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Might have to do some of that exploring this spring with the icicle being clogged up! Lets go ski that couloir on McClellan..as soon as my knee heals.

Nice work guys. Reminds me of this where we crossed paths on your descent.

Looks like fun John! That second to last picture is great. So you ended up approached from the east side of the crest, correct? Using the mountain home rd? I've always wanted to go check out that road...

Hmmm the very first search result is http://www.bluemountaingrill.com/ located in acme, wa.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is near you Bham folks. His other TR is in bellingham and the blue mountain grill he refers to is in acme, wa on hwy 9.

Since you climbed it, whats it go at? Not just the usual arete climb?

Nice work John. All that Cody WI got your calves in shapes right? Looks like the temps were pretty good considering you had your gloves off for the summit picture? Or at least tolerable...

Thanks a lot for all the info!

Looks like a good time. Whats the story on those two obvious gullies behind you in the second to last picture? Is all of this behind the ski area?

Which route? Regardless, congrats John!

This one wins. Thanks for sharing.

Dude, its 3 dollars...do you really need to be sold on it? Anyway, it has all the hood stuff just like on nwac. thanks Dave, looks great.

Hey sobo, when does the climbing season start out at lightening dome? Kind of related, ever been to spring mtn down near la grande for climbing?

Now is the time eh?? Under that 3 ft of new snow since monday?

I just called mountain gear, they are sending me a prepaid shipping label and taking care of the rest. Good people!

because climbers at vantage are typically more sober than at most other climbing areas... Lies!!! I don't think I've ever been sober there. My roommate: "if you're sober(at vantage), you're doing something wrong"

Looks great. Thanks for the pictures. I can't wait to get back up there this next summer.

Excellent. Way to rock the moments(as in the skis). In the actual NBC, was the rock constriction about 1/3 way up covered or still exposed?

You bet! Looks like Aaron Scott had better conditions on Colchuck's north buttress couloir yesterday. You climbing saturday? Vantage could be warm. Not this weekend, I'm on my stretch of six nights on at work. Hopefully by next week it'll be snowing, if not then I might head out there. We shall see...

Hey John, nice work up there. I've been jonsing to get up there. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you!

How was the coverage in the upper enchantments? How about the upper bowl/snow creek glacier? Wind scoured snow?

Dane, I've done way more skiing than ice climbing this year, however, unless I'm not quite understanding you, my Petzl Sarkens fit on my Garmont Adrenalins without any modifications. Essentially, just adjusted the length and they could go between my adrenalins and batura's. Or did I miss your point? As far as to contribute to the original question, La Sportiva Baturas + Petzl Dartwins = close but not quite fit. Regardless, my toe bail has been hammered enough to fit well and I've never had a performance issue noticable by my meager standards.

As stated above...looking for someone to carpool with. My truck is under repair and I'd like to get out. Have cash for gas money. In Redmond, will meet within reason. We don't even have to ski together - I just want to ski some of the predicted 2-4' of snow. Thanks. -Kevin

You guys are true men. My friend and I were up there yesterday, it was 4 degrees with a below 0 windchill...at 11 am. Miserable.