Peakpimp

Awesome! Glad you liked it... The Cascade Pass area has got to be one of my all time favorites

Thats pretty much where I am... Stuck in limbo between tough alpine scrambles and real technical climbing. A good friend of mine knew a lot more about mountaineering than I did and brought me in at first but through some research (read quite a few books and countless TR's)I caught up with him and we have been progressing together, kinda self taught (through the recorded knowledge of others of course). We would usually do a little homework on peaks and routes and just give it a go and if it got too hairy we'd turn back to return another day with more experience. Eventually I got tired of walking up the south side of everything, and he got engaged, so without some proper instruction or an equally devoted companion for support, I haven't been able to make the jump to technical climbing. I'm very glad for the experience I've gained routefinding, steep snow travel, crampon/ice axe use, what I personally need to pack for multi-days etc, physical fitness etc. which will hopefully prove invaluable by allowing me to focus more on the climbing and more technical aspects of future climbs. Lately I've been soaking up all of the information I possibly can about rock and alpine tech stuff and this thread has given me a few ideas on how to make the next step. As I have learned from skiing, mountaineering, hell even the apprenticeship I completed at work, that for me, there is no substitute for a solid mentor with a wealth of applied experience to draw off of.

Ive scrambled Sahale Mtn, Dragontail Peak, Mt Adams (although there is a raging fire there now) , Vesper Peak, Del Campo, and Mt. Buckner. All sweet non technical routes

Nah you want Three Fingers not Three Finger Jack, but according to this website the road (#41 Tupso Pass - Darrington Ranger District) is closed 10 miles from the TH www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/conditions/road_conditions_report.shtml

My old climbing partner just took his new climbing partner (his fiancee) for a 5 day, 43 mile backpacking trip through the Pickett Range... arguably some of the best terrain in the NC

Wow an impressive feat for sure! In this article Justin claims to have summited 100+ times... with that many I bet he could almost do it blindfolded

Nice! Sounds like you scored a few nice turns. I scrambled the south ridge of Adams in August a few years back and remember thinking those sun cups wouldn't make for a very good time heh.

Awesome TR mate! I MUST do that traverse in the near future!

Hear Hear STP! Id like to add one of my favorite quotes... "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them." ~Frederick Douglass