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There is two schools, stuff or fold. If you stuff you get a bunch of creases in a random pattern that may hasten the demise of the tent material while a folded and rolled tent gets them in the same spot over and over. I keep my tents out on my exercise machine, since I don't use it much, and stuff it or roll it depending on space demands and time packing.

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness DOMS

I just finished a week of glaciers. Adams, Rainier, Olympus in 7 days, and felt OK after. Lost a toenail and some skin, but otherwise OK. I go weathered out on Baker last weekend and ended up doing house stuff (ie nothing strenuous). Pain and swelling started in the right ankle that I noticed on Saturday 4 days after the last adventure. So what I wonder, can it be DOMS after 4 days? Most of the lit says 24 to 72 hours and don't mention to much enema, I mean edema. -b

Last year I popped off a first move involving a healhook. Landed on my left foot on a rock that hurt a bit at the time. In an hour I was hobbling around asking for anything stronger than aspirin. Went to the Doc and he x-rayed it and told me it was fine. 3 to 6 weeks it'll be fine, he said. Went 6 weeks limping and finally called up and got a second opinion. I was sent to a PT. The PT felt around and found I had seperated a couple little bones in the middle of my foot. He manipulated them and I walked out with limping. That guy was a gene-yus! The damage of limping for 6 weeks was no balance or muscle strength in the affected foot. I spent the next 4-6 weeks on little machines getting it back. Once it was back I was really back. Find a PT. DO the silly exercises.

They were the only TR I could find for the route anyway. Bunch of sic basturds. First to go up the N ridge then down that uber scary steepness. I have no idea where the bail point is now. When I mentioned it was skied to a skier on Black Diamond(?) he mention a name and the crazy shit they do. Climbers and skiers will only see each other at the summit. By the time it's skiable, we are going down the (uhg) N ridge.

Climb: Adams-North Face ofv Northwest Ridge Date of Climb: 6/27/2004 Trip Report: North Face of Mt. Adams taken by star light. There was no moon. Three of us woke at 1:00 to light clouds below and stars above, on Adams glacier around 2:00, followed a half dozen groups going for Adams glacier up to 9500'. From there we could access the North Face without any difficulty. There were ways around 8200' and 8800', but the snow bridges were sketchy and the gap from Adams to the NFace was a little puckery. Once on the face it was really straight forward. Go up, don't fall. We had running belays that were really ackward until we figured out the two ropes were different lengths. Made decent time up the lower half (steeper half) in the shade. As the sun came up it didn't really effect the route but really baked us. Topped out on Pinnacle and wandered over to the summit for a photo and a bite. Someone on the summit offered a squashed PBJ to me and I took it. It was what I needed at the time. Down time was the North Ridge. What a P.O.S. choss pile that is. After endless flailing and sending rocks down ahead of us we bailed to an adjacent snowfield and plunged down fairly hard snow. After going up the 30 to 50 degree going down 30 seemed no problem. 9 hours to summit (in no particular hurry), 3 hours to camp, 2 hours to car. Gear Notes: Used 2 screws on entire route. At one stop for a break at a rock outcrop it was hard water ice. Other than that it was an ice crust about 2-3" thick with unconsolidated snow below. Approach Notes: We decided to make our own trail out taking a bearing more west than the trail. It was fun bushwhacking over about 3 ridges trying to convince ourselves how much time and distance we were saving.

Vasque CrossTrail Catalyst Mid GTX XCR. Climb comfortably to 5.7. Kick steps OK, as long as it isn't too hard. Very-very light. Comfortable. Gore-tex. Lots of miles on mine. $125...Stealth S1 sole is very sticky. Make sure you get the gore-tex model. They sold and still sell the non-GT model. You can get those for half the price. http://www.onlineshoes.com/productpage.asp?type=brand&brandid=7&brandcatid=51&gen=m&pcid=10499

Scheduled to do Adams NW rib ice climb on 6/26-27. Dodging the rain as it looks. But I'm okay with that...

I guess it helps if I even hint at an area. I'm in Schwee-attle U-district...

WTF! Dog watcher bails and now my Adams climb is in jeapordy. Anyone have reliable persons/crew/service that come the house, won't eat the food, doesn't use my screenname when viewing porn and, oh yeah, takes care of the dogs?