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Did I do it right?

This is an important project. I donated some cash. Not a lot but I am in. This a great story that needs to be told. Here is the easy link to donate: http://kck.st/f1tue2 Jeff Lowe has given so much to the climbing community lets jump in and help make this happen.

You lucky bastard. Have a great time.

"The Climb up to Hell" - Jack Olsen was excellent also. Some great history and really well researched. Focused on the first successful rescue from the top of the Eiger in the 50's

I will have to get that Ascent. Yeah Willi was a bad ass for sure.

O.K. Steve which books are you voting for? Hanging chads will not be counted.

I am with ya Ben. All the way to the top. Let's prove all those bastards wrong. I have a problem driving in the Gorge too. If I only trusted my wife to drive....

No. You can get them added to the list by getting 3 votes from other CC members.

If it gets three votes it goes on the list. Start your campaign. Make it two votes! Jim OK. That's cool one more vote and it goes on the list. BUT! We have too many books. We need to vote some OFF!! Here are the rules. I want books off the island! Now that we have a list of 129 we will need to refine it to 100 books. The way this will work is kinda like Survivor. 5 votes and a book comes off the list. OFF THE ISLAND! To add a new book to the list only takes 3 votes. I didn't add all the books on Jello's list of his library. My wife says her book must stay on the list and is immune to vote off. I disagree even though Magnificent Mountain Women is a good book from an historical perspective. So to appease her it will take 6 votes to vote this book off the island. IT's OUTTA MY HANDS NOW! Let the voting begin!

If it gets three votes it goes on the list. Start your campaign.

Which book title?

I think I have read about a 1/3 of them. Maybe I should climb more?

Now that we have a list of 129 we will need to refine it to 100 books. The way this will work is kinda like Survivor. 5 votes and a book comes off the list. OFF THE ISLAND! To add a new book to the list only takes 3 votes. I didn't add all the books on Jello's list of his library. My wife says her book must stay on the list and is immune to vote off. I disagree even though Magnificent Mountain Women is a good book from an historical perspective. So to appease her it will take 6 votes to vote this book off the island. IT's OUTTA MY HANDS NOW! Let the voting begin! Here is the list: The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell Wizards of Rock: A History of Free Climbing in America - Pat Ament The Naked Mountain - Reinhold Messner/Tim Carruthers The Seventh Grade - Reinhold Messner Mountaineering In Scotland - WH Murray Snow in the Kingdom - Ed Webster No Tigers In The Hindu Kush - Philip Trantor The Loneliest Mountain - Lincoln Hall The High Lonesome- John Long Fall of the Phantom Lord- Andrew Todhunter The Six Mountain Travel Books- Eric Shipton Endurance - Alfred Lansing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby The Breach - Rob Taylor Against the Wall - Simon Yates The Flame of Adventure - Simon Yates An Eye at the Top of the World - Pete Takeda Breaking Point: Challenge on Alaska's Mt. Hunter - Glenn Randall Eiger Direct - Peter Gillman/Dougal Haston Everest: The Testing Place - John B. West Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge - Chris Bonington /Charles Clarke High Conquest - James Ramsey Ullman In High Places - Dougal Haston Kingdon of Adventure: Everest - James Ramsey Ullman Land of the Snow Lion - Elaine Brook Last Days - John Roskelley On Mountains and Mountaineers - Mike Vause Orogenic Zones - Terry Gifford/Rosie Smith Over the Edge - Greg Child Red Peak - Malcom Slesse Sacred Summits - Peter Boardman Seven Summits - Bass/Wells/Ridgeway Solo Nanga Parbat - Reinhold Messner Stories Off The Wall - John Roskelley Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs - Robert Craig The Conquest of Everst - Sir John Hunt The Great Days - Walter Bonatti The Guiding Spirit - Kauffman/Putman The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford The Shining Mountain - Peter Boardman Thin Air - Greg Child To the Top of Denali - Bill Sherwonit A Sunny Day in the Himalaya - Peter Hilary A Hard Day’s Summer - Alison Hargreaves A Test of Will - Warren McDonald Addicted to Danger - Jim Wickwire/Dorothy Bullitt Alan Rouse: A Mountaineers Life - Geoff Birtles At the Sharp End - Paul Nunn Between Heaven and Earth - Gaston Rebuffat Blind Corners - Geoff Tabin Climb to the Lost World - Hamish MacInnes Climbing Everest - Pat Ament Creagh Dhu Climber - John Cunningham/Jeff Connor Nothing so Simple as Climbing - G.F. Dutton Baron von Mabel's Backpacking - Sheridan Anderson The Ridiculous Mountains - G.F. Dutton Flammes de Pierre - Anne Sauvy The Game of Mountain and Chance - Anne Sauvy How could I have miss these great books? Do I get to vote. Hmmmm .... Yes. I get to vote. One vote for Challenge of the North Cascades Challenge of the North Cascades - Fred Beckey My Vertical World - Jerzy Kukuczka Desert Towers - Crusher Bartlett Kongur - Chris Bonington Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage - Herman Buhl Shishapangma - Scott & MacIntyre White Limbo - Lincoln Hall Nanda Devi - John Roskelly K2 The Last Step - Rick Ridgeway I Chose to Climb - Chris Bonnington A Women's Place is on top - Arlene Blum K2 The Last Step - Rick Ridgeway

Take me. Take MEEEEEE!!! I am doing my JTree Dance. Crap I can't go. My wife would kill me. Damn it!! Have fun. I will just climb in the rain here.

