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I was up there solo and pretty early. As I was coming down and taking a break picking up the garbage, small groups were just getting up to where I was. I only did one lap cause I had to get back to town. It was worth it though. I think I agree with you on where to cross the Eliot. As I climbed I kept looking back and trying to figure out a good line to head over. We'll be in trail shoes and will have almost 3/4 of the trip under our belt when we arrive there and I want to avoid as much hassle as possible. It's either that or our plan B is the run around the 3 Sisters. Its approximately the same distance with about 3500' elevation gain less.

Is condensation less if you usually sleep on your back or on your front?

Yeah, the owner, with a leash.

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If nothing else, at least do a feature story on them...selves.

While I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun.

Very nice! This doesn't get done very often. Good to see a TR. It look slike you crossed from Cloud Cap. Where did you cross the Eliot?

I didn't need that $11 anyway.

We're running around it in a couple of weeks and was checking out that slide as well. I'm trying to decide how to get around it. You can always go way up and cross the Eliot. But I'm wondering if you can drop down some, do some bushwacking and cross lower down. What with the Ramona Falls TH being out (which is where we usually start) and now this, a 1-day circumnav this year looks to be more challenging. I think we're going to start at Lolo Pass instead. It's the crossing of the Eliot that I'm wondering about now. Yep. Pretty good conditions still, although it's melting out really fast.

I left the rock.

Just above between the bag and the stakes is a large wad of gum. Flavor undetermined.

It's more than a lid. It was a sandwich container full of some unknown pasty white substance. Looked like Cream-o-Wheat. And no, I didn't smell it.

Sweet corn. Not so sweet garbage. Here's a little sample of the 10 lbs. of garbage I took off the glacier yesterday. Some of these tents stakes were pretty bent up. I wonder how long they've been there.

Munra Point in the Gorge. Watch for poison oak.

You can jump off some of the bridges at the Seven Sacred Pools on Maui.

I don't live in Seattle, so I can't give any specifc recommendations. However, I know Seattle has A LOT of hills. When I can't get out, for something substantial, I do steep hills. Long or short, pick any good hill and do it over and over again. I don't think you need actual stairs to get the benefit of stairs.

PM sent on the 18 and 24 inch pickets.

I understand a lot of day care centers use these as well. It helps the parents assuage their guilt for leaving their kids for 9 hours a day.

Not the hairless cross-bred ones!

Associated Press Seven months after three climbers died during a storm on Oregon's Mount Hood, rescue workers are making plans to search for the bodies of two of them. Kelly James, 48, of Dallas died of hypothermia in a snow cave on the north side of the mountain, and his body was airlifted from just below the 11,239-foot summit last December. It's believed they went to get help for James after the three reached the summit on Dec. 8, and something went amiss. "We'd like to bring some closure to the families," said Chief Deputy Jerry Brown of the Hood River County sheriff's department, which coordinated search efforts in December. Search teams on July 21 will conduct a search at lower elevations, up to about 7,000 feet, on the chance that Hall and Cooke made it that far down and "ran out of gas at the end," Brown said. On Sept. 8, Brown said, as a training session for the Oregon Mountain Rescue Council, about 100 searchers will head for the area where attention was focused most heavily in December: the Eliot Glacier, where the pair may have fallen, or been swept by the wind, as much as 2,400 feet. "That will be our priority search area," he said. Brown said questions that went unanswered after the search was called off remain: What, for example, hampered James? "It appears from everything that two individuals were helping one individual along," he said, and the assumption is that James was being helped. But an autopsy revealed no broken or dislocated bones to impede him. A Dec. 10 phone call James placed to his family did not reveal exactly what had gone wrong, Brown said. As for Hall and Cooke, the most important point is that they were in a hurry, Brown said. "When they left up there, they had a high sense of urgency," he said. "They were trying to get Kelly some help." Search and rescue personnel couldn't be sure of the route taken by Hall and Cooke, Brown said. They may have decided the north side was too dangerous, headed back up the mountain and tried to take an easier route down the south side. Brown said members of the party had a history of stashing equipment along their climbing routes, jettisoning weight they could pick up later on the way back down. Searchers in September, he said, will try to find out whether they did so in December, in hopes that will provide clues to what happened.

Spray baby!

I think that's wigger-speak.

Says the guy getting a free trip in Hawaii.

Is the girlfriend Cindy66?

I'd request an autograph from Don Ho. But he recently passed.