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I was out at beacon the other day, it's open and looking great. I would say it is in a whole different legue than either frenchies or broughtons.

whats the appropach like this time of the year. Is the road to the th open.

I'm heading out towards bend friday night I could drop you off if you can't find anything else.

Hippos evil... Ah yeah now I remember who that evil hippo was. Way to get out guys. Sounds like good times.

I was thinking of heading down the 20-26. You guys still looking for partners.

What kind of climbing would you what to do. ANy specific objectives?

Need a partner for a couple days within that time frame. Possible area squamish, north cascades, yosemite, Stuart, Forbidden, Patramigan traverse. Ski touring, alpine rock, or cragging all within my interests. Lead 5.9 trad.

I'm going there 07 end of July august, put up some trip reports when you get back would love to hear more about the area.

Was up at middle sister a few weeks ago. Good snow coverage to 6500 ft. The north side from the col looked like a walk up. North also had alot of snow but I wasn't up there so I don;t know the conditions. A couple of warms days next week should melt everything together though.

I did the route earlier in the year under clear blue skies and a light dusting of fresh snow. Your conditions would probably have sent me packing. Way to get after it under not so ideal weather and still have a good time.

Climb: Middle Sister-South East Ridge Date of Climb: 5/29/2006 Trip Report: My g-friend and I headed up to the middle sister SUnday afternoon. The forcast called for clearing and thn a sunny day Monday. We couldn;t have hit it better. We skied in as clouds lingered. Ran into Letsroll and Jlag on the way out. The had tales of stormy weather and large amounts of snow accumalation. Their report was accurate. As we left treeline towards Camp Lake the wind started blowing and the snow started falling. It was definately wintery. We reached the lake and heard some crazy banging of metal on metal. Turned out a group of geologists was taking a core sample of the lake and were busy pounding rods into the ice. Shit looked heavy. The next day the weather broke with not a cloud in the sky. Aplenglow on the sisters and fresh sbow everywhere. We skinned up the southeast ridge under sunny skies and over wind packed powder. COnditions couldn't have been better for going up. The last bit to the summit we hiked because it was a fairly narrow ridge. The ski down was awesome. Powder-windpack-softened windpack-soft windpack. The full range with some corn mixed in. The ski out was midly bewidlering but we made it to "oregon's best burger" by 6:30 and back in P-town by 10:00 Gear Notes: Ski, ice axe, map Approach Notes: trial, snow

Seems like there is lots of snow out there. Broken top access would be a pain because the road is not open yet but why not. Depending on the weather definately bring snowshoes.

This doesn;t have anything to do with clowns or speed traps but it might be a fun joke to play on a friend. I called some guy that I thought was selling a really nice patio set for 30 bucks. The craigslist add said something like first call gets the deal. Anyway I called the guy and he says he's going to kill his friend because apparently they posted this ad up there for him and he had been recieving calls all night for this patio set. This might go under "things clowns do for fun."

anybody going out there this afternoon

The Klawatti was nice but we only made it as far as Austera peak. It seems like you could spend a couple of days up there touring glaciers and bagging peaks. The Mcallister looked like it would be interesting as well.

Climb: Sahale-Austera-Klawatti-Eldorado-Forbidden Traverse Date of Climb: 5/12/2006 Trip Report: Myself, a swiss guy named andreas, and Alex headed out to do the Forbidden traverse. The first day was cool and clear in the morning but quickly warmed up as the day progressed. Some powder was found. The original plan was to traverse over Sahale and ski down the Queen Sabe to camp below the Sharfin-Forbidden Col. We got half way up Sahale arm and then decided to go directly to camp and bag the peak from there. Conditions on Sahale were good. The niext day we went over the Col and onto Boston Glacier. The chute up to the Col was snow-then ice-then rock. All fairly straightforward. Then up and over the toe of the north ridge of forbidden and down the forbidden glacier. 3500 feet of pure skiing bliss. We camped at Moraine lake and toured around there in the afternoon. That night we noticed a very warm wind was desintigrateing out snow wall. The warming trend of our tour had begun. The next day we went up the basin to the northwest along the ridge and up through a col to the Klawatti Glacier. WE then droppped out packs and skiied over to Austera. Very nice views. We skied back to the packs and camped at Klawatti col. The next day we kicked steps up the sof south face of Klawatti as the sun rose bathing Eldorado and the rest of the mountains in luminous alpenglow. This was the highlight of the trip for me. Then we skied over to and up eldorado down the Edlorado glacier down to the talus field. The upper field was covered and only the lower protion required scrambling. It wasn't to bad. The entire tour was spectactular. It was nice to do it in four days and have time to explore the area, climb peaks and soak up the ambiance. Pictures to come. Gear Notes: Skis, rope, ice axe, ski crampoons, crampoons

I could go out sometime after 4:00 on Thursday. Anybody down for Broughtons Bluff? Frank

still looking

I'd be interested and I am located down in Portland.

Looking for partners do go on a traverse sometime in May. Possible around the weekends of the 5th or 19th of may. I am interested in the spearhead, forbidden, or ptarmigan traverse. PM me if interested.

was their yesterday, conditions where variable but totally safe. had some post holing but mostly excellent firm snow. Windy on up top made little chunks of ice fall continuously. Mostly small chunks though.

Need another team of two to ride into the Waddington-Combatent Col between end of July and beginning of August, statistically the best weather window. Cost if 550 for passenger if we get 4 alltogether. Not looking for climbing partners just a ride share.

Alright then when only need anpther two. Anyone interested in heli-share to waddington late july or early august?

When you guys heading up there? I'm trying to put a group together for July to the Waddington-Combatant Col. I heard a group of 6 is the most economical with heli service. We have two so far. We were thinking of doing the Mcnerthney Pillar as well as others on combatant. ANybody interested in heli share to the COL in july?

What's the access like for Silver Star Creek. Is it the Same additional 3 miles in?