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Yeah, that was way too many people Keep Bachelor Creek wild and brutal! Hope you had a great climb!

Trip: Sinister Peak - NW Face/W Ridge Date: 7/3/2017 Trip Report: Last year I attempted Dome and Sinister but only got Dome. I had plans to go back and bag the N Face via the Agnes Creek approach. With the snow pack and late-notice partner bailing I opted for the standard approach. And I had 4 days. The plan was to move heavy packs up to the bivy sites at 8700' on Dome in two days, then summit the N face of Sinister on day 3, move back towards the cars a bit, then finish the hike out on Day 4. We got most of the plan done except we bailed on the N face and opted for the "sure thing". My pack at the cars weighed 47 lbs on the way in and 42 on the way out. We used approach shoes for Downey Creek Trail and part of Bachelor, so carrying mountaineering boots accounted for some of the weight. The rest was food and gear. The approach took 11 hours. I really felt the heavy pack. The Bachelor Creek trail was better than I recall from last year. A lot of the deadfall has now been pounded flat and bootpath established around and over it. The old stream crossing has now been completely abandoned in favor of the "bypass" at 4000' and there has been some gardening done in there on the slide alder. There is a clear path through this section. Allthough I'd like to use flowery language here and say that we had a vegetation ass-raping or scrubbed our teeth with foliage, I can't really. It was long and time-consuming but not horrible. Perhaps I am just inured to this type of terrain? Perhaps it's the beat-down of life finally wearing me down to submission? Thank you sir, can I have another? We arrived at Cub Lake around 7 pm. It was frozen over and nobody was camping there. Most folks were camping in the flats or on the benches just past Cub Lake. So did we. There was an army of people there - it was almost like being in the Enchantments. Crazy! We got up at 5am on Sunday and hiked up to the bivy spots on Dome. It took about 7 hours with the heavy packs. The standard trail was still snowy and there was fresh stuff breaking off the waterfalls so most folks went up the bypass to Itswoot. So did we. View from Itswoot in the morning: I collapsed in my bivy for a bit waiting for the party of 8 Mountaineers on the summit to start back. My partner and I then climbed up there. The ridge was melted back plenty so we could scramble right up to the crux and quickly belay it. While on the summit clouds blew in and got worse all evening and most of the night. Sinister from our bivy spot: Looking close at the N face a crack was visible with several holes on the left and right of it. I did not like the looks of this. My partner was sure we could bypass it. After haulting 40+ lbs of shit up over two days I wanted a "sure thing" and no shenanigans so I pussed out and talked my partner into bailing on the N face and doing the standard. Big crack mid-way up the N face of Sinister: Alarms went off at 3:40 am and we were surprised by a clear sky. We were off to sinister! Sunrise! Views were glorious on the Chickamin Glacier. There were serious crevasses and seracs en route to the Dome-Sinister col but a good boot path wound around them. Right now it's a fairly easy and safe path. I'm not sure how long that will last. Once at the col we picked a way up that looked scrambly. Soon we were on a 4th class section and pitched out one 40m rope length. From there we scrambled up. My partner opted for the snow slopes on the NW face and even got some steep snice (he reported 70 degree, see 'fins' in the snow in the picture above). I stuck to rock to the right along the W ridge and scrambled class 2 and 3 to the final snowfield (very moderate). We were then on the summit: 3:15 from camp to summit. Summit shots: From the register we saw that two parties had summitted so far in 2017- both the day before. We were the third. On the way down two parties of two were headed up. WTF? Sinister is getting busy - and the Bulgers popular! Descending the W ridge of Sinister. Dome in the background: We returned to our camp from the first night and decided to stay there. I had stashed a trekking pole and approach shoes there. Separately, under a rock, I had stashed a mountain house wrapper with some garbage inside. Some asshole busy body took my garbage, shoved it in my shoes, and left a passive-agressive note, lecturing me about the pristine environment and packing out my stuff. To you, asshole, I left that garbage under a rock to keep the critters out, separate from my poles and shoes, so the critters were not attracted to them. The garbage was always meant to be packed out. And it was -along with much more. Next time mind your own fucking business and don't jump to conclusions. Gear Notes: Standard Glacier gear. 40 m rope was a bit short for our rappel. Approach Notes: Bachelor Creek

Didn't you mean "FOAD", sack licker? Lick sack is just channeling some Phil Anselmo lyrics. Which reminds me: Pantera!

Trip: Silver Star - Burgundy Col/Silver Star Glacier Date: 6/24/2017 Trip Report: I climbed Silver Star ten years ago as a backup plan for Rainier. I stopped short of the actual summit by about 15 feet. Now that I am pursuing Bulgers seriously I felt the need to be honest and get those final feet. I also thought I'd bring my kid on his first glacier climb (albeit pretty tame). We drove up Friday and car camped at a nearby TH. Up at 4:15 am and boots on trail at 5:30. We got to Burgundy col at 8:45, put on crampons and downclimbed. Turns out the crampons were not needed but we kept them on anyways until the summit block. My son contemplating the down climb. He rocked it! The glacier is still filled in. We followed a boot path to the saddle. It was cruiser. No postholing. We scrambled onto the rock, took of crampons and untied. We followed the left-trending ramp until just below the summit block: I solo'd to the top. My partner belayed my son around one exposed corner and I belayed him onto the summit block. We both opted to summit au cheval as standing up there seemed inadvisable. Summit shot: After spending a glorious 90 minutes up there we reluctantly headed down. At the saddle, my son expressed his feeling of accomplishment: We kept crampons off and opted to glissade the glacier unroped. The hike out from the col sucked (hot, dry), but we had ice cold beverages awaiting at the car. Congrats to my son on his 11th Bulger summit. Gear Notes: 40m rope, picket, helmet. Approach Notes: Dry until the bench at 6400', then patchy snow. Continuous snow from there to the saddle below the summit.

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i want to bag that shit. looks fun!

Blackwater Park is a great place to start

you need to ditch the rubber and go raw dawg!

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The Sword are pretty fucking great!

Make that shit the chronic...

that is indeed awesome! Love it!

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Sobooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice!

What DPS said. I ended up roping up and leading that smoothed couloir. I placed 2 pieces. It can be solo'd - just comfort level. I had a 30 m glacier rope btw - which was plenty.

If you bring a rope, just bring a 30m. If you are comfortable on the ascent, ditch it for the descent. a 30m rope is super light. BUT... what Ivan said. if you have a tool and an axe, you will feel super secure. A rope will feel completely unnecessary

that sounds so nice!

#MAGA!

Ivan, let's be clear, I did not say they are good people. I am countering the idea that they don't work hard. CEOs as a rule dedicate all their life energy to work. That unidimensionality does tend to make them weak in other aspects of their life. I'd even buy arguments that as a rule they are statistically more heavy on the sociopath spectrum. But they work hard. very hard.

true, but try to consider my point. Most CEOs dedicate their lives to their company. They are unidimensional. well that guy is a total POS. Does anyone even contest that? do you honestly think that a Microsoft janitor worked harder than Gates when he was CEO? Have you even met/known any CEOs?

These CEOs who run huge businesses generally work massive overtime. Their life is their job. They live and breath it. They are unidimensional with not much else going on. To say they do nothing or live of the labor of others is BS. They work their asses off. But they are filthy rich and there is huge income inequality. Is a CEO worth 500X the average working? 1000X? Probably not. But they certainly work harder than the average joe in their company, and their skill set, vision, dedication and so on are just as rare as an elite athlete, actor, author, musician, and of course that means they'll make far more because their skill set combined with work ethic (and luck) is rare.

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people who talk to themselves

No need to drag the Patriots into this