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This pack still isn't on the BD site. How much is it? How big is it?

During your involvement in the Oct 2003 "Mounties Pics" thread, were you laughing at all mounties or only those who didn't attend this slide show? http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/260155/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

I have been training for the 2nd ascent, do you think I'm ready?

I'm already there (And I only need one arm)

regarding board length: Some maufacturers quote material length and others quote tip to tail length. The amount of kick will dictate how close these numbers are.

This thread is only 3 days old. I doesn't get much more current than that. The approach depends on the climb, but basically you park on the road and walk up hill to the climbs. Some climbs can be seen from the road, others are hidden.

Glad you guys are OK. Hope things improve for your partner's toes.

Very nice climbing!! Good idea bringing a third party photographer for verification agains future winter speed ascents.

The 10C right of the twelve is really fun and unique. Thin moves on an interesting ramp. Not sure if it is really 10C, but fun nonetheless. The 10a to 10d is a chosspile. Super dirty. The 10a section seems really easy and the 10d section seems pretty hard.

Nice site, especially the Iron Maiden soundtrack.

That is the one I was thinking of. 10d is about right for that route at E38.

The route just right of endless bliss is 10+ in the book. I think the 12 is either a blatent misprint, or another route and the 10+ is missing.

Amazing line. Nice work.

Anybody want to head up to Alpental for some ice climbing this afternoon? PM me if interested.

It should be as good if not better IMO.

Wow, that was fast. Where did you get it?

I suppose it depends how hard you ride, but I have heard the home jobs suffer some serious torsional rigidity issues. Plus you get no inside edge in ski mode.

The bindings mount on a metal plate. The plate can be oriented in snowboard mode or ski mode. In ski mode, there is only a single pin attachment, allowing for a free heel. I was going to just get a Voile cause you get the hardware, board and skins all together. They have too models now, with the major difference being stiffness. The Prior sounds pretty good too. Apparently Never Summer (CO company thats made boards for a long time) will also do custom splits now. FYI SC, the new burtons use Voile hardware. They canned their hardware development and are just doing the boards now. I havent used em, but the approach skis seem like a silly option. Less float and more weight on the downhill. This is just my perception from what I've heard though.

They are skis I don't own a split, but have seriously considered buying one for a few years (went so far as ordering and canceling b/c it was backordered). Couloir magazine had a review of a bunch of boards a few months back. The new burtons using Voile hardware sound pretty good. Any snowboard bindings will work as they all mount on a standrad 4 hole pattern. Unless you have steep ascent ambitions, I would think that some good stiff snowboard boots would be a lot better than most mountaineering boots (supposedly sportiva Nuptse are pretty good at snowboarding and climbing). I snowboarded down from stellar falls at alpental the other day in my ice boots, and the performance suffered dramatically. I think Voile makes boards in the upper 150's lengths. Unless you are super light, or very new to snowboarding, I dont think something as long as 163 would be too bad even. Based on what I've read 5-10 cm longer than your resort length is typical (more if you ride abnormally short boards in bounds).

I would imagine that speed records are OK as long as said climber's soul is still thoroughly caged.

Or the unitard http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/s...true#Post547370

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