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I don't have a solution but wanted to say that the same thing happened to me. I went from never having used the gear before, to skiing about 14 miles in two days. I got the blisters and worse, hurt my achilles badly enough that I had to bow out of a trip to Alaska when I hadn't recovered a month later. Maybe easing into using the boots/bindings/skis would help. But I also think the skiing just exacerbates any flaw in the way your boots fit. I'll be reading this thread if anyone has any suggestions.

sprayyyyyyyy For me, climbing a couple thousand feet of easy stuff and skipping the 2 good pitches would feel that way. No accounting for personal taste...

Looking for a partner to climb in Leavenworth on Saturday 5/3, maybe some cragging at Careno or something like that. Eric 206-849-1223

NICE.

You're worried that skiing is having a negative impact on your hill climbing workouts?? You've got your priorities backwards. Your workouts are to make it easier to go have fun! If you are a beginning or not very good skier, yes, I think your quads and other big leg muscles will be getting worn out skiing. This will lessen as your skill improves. Technique makes a huge difference. When I want to train for skiing, I do stairs and lunges. This helps with skiing generally, backcountry skiing more so.

L to the O to the L.

Heading down to the Valley tomorrow morning, Friday 6/21. Planning to arrive on Saturday evening. I have room for 3 more in my truck, let me know if you want to ride and split gas.

Way to go!

Hopefully Sol's beta is gold but even if it's not, don't be afraid of the bushwhack. Take some gardening gloves.

The top part is obvious, it's at the bottom you have a chance to screw up and end up slightly cliffed out. Thank you for your concern.

Yeah, I've done it for a couple of short raps. One time when I screwed up the descent from Outer Space. It actually hurts your neck more than your groin. It's not that hard to keep it together for a short period but I wouldn't want to do anything more than vertical, or longer than about 50'.

The BD Quadrant comes to mind.

Geronimo is only 5.6 but I thought it was really fun.

City park at Index. Two sets of nuts are all you really need.

Stone Gardens makes a bunch of the holds out of simple squares of plywood, works great.

I've been thinking about this lately. How is the fuse going to tell the difference between an avalanche and a good hard fall? You can do a lot of fiddling about with breaking strengths, but I don't think anybody can tell you for sure what forces you'll encounter in a real avalanche. I'd wager it's very easy to create more force in a crash than you'll see in an avalanche. I'm thinking that if you really don't want to lose your skis on a normal day, but really don't want to get submarined in an avalanche... the right answer is brakes.

There isn't any ice. Bring your skis.

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Careno Crag is a whole rock area, Black Power is a climb/area on the approach to Careno. They're some of the first routes on the north side as you drive into the canyon. Don't know about Candlestein.

You might also consider Davis-Holland, I've seen it climbed in February. Though you may need to french/aid some of the bottom pitch.

I will be a little more blunt, because I'm not sure you're hearing the good advice that's been given already: This is not a good idea. There won't be a trail for most of the way. You will be traveling in snow, with variable and unpredictable conditions, almost the whole way. You will be in avalanche terrain many times on this loop. You need a good bit of winter travel experience before trying something of this magnitude. You can gain this experience pretty quickly, if you're dedicated, but this is not something you can do some research on from your computer, and then just go out and do. You are underestimating how hard this is, and this is literally how inexperienced people get themselves killed in the winter. Hiking up to Colchuck lake, however, is a fine idea. Much of the winter there will be a boot pack trail in place, the terrain is pretty safe, and the mileage is reasonable. Start small! Stay safe, learn some things, and you'll be able to work up to this plan quickly.

You should check the weather forecast.

This is not true. In 1945, a B25 flew into the Empire State building. This plane weighs 10 tons, 15-20 times less than a 767, and was trying to avoid hitting the building at the time. You see how that might be different, right?

It's not like this thread was good to begin with. Just GGK ranting nonsensically about how he's decided the world doesn't make sense, while we can all see he is the one who doesn't make sense. Kinda reminds me of Gary actually. Less funny though.

Who told you that, and why did you believe it?