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granted, I was following p5 on L29, but I felt the face moves above the #3 placement/underclingy move to be harder. maybe it is just a whole 15 ft or so of crux, but I only fell about 10-15 ft under the belay.

where/how did you descend?

RJ, you're a good writer. Keep up the interesting TRs! (he might be giving Ivan and others a run for the CC comedy TR position in a few years if this keeps up)

The serial nudist, Deverton:

I have notified Tony (the OR rep for access fund) though I am sure I am not the first to email him. hopefully he can help. We'll see.

horseshit! I have pulled out several hundred lbs of trash out of there personally and with friends, AND the spring thing makes a point to clean up trash there every year too.

and when you click the "contact us" link on the Pacific Northwest Recreation Resource Advisory Committee webpage, it gives a 404 Error message. Lovely!

Saw this one coming for a long time. Well, who wants to go build campsites up in the hills? I'll pitch in to rent a bobcat for a weekend to level out some flat pads for tents. campfires in the hills=fires=worse off than before. oh well.

from redrocks a few years ago. he climbed in the gallery, a brave soul indeed

high voltage maintenance. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nX3SxRrqWA "the three thing i am afraid of: electricity, heights, women."

the legality of it is possible I think. The high seas doesn't have much in the way of law really, more like guidelines...

OMG! my climbing partner must have left it last time we were up there!(certainly not me, noooo sir!) shit, thats where it went! we climbed AG last time.

a while ago I woke up shaving. well, I guess my wife woke me up while I was shaving. in the morning I figured I had already shaved and was ready for work. moral of story: look in the mirror at some point before you go to a meeting in the morning. I had only partially shaved and looked like a retard.

slowly is the key. don't get over confident, it will bite you in the ass quick

alpine rock is the pinnacle of climbing enjoyment and style (argueably) but it is also where it can go the most wrong. Start by cragging and single pitch, and work into multipitch climbing slowly. Get Freedom of The Hills (climbers bible) and rehearse everything you can make heads or tails of then get someone to show you the rest you cant make sense of. Then find someone who knows climbing well (indoor gyms can be good for making connections) who can mentor you on longer low commitment alpine rock climbs. Then go off and have yourself a few epics, to learn some lessons, then come back to cascadeclimbers and spray about it.

several years ago a friend was trying to pull together a naked climbing calender. I have some of the pics from it. I need to dig those out and post 'em. about half are dudes, but I am sure the ladies (and raindawg) will appreciate the sausage.

Trip: Mt Shasta - Casaval Ridge Date: 4/18/2009 Trip Report: Myself and 7 others headed to shasta last weekend for a quickie. We split into 2 groups with my team climbing Casaval Ridge and the other group skinning up from Shastina. I couldn't ask for nicer weather for the trip, though it was a bit hot during the day. Everything that was gonna slide went of Friday according to a climbing ranger, so we weren't too worried about triggering slides. The cooldown at night made for as good of snow walking as I have ever experienced, with it getting a little mushy during the heat of the day. We made good time up to our bivy spot at around 9500 ft on the ridge. A bit of a side story; There were two tents near us from other climbers who came down late Sat. they arrived at camp, broke down one tent, hung around for a few hours and then descended. Then, right about dusk, a lone lady comes down, having reversed the whole ridge to get down, and asks if we had seen her climbing partners. we told her they left 2-3 hrs before for the car. she was beat and decided to spend one more night on the ridge, but was soon back asking for a stove to melt snow once she realized her partners had taken all the group gear. We were flabbergasted that her partners would leave her like that, so I loaned my stove out for the night. Right when we were going to sleep, I figured we'd call the sheriff and let him know if her partners try to activate SAR, to tell them they are dumbasses for splitting up and to wait till morning for her to come down. Sure enough, later sunday I talked to the climbing ranger and that is exactly what they tried to do but they waited till 2 am to call. Ok, back to the TR: we woke in the morning and pretty much had the ridge to ourselves. The only variation from the route was to climb to the east side of the ridge through the First Window(~11,500) to avoid a steep face with very hard snow and a large cornice on it. two of us had a second tool and would have been fine on that face I think, but with a single walking axe, it would have been a little sketch for the other two guys. We got back on the west side through the Second Window and proceeded to have a great time climbing the rest of the route. I must say, it was definitely one of the most fun routes I have climbed. Nothing too scary, interesting and varied, and we didnt need to f- around with ropes. Just perfect climbing. Topped out in almost exactly 7 hours, but without our detour through the windows, I think 6.5 hours would be a very reasonable time. The glissade trail was a long one too; it started as soon as you got through the red banks on AG. Even the post holing wasn't as bad as expected on the way out. Gear Notes: no ropes, brought second tool, but it was unnecessary for most of the route. (having a second tool would have been very handy if we had stayed on the west side the whole way as the face with the cornice around 11500-12000 was very hard snow.) Approach Notes: 4-5 ft of snow in the parking lot. nice boot track for the first half of the ridge. the catwalk isnt as scary as we were told. no worse than the top of leuthold to summit traverse on top of Hood.

check with psychobikere on here. he surfs and has a like-new pair of vipers he is trying to unload.

no, we were a group of 4. camped at the saddle at 9500 or so. very interesting trip. I will post a TR when I have a bit of time.

that is so f ing awesome. power to the ladies!

wow barefoot kid ascent! Thats Burly!

wow, that Losar climb in the background of the link is amazing!

The first message sounded strangely similar to someone's drunken posting on this site!

we should have a good TR on conditions for ya early next week!