KaskadskyjKozak

You've described liberals to a T. Nice job, Oly! :-) And btw, regarding a name to a face - we've met more than once, including a pub club last year. Oh, yeah, and there's the time I met you on the waterfront near my work to give you some ski boots free for your kid. Just sayin'. :-)

But he'll be catered to and protected. If he gets the Dahmer treatment, I'd be satisfied, but doubt it will go down that way

They really need to split the core zone - coney/tolketie/edwards plateau/n side of temple ridge really is a different place that shouldn't be impacted by the 100's that rush to the lakes S of Temple ridge

Looks like I need to change my sinister-dome trip to something else a month henceforth. :-(

bullshit. what's cut and dried is he's a murdering dog. he deserves a speedy fair trial, followed by death by lethal injection like all animals gone bad

This map appears to have changed from what i remember in the past where the boundaries extended closer to the peaks of Stuart, Argonaut, etc. A few years ago I went to climb Argonaut, approaching from Stuart Lake Trail and camping in the basin under the N side. I thought I needed a permit (looking at the map above) and reserved one. When I went to pick up the permit and told the ranger where I was camping she said I did NOT need a permit to be there. You may be good - call the ranger to be sure

you're not stupid. stop acting that way

I'm guessing cc.com's Russian-jizz-gargling assclown has inspired this response. Once a commie, always a commie.

Assholekiss - reply all you want, you are on ignore

IMO a descent of the N ridge is not implausible, but it depends on what you objective is. If you need to do it to link something up it would be doable. It isn't plausible as an alternative to for getting back to Boston basin. It would require a lot of downclimbing. There are no established stations for rapping, but there aren't a lot of places where it would be efficient to rap. It would be a long day I think to ascend the W ridge from the top of the couloir and downclimb the entire N ridge to the bivy spots. Ilia, why would you want to do that? If you find the W ridge too slow, there is the E ledges descent route...

not sure about asshole. He's pompous and a lot of other (negative) things Michael Moore, OTOH, that guy is a GIGANTIC asshole ;-)

I am very suspicious of motives. He's found a cash cow and everything he says must be considered in that context.

Ahh, I may have been thinking of that Jason! Thanks! Yes, now that the albatross of a successful summit of Forbidden has been lifted from my shoulders, I am ready for other routes! :-)

BS. I don't listen to Limbaugh. When I have I find his arguments too one-sided and simplistic. There is never an acknowledgement or consideration of the other POV. He is a Republican with a capital R; I am not. I don't even fall that close in line with FW. He is much closer to a Republican than I am. Conservative? On what? Fiscal issues - sure, to some extent. But R's don't actually walk the walk that they talk do they? Social issues? Like church in school, gay marriage, legalized pot.... not so much. The comic is stupid and the prefatory comment is a bullshit cheap shot. If AlpineK wants to take pot shots like that, I'll fire back. But I agree that it is like shooting fish in a barrel in his case.

Bullshit. You prefaced the picture with this comment: "In a detailed study, soon to be released, it seems Fairweather and KK are the sickly and abandoned offspring of Rush Limbaugh It's good to see how far they've progressed from such humble beginings" Keep doing that and expect to get a middle finger.

We didn't have any trouble finding the right spot. After rapping through the col the rock spur you have to drop down and around is obvious. Once you navigate around that, and knowing that you need to gain the ridge around 7600', the spot to head for is again pretty obvious. The part of the glacier that approaches the ridge crest is pretty broad, and it doesn't really approach it anywhere else near that elevation. I don't have any photos looking forward on the glacier but I'll see what my partner has. There are bivys where the glacier meets the ridge, a few very small ones shortly after the corner pitch (this is where we stayed) and then it looked like there would be a few more further on once things melt a little bit more. Thanks! I've heard of some folks missing the correct spot to get on the ridge and that's why I asked. I'd love to get back to Forbidden and climb the N ridge some time.

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ummm...like...isn't that human nature? explains why no one round here's that hepped-up about them gosh darn syrians It's not my fault I have to state the obvious

you only get outraged if your buddy is the target. otherwise you are silent about anything over the top here his little cartoon was classless. if he treats me like crap, I'll return the favor

hopefully it's not bum wine that night-train's a mean ride... have you heard? what's the word?

hopefully it's not bum wine

Nice work! Glad to hear my partner and I were not the only ones that took longer than expected to get to Boston Basin on the way out... seemed like we shouldn't have How easy was it to find the correct spot to gain the N ridge from the glacier? Do you have a pic of that?

Off to Yosemite for a whole month?? I hate you ;-)

pot. kettle. black. Wrong. Show me a single post that demonstrates that I've ever said anything approaching like what you said above. You can't. You've displayed plenty of "character" here that can be documented on the internet in perpetuity. rude, infantile, an asshole. it's fine - it's par for the course here, but don't claim to be on any high horse you own this site and yet you stand by while TTK threatens to rape FW's wife and kids, or Crux makes similar comments about FW's daughter. The list goes on and on. No outrage, and you even pile on with the insults But when your buddy gets a barb, after sniping and doing exactly what you claim to abhor (broad-brush stroking generalizations), you get all bent out of shape suddenly. if alpineK wants to snipe at me, I'll snipe back. If he shits on me, I'll shit back. When in Rome, do as the Romans. I'm not a punching bag.

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