Frikadeller

Maybe if you ski all the way to the base of I-rock, and then make a hard left. But, I dunno, I have never been to the backside of I-rock, but looking at the possibility from just the saddle, it might not work, and you'll end up booting anyways. Try it next time you're up there and let us know.

Hahaha... Sled decent! I wish I had seen that one. I once saw some guy that posts around here riding a shovel, but the sled would have topped that! I am sure the ski patrol must have blown a gasket.

That's the area i was thinking they must have gone. Yep, that area is filled with crevasses, some of them are pretty deep too when you go and look down them in the late summer / early fall. Those guys are lucky, it could have been worse.

That's interesting that you brought that up. I was telling my partner on Saturday, how the crevasses on the upper part of the WR where looking like they where opening up. I half joked that some gumby would come along and fall in. I have to stop thinking out loud like that. Billcoe brings up a good point about how a quick jaunt up the south side (to perhaps triangle morraine) in the fall can tell you alot about where the actual crevasse hazards exist. Billbob: where did these guys punch through? was is above the ridge where the rock wall camp is around 8300'? There are quite a few crevasses right in that area as the glacier goes down the ridge.

That must have been your tracks I saw heading over the saddle yesterday. I stopped off there on my decent from the hot rocks area, and the snow and ride was sweet, and missed the hordes skinning up the hill...

Whoa, already had too many and then giving out boot advise.

All I can say is: Eh....

Yeah, if you think it's bad on a regular Tele or AT skis, try to think of the double amount of fun this is on the wide ass skis of a splitboard...

Cool info, I am gonna try this stuff, and carry some maxiglide, that I use on my XC skis to keep the waxless bases from icing.

So..... I have never really had this kind of problem with my skins (well yes I have, but not this bad) of snow building up on the skins to a monumental level, making the boards ten pound heavier, and gaining more and more snow as I skin more.... My partners skins where doing the same lame thing. We would have to stop, and pull the skins to clear off the 3 to 6 inches of snow built up on the things every 30 minutes or so. What gives? I have heard of a myriad of cures for this ranging from spraying rain-X, to crayoning on ski wax to some sort of spray on treatment. What do all you experts recommend to stop this silly shit from sapping all my energy on the uphill?

First or second generation?

It means: We want to over dramatize a tragic story about some guys that climbed a mountain...

When is the movie coming out?

Will the road to the trail head be open by then? They don't plow it past the ski area.

Kind of out of the way for a regular south side climb. Most people just camp in the numerous rock shelters and flat spots in triangle morraine.

Probably not a bad move. I skinned up to triangle morraine today, and like Wageslave said, you can see quite a few fracture lines and slides all up in the WCR and steel cliffs.

I missed the sale, but just for shits and giggles, "if" I bought those two signed copies, how much would they "net" me on Amazon? Not that I care or would capitalize on such a thing.... But really $150???!??!?

Why? Just say hi. Then call the Newberg library. Am I missing something exciting at the Newberg Library?

i could not readily make myself a home-made bomb of ok city fame - the inconvenience is itself a deterrence - if you could buy 500 lb fragmentation bombs at walmart, per your view, i would imagine we'd see them getting used... Oh but you can, you just don't have the knowledge on how to combine the Diesel and the Fertilizer properly. But once someone has that, kaboom.

Is there such a thing as "a "hot" climber chick"? I don't think so. "Hot" is in the mind of the "beholder"... I think my wife is "hot", you might not think so. Or maybe you do. Cool. Completely personal preference. Soooooooo....... What makes a chick "hot"? Because she "climbs"? That's a lame barometer for someone to judge a woman... Oh well, dudes are dicks anyways, so.... Ladies, get used to it, it will probably never ever (even in a snow storm) change. On the other hand, I am open to seeing some images of "hot" chicks "climbing"... Bring it on.

hmmm....

Did you actually summit, or just stop at hogsback? The reason I ask is, I am wondering what the conditions are in the left hand gully on the normal (or was the normal) pearly gates route? I can see the high angle of the PG route, but the rocks obscure the left hand gully.

Why?

That's what I thought. Speaking of Mt. Hood history, I picked up this at Powells a few years ago. This guy has it all in his book! I have fun pointing out stuff from that book when we are in the area. A new book on Hood? Hmmm... That would be cool. I would buy it. But I am not going to pay $150 for "Oregon High"...

So I was shopping for this book to give as a gift to a climbing friend, and thought that I would try Amazon... Wtf!! $147.26!!!!!! Holy shit, I bough the book a few years back for $12.95.... Maybe I should sell it!