Maine-iac

oKMKNH26oI0

zqNLMuijRyU ffX9msPCwZk

Oh hell yeah. Techno is on my playlist. Gotta love Oakenfold and DJ Tiesto.

Trip: Diamond Peak + Mt. Yoran, OR - Date: 7/28/2008 Trip Report: Rocky.joe and I went up to check out Mt. Yoran and DIamond Peak over the weekend. Mt. Yoran is the peak just to the north of Diamond Peak, and it seems to always get over looked, but looks fantastically cool from a distance. After doing some running around getting bug spray (well needed!) and a forest pass, we were on the trail by 830am or so. Made quick time of the 5 miles to the base of Yoran, and stashed our packs. The scramble up Yoran is fairly straight forward. You ascend the gully on the SW side of the mountain, then cross into the SE gully to finish it off. Solid class 4 scrambling with the potential for low class 5 moves. Don't bother bringing ropes and gear as I didn't see any cracks in the rock. Once back down, we climbed up to the base of the ridge that leads away from Yoran and scrambled to the top of that. We latter found out that there is a very easy trail on the back side of that ridge. The way we went up, was straight at the thing, from the trail side. Lots of loose big rocks. Had a few 60 pounders come down on top of me, and as you can imagine diving out of the way of a 60lb rock is not very fun. We then proceeded to go up the North ridge of Diamond Peak. We managed to get right up to the very top of the ridge, where it starts to cliff out at a false summit. By this time it was 5 or 6pm, we couldn't see much because of the clouds and all of the rock crumbled away with the slightest touch. (Some of the worst rock ever!) Found a nice place to bivy, watched a fantastic sunset, saw every single star in the sky, and a beautiful sunrise. On the hike out we saw 2 sets of very fresh bear tracks, but never saw any bears. Back at the car before noon. Photos here. Gear Notes: Cold Beer! An axe might have been nice for the snow section that we backed off on. Approach Notes: Trail Head off of road #23, snow still on trail but otherwise very fast hiking.

Almost had a similar thing happen over the weekend. My partner and I drove to the Mt. Yoran TH in the Diamond Peak area, we didnt have a pass and figured we would be fine.... After driving the 20 miles of forest roads to get to the TH, the only parking space left was right beside a forest ranger's car (we arrived at midnight). Well shit. We woke up early drove back to town bought a pass and then came back out. We only saw the forest ranger, actually it was a crew of 3 guys doing trail work, on the hike out. They were up there doing trail maintenance and we had a great chat. Sorry Eli. Can you claim spiritual enlightenment?

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/07/climber_sparks_rescue_effort_o.html#more This happened this weekend.

You guys are complaining about a group of bad cyclists? Oh boo boo. How about the majority of you guys actually learn how to drive; maybe then these cyclists will not act like the vast majority of drives on the roads. As for that cop knocking that cyclist off. I would have knocked him over. I bet he is the kind of person to not look over their shoulder when opening the door.

The person that manages Skinners Butte and the columns, e.g. City Parks and Rec. pushed it off. The few days leading up to that, you could make that portion of the column move just by flexing your hands in the hand jams. From what I have heard, it only required one solid push and the whole block came down.

Is the Sunshine route skiable from the summit?

really? I have a set of Wild Country WIld Wires and they all open under body weight. Is that just a clean nosed thing?

I am thinking about buying some more wire gate biners for my alpine stuff, and was just wondering if the "new" clean nose wire gate biners are any more prone to freezing than the older ones are (not clean nosed). I am thinking about getting some Wild Country Heliums. Thanks

Dude didnt you know there are already fixed lines up there! People kept trying to steal my fixed line on Hood, those gates are steep, and it took me two days just to get to a summit attempt!

I am sure some people have seen or heard of this film. It makes a few interesting points. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

When I get bored with my AT set up, I just unlock the heel and go free. Not having that resistance from the boot causes a real workout. I don't even have AT boots either!

I have a pair of Patagonia Recon (I think thats them) snowpants, and then a pair of Helly Hanson rain pants. If it is going to be warmish and require snowpants, then either I don't wear anything underneath, or a very lightweight pair of long jons. Same with the rain pants, if it is going to be too warm for snowpants, I do a long jon/rainpant combo. I also ski, so as of now, I have not had to worry about glisading down anything. I feel that the snowpants could hold up to it, but possibly not the rainpants. But if I were going to glisade, I would bring a plastic-role-up sled and bomb down. The snowpants have bad vents, way to small for any real air flow.

135ish But I am marinating 4 chicken breasts for dinner tonight, so I might gain a pound or two.... 6 years of running has kept me at a fine weight.

Yeah, for all of your people that do not tip your mailman or paperboy, you suck. We hate people like you, and if you ever wonder why it's raining and your paper is not bagged, I will give you a hint...... It is because you are cheap bastards. My favorite trick was to bag a wet paper and give it to the guy that never tipped me, or was just a plan tool. I too put all of my papers in the front doors, but luckily I could bike the whole thing on my sweet singlespeed/trick bike with massive racks on the back. The bloody thing would always flip-over or break either when I was late or it was raining. Good times.... I don't think I will be-able to make it into Huntington's Ravine for the ice, I will probably/ just be on the mountain either for the hike to the top, or to ski Tucks.

??

That is almost as cool as this. NSFW hahahahahah

Currently my crampons are out on loan, will they still be needed? Or is a lot of the snow melted out, such that I just need scree protection.

Damn Sobo, 120 customers?? I am assuming you were driving? I always remember having to dive over the snowbanks out of the way of the oncoming plows, and then dive back to move my bike out of the way. I am looking forward to this winter, I am planning my own NH adventure up Washington, or up Katahdin.

I had had a few weeks/days in different winters where temperatures were in the -20s and at least 3 days of -30 degrees. I think the lowest I saw the mercury was -32, and that is not including wind chill. Throughout all of that, I was delivering newspapers.