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i'll donate an old pair of kastle randonee skis in great shape. you can use them as a raffle, or put the money into cc.com fund. only catch is someone would have to pick them up from me on their way north, as i won't be able to attend. i live in battle ground, just north of vancouver off I-5. can provide pics if wanted. let me know

Anybody been up on hood lately? Wondering how the snow is with the warmer(ish) weather we've had. Planning a trip for sunday, just wandering what we're in for.

great movie! thats where i learned how to climb! you should see me leap over an abyss with my ice tools, only missed the landing once.

yep, quite a few people involved in the incident on hood a few years back that had nothing to do with the initial fall, except they were on the same mountain. You just can't always tell who the incompetent ones are.

hehe

thats been my view. if your not going to protect it, don't use a rope. unless of course you are crossing a glacier, then the rope is there to protect against falling into a crevasse and dissapearing. i ask because you see pics quite often with people roping up to cross the hogsback, and climb the pearly gates. but you very rarely see people actually placing any pro while climbing the gates with ropes.

How many people actually rope up to climb the ss of mt hood? Why or Why not? Seems to me that unless the pearly gates are steap and ice, you would not need to/want to rope up except for possibly that portion. Also, imho the accident a few years back wouldn't have been as bad had they not all been on ropes. If your on ice, and not adding pro, seems like a rope could be a bad idea. Whats y'alls opionion on this?

guess we'll see how it turns out. hopefully they put as much money and thought into a rock wall as they did the skate park.

little closer to me too as im in battle ground. quite a drive to mt. tabor. would be about 1.5 hrs round trip drive time.

is columbia river the one off 99th st in hazel dell?

couloir, what happened to your avatar?

pics? thanks

Oh Yeah!!

got myself some yellow play dough today. gonna make a killin makin these and resellin em!

That's pretty cool. Feel kinda odd using play dough as protection.

nice!

this is my wife and i with our 3 girls at smith rock this feb. ages (left 2 right) 8, 9, 13. great time. they all love to climb, but the older two are afraid of heights. the littlest one did the best on this trip. went higher, and climbed more! almost forgot ace, our mini poodle/jack russell! he had a great time, though not a real good climber!

where does the money from the nw forest parking pass and the sno park passes go? obviously not to plowing anything in sw washington during winter! discontinued plowing i wouldnt mind paying so much, if i could see some benefit.

never thought of that. are they open to public usually? whats a burpee?

great anchors. you should do a book!

Does anyone know if there are any public staircases (either in buildings, or parks, etc...) in the vancouver, wa. area?

pm on quickdraws, petzle auto biner.

I did the same thing, only waited a little longer, then got a cheaper camera. i got one of the kodak easy shares. 8mp, 8x zoom. great and light. I waited forever before giving up my canon rebel xs film. mostly, i think, because with the 75-300mm lens on it, it looked bad!! film just got too expensive for me, with no guarantees on quality of the picture.To shoot a whole roll of film, and get 1 or 2 good pictures got old. I went to south sister a couple years ago and shot 2 rolls. Didnt realize till the end of roll 2 i had the settings wrong, and the pics turned out dark, and not enough info on them to fix in ps. so, now i cheat and use digital. i take a pic, look at it, delete it if i don't like it and shoot again!

great pics Bill! Can't wait to get back up there. looks awesome!

quite far off to the left of pearly gates. makes the gates much funner I hear. hopeing to get up soon and check them out myself.