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Michael Moore is a fat fuck and a waste of skin.

A lot of Mounties do this as well - when they go out on private trips. :-)

Trip: Logan - Douglas Glacier Date: 5/23/2009 Trip Report: Every year I get in better shape for climbing season than the previous, and as the snows melt, and I venture out into the mountains, I get a little cocky. Invariably, every year the mountains kick my ass at least once. This year, Logan taught me that lesson. I have had my eye on Logan for a couple years now, in particular the Douglas Glacier route. I found TRs on cc.com and elsewhere which made this route sound like the easiest way up Logan, especially early season. This year I decided to give it a go with a few friends over Memorial Day weekend. Unfortunately we never set foot on the glacier because of an infected hand injury for one of our party members, so this TR is more of a conditions report. Here goes... The hike from the parking lot to Easy Pass was almost 100% snow covered. I expected this to take 2-3 hours. It took us 3.5. The going was tough, especially in the heat up the final 1500 feet to the pass. We brought and used flotation. View of the objective from Easy Pass. It looks so far away... From the pass to Fischer Creek we again had mostly snow. There was some postholing up to our balls for the first few hundred vertical feet headed down the pass. The basin was snow covered. We used flotation for all but the steep parts. Slog, slog, slog: The forest was also mostly snow-covered, but not deep. We spent a lot of time trying to contour and avoid losing more elevation. In the end this was an exercise in futility. The off-trail forest hiking was energy-sucking and hard, and in the end we dropped to 3900 foot elevation - almost back to where we started at the easy pass trail head. Give up! Go down! At this point my ambitions to go to the pickets evaporated. If this hike sucks so bad, what would a pickets approach be like? We got to camp in the lower basin at elevation 4500 feet after 9 hours of slogging. The last 500 feet of elevation gain felt to me like the last 500 feet up Rainier. We had hoped to get to at least 5000, ideally 6000 feet. It was not going to happen that day. At least our camp had running water. Are we there yet? 500 more feet to go: We arose at 3 am to head up, but decided to turn around due to our freind's injury. This gave us another 3.5 hours of sleep. The hike out - all 11 miles of it, were not much easier than the hike in. We gained about the same amount of elevation and it took 8.5 hours. We ran into a friend at Easy Pass who basically said we looked like beaten men. I'll get you next year, Logan! (I think) Gear Notes: Flotation required Approach Notes: Life-sucking

Yeah, I mean Nazi Germany only lasted what, 10 or 12 years? National health care for every American could throw us into another dark age lasting centuries! Let's not pretend that a scheme that gave every American a voucher sufficient to purchase comprehensive coverage from private insurers is something that you'd be cool with. After all, under such a scheme, private medical spending wouldn't be outlawed, and people would still be free to spend money on acne cream, boob-jobs, tooth-whitening, LASIK, and whatever else they deemed important and valuable by their own lights. j_b just wants the US taxpayer to pay for his male enhancement surgery. 1 cm just ain't doing it for his boyfriend!

CHICKEN LITTLE, THE SKY IS FALLLING!!! OH NOESSSSSSSSS!

This weekend is looking good *again*. You better get off your a**! :-)

Umm, yeah, whatever dude.

The approach: The objective: Looking back - team mates a bit behind: Looking up at pitch 3: A party of folks we knew: Stuart, baby! The end of the final pitch: Ah, rappelling:

I climbed Ingalls on Fri - you can get to the parking lot, and there is > 90% snow coverage from the TH to Ingalls Pass. I assume Longs Pass is also under snow, as well as most if not all of the remaining route up the Cascadian until at least the false summit. The summit block looked dry on the S. side.

yes!

I'll post some pics Sunday night. For those interested in heading that way, the parking lot is melted out, but the hike up to Ingalls is at least 90% snow-covered. Lake Ingalls is frozen over, the ridge above and behind Ingalls Lake appears to be all under snow, as is the gully for the W Ridge of Stuart up to at least Long John Tower. The route between LJT and W ridge notch appears to be mostly snow. The summit block appears to be dry. Mkporwit failed to mention that the heat on the snow was absolutely oppressive and life sucking. Bring sunscreen and drink tons of water and still be prepared to be cooked like a Thanksgiving Turkey. There are some exposed rocks with running water near the pass and in Headlight Basin. Thanks to all for a fun outing!

Most of us agree. STFU Boner!

JUST ONE MORE STEP TO FASCISM UNDER OBAMA'S JACK-BOOTED THUGS!

tree-climbing gear is aid

DC - you need to be more respectful - he may be saving your ass and then how will you feel?

Unlike your "brain"

Yes, he is

It would be OK if the pirate had a Tauntaun with him. For safety reasons, but only if the route had an alpine quality to it.

The Shasta blue bags (at least a few years ago) were pretty cool. They included a piece of paper with a target drawn on it, a paper bag with some kitty litter, and then the outer plastic bag. Works pretty well - even after a Mountain House Chili Mac runs its course.

It looked good from the road when I was last in the area (5/17).

good job! we were spanked on an approach into Logan this w/e. the snow conditions were indeed sloppy and miserable

No, not good for all. I got my ass handed to me in a handbag on a N. Cascade approach.

Hey, the Big Unit. :-)

It's pretty clear that j_b is one of those self-hating white liberals who sees the world in terms of race and class and projects his racist tendencies onto his ideological opponents. Most of the people he claims to defend would despise him.

nobody said prisons were the biggest item if it's what you are inferring. tell us some more about the proletariat and bourgeois capitalist pigs