MisterMo

I want to say #1 is Heliotrope Ridge but it's been too long. Number 2 is Coleman Headwall on Baker I'm fairly certain The last one is Buck or whatever the heck that thing is on the W side of the Chiwawa above Trinity. Looks like maybe it was taken from Carne Mountain.

Not only that, it appears to override a traditional expectation that all parties to an agreement have an equal obligation of honesty. Mister Layton: With absolutely no intent to preach or advise, I would at least predict that if you give up the ciggies tomorrow and keep climbing all your days you will one day look back and praise the wisdom of both choices.

Maurice Wilson?

No, on Index. A couple hundred yards South of the Main Peak.

No where near that cold in Index. only down to 7 here at the pass overnite. The main issue is the clear skies. Index sorta constantly flushes when it's like that. An overcast combined with cold temps makes things a lot safer.

EDM, is that the W Face of N Peak? It really isn't all that cold, and worse yet it's clear and stuff is really loaded up...so...this would be a perfect time to get flushed out the bottom of whatever gully you chose.

The rain crust is pretty variable right now. Hard as a rock in some spots & you can actually punch through in others. Sweet stuff on top of it.

I've had the pleasure of flying with, or working under, Tony on a couple of occasions including this Index wedding a few years back. He is a most excellent pilot and a great guy. Happy to hear he's OK.

So at about 11 AM it was sunny and near 60 at the pass. Felt like May. Now it's snowing hard in Index following a brief spell of hammering wind. Wild winter...lots of good powder days though.

Mount Ruth is one of the prettiest summits around and is pretty much a walk up. There may be crevasses in late summer but none earlier. Your one day restriction limits you more than your need that it be non-technical. Lots of cool easy summits in the Cascades if you're willing to overnite. You don't state your background and I do not wish to be patronizing but outside of "climbing" skills there's a thing or two to learn and know about navigation and such to help ensure your foray has a happy ending. People occasionally perish on easy things like the Muir snowfield, for example, because they were ill-prepared and unlucky when the weather went sour.

Well no one, cause there is no Franklin Arm Bump I didn't think I'd dreamed it up... There is a Franklin (Franklyn) Arm in the Coast Mountains. It extends westerly from near the southern end of Chilko Lake and has been used as an approach to the Homathko area. Ref: CAJ 1975 Pp.40-42, AAJ 1958 Pp. 97-98 It would be a demented way to walk into Waddington though...

Ah...in my defense the stuff I pointed you at is high, dry, and in one piece. You'd be archy's neighbor though, long wade out to the grocery store.

I always had it figured in my mind that the passage you quote was inspired by the Downey Creek approach to Dome. I am also very fond of the essay "Rain Sleep" in the same book. Harvey wrote an awful lot of good stuff.

Oh yes, do that. The Wonderland would be a very cool winter tour. I was really close to doing it back in the day but I put it off too long & got old. Damn. I imagine in these days of thin low altitude snowpacks you'd want a setup that you can hoof it in here and there.

Explain.

After you WHAT? Tell me that's a typo or troll or something.

Yes, to the best of my knowledge.

Everyone, including loaded trucks, was merrily driving back and forth over that void until yesterday afternoon when the water receded enough to crawl down and look. Should hopefully be passable to traffic by Friday, though riprapping the seaward side of the abutment will take longer. Snohomish County Public Works response has been more than excellent. They are on my good list forever.

or they could have plenty to do around the house:

PM Sent

Yo, everybody We are still here but things look a lot different than they did two days ago. Never in thirty plus years in Index have I seen such rain and never would have I believed the river could get so high with no snowmelt to feed it. The Skykomish was over the bank in town for most of the day yesterday. Several houses in town have structural damage from logs and other have water damage and silt inside. Our big bridge has serious erosion of the south approach and was closed this evening for assessment and repair. Up the North Fork several cabins were washed away and large sections of road are gone. I have been massively busy for two straight days and only have a very few photos which I have not yet had time to dump. I'll post anything interesting.

Twilight Zone?

As in freezing level to 8K over the weekend. Yuck.

Maybe, but I doubt it. Objections from the landowners centered around huge parking cluster fuck along the road and issues with the fruit in season. With those and liability issues (which may just have been a red herring) resolved, plus sale of an un-farmable hillside they have little reason to care. In earlier days, with smaller numbers of climbers, relations were excellent. One could drive up through the orchard & park by the fence with no hassle. I agree with those who state there should be no closure at all.

Moreover, if for some actual reason there is only the $$ or whatever to keep the place open a certain fraction of the year it doesn't seem unreasonable to have the closures in months like June, July, & August when it's too hot , and then have it open, say, Labor Day to whenever. If the restrooms are in fact gone (I haven't been there in a while), then the only reasonable cost issue I could see (if they do it)would be garbage pickup. I really don't see why something like the Pinnacles should ever be officially "closed" at all. The only closure that ever made sense to me was when problems developed that caused the orchard owners to close it before and during harvest.