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steep and cheap

steep na dcheap has fusions for CHEAP right now!

dont remember the guys name, but he had no idea he had lost it. when i found it it was just on the ground at the base of Carver.

A comment from the trundling incident in CO: Helium balloons are aid

Wow!

WOW, I actually randomly met the guy who's gear I bootied at trout cr this weekend! And I had just painted my own colors on the biners too!

Found a draw and alpine draw. If you can ID the tape color I can meet you in portland. Also left a sign on the readerboard there with a phone #

Yea, it looked pretty good.

We topped out to the left of the true summit (as the guide says to) and then found a cairn within 150 ft with rap slings. We saw a series of old steps on the glacier leading to the ridge quite a ways to the east but we didnt see a quick way over there (weren't looking too hard either once we found the raps). Oh well. Now I know.

those last two pics look like torture! How did you ever survive the epic weekend?!? ...Oh, and nice job on the climbing!

oh, and my partner removed the the webbing on the slung chockstone on the first 5.6 pitch (OW section) thinking I had slung it, so apologies to the next folks.

Trip: Dragontail Peak - Serpentine Arete / Ridge 5.8 IV Date: 8/9/2009 Trip Report: Myself and Deverton climbed Serpentine Arete car to car sunday. I haven't done a ton of long alpine routes and I definitely learned some lessons on this one. I felt the route had 5 great pitches, but the looseness (comparable to cascade volcanoes in the summer) of the upper pitches really detracted from the total quality of the climb. Shortly after the fun crux pitches things became a slog just to get off the peak. I am hard pressed to reccommend this route to others unless you really want a low 5th class adventure. The descent down Aasgard pass also detracted from the overall adventure. We were expecting a little more of a real trail to descend (at night with one headlamp, Aasgard is sketchy to descend). The positive thing to come out of this was that we brought enough food and water for the whole adventure. I think this is the first time that has hapened for me personally. (probably means we brought too much, huh...) Notes for next time: dont let the stoner be in charge of the alarm (he went back to sleep and got us up way late, always bring 2 headlamps, bring less shit, anticipate more time for approach, simul climb on shorter rope lengths (60m = way to much drag on low 5th class), dont do it car to car; it hurts, Oh, and make sure your ride waiting back in icicle doesn't have to be somewhere on monday early; they left without me and took all my stuff. I had to take the train back to OR. Fuckers. Over all a helluva adventure, but no pictures unfortunately. Gear Notes: 2x #.75-2 BD, 1x green alien, nuts, #3 BD, gold link cam, lots of alpine runners, ice axes, descent trail topo and route topo, 1 gal water for 2 people, lots of snackies. Approach Notes: 3 hrs in + 45 min of scrambling to the base of the climb from the lake. Descent Notes: 5 rappels off the back side, 30 min hike to Aasgard pass, plan more time for the descent than you think and REALLY avoid making the descent at night as routefinding is not so easy.

totally lame! that is quite the haul!

where's the photo of the portaledge w/ a keg!?! Are you guys gettin grusty here or what

not instructional, but if you want to get a stoke; Front Range Freaks, Masters of Stone I-VI. Freedom Of The Hills is the best climbing resource out there. Get it now and start reading.

Jason, good to hear that SAR training came in handy! Stay safe hero.

RIP young man.

yes they do. same setup as u-stems

item was too close. beyond the range of focus. Or, the camera chose the background to focus on

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BrAiNz! I need BRAIns!!!!!!

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Harvesting the walla wallas from last fall now and they are fatties! Didnt get a leaf of spinach, it all went immediately to seed (we planted seeds and starts May 1 . Any tips for keeping it viable a little longer? Less sun?) Pumpkins vines will be taking over a good sized area soon. Snow peas are rockingout (stirfry every week!) Planted eggplant start (a little late this year) Got lots of things set up on 1/4 in drip hose. Planted 4 more roses (bad year for blackspot, or is it just me?)