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Everest? How about Rainier and Hood, buddy.

Currently reading "Tender is the Night" and "Roughing It". Twain cracks me up. I loved Moby Dick as an adult as well. My fav was the chapter on how white is the actual color of evil.

yo momma's butt spray

yo mama!

Says the guy whose sig line on cc.com used to be: "I love pussy but hate the bitch it's attached to" You make Trump look like a Boy Scout with your rhetoric you misogynist asshole

pot. kettle. black.

you're being obtuse.

I did not deny that FAMILIES are in politics, wielding power. But you are avoiding addressing the fact that in this instance two families could control the presidency for 28 out of 36 consecutive years. That's unprecedented.

Trip: Buck and Fortress - Buck Creek Pass and High Pass Date: 8/22/2015 - 8/24/2015 Trip Report: This has been a summer of non-technical summits. Between the low snow pack, the weather, and wild fires I've had to repeatedly go to Plan B or even Plan C. This weekend the Wolverine Creek and Goodell fires sent me up to Trinity to bag a couple of top 100s left on my climbing partners and my to-do list. We arrived to a smoky Trinity Saturday morning and head up the Buck Pass trail. The plan was to haul heavy packs up to High Pass for the night. Upon arrival we found a couple of surly guys with their dog spread out widely with their two tents over the two prime camp sites and very unfriendly. We moved away from them and found a couple reasonably flat spots between water rivulets flowing from the tarn at 6800' and near the base of our route. The hike in was about 13 miles with 4500' or more total gain with the ups and downs. My flask of bourbon hit the spot. During the night we heard quite a bit of rock fall nearby from a steep gully with lingering snow and ice. Smoky haze on the approach to Buck Creek Pass: Moonscape closer to High Pass: Rock-strewn camp at tarn: Bright and early we negotiated the nose of the rock face above the tarn and looked for a gully to get us up to high ground with views of Buck. We ended up taking one gully too far which just caused more work and some backtracking. Eventually we worked up to 7600' to a col NW of Buck. We dropped onto pumice scree, traversing left above the cliff bands and dreading the 1000' feet we were about to drop and have to regain immediately. We dropped down, staying left on higher ground until we crossed the creek that drains N into Buck Creek. From here we ascended more pumice and rock bands until 7400' then traversed climbers right until we were forced to pick a gully up and got a view of the summit block of Buck. There is still a good sized snow field here and it was bullet-proof. We opted to cross it with crampons for efficiency then picked a line to the right of the scar on the middle summit and topped out. Approaching Buck from High Pass: Snow field below Buck's summit: KK Summit salute \m/ View towards Clark and Luahna from Buck: After enjoying the summit a bit we headed back to camp. Reversing the 1000' feet back to the col at 7600' was not as bad as we were dreading. At camp we packed up and reversed our high traverse from the previous day back to Buck Creek Pass and picked a spot by the wonderful spring (and only source of nearby water). I rewarded my second day's effort with some of Kentucky's finest and we all bullshitted until 9:30 or so. The sound of music en route back from High Pass: During the evening and night deer continually pestered us and none of us really slept that great. The random and inexplicable snorts were the worst - never heard deer do that before. The rockfall from the previous night was preferable and soothing by comparison. We got up a bit groggy and packed up. One party member headed down to the cars, and the remaining three dropped to the way trail up to Pass No Pass. We stashed overnight gear here and headed up the standard approach to Fortress. At the snow patch below the summit block we headed up the standard gully which involved a couple hundred feet of loose bullshit. One party member opted to sit that out. On the summit my partner and I planned to head back with a 20 minute gap between us to avoid a rockfall injury or death mishap. I went second. On the way down I changed tactics and followed cairns and boots to skier's right of the gully and from there spied a class 3 line over blocky terrain that was much more palatable. Snow patch below summit block on Fortress: About the clearest view of Glacier we got on any of the three days: Summit p0rn from Fortress: We continued on down the mountain and trail and arrived at Trinity at 6pm. The parking lot was almost empty and our car had a fire closure notice stuck under the wiper blade. As we changed and sipped a brew the ranger pulled in and told us about the advancing Wolverine Creek fire, now encroaching on the Entiat valley. We headed out and checked out with the Chelan Sheriff half way up the Chiwawa River road, thankful to have bagged these two peaks before yet another fire closure. View of the fire smoke plume of the advancing Wolverine Creek Fire from the Chiwawa River Road: Gear Notes: Crampons and ice axe. Approach Notes: No snow on approach. Plenty of water. Plenty of smoke.

