AlpineMonkey

I left some poles along side my car (on accident), then went on a hike and returned to find my poles missing. They were eaither leaning up against my car or a few feet away from the passenger door. I would like them back please let me know if you have them.

Indeed, I have a quickdraw fettish. Edit: If someone with an acount wants to post this on nwhikers.net that would be nice too.

Up past the Snow Creek Wall in that hell hole where all the trees blew down I found something of high value which you probably want back. If you lost something, send me an email and I will most deffinately return it to you. Otherwise...I will make good use of my find for years to come.

I'm not using plastic boots, I have my Nepal Extereme leather boots and its what I'm going to use. It sounds, like what I was thinking, that overboots would be overkill? I just wanted to make sure from others experiences. I like warm toes

Would La Sportiva Nepal Exterems be enough, or would someone recommend a full overboot gaitor, for those of you who have been down there.

I left my rack fixed on Party and Your Pants, which I'm projecting now. I expect to find all my cams there when I return in a week and a half.

Found a bunch of shitty mis-matched draws left on a climb at Vantage. They were hanging on a popular sport route dubbed, King of the Ruins. The ugly things were preventing me from making my send, so I pulled em. Send me a pm if there yours and possibly I'll give them back.

Does anyone out there have a used pair of women plastic climbing boots or a heavy duty women boot for cold weather. Size 7.5 or so. My girlfriend and I are going down to Peru to try to do some climbing this upcoming summer and she needs boots. Any recomendations on womens boots would be good as well. Would it be best to rent them? I'm just looking for the cheapest option. I haven't looked into it yet and dont know about girls feet, other then they can be stinky.

I work at the CWU rock wall and my boss pressured me into talking about climbing on Mount Stuart. Here is some info if there are any locals. Two free pairs of climbing shoes will be given away. http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2007/02/20/news/news03.txt Nothing to exciting, but just talking about climbing on Stuart for non climbers and begining climbers, show them there is more then just climbing at Vantage or in a gym. -Craig

If know one comes forward with the FA of that far left route it should be named "The Raven" after that poem...

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I think its mile post 118, perhaps suckbm can confirm, we spoted a huge flow up and left. It looked comparable in size to Hubba Hubba in L-worth.

That looks neat.

Fugs was in great condition wasen't it?! Did you guys make the treck over to Running Gear, it looked really big from the road when we were there last Wednesday. Frenchman looks a lot better from a week ago, but still needs some time it looks like from your pics. Good climbing. It got warm on this side of the mountains today, hopefully things stay in condition for a little while longer. Did any of those drips to the left or right of Frenchman look climbable?

You and Scott should go there. 1 hour and 15 min drive out of the burg. You can practically drive to the base of the climb, 5 - 10 minute approaches. Good and short, moderate to easy routes for you two to practice on. It would be a good place for a first lead.

Today my girlfriend, suckbm, and I decided to find some ice. The approach was a five minute uphill walk wich left me gasping for air, seriously. The crux was getting through a barb wire fence while suckbm tried to grop me. We found some undocumented ice to the right of the "Beer" routes. We first climbed the middle route, which we named "Pink Panty Dropper," 35 feet tall, WI 3. Then the route to the right, which we named "Gummy Bear Martini." 25 feet tall, WI 3. We were going to climb the far left one as well, but I walked to the base and the top out was only 6 feet above my head. Perhaps Capallini would find it a significantly tall climb. The FA is up for grabs. We then trecked over to the far left of the Beer routes and found a climb wich to our knowledge had not been climbed. We followed foot prints to the base of the climb and topped out to some fresh webbing. It was an excellent climb though. I really wanted to do Bavarian Dark, but it was to chandeliered for me. Lastly, we climbed Sody Pop which was in great condition, Rainier Light was not in, it could be climbed but you would just bash your picks up. My little darling.

It is, who might this be?

Anyone have any updates on this neck of the desert? Are the Beer routes looking good? I really want to climb Bavavarian Dark.

If your looking for some ice this weekened, you can find some at Vantage. Climbed Fugs yesterday, the most in shape I have ever seen it, with suckbm and my girlfriend. Runnging Gear Death Falls is in and fat. Frenchman might be in by the weekend.

Lead up past the crux which was very steep and set up a hanging belay. My partner, suckbm climbed up to my belay, and just past the belay his tools blew out. He took a fall directly onto me and my belay and also droped one of his leashless tools. He then started yelling, "fuck climbing leashless, fuck french canadians, fuck, fuck, fuck..." We were past the hardspot, WI 5 max and all that we had left was a few meters of WI 4- or 3 left. We were 3/4 up the climb. We were both really dissapointed as we both thought the climb was finished. We ended up bailing off a single screw, suckbm could go no higer with a mono tool. We then, or more like me got drunk for the hike out. Guess we'll have to go back for this one.

Jens, I don't know how you plan on getting in there, but we've been doing it on foot. No snow machines. When we were getting many of the climbs done, we had punched in a good trail which allowed us to get to the climbs relativly quick (2 hours of solid uphill walking). With the new snow I would perdict 3 or more hours of walking to get to the climbs. 1 hour of walking on a road and 2 or more hours of breaking trail. And, we know a very good way to get there, having been there many times. If its your first time going in there it could be a real bitch, getting lost and postholing in snowshoes in the woods all day. As far as it being good or not, it depends on the season. This season its the best thing since bread. There are so many climbs all really close to each other and there all in. I've been there on some occasions when nothing was in hardly and yes, then it did suck. Perhaps thats why you've only heard really good and bad things, because Strobach is eaither in or its not, there is no inbetween. We've been driving from eburg so the drive time is quick for us too.

We snowshoe in everytime. Get off your and get some exercise.

Went and checked out the other area's too, but haven't gotten time to climb them yet. I have photo's, but we didn't do any climbing. We'll get over there eventually, maybe next year. Yeah, I'll email the pages to you, but I want to make a few changes first.

While many of you have been banging up your picks at Banks, we've been exploring Strobach Mountain. Supper fat ice and beautiful views are what this place has to offer. Below are my notes on the climbs. Hope some of you enjoy, perhaps it will inspire you to visit. (Note, the letters for unclimbed lines do not corespond with the letters in the WA Ice book, they are letters that I have assigned for my personal notes.) Also, what I have labeled as first on the right is acutally first on the left.