tvashtarkatena

Waking up every morning to engage in yet another day of unchecked douchery brings its own personal rewards, I suppose. Unless you're a psychopath. Then the playing field of possible human behaviors is delightfully flat. Some douches are compartmentalized enough to maintain calm and peaceful sanctuaries, free from their douche-dulgence, somewhere in their lives. I suspect these two are not in that category. It seems that just about every aspect of Palin's life, for example, is a train wreck. Her interior decorating comes to mind....

What, this doesn't appeal to you?

The more cornered and doomed an animal is, the more tooth and claw it shows. I was in an airport line last week listening to two business men...GOP poster children, from their appearance, rail against the state of health care in this country, lack of universal coverage, and skyrocketing costs. Game over, fuckers. You lost. Even dumb-as-a-post Merka has figured out that it's been getting screwed with a dry corn cob.

A real man would just go on up there. A real smart man wouldn't.

In the realm of the Angry Hairless Monkey, such constant douche-pressure produces an anti-douche-backpressure, whether it be in the form of an ethics investigation, less-than-stellar interview, or tell-all book deal. Douches such as these remain in the media because there are enough like-minded douches out there who need them to confirm that douchery is OK. It's our job to send such douches on down the road and make them someone else's problem...a douche maneuver in itself, but one which makes our lives a little more douche-free.

Romance without sex? Pointless.

General Relativity Law One: Douchebaggery has consequences.

Waiting for the wetter to clear. I've already done it Ivan style. First day of a decent window...next week sometime.

I have designed a personal robotic factotum to accompany me. A human can't be trusted. If you're serious, however, the launch will be next week, about 3 days after the weather clears a bit. It's a long space voyage for such a short hike, however. I'll be in the area on another mission...this would be a side trip.

yeah, I been there late season, but I don't remember when, all this shit's startin' to run together, I'm lazy, and I needed a quick answer, which you, my friend, have now provided. I'm taking a noob up and I don't want any complications. Hope things are going well which you.

clove hitch on a rope without redundancy is definitely good enough. It's faster (and therefore safer), easiest to set up (and therefore harder to screw up...safer), doesn't result in 'redundancy clusterfuck', which can cause more errors/accidents than not, and...um...how about that non-redundant rewoven figure eight you're depending on the rest of the time?

sleep low, climb high for short trips.

hazeferhorsez

The Dissappointment Cleaver or Emmons routes are the most straightforward. Recommend going with people who know about crevasses...and going a little bit later as previously suggested for better all around conditions. The Kautz Glacier route on that mountain was my first northwest climb. Have fun.

Is that gulley snow free or hard ice?

Going back out that way for another six day spree as soon as the wedder settles out to torture another noob.

Tinnitus: during the past six day Pasayten trip I enjoyed the uninterrupted hum of distant machines. They're coming for us....

your to stupit fer figgrin

This may require a double plus dot com secret mission of exploration

BTW, I found a more complete pic of the Craggy feature in my folder. Turns out the meandering folds I thought were at head of the cirque (based on my originally posted photo) are actually at the terminus of a much larger feature.

Austin looks like he might have a hidden glacier or two in that beard. Well, I guess that clinches it. What a cool surprise. No pun intended. Thanks for post. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera during last year's (or was it the year before?) trip up Bigelow, so no pics of that one from me. No Dice Lake (just below the rock glacier in my photo) is quite pretty and looks like it probably contains a few fish (white wine recommended)...a trip up to the Craggies 'glacier' would probably be a nice outing.

Bringin The Word to the mulletudes

Couldn't find current road conditions anywhere. Can you drive to 30 Mile, or is the road still closed at Andrew Creek?

WTF is your sorry ass still doing in town? A little wedder keep you from the alpine goodness, or was it the bonus hike?

you mean The Couv?