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I do remember that night with the truck. I returned the rocks to them. This weekend my buddy had a propane cylinder and headlamp stolen from inside his tent. Can't we just go vigilante on the white trash? There has got to be something we can do!!!

Look out, now that Porter is broken, he is going to be the new king of spray. I predict his post count will double in the next 4 months.

I am doing my part to get that number as high as possible

that is so cool!

Federal law enforcement for BLM and FS is streched so thin currently, unless there is a complaint or emergency, they really dont have the manpower to enforce things like stay limits. I am firmly against it, buuuut, one positive side to grasslands becoming a fee site might be that the shady folks would be less likely to go klepto on us climbers.

me too. Those guys were badass. Climbed a granite mountain fixing ropes with pitons and cloth wrapped hammers for stealth. Oh, yea, and huge packs too.

It was done in the 80s when it was cool to bolt cracks. Oswego Crag just sliped under the radar of the counter revolutionaries of the 90s. They had Rocky Butte to worry about.

a friend is doing this and it pays great. you just come home looking like you cut the shite out of your arms, being covered in red paint and all. and they turn off the tower during the job.

I found some chantrelles yesterday on a climbing adventure! They'rre back!

oh, not too worried, about it, just curiosity. Nice work to "they" it looked like a true adventure.

nope. on the photo with the routes drawn on it, it is the next tower to the left. the only other prominent summit to the left of snibble.

to enjoy the climb, there has to be suffering to put the enjoyment in perspective. not pain and gore suffering, but a nice big gobi, or sore hips from the heavy pack you carried. Hiking to middle of nowhere might not be entirely practical, but yes, having to grovel your way in on the approach is necessary in my mind. Look at the first ascents for all the major peaks around here. They were done after a multiple day approach by the hardmen of old who didnt whine about bolt spacing or anything like that. There is no glory in driving or flying an approach that was hiked by most others. I am off on a tangent, but yea, flying in to 15,000 ft for a 18,000 ft summit is poop on a stick.

There is a large ice cave 100 yds NE from camp muir. people had tents set up on all sides of it when we got there and the bridge was wanded.

there is a forum for the entire state. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/17/page/1

Trip: Rainier NP - DC to Emmons Date: 8/19/2007 Trip Report: Myself and 6 others made an attempt this weekend in what turned out to be probably some of the worst weather of the summer. We made it to Camp muir just as snow started to fall on saturday just as the weather forecast said it would and pretty much didnt let up for the rest of the weekend. We made an attempt at climbing at 11pm sat night, followed the tracks of 3 RMI groups due to the whiteout conditions, and turned back 2 hours later when they did before we dropped down below disappointment cleaver. Routefinding with all the new snow would have been a little too exciting for us. In the morning we found that approximately 2-3 inches of new snow had fallen with drifts of up to 1.5 feet deep According to the rangers at Paradise, the route apparently now follows the RMI trail for only a short ways before dropping below their superhighway to avoid crevasses. Then you hike up through Ingram flats and drop below DC, cross about half of the Emmons Glacier and head up from there, traversing around and through lots of crevasses. They said allot an extra hour to the one-way summit time due to all the traversing. The one benefit to this "extreme backpacking trip" was that we spend half of sunday playing with crevasse rescue systems for the newbies to see. All in all, a miserable climbing trip, but a successful backpacking trip. Gear Notes: mucho pickets Approach Notes: there is a good trail to Camp Muir and the glissade trail is getting better for the way down.

as in the Hotlum on Shasta? Wrong forum if so.

I didnt. two months of trailwork has my foot tendons acting up and my boss banninated me from hiking on my days off when I told him my weekend plans. Soooooooo, its off to Rainier next weekend instead of sitting on the couch. Gotta get out and do something(w/o the boss's knowledge)!

there is an old goat who frequents the descent from Outer Space in Lwrth. He is pretty consistent and lets you get close. (especially if you pee on a rock nearby)

I will have to think twice before trundling from now on... Sorry to hear it.

I dunno about him. he always wears the same hat and just gives me a creepy vibe. Maybe it's nothing but he seems a little off.

I recently got the sportiva Glacier RSS and am very pleased with these hybrid-crampon compatible boots. I bought and returned several packs and found the REI 40L was the most comfortable with a moderately heavy load. it isnt the lightest pack or the most breatheable back, but it has gear loops, straps for tools and I just generally found it to fit well. I had the deuter 40L for a week and liked it but the weird hip pads lined up with my kidneys rather than my hips; that pack got everything right except the torso length(they only offer it in one size) if you try it, load it up with what would be your max load and wear it for a few hrs. I personally was very disappointed with the new osprey packs. They did away with the lumbar pad completely on the new packs, opting instead to just extend the mesh back all the way down. I dont think they will carry a moderate to heavy load very well at all. Can anyone prove me wrong on this conjecture?

This is another classic CC thread.

I watched a pair climbing the spire waaaaay up above "blackened" at smith today and was curious about that route as I have never seen/ heard of anyone doing that route before. For a better location reference, they were on the spire right of the spire above phoenix wall. Cheers to whoever was doing it, that looked VERY adventurous!

Might see you up there. I'll post conditions promptly if we go, as we might do it friday.

After a few mintes of thinking I may have shown up at the wrong bar, I spotted Skeletor and we had a few pints of wildfire. Pretty good stuff. After about a half hour of talking about mountains and jobs I finally put it together that he was the guy reporting about his climb on Denali that I had been reading about in the Bulletin. Pretty badass. I think next week same place same time would work well. Maybe even make it a regular dealeo. We'll see...