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5K; I stole this from I think Rock and Ice and have used it on two trips, works well. At your house: cook up a pack of brats or sausages, sautee bell peppers onions, etc. Mix with some cheese. Wrap up a couple ( I make 4, and wrap 2 together so I have two ready to go on 1st and second day) burritos and put in tin foil. ThenI put in the extra into a pot with a locking lid and stuff some more tortillas in a bag. Reheat that night. Even my vegetarian climbing partner was jealous.

What a fun day. Zoroastr, looks like you had good timing on the day. As for that slab pitch, I climbed it in my approach shoes and it was just fine. Oh yeah, and props to David for his first gear lead on Prusik!

if only that stupid fire didn't close the TH earlier this week! good getting out.

So I want to get one trip into this area before school begins in late september, and 3 days is pretty much the max time I can take off my job. With that being said, if you had 3 days to spend in the pickets, what route/mtn would you choose? ABout 5.8ish. And yes, those days include approach and getting back. Just looking to find the route with the best views for the limited time and build more stoke for the next time I go back. Thanks for the input. YEA!

mcuh better now. thank you cc mod's.

I was out there once with the sasquatch group - pretty enertaining. Quite a few of them climbed as well. My friend and I scrambled up that tower in the middle of the camping area to drink some beer and before we know it some group of guys from across the camp site wanted to smoke us out. Then later around the campfire we listed to everyone be paranoid about cops as they smoke their blunts or tripping on shrooms.

and banks lake is less than that. same with canada.

Just to follow up, I ordered the montrail ctc's. And I also got the Garmont Vetta Plus in response to my demands - so to speak. Anyway, looks like a great shoe, plus I got it for like $100 brand news. There 50% off plus another $20 from amazon.com. I'll be putting these to the test starting this weekend. I'll let everyone know how they turnout.

haah, rob, thats my bivy sack covered with rain drops.

Just saw this video the other day: MSR Skinny Too Looks pretty interesting. I saw on another site its due in early 2009. I know a lot of people have inside connections, anyone got details? Experiences?

...you were planning on climbing stuart or something in that area: Yesterday I checked and it wasn't listed in the closed area. But apparently later in the day it was added. The picture taken 6 pm on 6/19. But it did rain steadily through the night so hopefully that helped the fire fighting.

Theres lots of stuff on temple ridge. Theres some stuff on argonaut and sherpa as well.

with YOURSELF!!

I swear the forecast worsened from this morning and thursday is my only free day...I'm probably going to try to do something easier incase of rain/wet rock.

I don't really care to participate in this converstion, except I saw this. Did you really need to add that? If you honestly think that, then fuck you. I am not a soldier, but I know many and that is incredibly offensive and arrogant. And I'm done.

I understand what you're saying, but you know, you gotta appreciate not having to worry about any techanical stuff as far as getting down, which can make other alpine climbs more committing or time consuming. ANYWAY, got any pictures? Thats all I really care about. OH, and: any snow up to ingalls peak? I want to run up there real quick this week. Thanks.

The piece of the shit that doesn't require rapelling or glacier or snow travel? All you have to do is walk down and drops you onto a well maintained trail? Quite a nice descent off a 9000+ ft peak if you ask me.

the gulley getting up to it is pretty broken, so you'll have to climb snow and rock or just rock to get onto the ridge. From there its fine.

soo that fire: Square Miles 0.98 Percent Contained 0 Threatened Structures 1 Expected Containment 2008-10-01

I have two questions I'm trying to answer. First, I want a shoe to do car to car trips in, like an approach shoe of sort that is comfy and good on rock up to low fifth class, etc. I've read lots of good things about the La Sportiva Exum, but I cam across these , which have good reviews and half the price. Anyone have experience with them? Or any other suggestions? Second: I have the La Sportiva K4S, which I use for winter/spring alpine and ice climbing. They work great for those seasons. However when the approach is dry and the weather is warmer they are overkill both in warmth and the full length shank. I'm looking for a boot that are good/decent for walking in on basic trail, and are good for snow/glacier travel plus easier rock climb/scrambling. My friend has the Scarpa Trioletts and recommends them. Any other suggestions? And yes, I've seen the other threads, but most people were looking for ones in colder conditions, and I'm more concerned about comfort and being lighter since I already have a boot for colder condtions. Thanks for all the help!

Sorry Rob. My dad has a bunch of money from his account stolen as well. The bank manager said that several others had this same thing happened, so they assumed someone had put a card reader either in an ATM or at a grocery store, etc. He ended up getting the money refunded - I hope the same for you! IF you wanna go get away from everything and play in the mountains let me know.

Thanks for the TR. Recently I was just reading one of your older TR's and you mentioned this goal, which made me curious when/if you were going after it. Congrats!

Sobo, I think this happened with my stuart TR too. I'll upload my pictures on another site this weekend and you can look at them that way. jcp, what happened on the traverse? Got any pictures? I'd love to do that traverse some day. Thanks for more pics Bala!

sweet

Sobo - Thats weird. Just hit refresh a bunch? And I thought it was next weekend? wbk - I guess I wasn't too clear. We took the East Ledges descent. I think its one of those things where after you've done it once it will be a lot clearer.