Reid

Anyone have any experience with this company? They have some decent prices on some ropes, but the website seems a little shoddy. http://www.urbanhart.com/shopsite/rope_climbingrope.html

Was up that way today. The vertical steps on NE buttress seemed to be in, but the snowpack on route looked a little thin, but certainly doable. Probably would involve lots of snowed up rock climbing. We bailed after talking a good long look at the route since a number of small slides were going off on the sun exposed slopes around us. Didn't get to see the N face, but I would imagine conditions would be even thinner since it has less of a melt freeze cycle without the sun exposure?

Yeah MSM, thats the sulfur compound i was thinking of

My dad has been taking it for the past couple years and has had really good results. His ankle has problems from a bad car accident years ago, and when taking the glucoamine, chondroitin and some compound of sulfur (can't remember the name) it's apparently more mobile and less painful. I also have trouble with my knee at times and tried talking the stuff for a few weeks. I decided that any benifet I though I was seeing was placebo. I've also seen that clinical trials have shown that its nearly the same a placebo. But at the same time it is known to be necessary building blocks of connective tissue. Seems to make sense to take some if you're active to rebuild the connective tissue and cartilage you've been beating up on. Like extra protein if you were lifting weights. The best thing i've found for any knee trouble is streching all the related muscles.

Select the whole row below the one you want to keep as a header and then select Windows > freeze panes you can only freeze one set at the top or side, but not both at the same time which kinda sucks Edit: oops; looked right past trogdors post

Any report on current ice in Banff? Or better yet is there a website similar to westcoastice.com for the Banff area?

Sorry, I already have plans for Sunday

Or maybe Leavenworth if it looks like rain over here

Looking for a cragging partner for the day. Have all the gear and a car (coming from Seattle). I'll lead up to .9 and I've got some harder routes I'd like to TR. -Reid

The article in the first post said that the wide availability of unhealthy foods is a contributing factor. And talks about the approaches taken to curb drug and tabacco use. To me it hints at taxing fast foods, candy, soda, etc to encourage people to make different choices. Might be effective, but for sure unpopular. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it... nothing better than candy bars while climbing and greasy food on the drive home

what kind of trouble did the contacts give you?

I'm interested... check your PM's

I went up this last Saturday and had to carry the skis for 5 mins tops. On the way down I was a little smarter in choosing a route and skied the whole thing. But by this next weekend there may be one or two patches exposed.

I've only got 2 weeks between graduating and my new job. I really have to make use of them. I've got from June 11-24. Check your PM's

The real problem is the canisters just get too cold and there isn't enough pressure to get the stove really roaring. I had pretty good results just warming the canister up with another stove that was being used at the time or using a lighter. Not manufacturer recommended no doubt, but if you aren't stupid about it, it should be okay. If the jetboil is the only stove you are bringing I wouldn't trust it in cold and high altitude places.

If we leave at five will you still pay for lunch?

anytime

Sounds like you have quite a weekend planned Brandon

I've got the same thing going on this week and the weather looks good. Anyone available?

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Yeah that's it. I didn't really think of how difficult it'd be to lead vs. Classic Crack... I TRed them both

heh your on your own for the snow cat ride. I just meant that you should camp away from where they run so you don't get squashed or yelled at. Essentially zero rockfall danger and no more avy danger than that of the ski slopes. You're aware of the condition of the route this year right? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/660671/page/1#Post660671 Enjoy the climb hope the weather holds for you

The route left of classic crack is also a good one that requires jamming. A little easier than classic

True and understandable. I felt plenty beat after that day. The upper part of the palmer (~8500' I think) is not in operation, but the snow cats do run up there during the night. Anywhere past the lift should be fine for camping. No designated or standard spot as far as I know since the terrain is pretty uniform until the crater. If you can, ski the lower half of the route. Only the top 1000' of the route has any kind of fall hazard and is difficult skiing. The rest is pretty easy. I'm a bad skier and I wish I'd done it.

I would say the timberline parking lot. I think that the wind up higher would make for a less than restful night. If you really want to camp up higher I saw a couple tents among some rocks up and climbers right of the top of the palmer.