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Spotly, The link that Jordan gave you is interesting, but I'm thinking not directly applicable to your situation. Their research subjects seem to be taking coumadin for afib. Whereas you hint that you need to talk with your neurologist, which I can only assume means you had some sort of head injury/accident (clot in your brain, tia, stroke, etc). I'm just guessing but you should only pay attention to research articles that are relevant to your specific ailment since blood thinners such as coumadin have multiple uses. Secondly, if you just got on coumadin you really shouldn't be doing too much until you can make sure you have a good baseline of your body being able to keep your INR in the therapeutic range. Hopefully that makes sense. That is only the internal physiological issues so far... Next, as some have alluded to, are traumatic injuries. Having your INR in the therapeutic range, (elevated for the normal person), puts you at a higher risk for hemorrhaging, both internally and externally. Knowledge of how to treat the external ones will be important. On the other hand, getting yourself to a hospital as quickly as possible for the internal ones will be more important. I'll do some research when I go back to work next week.

Finally got around to uploading some pictures so DRep can make fun of me... Ice: Elevator Shaft, Hyalite Canyon, MT Ski: Early Season Powder, Morse Creek, WA Cragging: South Park, Leavenworth, WA Scenic: Skinning up Ingraham Glacier, Rainier, WA Alpine: Upper Pitches on Haystack Mountain, Wyoming Humor: Why you treat your water - Moose Peeing in our water supply, WY Bouldering: Bouldering in the upper Enchantments

I see you forest speeder and raise you a chicken walker!

Thanks for sharing Mark. Your TR's and photos always do a great job of capturing everyone's excitment about the climbing. Just curious, what is your normal drive time out to the city?

72+ hours in the last six days. time for sleep! hopefully i can hit light speed on my way home

pbr and rock climbing in the enchantments. nothing better than that!

yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh last night!

Eliminate the Running Start program. Seriously? How does this seem like a good idea? Yeah cut programs that help educate our youth.

I need a caffeine IV drip. I can take care of that. Sounds like you guys need some better jobs.

when my coworkers talk...

Looks bloody awesome. Do you have more info on that area?

Ok, night #4 of 6.

I work night shift. Who else out there is either at work or up late?

Strong work. Looks like a good day out. Sweeet hat.

this was addressed in this forum already, updated last week.

Dyan. Nice tr. I thought you learned to ski?

Looking at david and i's climb from may of 2009, it looked pretty similar eldorado nw couloir 5/2009

Yeah Gene and DPS are correct. I took that wednesday morning from the Eldo glacier as the sun was rising. I agree, the complete north ridge of forbidden is an awesome climb.

Sometimes I amaze myself. Stolen from john's older TR. Take a left where the the trail goes right (and it starts to switchback). Contour around the hill and eventually you'll get near the creek. Stay high in the boulder field or drop down along the creek and it will take you all the way there.

Colin. There is a good picture on here of the actual turn off. I'll see if I can dig it up.

I saw your ski tracks on annapurna. It looked like they dropped off to crystal creek so that makes sense. That meadow up there is pretty sweet isn't it? Good climbing during the summer time.

Probably would help to give more info about what route you would be climbing and your approach. I ran into a couple attempting the SGC on 6/20. No snow at the junction with Colchuck lake.

Quite the area...wish they would have put up pictures of the actual climbing.