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On another site someone just told me doing a tie-off with a mini-pearbiner is tough. Just not enough room for the pass-through loop. Also this poster said doing a Munter with a fat rope on a min-pearbiner is hard, but using a Munter would be a Plan B if my device took a flyer so that is not a big concern. But the tie-off thing does worry me. I guess I will buy one then try the tie-off...

No no, I will continue to use a belay device. Just thinking of Plan B when I mentioned the Munter.

I’m on a no-expense-spared weight shaving binge. Pack, boots, etc are handled---now I am down to seeds and stems. I can lose 10 grams by going to a BD mini-pearbiner in lieu of my current standard size. Are there any drawbacks to a mini pearbiner? It looks like a Munter hitch will still fit in there OK.

Were you in the party of two young ladies that encountered a party of six Monday morning heading to Ingalls? We did not notice anything on the approach nor on our exit, which took us down the gully beneath Ingalls and to the lake before heading back over the pass. You say that you think you lost the bag on Stuart's summit, so my input is not particularly helpful, but I'm just sayin'. Coincidentally, the lone woman in our party had lost two wedding rings previously (same husband, she emphasizes). She adamantly refuses to remove her third ring now, regardless of climbing conditions.

Some will call it aid, but it IS a part-ay, isn’t it? Anyway, it’s more tasteful than the sheep Spokane people bring to parties. (But I respect diversity!) So how many wimmin come to these things?

OK, I'll leave my shootn arns but the dynamite and LSD is non-negotiable.

Tsk. If we tell them the rules it really wouldn't be much of a sport, now would it? Careful. Some newbies might be angry, gun-owning paranoiacs. (Really fun to top rope them)

Score!

What's with Depeche Mode? Was 1988 an atavistic low-water point for you? It's a stupid and much too personally obscure reference. Spit your self-dramatizing bile on something contemporary.

He's looking for someone he can outrun in case a bear attacks.

"you guys suck"

(mean snarky comment deleted)

I was afraid someone would say that. It has been 7 weeks since I sent my fiancee Sexy4U69 the $3000 she needs to fly from her mud hut in North Korea here to Jet City. I'm going to die climbing, aren't I? I'll PM you my address so you can send a check. Not helping!

I was afraid someone would say that. It has been 7 weeks since I sent my fiancee Sexy4U69 the $3000 she needs to fly from her mud hut in North Korea here to Jet City. I'm going to die climbing, aren't I?

I yam a new climber and want to get experience. One person I trust told me never climb with anyone I meet from cc.com because I won’t be able to tell if they are any good until too late when they let me deck, take all my nice gear, and leave me as a snack for the snafflehounds. Another person I trust tells me climbers I meet on cc.com are the salt of the earth, ropeguns every one of ‘em, strong, honest, fearless, and brave souls who flash 5.12 and never fall. How can I tell the diff? I mean really: how is a beginner supposed to judge a possible partner found on this site?

Now that I read the info at the two links you posted, this makes much more sense. I do some volunteer work in the park and have been told that mountain lions are rather rare there. The pictures I took show the viscera neatly laid out, as if those would be the first to be eaten as one of the links says. I also know that the fisher population in the park is in OK shape (not great)...many more fishers than lions...and I think porcupines can quill a lion whereas your links say that the procupine's #1 predator is in fact the fisher. At the time I had an intuition that it was not a cat that killed the porcupine. That is great info, thanks a lot!

Trip: North Cascades - Mt. Logan via Banded Gl. Date: 6/30/2007 Trip Report: Went in from Colonial Creek CG and up Thinder Creek Trail. Thunder Creek trail is beautifully maintained. 1. Lots of blowdown and one washout on Fisher Creek Trail but it only slows momentum, none of it is a barrier. 2. Two fords, one a bit of a lip-biter. 3. One single-log crossing---had to butt-scoot that one for safety. 4. Mosquitoes were quite a bother but not as bad as I have encountered elsewhere. 5. Substantial rockfall/talus challenge descending from Christmas Tree Col on the mountain side. A better way to reach the glacier is to pass through the col then immediately traverse on the highest contour possible around to the glacier. Once we were on the glacier and could see back to the col, this route is obvious and was the way we departed. The chosspile surrounding the col on its mountain side is crazy dangerous and slow to descend. Stepped over two small cracks in the snow high on Banded Glacier. I have an aerial photo of the glacier in late season and it is a mass of crevasses, almost an icefall, but our ascent was just an easy snow slog. Saw a VERY freshly-disemboweled porcupine during the bushwhack back down to Fisher Creek. Around here, it had to have been a mountain lion that got it. The guts were so fresh there were not even flies on it. We must have scared the cat away while it was eating. Beautiful weather. Gear Notes: DEET Approach Notes: Thunder Creek Trail and Fisher Creek Trail

I am happy we have not switched to the system of French revolutionists. The other day I participated in a discussion with our Polish CADD drafter about how to show the diff between a 5/8" fastener and a 3/4" fastener in the context of a tool with 1.06" offset. It was wonderful watching his eyes roll back in his head, defocus, then spread to the far sides of his skull. But, he got the drawing done.

OK, I am open to learning new things. It appears that the Pocket Rocket may be a better stove than my XGK. It sure is lighter and I am in a lightening-up phase just now, big time. But how do you use one of those little things in the field? They seem so unsteady (small base area), plus a 2 liter pot of water makes them ‘way topheavy. How do stabilize them in practical use? My buddy knocked over the Jetboil at one point but the nudge he gave it would not have caused any harm if we had been using an XGK. thanks

*ahem* I omitted to say that nearby was a kind fellow and well-rounded outstanding alpinist who took pity on us and allowed us to use his superior MSR stove. In this way ONLY did we manage to get our water & grub. Also maybe we were more at like 5,000’ feet, not 7,000’. But the rest of the story is true, I swear!

I was on Baker a few weeks ago. Buddy said he had a stove so I left my XGK home. His was a Jetboil. It sucked the holy immense suck like nothing has ever sucked before. What a piece of crap. His one cannister ran out long before we had melted enough snow for the water bottles and we barely got enough boiling water for supper. I would never think of getting one. Of course, that was only at 7,000'. I'm sure they work 'WAY better 3,001' higher.