KaskadskyjKozak

Bullshit, the combination of Pacific infrared satellite and Jetstream positioning were a complete no-brainer for staying off the mountain then - it was in no way a matter of either a 'hindsight' or a 'had to be there' sort of deal in any way whatsoever. It was more akin to playing Russian Roulette with five rounds chambered. You said you don't climb alpine. Forecasts often paint a totally incomplete picture. May times you don't know what you're gonna get until you are actually there.

Hindsight is always 20/20. How often have any of us done something marginally (or outright) stupid and just been lucky to survive it?

There's nothing amazing about it at all - it's par for the course for the mentally ill liberals.

Thanks, man. I'm headed to Logan this w/e - we'll see if I can fit Rainier in soon though.

You could fit Boner's brain in a nutshell - a pistachio nutshell.

Pelosi needs to be waterboarded as well.

Excellent! How long would you say the ledges will still be "in"?

I'm curious if the conditions were uniformly as bad as forecast. Some folks I talked to yesterday on the Muir snowfield had not summitted on Fri night due to postholing...

I heard recently that you'll have to hike about 4 miles to the TH for the Easton. The boulder glacier route starts 1000 feet lower, so you may be able to get closer to that TH.

+1 on the Boulder. It's a beautiful route.

Ditto for the road up to Leroy Basin TH (Phelps creek?) any beta?

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You make that sound like a bad thing...

I think the dude who put them in there should have a revelation and chop them himself...and he's so dang proud of himself that he had someone take pictures of it all. I ain't got the time or money to mess with that myself. They aren't. Leaving stuff up there of any kind is littering. It ain't the size of the litter, it's the principle. At least you can pop old pickets out of the snow and haul down "tat" and other garbage. Speaking of installing permanent anchors on big mountains, I seem to recall a number of years ago that there was another guy (Larry Penberthy?) who was advocating enhanced safety measures on Mt. Rainier and suggested that some sort of railing be put up on Disappointment Cleaver....like bolts on Everest, another way of dumbin' it all down for the masses. I know a guy who thought they should put a fixed line in at Camp Curtis because the snow was low that year and descending to the Emmons was "a safety issue"

Hi Fatty, I believe you - you are definitely a "sledder". I bet you could beat me at triggering avalanches and breaking the law.

Will there be any people around to even care?

so, use the fat douchebags to get access, then stab them in their hefty backside to get them out of primo climbing areas? I could go with that.

They should allow snowmobilers on Everest

so, because base camp looks like shit, bolting thousands of feet higher is ok?

two wrongs make a right?

so what kind of snowmobile do u have? ask your mom.

it's clear why you find this a good thing -looking at some dude's ass for 4 miles.

Those who can, climb. Those who can't, snowmobile.

Hillary is rolling in his grave, I'm sure.

18 people in two parties? W T F? Good job!