jclements

Glad he's okay and you all made it out safe. Goes to show that one can be down out of the more obvious objective hazard zone and still be far from a pleasant stroll out. A few weekends back (the weekend the lady died on the Old Chute) I tried Hood the Sunday the winds were fierce. I tripped once on all that knobby ice above the Palmer lift and got a nice knee-knocking to remind me that shite is treacherous. Not to criticize, but is there anything he did or failed to do that contributed to his fatigue and cramps? New guys commonly forget to eat enough, especially at altitude when the appetite goes.

Sad there was no Zappa on the list, but it is representative of readers of GW. I adored Led Zeppelin at one time but if I don't hear Stairway to Heaven but one more time in my life I'll be fine. Some obscure stuff too, though, on the list, and I'm intrigued by the Neil Young suggestion. I like playing Panama for fun. Hope no one hates me for it now. I've been playing Steely Dan's FM (plenty of meaty jazz chords), Dogs by Floyd (tastier solos IMHO than The Wall), and "Special Rider Blues" as arranged by John Fahey (my obscure guitarist reference). If music be the beer of love, drink on...

Goal: 180 1/16: 192 1/23: 188 1/30: 187

It's been the worst suffering I've ever, uh, suffered, but I've pushed out all my beer dringin to one celebratory weekend 22-ozer while I cut the fat. I make sure it's high %, as in last night's Arrogant Bastard. I can't wait for weight-maintenance mode.

I'm a git-nerd myself, and have dabbled in the dark arts of classical/flamenco. It's a lot of work keeping those nails up. But these at least have some practical application. But some guitar masters of old thought one should learn to play with bare fingers with no nails at first, so it is doable. This guy smokes. Reminds me of Heitor Villalobos.

I guess I said dude because, I was thinking that the post might be a snarky comment about what dorks we are for posting this info, and I tend to have a general stereotype image of the snotty sprayer (climberus sprayus) as being of male disposition. For upstairs reading I've been reading an old book by a cartoonist named Bill Mauldin who did cartoons about GIs during WWII for Stars and Stripes, from the trench-foot sickness of the mountains of Sicily to the endless mud and rain in Europe, and the lack of a thousand other things we take for granted, like fresh coffee that's hot and sleeping horizontally. THAT was true suffering. Goal: to not carry around so much damn fat anymore, my knees have given me notice. That may be 180 or lower, depending on musculature, BF, etc. I think exact numbers should be tentative goals. I'd like to do more rock this summer, so I don't want to get too bulky with weight training, but I'll never obsess about getting down to whippet-thin bouldering comp standards. I'm more of a peak-bagger.

Hey, we're all rootin for ya. You go dude! 1/16: 192 1/23: 188 (Just went big potty)

Wait a minute, it was this easy all along? All it took was one day of work?

So sorry man. So sad.

"May God bless you, and may he watch over the United States of America." Guess He took his eye off. Or not. "This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny." So we know what God is calling for?

Apparently the guy who was hit and fell last Sat was experienced, but was climbing well after sunup. Are people getting fooled because it's winter, or...?

I'm still a noob to the mountain, but isn't 10:21 kind of late to be going up there? Glad you're okay dude.

cheers to living! nice scary pics.

Good job, like the pics. Sunday was a bust with the winds.

Thursday thru Sat nights are sweetest, but I'll show any night.

I made an attempt on the SS early Sunday - winds were brutal and relentless. I was getting pushed around with gusts. Turned back around 9700 just below Crater rock after a party of three were coming down after turning back just below the Hogsback, said ice was flying around. Had already passed up another two coming down. The fields were just full of those nasty ice gargoyles or whatever they're called. I was alone and didn't want to chance the exit of the Old Chute to the narrow summit ridge with these winds. That, and over a year away from climbing and my conditioning was lacking. Did anyone make it up on Sunday? nice pics sweatin. looks like Saturday was the place to be... glad you guys made it out okay ivan, remember reading you were making an attempt N side. Hope that dude recovers soon. I'm definitely a noob on this mountain but it seems like they were headed up kinda late...?

Cancelled

Yeah, it was deleted, strangely enough. To be honest, after a long period of inactivity last year, I posted something and saw the pic and thought, oh yeah, thinking that it wasn't relevant anymore. I'd rather forget the whole thing. I'll send a PM if ya just hafta know, but it isn't that terribly juicy, considering a lot of the flame threads that stand on these boards. The irony is that that thread was an example of someone actually apologizing for being a dick and then it gets deleted... Anyways, sorry to hijack the thread... So, fitness? I weigh 192, goal is 180 by Apr 1.

I just spent 6 weeks in the Netherlands,just a few klicks from the city of Amsterdam, and I was so distraught that there are no mountains in the whole freaking country. What to do...

There's a story that several may recall of something shitty I said a year or so ago, for which I was called out on and I apologized for. I put it up there to remind myself how easy it is to be an asshole online. What I write now is what I'll say in person.

My 2c on powders: I see them as time savers, when, for example, you have to work and aren't around a kitchen all day to fix meals, you can shake it up in the morning and later in the day ingest a known quantity of something (esp important in weight-loss mode) as far as grams of fat, protein, carb, etc. Also I hear that the optimal time after weight training for recovery and development to ingest protein is within a half hour, and whey protein has an optimal amino profile for this. I'm no expert, just regurgitating what I've read elsewhere, but the way I understand, it is important to get enough protein when training, as, if you don't, and over-compensate your calories with carbs or fat in your diet, then your body might actually break down protein from muscle to compensate. All that time spent training, one wants to get all the value from it. It's real easy to max out on fat intake with various foods during the day, and protein powder lets one to make up that deficit. Something I'm experimenting with, besides whey protein, is brewer's yeast, which is protein rich with a good amino profile, and loaded with minerals, vitamins. It tastes like a salty mushroom broth when mixed with water, so that takes some getting used to.

The PSU Course is done by Three Sisters Backcountry, and they have other dates, but they may be doing those down by Bend... This seems like a more thorough course- 3 days or 24 hrs of class... Edit: I meant more thorough than the 2-day class at Mtn Savvy, not the PSU class (same thing). http://3sbca.com/classes/avalachelvl1.htm

yeah one of these days I'm going to drop the gym and start climbing more at those sweet crags just down the street, right before work, several times a week. Otherwise no critique of American civilization applies to me.

I just spent 6 weeks in the Netherlands (yeah) and it was amazing to see the cycling and walking infrastructure they have over there, not to mention the public transport. Busses and trains everywhere. People will drive if they can afford it but they won't cycle or walk if they don't see it as a viable alterntative, factoring in laziness. In the Netherlands, and I would presume elsewhere in Europe, people walk because they have to. Everything's expensive. Cars are only a meter wide and get excellent mileage (kilometerage?). I'm thinking that if we don't rebuild our infrastructure to make it easier to bike and walk everywhere with all our green stimulus thinking we're doing something wrong. Just this morning, as I was waiting outside the doors of my gym waiting for it to open, it was maybe 40F. There were two big ass shiny diesel pickups in the parking lot idling their engines, presumably to keep the occupants warm while they waited for the gym to open. As soon as it was 5 am and the gym opened, people piled out of their cars. They're there to get fit, right? Doesn't getting out in the cold a bit help to stimulate the metabolism and burn calories? This is another thing: people are pampered from the cold, or just pampered in general in this country. In the NL a lot of folk have to walk to the train, bus, cycle, etc, outside more often. I did this for the time and found it an invigorating way to start the day. In most towns it is easier to walk or cycle and get outside than to drive. That, and we need to be able to smoke weed legally in public meeting houses.

glass pipe during flu season = MISTAKE.