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Trip: Lane Peak - The Zipper Date: 1/28/2017 Trip Report: I climbed Lane Peak yesterday with my friend Scott. We arrived in Longmire well before the gate opening and hung out a bit - even chatted with some familiar faces. The gate opened pretty close to right on time and we got in the conga line. The lot at Narada Falls had a few cars. We headed up the hill immediately encountering 6-12" of fresh unconsolidated powder. These were the conditions we encountered all day on the N side of Lane. We originally intended to climb Lover's Lane, but there was fresh avy debris under it and with the soft snow we figured it would be a time-consuming wallow at best. We opted to follow a party of three up the Zipper. They were 15 minutes ahead of us and setting a glorious boot path (thank you!) We made quick work of the zipper unroped. At the col we noticed the other party doing a variation straight up, so we broke trail around to the normal ascent gully and up it. The gully was mostly filled in with just a bit of thin slushy snow over rock just below the big rappel tree. At the ridge we hesitated thanks to exposure and a bit of sketch, and opted to down climb to the rappel tree, build an anchor and belay from there to the summit. A party of two showed up and we shared our double rope rappel with them (we had brought 2 60 m ropes for the rappel in Lover's Lane - might as well use them!) The hike out was uneventful and pleasant. We got to the lot at 4:50 and made it out of the gate before it closed. KK topping out on the Zipper: Scott traversing to final pitch: KK climbing the final gully: KK selfie at the rappel anchor: Scott on rappel: Raindawg on descent with a creepy lenticular: Gear Notes: Crampons, ice axe, 2nd tool nice but not required. 3-4 pickets if you are so inclined. At least a 60 rope to rappel from the tree. Approach Notes: Soft unconsolidated powder over a hard layer

A lot (all?) of that aid to israel is part of the Camp David Peace agreement, is it not? You know the legacy of a peanut farmer from Georgia

grab some tw*ts!

#MAGA

Tom Ka soup gives me this!

Eating a bowl of thick white beans with ham chunks can also produce some wonderfully odiferous anal emissions complemented by near-shart experiences.

Thanks all for making spray great again! #MSGA!

But bad for human life. sure worked for the romans - for their neighbors' lives, not so much... Kill 'em all; let God sort 'em out

Well, I remember Ronnie calling them the Evil Empire then recanted a few years later on a trip to the CCCP, where he buddied up with Gorby...

This is your brain on drugs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

War is good for business and the economy

Your mom hasn't changed much either 8D how so you dirty fucker?

Butt Rock forever!

VH News: http://m.sixxsense.iheart.com/articles/rock-news-104648/rumor-van-halen-have-new-music-15414637/

They played at White River in 2015 (opening night of the tour) and were actually very good. DLR was as good as he ever has been (or will be) - take that for what you will. It sucked to not have Michael Anthony, but c'est la vie. Of course there are many other shows/acts to see these days. For VH it's just about nostalgia. I saw Opeth at the Moore recently and that was friggin' awesome!

They were just on tour. Duh. Unless you mean Michael Anthony. He's touring with Sammy.

guess they won't be using that any longer. fuckin A. no shit....

Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

cubs will lose and dems will win anyway

How many teams have won the world series in the past 20 years after losing game 1?

I forget which summit it was on... maybe W Craggy, maybe Greenwood, but I found one of these cards in the register and thought I'd play a trick on my son (he's 14 now, 12 or 13 then). I left the card in the register and took out everything else. I said "hey, what's that in there. He pulled out the card, looked, and turned beet red"

I've found a few of these cards and the Choss Dogs are always right there front and center in the summit register.

E ridge of Ingalls