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Wicked! Nice work fellas!

Very nice report, thanks for sending the pics too... Looks like a great outing fellas.

Okay... Cough up some beta on this uber secrect crag... God I hope it's close to Corvallis. Please be close to Corvallis...

That is fucking rad dude... 'Bout time this report made it out to the web. Pretty amazing that you were able to just roll down there sans partner and get on some amazing climbs with what look like some good people. Nice work :tup:

Whoa... That's amazing guys!

[video:youtube] WTF!?!?!?!????

Awesome! Thanks for the description, looks like something to add to the list! Got a kick out our your bachlor party story, but what were you guys doing w/ salad (?) at a bachelor party...? Anyway, thanks again.

Awesome you guys!

F'in rad pics... Now I want to go there even more!

Jeez... I hadn't even heard about that. Very sad.

Nice trip... Is it me, or are the mountains particularly beautiful this year (or at least, for this time of year?)

0.5 C4... The purple one.

Don't know if it's the best, but I've been really pleased with my canon SD800... Particularly I like the built in "wide-angle" lens... It's held up remarkably well too to some physical abuse (like sitting on it at belays, dropping it, etc). Even jumped into the water with it on my harness once by accident and it still worked (although I don't recommend! )

Not my story to tell... But I believe fgw is referring to having tourists literally drop in. Good writeup and pics Ivan and Geoff. What a spectacular area!

I remember reading your story.

Sorry to revive, but whoa dude, awesome pics. Thanks for sharing.

Sad ending from the sound of it. Glad Mark is out safe, sounds like he did everything he could for his partner.

Good to hear they are still moving. Hopefully the weather is a little better down there than it is here today. Let's keep these guys in our thoughts while they walk out this afternoon with plenty of time for a beer and a burger in town.

Petzl ASAP. Spendy!

Holy crap... That was an awesome writeup. Big fin to you two!!!

LINK Search for Missing Mt. Shasta Climbers March 29, 2010 KDRV (Mt. Shasta, Calif--) Rescuers say weather is challenging their efforts to find two climbers on Mt. Shasta. Mark Thomas from Berkley, California called 911 on Sunday at about 9AM. He said his climbing partner Thomas Bennett was experiencing altitude sickness. Thomas said the wind was so strong that it was too dangerous for them to descend and they had spent the night on the mountain and had taken shelter by some rocks. He said they had about a liter of water, some candy bars and some granola with them. In a news release, Sheriffs say Mark Thomas provided their two cell phone numbers; the call was brief in order to conserve the cell phone batteries. The Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team was alerted as well as the U. S. Forest Service in Mount Shasta. Due to the weather conditions it was not safe for any ground crews to start climbing the mountain and the weather and high winds reported at 55 mph by the National Weather Service prevented any type of helicopter search for the two men. The Forest Service said that the men did not fill out a wilderness permit. Return calls to the cell phone numbers left by Mark Thomas were not answered. At about 3:50 p.m. Mark Thomas once again called Sheriff's Office Dispatch and said that their Subaru was parked at the Whitney Glacier Trailhead and that his partner was seriously ill. Sheriff's Deputies and Forest Service personnel searched the roads and trailheads on the north side of the mountain and about 6:40 p.m., the Forest Service found the climbers vehicle, a Subaru registered to Thomas Edward Bennett of Vancouver, British Columbia about 4.5 miles in from Highway 97 on Military Pass Road. The weather still prevented any type of rescue efforts late on Sunday, 3/28. There has been no cell phone contact with Mark Thomas since Sunday afternoon. Sheriffs say this morning two very experienced Forest Service Mountain Rangers on snowmobiles are in the area in an attempt to determine if a rescue is possible with the current snow and weather conditions. No further information about the two men, including their ages or mountain climbing experience, is available at this time.

Oleg, holy crap! I didn't know that you got squashed! Glad to see that you are recovering and back out on the ice! Heal quick bro!

Nice work Ian and Forrest! !

Did you guys hear that a snowmobiler was killed in Paulina...? It was last weekend I think. Caught in an avy... There's another vid from the same day of a pretty good slide at Pelican on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpH7KuauE8 It's a little rated "R" in the beginning for language. Careful out there peeps!

Nice pics! Looks like a great day to just be cruising around up there.