1amy_klak

aw shucks ... hey mike !! check your pm's

Hi Kim I don't know were you live but if you every want to climb at smith or southern oregon let me know. amy

brand new G3 complete climbing skins still in wrapper 90mm asking $80.00 will ship to you .. pm or email me at amyklak@hotmail.com

no kidding?!! is that why that all smoked like chimneys and smelled real bad!!! of course I was in France ... we had several contacts with the OMC prior by email and they were actaully in english!!! my point was they basically told us it was undoable too dangerous ,,,, the scotts proved them wrong as will all the other people who will be summiting this weekend...

I just got back from Chamonix France to do Mt Blanc the grand Mulet route. unfortunalty we had a small window of weather and missed our chance to get up to hut by one day,., and possibly summit by about 3 days.. France is a very frustrating area to gather accurate information. When we first got there to chamonix we went to the usual places to get beta on current conditions... they moutain rescue people spoke hardly any english and basically told us not to go up there,. the moutain guides were no better,.. so we hung out by the aquille du midi the cable car to get to the approach were we met some guys from scottland who just came down they were happy to talk to us and said they did summit..they had to break trail 10 hours from cable car to hut ( book says 3-5) and 12 hours from hut to summit these were really longs times as they had to go really slow to break trail and watch out fro crevases due to lack of previous snow. we attempted to get up to the hut the very next day .,. packs on skis in hand in hopes of riding out the upcoming storm at the grand mulet hut we got to the cable car and they basically said there was no visibility...what does that mean we asked we want to go to the hut not sight see,.,. once again no visibility .. we sat there and watched them turn away tourist after skiier after tourist not taking there money and telling them to go across the street and not willing to send up a cable car for only 2 people willing to check it out.... no such luck .. our window had closed the storm set in and we were bummed .. even though we both knew this was a possibility given the time of year we went.... but it is possible.... you can pm with more questions about the area ... we did find ice ... on the mer du glace glacer only to be turned around by very unstable conditions you could see the rock fall and hear it all up and down glacier ... but to save the trip since it did keep snowing and snowing we did go skiing at the grand monte area ... in waist deep powder best snow of the year said the locals....

Ok ok I admit methford sucks however it is near ashland which is a cool town has hippies and organic food just like eugene... it is close to rattlesnake,greensprings, emmigrant lake, the rouge, mt ashland 1 1/2 hours from shasta 1 1/2 from castle crags.. has the rouge river... only 3 hours from bend and smith.... so if not medford go to talent or phoenix more affordable less medfordites to deal with but southern oregon is not so bad if you end up down there pm and they are right don't live in medford but there are other cool places to live