jordansahls

I would vote for climbing on the Baker seracs. You can play around all you want, practice placing screws and making V-threads. Also, the ice is good, and If you want you can saddle up and take the sharp end of the rope. Its a good way to get a feel for what your in for.

Good stuff.

Yeah, its hit or miss. You can park in the upper lot, but then you have to ski down to chair 8, which isnt all that bad, what sucks is climbing back up after you are done.

Sounds like something from Enumclaw.

They just need to stop using BPA. Correct me if im wrong, but isnt it a plasticizer? So it lowers the processing temperature of the polycarbonate material that the are using, thereby lowering the manufacturing costs. Isn't it also questionable if the amount of BPA leeching into the water is at a harmful concentration? Still, it seems like most anything can be cancerous or deadly these days.

Im no professional mountaineer, but i am somewhat of an outsider, and I have to say, no one sprays like the folks on cc. Its some of the funniest shit i have ever seen!

Awesome. 6V_DsL1x1uY

I was up in the area just a few days ago, no hope for a few more weeks. I ended up going up the snow creek trail, but had to turn around due to massive avalanche activity.

Caught in the act! RpPIHPXnUG8

Thank God someone know what they're doing

I quit mbs64GvGgPU

This is shitty! Someone call Dallas Kloke!

Any thoughts on what is the best way to approach the North side of the Phalanx from the Neve Glacier?

That would be a painfull ordeal. The rock all the way up Fernow is shit, and so it 7fj, also Maude sucks ass for rock quality. I doubt that their is one pirtch of solid rock on the whole thing. Anyone who has the balls to do a direct summit ridge travers of those peaks deserves lots of respect.

Cool, I was looking at the pic with Stuart in the background, good stuff. Anyway, my guess is that the conditions on your climb are a better indicator for Stuart than any pictures.

Sweet, great pics! Not bad for a fat ass. How was the road? You don't by chance have any beta pics on Stuart?

In an industrial setting, the letters are *rolled* on so that they press into the surface. The piece being worked is backed solidly so that all the energy goes into deforming the letters into the surface. A home die set applied with a hammer applies shock force, perhaps unevenly and without regard to the possible loadpath a fall might deliver. But you know that. I agree. In Industry the hot press doesn't create micro fractures in the material. Any material scientist can tell you that micro fractures are the first sign of failure. By striking the material you are creating stress raisers (flaws that amplify an applied stress) in your carabiners. Those micro fractures will propogate over time causing the part to fail. Still, lots of things can cause these micro fractures (such as dropping or striking your carabiners). In the end, its just smarter to throw some electrical tape on them.

I wonder when the Willis Wall will be jumped?

Has anyone else noticed that even if you own a hundred pairs of boxers, the only ones available when you get up in the mornings are the ones without the button to keep everything "in"? It seems like the button either falls off or is lost somehow. Nothing like going for a run where you have to tuck everything back in constantly.

A few friends and I went in to climb Buck peak via King lake late in the season. We ended up 'shwacking through devils club into a large ground bee nest. My friend Brian and I booked it up hill, the whole while Brian was getting stung. Once we were a safe distance away Brian checked out his damage. He was stung over 10 times, and was also hyper sensitive to bee stings when he was younger. I somehow made it out with no stings whatsoever. We made it out ok, but everyone else suffered some sting other than myself. Another time I went up late at night with my brother and a friend to the Mt. Baker ski area to get on the ice and just play around. My brother brought the tent body, but forgot the polls. So one person slept in the car (small Honda) while the myself and my friend Zach tied the tent body to the car and made a lean-to. Around 2 in the morning a snow plow comes barreling through and almost runs us over. The snow plow takes out part of the tent and leaves us buried under a foot of snow. That piece of shit snowplow driver was probably laughing his ass off.

What would you say about the difficulty of this route with the conditions you had?

Ueli Steck is not human.

I like Dragonforce, but it seems like a lot of their songs sound the same.

AFAIK, this is not known to be true. It's an idea people are studying, and the mere fact that scientists are studying it has led many to believe it's true. Believe me, we'll all know when they find "the gay gene." Can you imagine the media frenzy? "How could God make people gay and then condemn them for how he made them?" This wont be a problem for the Calvinists.

That makes sense, thanks.