MisterMo

I was not referring to last week. That is much better than I experienced. May it so continue.

Hey Mike I know you're not responsible for all the evils in the world, but, since you're more or less backing up the NPS here...please ponder the following: When: The sky is completely clear, and It hasn't snowed in days, and It hasn't blown enough to drift the road in at night, and The Paradise road is in fact BARE below Nisqually bridge, and the Longmire gate doesn't open until after 10 AM, and one of the concession people at Longmire tells me (during my 2 hour wait) that that's an obnoxious, frequent state of affairs....I read your repeated defense of current policies and practices in this thread and I have to call bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Nothing personal, you understand....

There's an old quote on the topic of free speech, attributed I think to Ben Franklin, about how the surest way to let the world know that an individual is a fool is to let that person announce the fact themselves. Nice goin, Lars. You made a believer outa me.

At the risk of totally butchering geologic concepts and terms: Roof pendants are chunks of overlying country rock above and protruding down into a (once) molten plutonic mass.

Maybe too little, too late but I want to jump in and cast a vote for plain old tied with a water knot runners. With adequate tail & jerked tight I've never had one come loose. No concerns about any sort of wear on stitching. No downside at all that I can think of. YMMV

Boulder Pass has some really standout roof pendants. I doubt these are any form of a rarity at all but the ones at Boulder really leap out at you.

This is correct. The only obstacle(s) to dream skiing in the shady fluff are whatever's right underneath it. There is zero base.

I had once thought and been led to believe that the roly poly rock pile you cross between Stuart Pass and Goat Pass, as when approaching Stuart N side from Ingalls Lake, was considered a rock glacier. The original brown Beckey guide refers to it as such, I think.

Jobs are hell.

Dysentery at Loggers Ledge. All necessary information has been provided.

Great idea. This place has tremendous potential and is closer than index. -it even has some slabs, cracks -some longer TR'able lines. __ I have never climbed a Zeke's, but a great summer day would be to hit Zekes in the AM and then boulder in the PM at the boulders? Anybody stumble onto the Jumbo mine up at the base of the cliff band? The Copper Belle is the adit near westernmost switchback.

I fussed a bit with my giant wall sized geologic map of the state, the only one handy enough and big enough. E seems awfully far "east' to be Keyes, etc. even allowing for how far east the camera point is. wouldn't be the first time I've been fooled though..

Right on the left, by the next gate. Pretty cool one too. This is Gilbert's cabin, correct?

Was taken from Sahale. A=Formidable B=Rainier C= Monte Cristo Area? D=Mix-up E=Monte Cristo Area? F=Sloan I need to pull out a small scale map & play with it but I have a hard time with C or E as Monte Cristo stuff. Now I'll go & try to figure out better what's what...

No it's not an outrage worthy of apoplexy, or cancelling tomorrow's sunrise, or anything like that, but I do think it's perplexing... On the other hand, if I loaded my saws & such in the pickup truck and tootled on down to Green Lake or the Arboretum or someplace and proceeded to whack a dozen or so trees just for effect...I think there'd be some sort of hell to pay.

Somebody whacked down a bunch of alders recently at the lower Town Wall out in the boulder patch. Maybe because they shaded the rocks and made them stay wet and mossy, or maybe just because they got a chain saw for Christmas, or ??? So, I'm curious if that person thinks the mess they left is an improvement. Is anyone here willing to take responsibility or is it just one of those things?

...some very cool boulders nontheless.

Wanna be the pope, huh?

The "senders" with middle initials have a special place in my heart as well.

No it's not. That's just a drive around barricade. don't know if you get a ticket past it or not, but I see a lot of rigs up there. Both slides are easily passable as of two days ago. Haven't been past Garland lately but as of mid Jan you could have easily driven to the little washout right before Lake Blanca Trail. OTOH if you respect the barricades it's an easy bike up there, well under an hour.

It's not very long but in the Klawatti area there's a gully that bypasses the upper McAllister icefall, your goal here being to get out to Austera Towers & such. I would not have thought it possible to stack rubble that loose that steep...it was a horrifying little slice of time

The Munday's trip up the Homathko from tidewater does not come off as any picnic either.

We're getting off poor Anderl but... By way of analogy in the US we're faced with some similar issues just now...not to equate our government with the Nazis, but maybe there's a thing or two going on that I have moral issues with: At what points do I speak up & how loudly, at what points do I just roll with it in silent disagreement etc...etc...etc.... Maybe those are complex questions, especially if I'm in the minority. Come 70 years from now some of those things may clearly be seen as wrong, but, I don't think that gives a person 70 years from now any moral prerogative to second guess my choices today. As for Stalin, he killed how many million Russians in decades of purges often for the most nebulous of reasons? Not exactly a political climate that encouraged one to stand out in a crowd, was it?

No, no, no. It is to his credit that he did. People do make mistakes and poor judgements after all; it is the better among us who own up to them, take responsibility, learn from them and such. For you or I to make the same judgement however, looking through a window from a wholly different time and society, is another matter. All we can judge, I submit, is whether or not his conduct was consistent with the mores of the society and period of time in which he lived.

To sit in one time and culture and pass judgement on another time and culture is to tread on the very thinnest of ice. Wars serve to cloud the issues further; right and wrong in wartime is very much determined by who is the winner and who is the loser. Best first spend a bunch of time trying to imagine yourself as a young man in mid depression prewar Germany. Just how do you think you would have conducted yourself? Your point appears to be that Heckmair transgressed by his association (however minor)with the Nazi Government. My point is that he and a few million other Germans transgressed mainly by being on the losing side. And no, I don't condone Nazi outrages one bit.