Frikadeller

That's what I am going to say to the naysayers that complain when I send that "helicopter toilet" into the Bergschrund... Hmmm... I always though that fertilizer was just really poop, look what i learned today.

Why bother?

That truck has been there since the beginning of the season. If you skinned up the Cloud Cap Road, just past the gate, that's where they park the Crag Rats snow machine. That old truck usually stays in the parking lot during the entire snow season, since that is the truck that hauls the sno cat up there.

That was yesterday, today, that same line was hell.

I wish I had some really good eating shit pictures of me coming down loowit this afternoon. They look like that picture at first, but the pictures afterwards look like pain....

I went up the mountain today, and well. Great conditions if you do not ski/snowboard. Styrofoam/ice all the way from the first snow encountered on the trail all the way to the summit. Great Crampon purchase. Shitty edging, craptastic skiing, and really, skip that. Spring weather, freeze thaw shitty mid winter snow.

You're right. It's not required but I guess I always like to err on the side of caution. Anytime I travel above tree line in winter and spring I carry my Crampons and an Axe. I don't always use them, but it's nice to know that if I need them, I have them.

This is not true. I have climbed St. Helens quite a few times, and unless it's summer time and it's a pile of ash, (In other words, if there is snow) I bring my axe and crampons. Used the crampons many times on ascent and decent. (unless I am skiing.)

In Patrick Point State park (about 10 miles north) there is a small crag that has some bolts and a trail to the top.

Yes. They tend to be the less climbed routes on that mountain for a reason.

It's truly sad that there was not a better outcome to this horrible event.

I wish I could un-see that one...

Me thinks that this person is trying to get their money back from gear they bought and will never use. For example: You start dating this guy and he want you to come climbing with him. You buy all the basic crap, and then it turns out the guy is a jerk, small penis, smells, whatever and you break up. Here you have $150 worth of stuff you will never use, so you put it up on craigslist hoping to get your moeney back. (this is just a sexist view, considering that the harness is for a woman) So, while I would not pay that much for "used" new stuff with tags, maybe someone will. So, not really so much "what the hell"... Or maybe that's your ex girlfriend that you bought that stuff for, and are shocked that she is selling it on CL...

Isn't that what was your motivator to get into skiing in the first place? You still can't snowboard. Probably scared of it. Kind of like when all the older kids made fun of you when you showed up with your crappy sure-grip skateboard at Burnside, and they kicked your ass.

Yeah, that buttered toast method is pretty lame, but then again, that's why I stay off the Green and Blue runs as a rule.

If it's anything like the time the Sledder fell in the crater, he fell over 1100', so that would have be one reallllly long rope. That time they plucked him out with a helicopter. I suspect that is exactly what they where trying to do today, but winds and weather made it unsafe. It's going to be a long night, even if the guy is not hurt. Who knows what kind of clothes he had with him, or if even a pack made it with him, etc.

Well, once you graduate from survival skiing the blue runs, You might notice less and less of that stuff on the Black and Dbl Black, ya know. Just sayin'...

You guys are still crying about this inane shit?!

Well, I never have that problem.

I dunno, Don't own any slowshoes. But I do have a SPLITBOARD, Brah!!! SICK, huh?

WTF! It's not like there are a bazillion warnings on various websites and such to stay the fuck away from the cornice at the top. A couple of years ago some sledder fell in the crater too when he walked out to the edge to "get a better look" after driving his 2T smoke belch-o-matic 2000 up to the summit. (Which is now banned, thanks to that guy!) Hope this guy is OK, but that could have been a long slide. He's pretty lucky that someone was able to get a signal to call 911, since cell phones rarely work on the Mountain. I hope the USCG gets him out in one piece.

It will never die. Just get that fact straight in your head now, and you will not worry so much in the future. BTW, take a looksie around a lift served ski area (Except for alta, or others that do not allow SB) and you might be shocked to realize that there actually are more people on snowboards than skis these days.

LOL! I just posted the Tele Binding knowing that you did not Tele ski.

I'll bet you are a great guy to hang around with too. (BTW, it's "you're" not "your"...) Probably the product of homeschooling