kevino

Whats up man? I'm looking to climb rainier this thursday/friday (short notice i know). I'm going to be on the mountain already for mountain rescue training and the weather looks great for the days leading up to it. If you're interested let me know - you can send me a message on here. Thanks. -kevin

Thomas, I know this is somewhat last minute but...I'm suppose to be on Rainier this weekend (sat and sun) for mountain rescue stuff and the forecast looks great for the days leading up to it. would you be able to do a 2 day climb that thursday/friday prior? Send me a message on here if you'd like - I'll check. -Kevin

Really? Do they work now?

WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND FEET? canadian and floating feet

I am not afraid not to. It is a conscious decision to prepare myself for unexpected circumstances. I think you are all pussies for bringing lighters with you on your glorified camping trips. All it takes is one run-in with a crack-head and you might change your tune. When a 120 lb kids takes a pistol whip in the head from you and gets back up and charges you, you might think twice about arming yourself in these places that are teeming with meth-shacks. I used to live on the border of a national recreational area, wilderness and antional park. These places are teeming with crack heads that will own your ass. Plus, nothin says "howdy" on the trailhead like a nice shiny big-bore revolver. What, ARE YOU CRACKERS? NPS parks are some of the safest places around. maybe if you're a flipping rodent! obviously you haven't seen the meth lab in camp muir.

ANYMORE!

HTML ERROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, are you talking about Canadians or gays? never mind... no difference dude...laughing at your own jokes is like jon without garfield:

iraq or canada?

the fat woman version of casper. the one of the right reminds me of myself.

you canadians are so witty!

That sounds pretty fun for an early season ice climb.

is that movie out on dvd? aka how can i watch it?

hey, now... Just imagine if they were the ones bivying on the summit...

wheres this fortune peak you speak of...must do research

hey spotly, how was the snow on longs pass? skiable? or anything in that area?

Dane, sorry to hear about your injuries but heres to hoping you heal up fast. Thanks for sharing.

Trip: Mt Stuart - Ice Cliff Glacier Date: 6/8/2008 Trip Report: Well I finally got around to posting one of these things..I know Sol already posted a TR but I figured I'd share some more photos and such. 1:45 am, alarm goes off and we eventually mosey out of our cars and start hiking. This is my fifth car to car trip - but the first one being able to park at the TH! What an amazing difference it not having to hike that fucking road. After wandering around the woods aimlessly we happen on this: We figured this to be the community bear spray bottle - thankfully we only had to dispense part of it. A little later we found this thing in the morning sun and decided to go climbing. Once we reached the snowline we noticed a highway of foot traffic leading to our climb. We also noticed someone decided to bring their pet with them, thankfully they left it at basecamp. After attaching some sharp objects to our feets and hands to headed upward and had some great alpine climbing. This whole face was falling apart. Thankfully we were past it when three avalanches/slides came down. Sure sounded good though. We thought we'd be more sheltered from falling stuff after getting into the coluior - this however turned out to be the exact opposite. After moving through the steady spindrift and ice fall, in which we were all hit at least five hundred times, Matt found the way out of the mess: Here are the other two teams coming down from the summit. Little did they know this was our plan to climb after them so we didn't have to do any thinking at all. After being lazy we decided to find the summit Being the old man that I am, I had to take my normal 11am nap. When Matt started down climbing to sherpa, my calfs said "fuck you, i've had enough front pointing for one day." so i took the lazy approach and just sat on my butt and slid down - I recommend everone to try it. Here you can see Matt, the team of two on the glacier, and the team of three waaaaaaaaay down at the bottom. I also took it upon myself to find a crevasse so everyone knows where not to go. What a great day. Gear Notes: more food and water next time. Approach Notes: 4 hours to base of mountain. 4 hours to top out. forever to get back to the car.

blah blah blah

Yes, that was us. Really good weekend for being in the mountains. I wonder if the group doing a route on dragontail is on here as well?

were you the guys that got there late saturday night? If not, there was another group planning on climbing sherpa as well.

um on the lower part of sherpa. you know where that exposed rock was right before the slope dropped off a bunch? right in there. Only my legs punched through and matt pulled me out. good stuff. maybe i'll post a tr and talk about the ice and avalanches rained down on us. ha

good to know we had a cc party on stuart. me, matt cook and my friend david were team 3. GREAT day in the mountains - the route was in such good and fun conditions. I never realized how much of a bitch descending sherpa is - could be that we were just really tired. But then again I fell in a crevasse...

like this

that video is amazing