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Speaking of d-bags, Dennis "the Worm" sure has outdone himself... he's even outdone Sean Penn

now if you are >75 you can keep your shoes and jacket on progress

true dat as well

be able to bring water

Snowboarders: the via ferrata equivalent on snow slopes

Assad has proven to be a resilient bastard.

He's feeding the worms now

You are doomed

Great weather for biking to work today :-)

A great trip to travel light on. We took summer bags with bivy sacks. Puffy and gloves essential though. That approach is a GRUNT - 4k of up that starts around 8.5. But it's highly varied (pine forest, mega-boulder fields, exposed ledges, water washed slabs, etc.) and nearly brush free. Can't be worse than the approach to The Mole was. :-)

10 permits a day: 6 by reservation online up to 6 months in advance; 4 as walk-ins I talked to the ranger yesterday by phone.

I believe you need the lottery permit for a day climb but a different permit for the overnight. The overnight zone there allows 10 people a day. People,not parties.

ah, then I can leave ice axe and pons home though! can't imagine anything could be worse than the crapcadian couloir

Especially Kevbone

I'm contemplating a trip down to Whitney in Sep. Is the weather typically stable and warm enough for this route in the 1st two weeks of Sept?

NOAA is a great resource and the detail link will show wind speed forecasts hour by hour.

With stable weather and a high freezing level a bivy sack can also work just fine in that time frame.

Perhaps he feels it's wasted effort. I don't blame him. That's a shame. But I suppose that's how life would feel if you insisted everyone else was "wrong" and felt disappointment at your failure to convert them. Personally, I figure we all have our heads up our asses, so I don't let it bother me, comrade the kind of shit we all come on here and pontificate about? all you do is snipe and mock Jay is a pretty reasonable guy and the last one to just dismiss others' opinions out of hand. But hey, demonize all you want - it's easier.

Perhaps he feels it's wasted effort. I don't blame him.

cool. glad you got it. We were in a total white out, 30 mph gusts and tons of spindrift. so much for the weather man, eh?

Yep, and anything but "rational".

it was a toyota tacoma with a shell, i just picked a quick source. i think someone down on the LAPD obviously wrote that. this guy is gonna fuck some shit up if they don't catch him. maybe charlie sheen can talk some sense into him Take him out with a drone strike.

Tragic. If there were only less guns, than this violence would not have occurred.

That may have been us. Were you the guys who bailed on N face on Sat, who kept punching through when trying to find a way across the moat?

As compared to your bronze turds, lowly gamma?