RaisedByPikas

Considering all sewn harnesses and slings use bartack I would say so. I guess you could tie various knots but that would be bulky. I'll go ahead and assume that you are also planning on double backed buckles and not the pinch type buckles or belt type that most dog packs use.

Seller posts Item for sale Someone agrees to pay. Buyer sends payment via whatever method agreed upon. Usually once payment is received the seller will ship. Sometimes a seller may ship prior to receiving payment if they trust the buyer or its a cheap item. Everyone is happy. If you are the seller you essentially have no risk because you don't have to ship until the money is in your bank account. The only thing paypal requires in a dispute is proof of shipment. Paypal will not usually require the money to be held, you can transfer it immediately most of the time. Never count on paypal to actually get your money back in a dispute. That being said I have never seen a scam on this site or any climbing forum for that matter. I wish I could say that about every internet forum. There is an old warning about someone on this forum however. Basically sales on internet forums are based on faith if you are the buyer. Buying from someone with no posts that is selling poorly described rack might be riskier than buying from someone with many posts and several trip reports. People who are regulars on these sites usually want to keep a good reputation.

This may not be a big deal to some but it looks like it will be difficult to change the heel position with a ski pole tip like you can with Dynafits.

Yeah, if he had stopped just a foot or two to the left then he would have been carried down into the couloir instead of up onto the ridge.

Saw this on TAY.

Can anyone scan the portion that describes the sniffing and paste it on here?

The boots will get you where you want to go are definitely overkill. Wait until you actually have the skills and money before buying gear for Alaska. You will need a lot of goose feathers and much more expensive gear than just good boots to go on winter trips or up north.

I'm guessing by "north face 20 degree bag" he is talking about a synthetic. It will be really hard to fit all of your gear in a 45 liter pack with a big synthetic bag so I would stick with the big pack. Also, I would buy boots for late spring/summer mountaineering and skip the plastics. By the time you have money for high altitude or winter trips then you will probably have money for better gear. If you buy a bunch of overkill stuff right now, your trips will be less enjoyable and probably less successful because you will be bogged down with a bunch of heavy 4 season gear. There is nothing wrong with only buying lighter duty mountaineering gear and limiting yourself to the warmer seasons. Given the choice of 4 trips all in the summer or 1 trip per season I would definitely take 4 trips in the summer. Most early season mountaineering is best done with skis or ice tools, both of which are expensive. Now that I've read more about your situation it seems like your best bet for the long run will be to buy the minimum amount of gear that you need for a 3 day guided trip on Baker. The money that you would have to spend on a tent, crampons, boots, and an ice axe will pay for the guide. You will have a much more enjoyable trip and you wont be worrying about whether you are doing something wrong or endangering yourselves. I can almost guarantee that you wont think you wasted your money even if you don't summit. You've got 7-8 months to save up an extra $5-600 (plus tip), I'm sure you can swing that some how.

I'm guessing that without really big snow shoes or skis its going to be an exercise in futility no matter what the avalanche conditions or weather say.

However if you are serious about mountaineering you will eventually need to hire a guide to learn glacier travel or take a class but those usually last a few months.

Mt Adams is pretty straight forward navigation wise and it should take 2 days although strong climbers can go fast and light and do it in a long day. Do a search for Mt. Adams in the trip report section (or on google) and anything that has "south" in the title is what you want. There is no glacier so no need for a rope/harnesses, its hiking up snow slopes, maybe 30 degrees at most. You will want to go probably by mid to late july depending on the snow, after that it becomes a long dusty slog. If you have backpacking experience, practice the neccesary snow skills down low and are in decent shape you should be fine as long as altitude or weather doesn't get you.

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If you want a peak that a beginner can do with little practice and no guide, look at the Mt. Adams south side route. The only non weather related skills you need to know is how/when to use crampons, how to self arrest, and how to glissade. A competent person can learn these from reading freedom of the hill and watching the better youtube videos and then you can practice them on the mountain on the first safe snow slope you get to. Oh, and buy your gear off of online forums like this one, it will be much cheaper.

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/10597/Jamin

Yeah, they still haven't answered my email asking for more specifics on what the rest of the franchise fees are used for. It seems that climbers are generating enough money for the park but the park isn't appropriating that money correctly (at least not from a climbers perspective).

Another trick in certain tight constrictions is to use the the water knot of tied piece of webbing as a nut.

A $900 windstopper blazer may be a stupid product but Arc'teryx isn't claiming to revolutionize the outdoor industry with them. Half of REI is devoted to fashionable shit that has no place off of concrete, why not add a wind proof blazer too?

Sell your expensive Gore-tex and feathered friends down gear because its all about to become obsolete... http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2010/11/the-gear-junkie-scoop-columbia-sportswear-2011.html

Here is what I don't understand. Mountaineering franchise fees generate 350k according to the FAQ yet only 60k are getting put back into the climbing program. Where is the other 290k going? I hope not to the paradise lodge renovation. Mount Rainier National Park receives approximately $350,000 annually from the combined franchise fees of the three mountaineering concessioners. Franchise fees from all park concessioners (there are 5, total) are pooled and prioritized by park management for use on concession-related needs. I sent them an email, we'll see what they say.

I'd rather have the chance to try to dig 2.5m fast enough (especially if the victim has an avalung) than not be able to find them in the first place I too am a noob backcountry skier looking for a probe so is there a point where having a long probe will slow you down because it becomes unwieldy? BCA makes a 3.4m probe, is this probe more difficult or slower to use because its super long?

I tend to only climb in good weather so I carry down insulation and a down bag. If for some reason I was going to take a trip with several days of rain predicted then I would probably switch to a synthetic jacket but I will always use a down bag. Unless its really really cold you wont need to wear the down while moving so its not out of the pack enough to get wet.

Put your pictures online (picasa or the like). Right click on the picture and select "copy image location". Click the "enter an image" button, not the Photopost button. Select one of the optiosn. Paste. Ok. You can also upload them to the gallery and then try what I said but I dont like that.

Ok I found all that I know about: First Ascents http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6234547/ Powder Skis http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5987841/ Schralp the Gnar http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5720187/ New School Trad http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6106469/ And if you click the name of the person who created it, you can find a few more.

Who writes these, they are great. I wish we had a sticky that just listed them all, I only know of 4. First Ascents, Schralp the Gnar, new school trad, and this one. But I can never find them when I want to.

I bet that think shakes pretty good on a windy day, does that increase the grade of the routes?