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Smith - yeah!

The toilet at 14,000' camp on McKinley takes the cake for me.

Cmon now, that's not even funny

LUV the tastey bassalt at Smith!!

Muffy - Just move here to Seattle. I'll sugar daddy you and the kids.

Hexes are dead easy to place once you know how. I don't fiddle with gear. Totally true - Trogor is a doucebag- some skank that does the Elvis shake on every route and cries like a school girl.

Looks thin and juicy. What's the name/where/how good?

We could have a forum - "Seen at the climbing gym last night" It amazes me everytime I go! Tonight there was a training group doing sit ups galore and as many pull ups as they could. NONE of them had any technique to speak of. Cart before the horse.

For nearly a year now I've been suffering from this as well. The only thing I've heard that really works is that masocistic message Oleg reffered to. I strech, message, orthodics.....so far only mild recovery. Good luck

Dan--- you're still da man! 15 years ago this guy taught me the three rules of alpine/multi-pitch climbing that still apply today: 1. Expect to fail 2. One pitch at a time 3. NEVER give up

Thanks for the insight

Is the fatigue caused by inadequate engineering, maintenance (many cities choose to save money that way), over use or materials?

Rudy - what's the engineering perspective? Was this your firm's?

Yeah...whut's up with that Sean?

Great job Sean & Steve. Sean has all four ridges under his belt. North, East Direct & West Ridges of Forbidden and now the Torment-Forbidden Traverse. Dude you rock.

great idea! I always carry a few roma tomatos, cucumbers & ranch dressing. Very nice after the approach hike with a cup of coffee.

I can out-climb you on your best day

Nice job - the spotters looked a bit homosexual - maybe they just admire you

Not mature, hooked on Coke at 21. She got a life of addiction behaviors to look forward too. Tons of money but a ton of baggage. Pretty sad. What about birth control? What about it? I wouldn't use it with her..LL is so hot

Three cheers for the Comish...at least he has a set of balls to keep the NFL out of the political correctness circus. Can't wait till fall!

Well done guys! Any pictures?

So true! I like to look ahead and see what the next pitch will need and decide from there. I also prefer to keep my favorite cams (yellow & green metulios - #2 cam) for the climbing. I know exactly the size I need while leading by how tight on my fingers the crack is.

Thanks OFF!! I didn't know how to do that. :tup:

I've climbed Mt. Rainier 35 times and have never trained with weight. I've directed folks over to the stairs on Capital Hill for a number of years. 10 Ave E & E Blaine is the top. Or start at the bottom of Lakeside Ave E and Blaine. When gunning for a summit regardless of the peak, your legs need to have that engrained methodical pace that stairs will provide. Do those stairs as many times as you can (at least 10x) and you'll find the same cadence up the mountains. Good luck and feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.

Trip: Forbidden Peak - East Ridge Direct Date: 7/7/2007 Trip Report: I worked late until nearly midnight on Friday nght when we were supppose to drive to the trailhead for the Direct East Ridge of Forbidden. But I caught some sleep on my partners couch so we didn't gt out of Seattle until Saturday morning. We grabbed the last available site at Boston Basin (hehehehehe) because of all the West Ridgers. (we must have seen 10 parties up that route) We hiked up to an awesome bivy site and slepy under a stary night but awoke to chily white out foggy conditions. WTF? So after some coffee we went up to the base of the first gendarme. Now the guide book, and a few other folks I talked with said to go around the first gendarme. WTF? go around - what is this tittelly winks? We went up and rapped the first gendarme. Good fun, introduced us to the kind of exposure and great climbing we'd enjoy the rest of the day! The next few pitches follow up and over a few gendarmes looking directly down the Boston Glacier and the East ledges. Fabulous exposed route that just kept going. We tried to take advantage of full rope lengths, however the down climbing and the slight windy/foggy weather forced us to shorten the pitches which helped us to make quick progress. After what we thought was the "crux" pitch, we took a direct line over a gendarme somwhere in the middle and found the climbing mid 5.10, well protected and fabuously wild! When we hit the summit we saw our first humans in a couple of days! The West Ridgers were turning around to down climb but we shot down the East Ledges. Five raps and some third class scrambling and we were at our posh bivy in 1 1/2 hours! wahoo A quick cup of fresh coffee while we packed up and out to the car in a fwe hours. Too late for the better restaurants, we settled for awesome cleaveage, a Philly cheese steak and a blackberry shake at Good Food! Good times. Go for it Gear Notes: (1) 60m 9.4mm rope 4 cams - yellow metulios to 2" (1) set nuts Approach Notes: Add 2 1/2 miles to the trailhead. The road is washed out past the Eldo parking. Bivy high!