jclements

Wore only a couple times, needed to size up a half size though. I am a size 11 shoe, and with thicker socks needed to go to 11.5 Great boots, worked awesome for a climb up mountaineer's route on Whitney last year (I used the larger size). Goretex works great, feet stayed dry and warm in snow. $250, got pics up on ebay here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/134751548837. If you DM me direct for direct sale I'll knock a few bucks off.

Hi, I climbed it solo last year in June. I was just up at the hogsback last weekend. I ski down from the hogsback. I wanted to do another climb to condition for Whitney mountaineers route in June, so if you're still looking for a local by then, let me know.

If anyone wants to partner up for the South side, ride share etc. Next week looks finally to be clearing up. Wed-Friday? I'll be skinning up to Devil's kitchen and skiing down from there, booting up to the summit.

I might be down. DM me...

Lightly used snow shoes. About 15 years old or so, but they've been kept stored in an included bag. Material is good and not cracking. Big at 36" long and 10" wide for packing in gear or for big folk. $20? Make an offer. I'm Hillsboro outside of Portland.

Got this gear ~ 10 years ago and used the rope and the biners maybe once, the slings, nuts and chocks never. Not sure if the rope is too old to trust, got used maybe once. All in great condition, been stored for all this time. $120 for the lot. Make an offer on pieces. PM if you want more pictures, details.

Bump - how bout $15?

$15. Used about 2 dozen times at a gym. In Hillsboro. see http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/spo/1848077240.html for pics respond there or to john.cdotclements at gmail

Anyone bag this recently? How are the conditions?

I've been going low-carb recently, and I've been feeling pretty damn good. I just booked up Ruckel Ridge with a breakfast of chorizo and eggs to start. Throughout an eight-hour day, 12 miles, up and down 4000 feet in 90 degree weather, I was eating coconut oil, ham, jerky, nuts, and about 3 shots of Hammer Gel, with electrolyte water (no sugars). Was this perfect? No. In hindsight I could have probably used a little more carbs during and post, which slowed my recovery. I think too many nuts, which I have a hard time controlling myself from eating just a little, have more fiber than I need to be digesting during a long hard day. It was a rushed camping trip, a last-minute idea with the family, and I didn't pack a single nalgene, so I would rather have carried a protein mix to take in liquid form rather than eat as much solid food as I did. But I still did pretty good for myself, no bonking, no nausea, no dragging other than the expected fatigue(haven't been out that long in awhile). But I think a good dose of protein AND FAT is essential to a good breakfast which doesn't have to be big; I agree with the point that it's just the first fueling. One research study found that low-carb athletes do just fine when operating at or below 60% VO2 max in endurance events, if you're above that, higher-carb athletes perform better, but that's not to say low-carb athletes can't still perform. It does lend more importance to fat and protein in the athletic diet whatever your level. I'm not recommending a total low-carb diet, only that one explore the arguments. It used to be the wisdom that carbo-loading is good. Now, it's not, but the conv wisdom says carbs should be the base of your pyramid in any case. Now, Hammer and other endurance specialists are recognizing the importance of protein and fats in endurance events. The Bicycling Magazine article's title has to be a shameless riff on Gary Taubes' 2002 NYT Mag article "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" which questions the notion that dietary fat has anything to do at all with heart disease and obesity (I think his book Good Calories, Bad Calories argues well enough that it doesn't, as well as dispensing with a number of our dietary myths, including scooping BM on the calorie equality fallacy). The BM article for example still holds to the myth that lean meat is better for you than fatty. The challenge to the carbo-loading ideas has been around in the low-carb athletic community for awhile now. There's no point in complex carbs for an athletic event (hey, I dig Scottish oatmeal, too, but it's not necessary). It all has to break down into glucose. I recognize the advice as being opposed to something sugary, which is what some people can work well (enough) with, (once climbed with a guy who had to have his Cap'n Crunch as he decried my sausage), but they contain fructose as well, and that's a whole nother topic. The maltodextrin in a gel is all you need as far as carbs go, because you need it right now, not in an hour or so while your glycogen stores (1-2 hours worth) are being depleted and you're wasting blood flow to digest fiber.

If anyone wants rideshare from PDX or climb along, plan is to leave PDX Thursday night, leave timberline parking lot before midnight, get above the rush, summit by sunup. Straight up SS Old Chute /cattle trail for my first time up. Maybe another PDX area peak early/mid July, training for the Sierra Challenge...

I'd really like to get in on this, too. My son will be 7 in Aug and is quite active, done a little gym bouldering but it would be cool for him to be with other kids on rock. Unfortunately I have to work Sundays, so we would only be able to make it on Friday-Saturday, but it would be well worth it.

I can make Hood on 7/8 - 7/11, and would like to join up. Bill, I'm in the area, 39 yo engineer, looking for partner. Oak, SS Adams is a breeze. Suggestion: camp at Lunch Counter and get up early and go, after the sun is up the mountain is blanketed with hikers. All you need is crampons and axe while it is dark. Once the sun comes up it all turns to slush.

Climb on.

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