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Wow Jens, you and many others need to open your eyes to the source of the problem and not try to blame it on the people who live in those towns. The whole reason for the traffic stems from too many people using a road that could never handle that much traffic even before the stoplights. I live a mile up the road from the first stop light when you're heading west and before the light was put in, we (among 1,000 other residents) wouldn't ever be able to get onto US2 on sunday let alone any sunny holiday. The business owners have nothing to do with the traffic, I have family friends on the Sultan City Council and they are all honest people who wouldn't allow something like that to happen. The residents from Monroe to Index would like nothing more than to see the highway expanded thus improving traffic flow. We have never been offered free grant money from the state for this. We would have accepted it if offered. You think you're pissed off for waiting in traffic one day so you can get home to Seattle? Try living here and having all of you clog up the one road out of town Jens - Please refrain from making unsubstantiated claims. A boycott of the business's in these towns wouldn't help anyone.

Cunning Stunt and Tunnel Vision should be dry on Sunday..... Take a number and wait your turn on Sunday if that's what you're looking to do. It snowed up there today

Be ready to get wet on the Upper Wall, there's alot of water up there right now. Abraxas is gonna be a waterfall. Go do a route in the Quarry and post a TR!

This is a question of mine. There have got to be regulations about this considering the fact that the North Fork is a Salmon and Steelhead run. However, wouldn't the the Quarry opperation just have to pay fines to get around this? Yellowstone Club in Montana re-routed streams and broke all kinds of environmental regulations to which they waived a wad of cash without thinking twice. I'm concerned that this might be the case for quarrying. But that was Montana, this is Washington - things might be a little different?

Nice boys! I miss Bozeman.

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Does anyone want to climb at Index this afternoon?

Sounds good Collin, I'll be around!

How do we donate $$$ specifically for the purchase?

Anytime Mondays, afternoon Tuesdays. Any kinda climbing sans pebble wresting. Are you up for scrubbing?

Oh, if anyone is interested in joining me for some scrubbage or climbing on Monday's or Tuesdays at Index, let me know.

Scrubbing routes on a rainy day is a great way to stay psyched. You can take out your frustrations on all that moss and lichen covering awesome routes. You'll have those routes locked, cocked, and ready to rock when it dries out.

Index - snow in the shade, lower wall is dry. See you up there!

I heard that too!

If you take the rivet out of the quark ergo (or quark?) head you can take it off and put it on the Nomic shaft. You just need to be able to find and put on a strong enough rivet. Stephen Koch did this a few years ago, it was a pretty sweet set up. Your setup looks much more convenient though.

More of this shit? Please spare us...... Style points = not bragging about it

Look at Spire Climbing Center in Bozeman, Mt. Rad little gym with about half the membership base coming from Montana State University students. They know how to do business!

Wow, good honor "Anonymous 99". Glad you're alive. Walking out on a broken ankle really sucks!

Fischer Chimney to hourglass looks pretty fun yet easy.

Right on boys! Sounds a little different from the ice and neve we experienced a few weeks ago. There is no way in Hell I would want to be high on that exposed face in waist deep snow! Way to know your limit.

Blue sky and sending temps at Index too..... minus the crowds You should come up for a sunday through tuesday when the weather's good. I live 15 minutes away from it.

Sorry I didn't get a hold of you Bryan. Did you get out at all?

That looks like Spencer to me!

Good goin boys! We saw you guys on it while we were descending the glacier. You must've had a late start, I think it was 3:00pm when we saw you low on the route. Looks better in your pictures than it does from the glacier. Good conditions on that peak last weekend for sure.

Ade, you should check out the ice lines listed in the Washington Ice guide as "rumors of ice" on the Shuksan arm. There were a few lines that were in, many potential lines too given more flow. Sorry no pics though.