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would have to take the bridge at the dalles. not sure if their is something east of biggs you could do. portland would work good. either 84 east to dalles, then south. or over mt hood on 26.

i didnt see a price for the hex set. is it still available? how much?

do u have pics?

Great long range report ScaredSilly!! I think you about nailed it!

The city of Battle Ground is Talking about putting up a rock wall in the city. This would be the time to call, write to the city for input. Let's do this while it is still in the planning stage. They put in a "world class" skate park a couple years ago, and are wanting to build off the success and popularity of that. Let's hope for a "world class" rock gym!!!! Let's get all of southwest washington in on this. We could stop traveling to pdx during the winter to use theirs!

i was looking at shuksan. looks like fun. any idea what the early spring conditions are like? ie; avalanche hazards etc.. the summit pyramid looks like it has a nice avalanche chute, that in dry weather would be the route!

it figures. what is a good close (withing 4 +/- hrs) climb, with glacier travel. looking for something comparable to mazama glacier. we have 3 people with climbing/rescue experience, and will have 1 possibly two noobs with us. would like to go somewhere other than hood, but if we cant find something else, we'll head up there. little harder to find stuff with all this snow.

People, especially kids, just don't use common sense. If a kid is acting that way, it's not too surprising. What sucks is that parents, by not stopping or punishing the kids, are condoning it. I have a hard time going to group events with my kids that are not church related for those reasons. Although, I have had problems with kids, and uncaring parents at those also. You wouldn't have to establish rules exactly, just post for a kids get together and state clearly what sirwoofalot said. If we had enough people, like those who are responding to this post, were to come, and one kid and parent were acting up, we could all confront them. ask them to take care of the problem or leave. although i guess it would be hard to make them leave if it was a public area. could always be a large indoor gym which have rules already in place?

where are you located?

whats yer twenty?

mine all started around 6. they are now 8,9, 13. the oldest one says she loves it and tells all her friends about climbing, but when we go out shes not too into any more. the 9 year old loves to climb in the gym, but gets real nervous on rock. my 8 year old is usually pretty fearless. she was the only one to make it to the top of (or even try on this one) the 35 foot top rope we had set up at smith a few weeks back (all though, while being lowered off, she was the river way below, and started crying from the exposure, thought she was a lot higher than she actually was!). all the other kids stuck to the 20 footer, and were pretty nervous on that one. ill keep encouraging them. if they want to keep climbing, great. if not, i may be able to deal with it? bug, i agree. other kids around definately help. mine seem to like to show off then, making it less fearful for them!

can ya see what kind of ropes you have?thanks

has anyone attempted to get close to mt adams yet? any idea when the roads normally open? were looking at end of april, mazama glacier, just rather not slog through 5-10 extra miles of snow one way!!!

sweet deal! think i'll get two!

pm

i've never tried tyvek. does it work pretty good?

well, we got chased off hood today. made it to about 8000ft, top of palmer. wind was blowing a constant 30-35mph all the way up, and then kicked it up a notch. hard blowing snow, and deep powder made for a real fun time. when the sun came out, the summit buried beneath wind driven snow. lots of fun. forcast had called for 5-10mph winds overnight, picking up to 30-35mph by monday afternoon. the winds started just after 200am, a little earliear than we expected. oh well, still beat the heck out of going to work! were going to try again about the end of the month

yep, great eh

yep. we'll check it out tonight and see. of all the places to have ANY kind of accident, hood is not it! news cameras would be out in force. hoping i don't stub my toe and end up on the 10 o'clock report.

we are heading up tonight. should start climbing around midnight. ill let you know how the conditions were when we get back.

do you mean prouty glacier? hayden is on the middle sister i believe.

im looking for a footprint for the walrus rapeed xv tent. ive searched, but to no avail. if you have one available, let me know how much you want for it. thank you dave

ill take em. do you take pay pal. im in sw wash area.

do you still have the avy probe? pmd

pm'd again