yikes

Dave is solid. Climb with him.

Total Soul/ Silent Running or some cragging at Index. Willing to follow harder lines. Have rope, rack and car. Leaving from Seattle. Jason

Sent you a PM

Oh my God! You Canucks can show us Gringos a thing or two about how to manage things. ...and this is coming from a Blue-blooded Texan. Good luck, be safe and thank you. yks

I have an 85L pack for cheap here on CC, pack for sale

Perhaps I'm Monday morning quarterbacking your scenario but if I were still above the roof when I saw it. I would try to rap around it rather than over. Maybe that wasn't an option in your scenario due to no neighboring systems, etc? My answer to what you explicitly say is that I might chain some wired nuts together and starting fishing for something at the wall under the roof. Depends on how far away it was I guess? Something similar happened to me on Breakfast of Champions at Index. I was rapping on an unfamiliar rope and didn't pay attention to the fact that it didn't reach the slab under the first set of chains much less the ground. I knew I'd rapped to the ground with a single rope before but that one wasn't mine either. Anyway, I didn't catch my error until it was too late. I had to rap til my right fist completely enclosed the tail of the rope and then could barely push with the tip of big toe to start a swing to the anchor. Rookie mistake. Too bad I can't use that as an excuse. Nothing like the heinous alpine epic you're proposing but just as potentially deadly.

Saw your partner post earlier and found some beta on mountain project, http://www.mountainproject.com/v/golden-arch/106793639. Unfortunately, I forgot that I have a grant to write this weekend.

was trying to be funny .... unfortunately, that effort was an epic fail.

Was there a bootpack or did they have to skin up?

Just did W.Ridge with my son who turned 17 in July. He is normally a flatlander from WI but has climbed on and off throughout the years with me and was a recent finisher in a century ride. I was impressed at how responsible, careful and tough he was. Your brother starting at 12 will be a real manimal by 17. Nice work getting him out there.

I've been itching for MJD since last fall when I did Orbit for the first time. Sad to hear it needs traffic. Let me know if I can help with the cleaning effort. Jason

A couple of interesting TRs on TAY showing a huge crown. http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=24420.0 http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=24431.0

still looking... too-oh-six-4-three-4-5-nein-o-fore

Earlier is better. Leaving from Seattle. PM me. forecast Jason

Just passing through? Check out the beta here to get oriented. http://www.justgetout.net/Wenatchee/14582

Yep, I have the same harness and find it annoying how it retraces toward the belay loop.

Drove out to Vantage yesterday. Frenchman's was the closest to being in, but not quite. Continued along the road to Ancient Lake. Mostly found some futuristic looking sh*t. Tears of a Clown was in shape but too steep/chandeliered/mushroomed/sloppy for me to get on the sharp end. We decided to hang a TR and ran a couple laps. All in all a pretty sweet day. ...but be sure to protect your beaver. Ours didn't make it.

You can fight it by mail, i.e. you don't have to physically go to court. I failed to write my license plate number on the display tag and then did not respond to the initial ticket in a timely fashion. Same as you, they "offered" to reduce my fine to $59 if I showed proof. I photocopied all my shit and mailed it in. Ultimately, my fine was dismissed and I only paid with a single postage stamp and a fair amount of high blood pressure. YMMV Jason

Free or demo options that I like are: Hillmap.com and Topofusion. Both allow you to export waypoints or routes but probably will not directly upload to your GPS. However, you can probably use the free software that came with your device to upload.

180 degrees south is one of my recent favorites

Quote from Kelly Cordes on MP: "Free showing of COLD tonight, 7pm MST (watch anytime from 7-9), on Outside Magazine’s website. It’s a 19-minute film by Anson Fogel and Cory Richards (with me as writer--so a bit of a self-serving post, but this is the first/only place to see it outside of the film festivals, or buying it). A shortened version of it showed at Reel Rock, but this is the full-length one, and I presume they aren't going to bleep anything out, etc. It’s dark, raw, won GFP at Banff and definitely rated R – if you’re looking for a Brittany Spears style evening, this probably isn’t for you. But I hope you like it. " Worth a watch IMHO. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/mountaineer>>> or on vimeo: [video:vimeo]23336972

+1 I'm no expert but I found a similar situation in a pit near Kendall lakes at Snoqualmie Pass.

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http://www.mountainproject.com/v/hardman-/107359572 I don't know. Is this even funny anymore or am I just a bully?

Better than saying "fast and light" Yep, I subscribe to the "light and slow" paradigm.