know how to cook.

Ah yes, but, having your dump truck paid for is not unlike owning the needles for your heroin habit outright. You get richer quicker sitting cross legged under a tree, lighting 20 dollar bills on fire, one after another..........all the while chanting: "Dump trucks are swell; dump trucks are swell.............."

Generator crack?

Much white stuff. Get some.

It's the high point on the Ruth Creek/Nooksack divide, isn't it?

From Hannegan Pass the route to Ruth goes a couple of hundred feet straight up what might best be described as a ditch (eroded trail) then around the left side of the arm that runs off of Ruth. It's visually unmistakeable when there's not a foot plus of new snow. Had you found it you'd have been in for a bit of a wallow, sounds like, and maybe thinly drifted over crevasses on Ruth itself.

Jesus is that fast. It takes me as long as your whole day just to drag my aging fat ass up there. It's the bread sacks, right? I'm going to have to try bread sacks.