Maine-iac

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.

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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.

As it seems the Oregon is in a bit of a heat wave; or at least it seems like it (95 currently), just wondering what is the coldest temperatures that people have experienced? Lets hear from some of you hardmen who are always posting TRs.

Lowell, nice page about the ski tour.

Thanks for the input guys. I kind of figured that the skis would just be used for an approach and not any technical downhill runs; but its good to hear that it really is not fun skiing with them. And I also agree that anything is better than snowshoes, and concur with Feck about the snowshoes on ski tracks, those ****s.

Hell yeah Sobo! My "goal" this year was to gap the bergshrund; but since we skied the Mazama chute when it was avy prone, I decided not to push my luck. Next year though....

So I know that my Koflach Degrees fit my Fritschis, but what is it like skiing with these boots? Anything that I should know before I go off and charge something worthwhile?

I feel like unless there is a directly seen benefit, like plowed snow-parks and stocked remote-site bathrooms (oh wait.... I'm going to be shitting on a rock for however long I'm in the woods, fuck those bathrooms) it is just more money that I have to spend. I already do the bulk of my outdoors stuff after the term ends and I can sell back my books so I can afford these gas prices. Unless I see exactly where this money goes I am going to pat Bill on the shoulder and give the man the finger. If there is a birthright to Israel than I should have a birthright to the woods. As for the Forest Service selling off logging rights that is bullshit, why the Hell would I want to see that ugly scar in a beautiful landscape; and don't say to raise money to fight fires, the government thought up the brilliant idea to suppress, so they can foot the bill.

Similar to what Mattp said about the off trail backpacking, being familiar with map and compass skills is a very worth while skill; and probably being able to ID things on a map with where they are in real life is also very important. Also being comfortable with the surroundings makes all the difference, e.g. skiing steeps at resorts before hitting the steeps in the BC. Just another note on leaving a trip itinerary in your car; if you are in an area of high crime put the note where nosey people can not read it.