My list is too long now. Here it is. 123 books long. Now we need to rank them. The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell Wizards of Rock: A History of Free Climbing in America - Pat Ament The Naked Mountain - Reinhold Messner/Tim Carruthers The Seventh Grade - Reinhold Messner Mountaineering In Scotland - WH Murray Snow in the Kingdom - Ed Webster No Tigers In The Hindu Kush - Philip Trantor The Loneliest Mountain - Lincoln Hall The High Lonesome- John Long Fall of the Phantom Lord- Andrew Todhunter The Six Mountain Travel Books- Eric Shipton Endurance - Alfred Lansing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby Against the Wall - Simon Yates The Flame of Adventure - Simon Yates An Eye at the Top of the World - Pete Takeda Breaking Point: Challenge on Alaska's Mt. Hunter - Glenn Randall Eiger Direct - Peter Gillman/Dougal Haston Everest: The Testing Place - John B. West Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge - Chris Bonington /Charles Clarke High Conquest - James Ramsey Ullman In High Places - Dougal Haston Kingdon of Adventure: Everest - James Ramsey Ullman Land of the Snow Lion - Elaine Brook Last Days - John Roskelley On Mountains and Mountaineers - Mike Vause Orogenic Zones - Terry Gifford/Rosie Smith Over the Edge - Greg Child Red Peak - Malcom Slesse Sacred Summits - Peter Boardman Seven Summits - Bass/Wells/Ridgeway Solo Nanga Parbat - Reinhold Messner Stories Off The Wall - John Roskelley Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs - Robert Craig The Conquest of Everst - Sir John Hunt The Great Days - Walter Bonatti The Guiding Spirit - Kauffman/Putman The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford The Shining Mountain - Peter Boardman Thin Air - Greg Child To the Top of Denali - Bill Sherwonit A Sunny Day in the Himalaya - Peter Hilary A Hard Day’s Summer - Alison Hargreaves A Test of Will - Warren McDonald Addicted to Danger - Jim Wickwire/Dorothy Bullitt Alan Rouse: A Mountaineers Life - Geoff Birtles At the Sharp End - Paul Nunn Between Heaven and Earth - Gaston Rebuffat Blind Corners - Geoff Tabin Climb to the Lost World - Hamish MacInnes Climbing Everest - Pat Ament Creagh Dhu Climber - John Cunningham/Jeff Connor

Started this thread on ST. We are at 71 books. Here is the list. The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell

Just called Rick he is dubious about making the trip out there. We were at Rocky Butte today dry tooling on the lower wall at the top of the Butte. It was more like wet tooling in rock shoes. We set up a top rope and we each did 3 laps. Rick did another wearing his work boot. Much harder that way. Basically hauled himself up with his arms. But that is the way he climbs most of the time.

Do they close that road in the winter?

Great I idea Bill about Coethedral. But how are we going to get there? Do you have a snowmobile in the basement that I can borrow. Wait!!!! ...... Rick has a badass truck. NEVER MIND!

You might want to read "Enduring Patagonia" first. Enduring Patagonia

Started up Flying Dutchman. The crux was just getting on it. The rain came down in 20 gallon buckets. I tried to go straight up from my anchor to the right of the small tree. Tried to do a hook move on the slabs and the flake blew. Fell on a #2 micro nut. My belay anchor held. I tried some other tricks and then had to down climb and go up to the left. I put in another #2 mirco nut as my first piece. That is when Steve called me as I was trying to get the next piece in. I was shooting for the next tree. I had to put in another nut to get up to it. Then I was trying to do a stupid rope trick by trying to lasso the tree with my cordlett. I resolved that it would be better to make a free move and just get up there. That is when the windows of heaven opened as I was in the middle of the sketch move. Made it to the tree and after that it was easy. I made it past the first three fixed pins used a couple of hook moves to get to the rap anchor. I even used a cam hook. Sweet! Then I bailed off on the rap anchor to the left. Jugged my rope and cleaned the gear. I have a fixed line I will use to finish it later. It was raining so hard when I got back to my car I could barely see it. I borrowed a kayak paddle jacket from Ben. It keep the water from running down my arms but I was soaked with sweat. Fun time though.

I am going out to solo aid something in my new paddle jacket that I borrowed so I can try to stay dry. Call if any would like to join the slug fest. 503-706-5315 leave a message I will call u back

As performed by Emily my daughter. She is dancing the traditional ice dance to call the ice into the Columbia River Gorge. Ice Dance!

Think cold thoughts. I need more ice.

DAMN IT. CRAP. Now I am mad. Well maybe I was before. AHHHHHHHH!!!!! I was planning a trip that is now canceled. But seriously thanks for the recon!!