cycling_mike

"maybe you'd be better off clean-aiding Diedre" hey whatever rocks yer boat. All I know is that when I was on wrist twister a few years ago there was a broken rivet and I skyhooked the last exposed thread to get past it. It's probably not useable by now.

Climb: Mt Adams-Mazama Glacier Date of Climb: 8/19/2006 Trip Report: So a couple of weeks ago I decided to attempt a marathon 3 day cycle-climb-cycle adventure on Adams. The plan was this: bike from PDX to Adams (104 miles) on day one. Summit Adams on day two and bike back on day three. On day one I made it all the way to a bivy just below lunch counter, but managed to trip on my fuckin shoelace of all things and smacked my knee on a rock hard enough to kept me from going any higher. Work and the usual BS kept me from making a 2nd go at it until this past weekend. My buddy Steve was driving to eastern Washington to start a job, so we decided to climb the Mazama glacier on his way out there. Then I'd bike home and he'd continue east. On Saturday we left portland, reached the trailhead by 4pm and hiked up to sunrise camp by 7ish. The next morning we woke around 5 am and started up. The climb went smoothly enough; fortunatly we were able to bum some sunblock, as we'd both forgotten to bring any. There was a bit more hiking than I'd expected, and we didn't get back down to the car until 6pm. By time we ate supper and reached hwy 14 it was after 7. Steve drove me to Stevenson, but since he had to start a 13 hour shift at 5:30 am he had couldn't bring me all the way back to portland. I assured him that I was fine, and started biking around 8:30 or 9 (my cell phone was dead so I didn't know exactly what time it was). I refilled my water bottle rested a bit at Beacon rock. About ten miles later I hit a big rock in the road and got a flat tire which was a bit of a pain in the ass to fix, but other than that the ride was uneventful and the traffic was thankfully very lite. When I got home I looked at the clock. It was 1 am, I set my alarm so I could get up for work in 6 hours, chugged a beer and promptly passed out.

Bring rivet hangers and a bat hook for wrist twister, maybe a bolt kit too. That thing has some of the shittiest 1/4 inchers.

I was up there a week ago and it sounds like you bivied where I did. Yeah there were lots of mice, and two pretty big marmots, one of which wasn't afraid of me at all. I'd brought my MSR stowaway pot (its handle latches over the lid) to store food in, which was a good thing, cause at night they dug it out from under the rocks I'd stacked on it and hauled it 20 ft away. Fortunatly marmots haven't figured out how to chew through stainless steel (yet!).

Do NE butr. of higher cathedral. it's the "best grade IV in the valley" gear to 3" old skool 5.9ish.

oops, got busy taking care of mundane stuff around the house and didn't get a chance to get away. I'll probably go to beacon tomorrow for some soloing...

who wants to go climbing? I'm up for whatever: running laps on TR, cleaning, leading...hell, I'll even sport climb.

I was/still am known as nomad but since I wasn't able to log in under that name for a while I signed up for this one. Anyway, OMB is right about that heat. Jesus christ it was hot up there, and without even the slightest breeze. I got so dehydrated I didnt have to piss for two whole days. Come to think about it, after the first day I didn't even sweat that much! The route was pretty cool, but since it was the first time I've stood in aiders in over a year I was moving kinda slow; we started climbing around 2pm on tuesday and got back to the ground around 6 on weds.

I climb 9s/10s and a bit harder on tr. who wants to go?

(edit) sorry, something's come up...next week sometime?

Hey bill, how about friday? I think we climbed together once last fall or so at rocky butte. back then I was posting as Nomad (haven't been able to log on under that name for some reason).

Yeah, even from the west, hwy 20 is pretty low traffic after sedro woolly or rockport... and the descent is kick ass!

Climb: Washington Pass-Hwy 20 Date of Climb: 6/15/2005 Trip Report: So the plan was to bike from Mt. Vernon to Washington pass and climb the slacker routes up S. Early winter and Liberty Bell... Like many a good plan this one required a big dose of overconfidence blended with blissfull ignorace. Anyway, by the time we'd climbed the 5000+ ft of elevation on the hwy (and running out of water) then a grand or so up the trail to the base of Early winter, I was so wasted and out of motivation I just sat there gazing at the gathering clouds and sinking sun. Fortunarly, my girlfriend and partner for this particular misadventure had brought along the pain meds, and after a smoke we were revived enough to bike back down to marblemount. The cycling was truly amazing, and if we had one more day and more food we coulda actually climbed something too. Gear Notes: shoulda brought liquor Approach Notes: bike up the road & get ready to suffer from colonial creek to WA pass