KaskadskyjKozak

Liar! Your plotted "income" - does not factor other credits and transfer payments, of course.

Here you go j_bot:

We should buy you diapers and a pacifier.

Minimum wage should adjust annually with inflation/cost-of-living (and it doesn't). I'm not sure I'll buy into much beyond that.

"Easy" arguments are often fallacious. Many who make minimum wage are students and other folks entering the labor force or supplementing their income. My first two summer jobs were minimum wage.

not that j_bot would know anything about the latter...

Good fun! Thanks for the route conditions update (what a crazy snowpack)!

Where is inflation factored in?

Weird, 'cos the Dem's ran the whole show for 2 years, and got Jack Shit done.

don't bother the fucktards with facts Jay!

There'll be plenty of time for Backbone, my friend.

If you can lead easy rock, do Shuksan via the Sulphide and climb the arete rather than the gully. Camp high and get an early start and you can beat the masses. Or... consider the Boulder glacier route on Baker - it's a gem!

Nicely done! Molodets'!

Summer sausage, gouda, and tortillas.

I'm gonna stop you from a self-reply trifecta. Let's leave those for j_bot. Self-replying is the new editing. self-replying is aid

I'm gonna stop you from a self-reply trifecta. Let's leave those for j_bot.

perhaps these early, traumatic experiences explains your aversity to climbing?

Service goon!

The route up left is where we ended up going. I climbed the E ridge of the N peak 2 years ago and we definitely started lower and to climber's left. I should have paid more attention and headed that way (it's easy class 3 with a couple of brief class 4 sections)

Nicely done, N!

From Ice Cliff Glacier last weekend the N ridge was looking pretty good... but we only had an oblique view of it rather than head-on.

Any pics?

All 5727 posts of it!

I didn't realize I stumbled into a politics web site misnamed as a climbing one.

Trip: Ingalls, East Peak - SW Face Date: 7/4/2011 Trip Report: Yesterday we climbed the East Peak of Ingalls. This route is rarely done - we saw a handful of entries in the summit register for each of the last few years. It seems October is popular. We didn't have much beta but thought it would be a fun go for a relaxing, uncrowded 4th of July. There is still a lot of snow on the approach, continuous from around the Longs Pass trail junction. Headlight basin is under a blanket of snow with little running water. View of Ingalls Peaks from the approach: We made a route-finding errror by following foot prints all the way to the top of snow on the approach gully to the notch. This appears to be the same mistake spotly made a couple years ago. We thrashed around here for a while burning some time but eventually got to the notch with chockstone. DC at the top of the snow gully: We climbed the chockstone and went up about 20 feet to a big belay spot and the first real pitch. It may be possible to just scramble to this spot from around the back (North) side of the notch, but there is so much snow there now that we didn't try that. The climbing is very similar to the standard route (South Ridge) on Ingalls, North Peak. It's all about fun slabs with cracks for pro, taking mostly small cams. View up the first pitch: Upper Pitch: You top out on an exposed chossy ridge that joins to the highest point a few feet up. Dramatic scenery from the summit towards Ingalls North Peak: There are four obvious rappel stations along the route - pick your poison for descent. We opted to downclimb to station #3, rappel to station #2, then #1, then double rope rappel partway done the snow gully. Descending snow gully: The deproach in the evening was very pleasant and cool. We saw one party descending from the North Peak from the summit and passed a couple campers both going in and out, but in general, we had the day all to ourselves. Lake Ingalls still frozen over! Evening light hits Stuart: Gear Notes: Lots of cams: C4 .5, .75, 1, and 3, Master cam #1 and 2. Had a full set of nuts and used only one. Small tri-cams would work too. Approach Notes: Continuous snow starting from the Longs Pass trail junction.