danhelmstadter

I worked for the USGS/USFS on the NDGBP several summers ago, had a great time. They will announce the population estimate publicly in West Glacier next tuesday.

I just read that book Three Cups Of Tea -- this is probally gonna make a hard time harder for that dude Greg Mortenson to keep on building schools for little girls over there. edit -- opps just saw one of the above posts already referenced the book / gotta start reading the second page before i post

thanks for the beta, that musta been pretty scary! were u alone? -(not to find u wrong)- just makes the experience all the more scary - i woulda probally dropped a load in my pants. are u just gonna write it off as a rare happening, or are u gonna change your ways (methods) a little? - just curious.

PC - just curious, are u from nh?

amen brother, I've been paying attention to enough ski porn recently that I recogize the bottom pic as las lenas, is that right? are you there now? i hate you if you are. thanks for the stoke

thanks for the shpecktackular pictures - truly. gotta luv the tecate.

poor guy was probally just tring to grow em back

good luck bro

sounds like the trails may be open - though I have a hard time navigating that FS site.

that woulda been fun - she had some great knockers

I got cut off last night at some dive bar in Arlington - I wasent even drunk - had about 6 beers over maybe 2 hours, and the 30s punk girl bar tender made me drink water and wait 5 minutes before serving my last beer. She knew I wasent driving,and I wasent overly loud or routy, just sitting there sipping my beer. I shoulda just walked out and across the street... I thought the whole experience was kinda lame though.

thats pretty crazy

I suppose the mofos I had in mind are fools consistantly slaying steep stuff in winter on a rocky mountain continental snowpack. But anyway, I started the thread cause some of those disrespectful comments about that british doctors death kinda pissed me off. I suppose you can exuse someone outside of the climbing community -- and that is unknown in the case of the british doctor, - it just tweaks me when climbers talk shit about another climbers bad descision/bad luck whateva, show some respect, cause it might be you broken and bleeding on a rockpile somewhere -- but that's what can happen to all of us - and if it can't happen to you - your either a fool, or a weak sauce climber.

Cryptic - I like it.

thanks for your words - your comments all seem fairly obvious, but I suppose shedding light on such an observation draws that kind of response.

Yea, and some are pretty damn disrespectful. It is so easy to highlight mistakes with 20/20 hindsight - sitting in an armchair. I've always thought the line between saftey and really getting stuff done in the hills is very thin. Not to sound corny or anything, but I see fellow climbers/skiers as brothers, we all take risks, some guides/pros out there are "masters" and really know what the fucks up - while still slaying it everyday. Others have to go through the learning process to get there -- which means mistakes - most of us do make mistakes...

Toolin around online I came across this article with attached comments. -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512730/British-doctor-dies-260ft-snowboard-plunge-French-alps.html Go to the bottom of the article and click on "view all" Some of the comments are pretty harsh, if not brutal. Kinda pisses me off people don't have more respect. Sounds like he may have stepped out of bounds, but still - his family probably read those comments. Example -- "Just another Brit behaving like an idiot. When will they learn? - Diana, Geneva, 7/2/2008 1:19"

Thanks for the tr, any pictures?

Thanks for the TR, will be great to see the pics. Are you talking about Lhakpa Gelu? I wonder if he was trying to set the speed record. EDIT -- Just checked out the whole shpeal, too bad about his leg cramps.

looks like the south side of Glacier would be pretty smoky now, hopefully the forecasted precip will help to extinguish it. - taken 8-16 from eldo

Thinking about heading out to Friday Harbor, for a month or so, --already got a labor gig lined up, but locations to car camp in my mini camper remains a ? -- more than likely the area is crawling with cops, waiting to dish out citations to long haired dirtbags "loitering" in their beat up vehicles. Anyone have anything to say about the quality of living over there? is it a tourist fest, or are there a lot of artsy babes and cool bars? thanks dan

I've been scheming for over a year on an Elbrus trip, logistic information is confusing and inconsistent, sounds like a chunk of $ to make it happen. Probally not the best time to go - as of last week, with the heavy military conflict in the immediate region. I met Tyler this summer at RMI, super cool dude. Hope I see him again, He could no doubt shed some light on the logistics.

probably just warm temps helping to trigger it? Amar - I assume that's the same headwall you skied earlier this year. You had mentioned that the coverage on that particular aspect of Adams was unusually deep. Maybe all the extra snow melt percolated, and got glacier/sand/rock real wet and lubed - setting the stage for a big release? It kinda looks like it was initially part of the glacier that released, but definitely hard to tell from that one photo.

cool!

Amar, thank you for your invaluable research, and organized information, you are the man. Just looking at approximate distances described here -- http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150318/glacier-peak.html It appears as the n-f-s-r-t #649 (standard route) is only 8.2miles oneway, from the campground to white pass, that would put total distance with the road closer, and the additional ridge traverse closer to 40 miles according to this information. I have'nt picked it appart yet with the topo map. The White River approach described on the same page says its only 14 miles from the trailhead to white pass -- although the bushwack up lightning creek SOUNDS like the better way to go, so the white pass route is somewhat irrelavant. However, looking at the topo map -- http://www.mytopo.com/maps.cfm?mtlat=48.11140&mtlon=-121.11280 --, the traverse from the ridge above lighting creek to the summit (avoiding white pass), and adding up the miles, I came closer to about 32 miles round trip, although some serious shwacking is involved. Just a question to those who have gone the way of the white pass in the past - is that ridge connnecting glacier peak from the white pass trail prety easy, like jogging kinda easy? or is it slow going, mumbeling curses, useing hands on tufts of grass to keep from falling kinda hard?