Frikadeller

You got lucky!! I had an Ibook that failed that way THREE times!!! They replaced the logic board the first two times because it was still under warranty, and they would not let me purchase the extended warranty?!? and then it failed about a year later. Yeah, what a pain. But I must be a glutton or something, because I replaced it with a Powerbook G4...

Oh I am not worried about them beating the tar out of me... As Archenemy stated correctly, I am Viking by decent, I thrive for battle. A crew of cranked out methheads do not scare me.

Then again there are good books out there that can guide you... http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Map-Compass-Björn-Kjellström/dp/0020292651 This book gave me the insight that I needed to travel "out of bounds"....

Where you parked at the actual trail head? There are signs there warning about the break ins, and suggest that you park by the campground or the fish hatchery since there are people there most of the time. The car burglaries are so common at Eagle Creek, that I pretty much expect to see at least one car with a broken window at the trail head every time I go there. And I never park there either, I'll park somewhere else and walk in to the trail head. Whats even worse, is that the Sheriff's Office knows about the problem, and simply don't have the resources to do anything about it. Some buddies of mine that have also been victims have considered staking out the parking lot to catch these people red handed, but nothing ever materialized. There is a gate on the road, we where just going to shut and lock the gate if we saw someone break into a car and then call the Sheriff...

lame

you suck.... There is always a reason to get out the snowboard...

Great TR! I love TR's with pic's... But your video made me laugh!!! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1880132055 The shit we say when hypoxia sets in.... My favorite is the finger pointing down the hill... 'Shhhhh, sheeeee sheeee and then some more sheee,,,, Yeah..." Not that I have ever made comments like that myself... One time on the summit ridge of Hood, I got all pissed off that there was not a bar up there... I dunno why, I just was a bit ticked.... Hypoxia!! Good times!

Geez, with more and more splitboards getting more and more popular, It's still a wonder why lamo-retardo skiers still think that you cannot BC with a snowboard... I mean, Geez, don't be a lamo-retardo!!

Last time I heard there are raving lunatics out in the area of Mt. Pilchuck...people get killed around that place... If you go, don't forget to bring a MLU...

Guides are aid....

Hahaha... Sorry, I thought that you where making fun of my noob question about WCR... It's then that I realized that you posted the same thing in the reid HW post... It's just funny how the software will title the next response in the thread with "re:______".. I thought you where replying to my post. oh well... Oh I see Clim. Panther.... I can barely make out your footsteps climbers left of the chute and the Gates. This variation seems pretty simple, almost simpler than the "gates"... I was mainly worried about fumes, lack of O2 etc. on the hot rocks on the west side of Crater rock... I guess it's not a biggie? No worse than Devils Kitchen?

Whats that supposed to mean???

I need to get of this damn couch... Those are some of the best pics from Hood I have seen in a while... I am gonna go fondle some of my climbing gear now....

Hey, quick question: I wanna do this route this year (for a change and because the Ice in "the gates" looks a little formidable for an easy run) but did you guys climb to hogsback, and then traverse over to the WCR or did you come up from the west of crater rock across the "hot rocks"? I am asking, because I thought that there where quite an avalance danger on the west side of crater rock. Sorry if it sounds stupid, but I am somewhat a Hood noob (I have only climbed the SS route and Leutholds)

This thread is still "alive"... Holy smokes!! It'll never end!!!

Depends on how high that fence is gonna be!! We'll just "climb the fence".... They'll probably get "illegals" to build it too... Fuck them!!

I was thinking of skinning up to illumination rock next weekend, and setting up a whole bunch of rap anchors in the snow. Most likely they will all be in a "Y" shape. I would take about six hundred pictures of them from various angles and then E-mail Anderson... Perhaps he will pay me to "profesionally guide" him up the "hogsback"... If he bites, I'll makes sure that we insert as many "Y" shaped anchors as posible.... Does this sound feasable??

But I was looking for all of your wise imput on the matter. Am I taking advantage of thier policy, or amI being realistic that I am not "satisfied" after I beat the thing to death? I have heard of people returing helmets that where ripped in two and other goofy stuff like that, does this fall into the same "stupid" catagory? Should I also return the broken candle lantern glass insert I broke because I stepped on it? I guess they are the ones that draw the line on that kind of nonsense?

That gets me thinking... I bought a BD headlamp from REI about four years ago (maybe less, I can't remember) for climbing and backpacking... Well, somehow it ended up in my work van, and I have been using it in the attics, and crawlspaces in pursuit of my job (however you take that) and it's beat to shit. I mean beat. Well, the LED part isnt working so well anymore (loose connection or something) should I return it and see what they say? 100% satisfaction right? Well, I guess that I AM NOT SATISFIED, because this is a "Black Diamond Product" it should of lasted forever, right? Regradless of abuse/use I give it? Is it worth a toss, or just be a man, and buy a new one...

Hmmm.. What if you do all that AND climb?? Some of us are really taking some risks here...

Who the hell brings MRE's on a climbing trip?

The upside to all of this is that perhaps this year there will a few less yahoo's climbing up the SS, leaving more room for me!!! Probably not. It will be another clusterfuck of people, and ropes...

Wow, thats alot of gear to carry.... Do you use a wheelbarrow to cart that stuff around on a trail?? You do realize that the climb these guys did is not some hike into the woods to go huntin' with grandpa.. It's serious Mountaineering. There is no room for all that gear on a trip like this. Heck, just the climbing equipment almost fills your pack up, you would need two packs to carry all your jazz and the gear for the climb...

I dunno, He probably googled up garbage about Everest and probably just plain old "made that part up"... I was yelling at the TV "NO, NO, NO, who the hell would drag that stuff up?!!?" But alas, it was Fox news, and they are known for just making up the news anyhow...

One of the talking heads over at Fox (figure) speculated that perhaps the Y config. was perhaps "ladders" similarly to what is common on Khumbu icefall on Everest... I dont think so, unless they hired some sherpas to lug that up there ahead of time and set up the fixed lines... Which I doubt in any case... But I agree, as does probably all the other climbers on this board, that the Y is an anchor or bollard. Perhaps set up as a rap anchor for the decent...