Choada_Boy

Is "glock" how you say "cock" when you have one in your mouth, pretty boy? How about: Obama, he said, "would trade every award as humbling and important as this one is for the dissolution of nuclear arsenals" and "to get our economy moving in a way that creates more jobs and more opportunities." What a Nazi! Right, hooded Klansman?

Suck on this, then, you dumb fuck: The committee added, "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future."

Done.

Best wishes finding your bud A-OK. -J

Bill: You will not be missed.

Jeepers tazz! You're getting creepy! And I'm sure this site will not die when I die! If only!

I walk everywhere I go. Safer that way.

You know what's really dangerous? Life! 100% fatal! Yet people want to quibble about who, how, and when you should make an already dangerous activity more or less dangerous, and cop an attitude in the process, as if they've cornered the market on making climbing safe. Simul if you want. Don't if you don't. But don't get all preachy about it, especially you safety freaks, as if there's a right way to climb, or any of it matters. You could just as easily get the chop when the guy driving towards you on the highway has a heart attack and smashes into you head on. Game over. Did you have fun?

There is hope for Bellingham yet! You are a dumb cunt.

Maybe not. I'm clearly trying to un-recommend Baker right now. Here are some recommendations: Prusik in a day Snow Creek Wall link-up (Orbit & Outerspace) WA Pass (but it's probably got some new snow up there) Blue Buttress Pika Peak (or whatever it's called)

Third-hand account: "he reported he was ‘extremely anxious the entire route and even frightened a time or two’. In addition to the ice and rock fall, the Coleman route is mostly very hard glacier ice, with many large crevasses to end run, jump across on ice screw belays, or steep rock-studded ice slopes to descend and ascend. The top of the Roman Wall above the Pumice Ridge is a sheet of talus on ice, with a steady barrage of rock fall coming off the newly exposed Carmelo Crater rim all the time"

I heard he moved in with Octomom.

Carmelo Crater's been mapped with ground (ice) penetrating radar. That's a bloody amazing picture. Has Mt Baker's summit ever been so bare of snow and ice in our lifetimes? I suppose that depends how old you are? I am informed that it is "probable[sic] the scoria rim that we first see in the 1940 USGS vertical air photos". Anyone know of or have access to these?

i didnt recommend it...i said in my first post that out of the 3 he listed Shuksan would prob be his best bet and gave a suggestion to avoid any loose rock in the gulley my only point was that 9.5 hrs from the Hogsback seemed excessive and the ROUTE is not in as bad of shape as you made it out to be... to quote myself: "while the objective dangers may be high it is still passible to the summit with a little spice" dont make it out to sound like i said anything more than i did A more careful read would indicate that I didn't say YOU had recommended it, but instead that I wouldn't. Yes. It is passable to the summit if you are willing to expose yourself to serious objective hazards, such as being pelted from above by rocks for the last 1000 or so feet to the summit or being crushed by a calving glacier. Good luck with that.

I'll be younger next year.

i agree Baker's in poor shape and prob not the best chance for success...but i dont think as nearly as bad as you're making it sound...unless things have drastically changed in the past few days...Dan was just up there and skied the CD from 10.3k and while the objective dangers may be high it's still passable to the summit with a little spice...he did it solo btw Dan's TR from last week He also said: "That whole upper area above the cleaver is a shooting gallery -- at about 10k a milk-quart size rock was rolling towards me in high speed lobs, and exploded into fragments 10 feet away on exposed pebble ice, shrapnel whizzed past as I attempted to protect my face etc..." If getting smashed is your idea of "spice", go for it, but I wouldn't recommend the route to someone who feels the need to ask about it right now as an option for this weekend.

Baker was a bit of a death trap before it stared snowing, FYI. The Easton was considered "impassable" by the guides and the Roman Wall was being pelted from above by the "grey band", the edge of the normally hidden summit crater (Carmelo Crater). The CD route was also exposed to considerable ice fall from east of Colfax Peak. A guide reported needing 9.5h to get to the summit from the top of the Hogsback, with a strong client, multiple belayed crevasse crossings, ice fall, and significant objective hazards and fear. There will probably be at least a foot of new snow by the time this system plays out, on top of very hard late season snow and ice, which would make for very poor bonding and increased avalanche danger, IMHO. Check out Scurlock's picture: http://www.pbase.com/nolock/image/117410889

Then why ask it? Yes, removing metal from a metallic system can weaken the metallic system. And depending on where you remove it from, relative to how it loads when catching a fall, you could seriously diminish its performance.

I assume that the "how" is implicit nowadays as "the best style possible".

We are now, officially, splitting hairs. "Gene left camp that evening and made a boot pack up to the col so that we'd have a good track to follow in the morning when the snow was frozen. We climbed the route single push the next day." Alpine or not?

I would have talked to them in German, but I don't know German, about potential avalanche hazards and their bad idea. I was up there one winter and a Russian Mom with her Son and Daughter were going for that route in full-on winter conditions, blizzard and all. We tried to explain to them at the Hostel before they left that they had a really bad idea but they looked at us funny. They came back early the next evening after a clearly interesting day, thankfully.

A scooter with a mini-trailer: patent pending! And he thought of his funny all by himself.

Did you find the Bone Cairn?

Lord of the Flies

"And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!