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My condolences to the surviving family.

It's easy to walk on the ferry here in P.A. No long lines. Second the Bug Museum. There's a great japanese deli in the mini mall adjacent to the bug museum ...and a great japanese restaurant a couple blocks W ...or the Noodle Box for good cheap asian fast food. There's an MEC store in Victoria, worth checking out. And you can buy acetominophen with codeine over the counter in CA, but it's illegal to bring it back to the US. That stuff knocks out my nephew's headaches.

You paid too much. But it doesn't matter if you like it. I like old axes too. It's fun to imagine where it's been...

Willllllber!

I have spent many nights in the HLLO. It is superb, as lookouts go.

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You should send this to my friend Jon Reidel. He is the geologist at North Cascades National Park. He'd be interested in seeing your map...

That rock pitch looks schweet! Nice pics.

Very sad... You can never let your guard down in the alpine, and despite doing everything correct, there always remains an environmental hazard factor that is beyond your control. It's important to be ever vigilant and alert. That being said, you can't remove all of the risk.

Nice job reporting on this incident. We should also acknowledge Wilderness District Ranger Kelly Bush's vision and leadership in working to get the NOCA operation certified for short-haul rescue with a helicopter. This was the technique that made this rescue possible. From NWMJ Kelly Bush has also been working to get their rescue program certified for another specialized application known as the “short haul.” In this application a rescuer or perhaps a litter with a patient is flown while suspended from beneath the helicopter. “Kelly has put in an awful lot of work to get it to the point that soon we’ll be certified for short haul,” Reece said. Currently only larger parks such as Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Grand Canyon, all of which have full-time helicopters based at the parks, have short-haul programs in place. One requirement in the licensing process is to develop an on-call contract for a helicopter certified to perform short-haul and step out landings. This will not represent a significant change in the park’s relationship with Reece, because, according to Bush, Reece has always placed a high priority on responding when climbers need his help. “He’s been in Eastern Washington on a fire contract,” Bush said. “He’ll find a way to break loose and show up within the hour if I call him. Some days in the summer no helicopters are really close. But he is willing to finagle himself loose and fly in. So that has been to the benefit of quite a number of people who’ve been flown out in his helicopters.”

I'm amazed how climbing in NOCA has evolved in the past 10-20 years. The standard has been raised, and this ascent was up to standard: quick, light, and followed by an on-line multimedia TR share-out for the community.

RIP Michael Jackson. Talented, but a bizarre nut case.

I skipped last year, but would like to re-up. August 21-23 would probably work for us.

Nice pix.

I've always preferred to stay off that S face route on the summit pyramid. The SE ridge route is much more pleasant, and avoids all the drama on the S face on busy days. Easy class V rock.

I think I'll wait and see if more facts come out before I draw any conclusions. Then I'm going to put the DVDs for the Kung Fu TV series back into my Netflix queue for a refresher viewing.

Yeah, but it wasn't Carradine's fault that Bruce Lee got passed over for the part of Caine. And Carradine played the part well, putting his stoner-zen-dopey stamp on the character. Besides, he was 72 years old... I hope I make it to 72.

My all-time favorite character from a television series...

Sometimes the picture of the guy shows up the next day. His name is Nelson Blewett. *Pause* I'd say he did...

Clallam man burned in lighter fluid tag game... I always wish they would include a photograph of the geniuses with articles like this.

You should never lend your clothes to a Christian...

Nothing much changes. I saw snowmobilers ignoring the wilderness boundary on the N side of Adams back around 1983. I hate snowmobiles. I could see having one if you lived in the Methow, to be used to pull a little tracksetting implement around your property for grooming nordic ski tracks. Recreational snowmobiling is simply incompatible, inappropriate, and environmentally damaging and unsustainable. Bunch of fat fucks.

Nice Jimmy Cliff video.

Quote of the day.

Read The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac to get oriented...