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thanks, corrected...

anyone know how to post a freakin pic? Thanks, G

Howdy, I dont know about Mt Adams but based upon what I saw last weekend I would say yes. If you look at all of the info on the internet you will find reports of them in the North Cascades and some pics of them there as well. Last Sunday I was driving a dirt rd SUMWHERE and saw two wolf cubs. I apologize for the pic quality but it was raining hard and they didnt exactly stop for a pic. I was shocked as I did not expect to see them. I was thinking about letting people know I saw them so your question was timely. I have another pic but it needs some cropping first. Anyway, I am convinced they are out there now and are much more common than anyone cares to admit. I let the USFS know but I do not think they were all that excited to find out since there was major logging going on and I believe that under the intent of the law that most human activitiy dealing with endangered species should be stopped if there are habitat impacts. edited out location to protect the beasts...

Thanks to off white for providing them with a rubber room and Alpinefox, spot on dude. When someone is hurt I do think that some tact is in order. It is called respect and everyone deserves some (well most do anyway)...

Some climber lays in a hospital bed really f%%%ed up and some of you guys are more concerned about winning a useless and meaningless internet argument that pops up here what, every month? How about starting a new thread, something original like mounties dont teach good...

latebloomer, thanks for the update! Sounds serious. I am sending good vibes his way. May he recuperate fully. As for you other guys, dont they have rubber rooms on this site?

mattp, swimming upstream, wanting reasonableness at cc.com. It may be argued that shutting the site down may in fact increase numbers of accidents...(Good post BTW)

I hope the injured regains health quickly. I remember when I learned that if I didnt fall, I wouldnt get hurt. Doesnt matter how many bolts are there or are not there...

Try looking at mountainproject dot com. It will have many of the routes like this one (The Coffin): I just had to post it cuz it reminded me of old times. I grew up just 2-3 miles from that cliff

vertwanderer had some good stuff. In LCC on the Gate Buttress I would highly recommend Satans Corner 5.8, one of the best in the west. Also on that cliff is Bushwack crack to the Hook, about a 3 pitch 5.8. The Coffin 5.9, also one of the finest granite cracks of that grade anywhere. These are shorter affairs. At less than 5.10 you are definitely better off sticking to LCC and BCC. AF starts at about 5.10 and those are hard to find...

Not that I am advocating the high quality and health effects of drinking the crooked river, but is it really that bad compared to other rivers? I ask this because I have heard about the poor quality for about 10 years; however, if you compare where the Crooked starts and flows, to say the Columbia with seeps of radioactive water coming into it, i'd much prefer to see some climbers dog drinking that....

Howdy, Drove up to Wildcat wall last weekend. There is still a little snow on the road and it was fairly cool when I was there. However, it is climbable for sure! One of the crags down the river, The Bend I think is closed due to nesting Golden Eagles. This is the cliff where you park at the Quonset Hut and cross the little bridge. There are orange signs saying No Human Activity beyond these signs or some such thing. I was going to go to Lava but didnt get there. Is it not higher than Wildcat Wall? I have only been to Tieton a couple times. Have Fun.

Hey, you guys heard anything here. I tried to email him as I am interested in the ledge and haulbag. However, me email was kicked back.

Hi,I second what Paul said. I was at Vantage Saturday. In the shade it is staying a bit cool, but seems too warm yet for anything substantial. However, this new cold front (in the dust bowl area) might help out....

Cool pics. Thanks for sharing, that weather looks pretty damn good compared to the pea soup over here in the dustbowl. Looks like kyle is gonna give himself some extra rope drag the way the rope is running through those biners on P5? Pretty easy to see behind my keyboard in the armchair qb role, harder to see when you are doin it...

Brilliant. Dont forget the poison ivy and the fat guy in the trail you gots to try and pass...

sounds like a great adventure, thanks for sharing. Also sounds like a good route for those sport climbers who think 5.10 is easy!

cool trip guys, thanks for sharing!

Sorry for the foto qual, its a 13 year old scan...That freakin pack was heavy and the kid has lead in him....This was a multifaceted training approach since as a parent you are constantly training your patience too....

You guys should really do this, step on up CBS, the pics posted on here are all totally awesome! And if they werent well, it still beats work!

No shit, I knew a woman who did just that. She ate a little bit of the stuff whenever she was around it and claimed to never have any problems. Saw it with my own eyes. You do really need to wash the gear that gets in that shit. I can swim through poison ivy but the oak crap is badd badd badd....My chalkbag got in it once and I did not wash it. Went on a business trip and went bouldering. While bouldering I had to pee. Next day as I sat through 8 hours of meetings trying not to itch I had to reassure myself that I had not been doing any hanky panky with a skanky...Dude, be careful out there....

from some areas of the site "A rogaine is a freestyle long-distance, cross-country navigation competition. "

I think you proved your own point...Replace objectivity with any of the following, money, politics, religion, sex, drugs and rock and roll....

nice...thanks for posting up....reminds me of my younger days, i took an avvy course in about 1980 from the U of U. We were up in the mountains and the instructor said "see that peak, it has huge avalanche danger and recently there were tracks traversing all the way across those avvy slopes, those idiots." My partner and i exchanged sheepish glances and hoped you couldnt tie the tracks to the persons.... Far better to watch then to particiapte in those...

diverging from the OP, but.... I have only done this on three climbs, those were climbs that were going to take everything I had to succeed and where climbing effeciently was key. The Nose in a Day was one of those. The thought process is that leader leads and fixes rope. Second jugs like hell. After juggin a long pitch at hyper speed (well, trying hard anyway) the second is better off resting. Since the leader has rested, he is most ready to jump on the next pitch. Obviously at changeovers the second will switch with leader. The tie in technique is used instead of re-stacking the rope and fiddling with knots. This helps because on a climb like the Nose with 25 pitches (wi a 60meter rope)you reduce the time spent on belays. If you reduce your time at each belay by 5 minutes that adds up to 125 minutes. Obviously this is only one way to skin the cat. Guys that short fix everything may not have to do this but those guys have to haul the rack up when the second gets to the belay. On a climb like the Nose where most of it goes free or french free, my personal taste is to climb through and not stop in a free section and haul the rack wi a tag line; however, there appears to be considerable speed with that technique as well. Different strokes for different folks. I have also done this on a long free route in the Black Cyn. On that route the second freeed the pitch, but since there was some consecutive 5.11 crack climbing, we felt that blocks would allow the leader to rest before launching out onto another strenuous pitch. It was most convenient to give my pardner the harder pitches on his block too. The trick here is to round up a pardner that likes to go for it and you dont share the topo. That way you assign his blocks for him. This technique can work really well.