mountainsloth

i hear that drinking before the alpine is a great new way to challenge yourself in the mountains. 5.10 alpine is just too easy now a days solid work fellas!

OK lets sum up so we can stop the bitching.... -Minimize shit left in the wilderness by making good decisions and picking up after others -People do strange things in the mountains -De-gumbifying one's self takes time... we've all been there -Cascade climber's forums are often bitch-fests (myself not excluded)

I second the motion, Kevbone your crap is not wanted here.

and that's why slab climbing makes me feel safer than vertical. You may lose some skin, but you probably won't break anything important.

cool climb! certainly cannot beat the ambiance of MRNP! biking down must have been a blast!

Thanks for enlightening us Todd, but sorry you got involved :)I'd still climb with you guys anytime.

Todd, I know you did not personally rap the route, but WTF! he backed up the anchor with yet another piece of webbing! Honestly, I inspected all 3 pieces of webbing and would have personally taken whippers on any one of them. If I was smart and brought a knife up to the anchor I would have removed them all. A fourth piece is severely over-doing it. Anyway, you guys climbed with us in style and never sent anything down on us, so I really can't give you any crap. Keep climbing, and help minimize the garbage we leave in the wilderness.

Holy sweet baby Jesus! That almost gave me the shits I was laughing so hard! Truly Awesome! So that solves one mystery, but there is still one other to figure out... There is an anchor up there with 3 pieces of webbing! I know this because on the way up the pass I noticed there WAS a single strand of rope dangling down the cliff as an emergency rap. I found it to be god awful looking and decided if it was still there when we came back down two days later that I would retrieve it. Sure enough it was still there on the return so I scrambled up there to set it free. Turns out the rope had to have been up there for at least a year because the bottom half of the rope was buried under a massive amount of snow, so much that I could not excavate it. So its still up there piled up at the base of the cliff if any good Samaritan wants to bring it down and throw it away. It is sun-baked to shit and quite weather worn.

does anyone know why someone would be rapping down a 50 ft cliff in the lower section of asgard pass in the middle of 2 perfectly negotiable paths on either side? During my trip out there we saw a guy rappelling all by himself down this tiny bit of rock! WTF? Turns out there are rap anchors on top! its the small cliff right below the trees in the middle of the pass. this is a closer look at the cliff from the climber's left hand side. Thoughts?

truly a fantastic trip! Its been on my list for a long time. Way to get it done! No camping at Whatcom Pass? There are camp sites there, did the rangers give a reason why? I know a company that guides a backpacking trip out there and camps at whatcom pass every year!

3 sets of large testicles = awesome new route! Way to make my TR reading interesting!

sickness!!! quality pick of mtn and route.

your ability to find and photograph excellent specimens of nature astound me! way to capture the smaller beauty of the cascades!

I'll keep that in mind Jimbo Hampster. Haven't made it out there yet this year and I am itching all over!

Yikes! This is a perfect reason why doing the Conga in the mountains is a bad idea. What a mess! Glad to hear all are safe.

how did the superly variation look?

nice work! i've had my eye on that one for a while, but its hard to find a good slab partner. Darrington slabs kick!

actually, we had 3 peeps that were climbing right with us the entire time. Todd, Chico, and another who I cannot remember his name. Sisu, were you behind all of us that day?

thanks for the info catbird.

glad to see you guys made it. solid work! It was on the list for us that week, but we never got around to it. Next time!

you certainly do not get a more perfect small hands crack than Beckey's finish. It was nice to have a partner with small hands!

thanks for the info telemarker! fantastic reflection pic!

catbird, for those who are only familiar with the descent routes down the 3 routes mentioned, would you kindly point us in the right direction for the CC rap route?

nice work. i was thinking of backbone as a follow-up to serpentine. How are the 5.9 pitches, esp. the o/w?

Mountainmatt - sunchips! that's right! the rock is still quite clean, trees are still anchors, and the route deserves more travel for those looking for something to do around camp colchuck in an hour.