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http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/worlds_first_water-ice_10/

just get a 200m rope, climb up from hogsback, drag her ass up, and lower her back down. No pointy things involved!

love the shot when you reach up to a fat jug and then the camera reveals it is filled with bat shit.! Nice vid!

unless "the man" is investigating you for a crime, your right to anonymity in the interwebs should be a right. You can divulge as much or as little information about yourself as you want. Once it is out there it is public record.

they are starting a sale today fyi...

very!

beautiful!

ok, easy on the attitude, frik was just making a valid point, no need to go callin people names...

not either of ours.

Nice forrest! it was cute and all with the music, but wheres the exploding roman candle, and the muddy steam vents, and the bitching?

Forrest, feel free to add shenanigans to the list. I figured for the TR I'd keep it cut and dry, but the video will certainly "out" us on the reality of the trip.

This is EPIC! Best flowchart EVARZ!

Pretty weak that someone stole his boots and gear from the high camp stash. Gotta get better at hiding things I guess

we were up yesterday, and I just want to mention that there was moderate hoar frost at the hogsback and above, so beware after the next snowfall.

Trip: Mt Hood - Pearly Gates Date: 2/7/2010 Trip Report: Unfortunately no photos from this adventure, but my partner did have a video camera and I will link the footage when he gets it put together. Forrest and I went up sunday morning early looking to climb Leutholds, and made great time up to Illumination Rock, but once there determined that Leutholds was out due to new snow and me being a whiny bitch about the logistics of carrying our board/skiis all the way up knee deep postholing (doable, but not fun). After resting in the avy pit we had dug, we decided to head up to Pearly Gates or Devils Kitchen Headwall (inspired by the earlier TR). We decided to skin up the west side of Crater Rock, and in doing so, realized why everyone goes to the east side of crater rock. We picked our way through the muddy steam vents, slipping and sliding all over. After collapsing a few snow bridges over small vents we made it up to the hogsback in time for sunrise. We chugged our way up through deep, but consolidated fresh snow to the west Pearly Gates chute. 150 ft of clawing up 40-50 degree sugar snow led us to a fun, clean, 30 ft step of BOMBER blue water ice at about WI2. From there it was a quick run up to the top. We downclimbed the same line down to our packs. From there, we both agreed, was one of the best ski/board descents either of us had ever experienced. I got to rip on my new slpitboard and Forrest rocked his ATs the whole way down on five inches of 99% virgin powder. Gear Notes: two tools, two long screws, two pickets, transceiver, shovels, gps, video camera Approach Notes: knee deep post-holing was the name of the game whenever we weren't skinning. From about 9000 ft and up, there was significant hoar frost forming on the snow. This may lead to increased avalanche danger after the next snowfall. Beware. Aside from that, the snow was consolidated very well, for being so soft. We didn't see any shearing even on the steepest terrain we could find.

I have tried a number of things, and short of laser, contacts are the way to go. Nothing has given a comparable ease of use.

ME! I just bought one two weeks ago, and used it on Hood this weekend. It is pretty much the BEST THING EVER. I finally have a good system for mountaineering. It also happened to be a bluebird 5" powder day on sunday morning as we came down, which didnt hurt anything.

"Who Dat?" in the news

...well, maybe the gym thing might be right

Bullshit!

i talked with the lady, and although a little tweaky, she had a semi legit sounding story. She got into weird specifics that would be really random to have been made up. just a weird present from a far off family member to her and her sisters. Sounds like this ad has gotten her a lot of attention and nastygrams from teh interwebs Whatever

...ok, now that I clicked the link to the rest of the article, it does sound like there is a little more tall stuff there

beautiful, but looking at the trees at the base, its hard to compare this to the valley. The tower is only about 2 pitches of climbing. Still, it is a beautiful feature that would be an amazing climb.

love that she specified that the books had never been opened. never. once.

thx gna, already signed the letter.