At the presidential level? We had one father-son combo early on in the Adams. Other than that we had distant cousins in the Teddy/FDR combination separated by around 30 years. Bush-Clinton-Bush-gap-Bush or Clinton seems pretty fucking unprecedented, don't you think? I'm with dberdinka that neither Bush nor Clinton should be even up for president - it is profoundly disturbing that these two families could control the White House for most of 40 years.

"Youz guys". clueless,you are

Gee, what a choice we might have: Bernie or Trump Trump or Hillary Hillary or Jeb We are fucking lost. And of the four, Bernie is the only one that would be any different than anything else. Which is why he will never get the nomination, and why I still give no shits about the whole stupid pointless thing. Yeah, he is different, he's the only true socialist. and he can FOAD

Gee, what a choice we might have: Bernie or Trump Trump or Hillary Hillary or Jeb We are fucking lost.

Bernie has an opinion on this topic and he is not a woman either... As for Bernie the Socialist, yes, go Bernie, please, GO. Away. far fucking away.

I disagree with much of what Bernie has to say and holds as positions, but he is right about one thing: we are run by two oligarchies and those oligarchies pick the candidates that run. The primary process is a farce.

Bernie is the 2016's version of Ralph Nader. He has a snowball's chance in hell of being nominated.

Trip: Dumbell and Greenwood - Standards Date: 8/2/2015 Trip Report: Last weekend I took my boys backpacking up to the upper Phelps Basin camp (just past the Spider Gap turnoff on the Phelps Trail). My youngest and I summited Dumbell and Greenwood mountains just before they announced the larger fire closure area for the Wolverine fire, which we could see billowing smoke. Upper Phelps Basin: Boys bouldering rock and Mountain House dining table: Cliff bands below Dumbell. We took an exposed route through the 1st cliff band going up and a loose gully through the second. An intervening hard patch of snow warranted crampons for a few feet only. Above the second cliff band: Scrambling high on Dumbell: Greenwood from Dumbell: Summit stoke on Dumbell Mountain. Bonanza pano: Negotiating the bulge on the infamous exposed class 2 ledge to Greenwood: View of Dumbell from Greenwood (S summit): My son traversing the snowfield from the Dumbell-Greenwood col. Crampons made the going easier for him and added to the experience. Gear Notes: Ice axe, helmet Approach Notes: Snow free until very high up, then just a few patches

Indeed. But what other user groups would go into the areas proposed for expansion? Backpackers and dayhikers. Cyclists and riders on horseback? I must say I enjoy the backcountry all over the NFs in the state, backpacking, hiking and tagging non-technical summits. It's refereshing to just show up at a TH, self-register (optional) and head in. No stopping in Marblemount during office hours, no permits, no quotas, no bureaucracy. Moreover I don't see any signs of overuse. The resources seem to be managed just fine by the NF for future generations as is.

Perhaps try the Sibley approach? You still have to rappel the moat and contend with some glacier travel, just not the section near Tepeh towers.

Thanks for this long an informative post! The quoted section, the "ugly" just further convinces me that the NCNP is out of control and hostile w/r/t to climber access, and why I opposed expanding that park any more.

some of us prefer oysters; others prefer snails.

fuck that I want huckleberry jam!

This fucking thread is still alive????

That's how I use the park, so that's my perspective. IF the park is expanded and further restricts my access and enjoyment why would I support it? What does the public care in general? The park system is about preserving the land for the enjoyment of its users for generations. You have to have both. I'm all for preserving the land, but I don't buy the argument that you have to have the NPS do it in the way they do in the NCNP since I go elsewhere and don't see the land getting trashed and going to hell in a hand basket - even at popular places like WA pass.