KaskadskyjKozak

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!

A couple years ago I was up on the Easton Glacier doing crevasse rescue practice. All day we breathed fumes of snowmobilers going up and down the glacier around us. In the afternoon an electrical storm developed, prompting us to haul ass out of there. We quickly packed up camp and prepared for the last few hours of the day after an already long day... and well three of us had "nature's call" at about the same time. We proceeded to find separate spots to drop trou facing away from the Railroad Grade and towards the open glacier terminus. Almost on cue two snowmobilers passed nearby us, as we saluted them with a row of bare asses and dropping brown, corn-fed toilet trout (and yes, we blue bagged them out of there).

your bad ;-)

kinda like hammering pitons, trundling rocks, gardening routes, drilling holes. i find if you bitch about someone.... someone will pitch a bitch about u... climbers aren't exactly a loved crowd. hey, good idea. maybe you could trundle rocks onto the snowmobilers?

and ice tool would be more effective - more ergonomic and suited for the task

The good news is that snowmobilers tend to be candidates for Darwin Awards. The bad news is that their rate of succumbing to a quick and early death falls far below their rate of reproduction.

Rattlesnake Ledge is a good first trail - even for a 3 or 4 year old. It's 2 miles or so each way with just over 1000 foot gain.

They should dynamite the Hillary Step while they're at it. "It would be easy for the arm chair climber to say that if someone who attempts to climb Everest is not capable of climbing the Yellow Band without fixed rope then they shouldn't be there in the first place," it would be "easy" because it's f-in true.

We peaked over at that route last year from the top of the Fuhrer Finger. It looked pretty straightforward - contiguous snow, a little steeper than the finger.

STFU, nOOb!

Recently youths taunted a tiger at the SF zoo until it jumped it's enclosure and killed them. The animal was euthanized. Not much difference.

The Easton glacier has a few gapers around the 6500 foot level by mid-May. However, it does involve a 2.5-3 hour hike.

LOL. The XGK is definitely a deal-killer for pleasant campside socializing, and enjoying a quiet moment communing with nature.

try posting this TR on NWHikers! ;-)

yellowjackets

+1 on that POS called the Cascadian. And besides, I'm not sure the Teanaway road will be open that far anyways. Sherpa is a better bet.

LICK SACK!