Frikadeller

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...

Perhaps I can give some information here. I too had a family member die in a climbing accident, and the SAR team took pictures of him (my father) for me to identify, but I refused to look at the pictures (he was pretty beat up) because I did not want to remember him like that. It may also be possible that the body is not in a suitable condition to identify by visual means alone. Just my two cents...

Aha! Scrolling through that thread gives me insights..... Thats cool, you smoke a bowl in the hut, I'll smoke a camel... Whatever... Some people are just uptight... F- them.

Awww dude, he was just a spammer, and Jay B deleted his crap, because he was just trying to sell all of us some PLB's... A salesman is just a salesman... I'll bet he doesnt even go into the "wilderness"...

WHOA!!!! That intro reminds me of when I was 16 years old and would take acid with my frinds in the woods!!! But on a serious note, that "forest coat" looks like it's pretty good, way better than any of that patagucci garbage I bought at the swap meet...

some right wing jerkoff radio talkshow host in Oregon...

So how much are you selling these devices for these days? Can you get me a discount?? Spam alert!!!

Lars Larson?!?!? He'll just claim that it's all the Democrats fault in the first place... What a joke!!

hahaha! There ya have it folks! It does sum it up quite nicely, does it not?

Shoot, he probably has one on his belt at all times, just in case he gets lost in the mall parking lot...