TrogdortheBurninator

So tomorrow then. Surely somebody wants to ice climb tomorrow (thursday) afternoon. Maybe one of you DTers wants to climb some Ice before hand. It is sunny and cold outside. What more could you ask for. What if all this ice myseriously melts tomorrow night. Then what will you have? Nothing!

But just think - you could scare the shit out of yourself from 1:00 to 5:00, then mellow out afterwards taking some turns.

Come on everybody, somebody must have just finished finals or be fed up with their job and want to get out for a few hours.

Anybody want to skip out on work early tomorrow and head to alpental for some ice. Maybe leave seattle around 12:00 or 1:00 and climb for a couple hours. If not, maybe thurs early AM. PM me if interested.

I already rebuilt her. It is finished. Stop wasting your time.

How are you spending so much time in LW?

I used to spray mostly on the Bel Biv Devoe fan club board, but I've slowly transitioned over to CC.com. BTW, what are these climbing topics you speak of? Is that part of the secret CC.com hidden website?

BK start is some stout 5.9. Probably more like 10+ IMO. But considering the whole route is like 10B, it isn't that much stiffer than the route grade, just the pitch grade.

Was the skiing ant good? I almost went, but thought it would be icy.

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This is how Hubba Hubba main flow looks right now

Took WMs advice and climbed Hubba Hubba main flow today. It is true that there is some good ice in shape in washington. Adding to WM's list, what I think is Chandelier falls by Lake Wenatchee was looking really good.

Thanks WM. The forecast said eastside lowlands would stay cold glad that they did.

That will be Dru's post count when he finally gets a girlfriend and can spend less time spraying.

I'm still going too, just hate stupid weather.

Why does it have to get so warm right before the weekend. 44 right now on tumwater mountain, and 36 at the top of alpental. Apparently it is staying cold down low and temps are supposed to drop again by Monday. Why couldnt this happen two days ago.

http://www.tite-grip.com/ I have chronicly sweaty clammy hands, and have been a compulsive chalk user since I started climbing. Even with chalk, my hands are soaked a few moves into a difficult route, doing little to inspire confidence. I got some samples of this stuff early in summer. Some of the samples were already dried up when they arrived, but a few were intact, so I tried them. The seemed to work great, but with only enough goo for a couple days, it was hard to reach a conclusive decision. This fall I got fed up with sweaty hands and decided to buy some production tubes of the stuff. It doesn't work miracles, but it is still a great product, especially when used with chalk. No more chalking up three times on three move boulder problems at the gym. The other day I forgot to put the goo on before going to the gym and really noticed how well the stuff worked by its absence. Anyhow, if you have sweaty hands too, you might want to try this stuff out. I am also thinking about trying it on my feet, but havent yet. Seems like it could really help there as well.

I have some beta on pretty good traffic. Some good beginner routes are 405 through bellevue between 3:30 and 5:00 I5 north around 4:00 trying to get on the express lanes The front street exit in issaquah is more of an advanced route, might want to wait a few years before you earn enough experience for that.

The route is probably the NE Slab. It is covered thoroughly in Nelson's 2nd volume.

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I think he meant brothas dont climb http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/s...true#Post524710

Awesome

styx in front of M & Ms?