Josh Lewis

Well the extra summit well, it would look good on my rep, as for chasing poon... what is that?

Thanks! I think I'm ready for this bad boy. It's interesting how the acual people who know me are fine with the idea of me going up Stuart. I'm telling ya, if some of you guys acually knew me, I think you would be fine with the idea of me going to Stuart. That quote reminds me of another "If your going to go down, go down in flames!" -Simon

Humility? For what? As for countering... well if I'm strong, and people here say I'm not,why no try to tell what the facts acually are. I guess I'm not very good with reputation.

Just to see if some how it got better... it didn't. I can edit it, but when ever I go to the delete button it says this after the page changes: You do not have permission for this action!

Yes, I know the diffrent arrest moves. I even tought some of them to my friends, although they didn't do the upside down backwords one, but I demenstrated it to them, and they did the main one. As for asking about Adams, no one seemed to want to go with me. I noticed Adams did not work, but all of a sudden I asked for Rainier and wooo got some replies... or atleast back then. I got up to the False Summit of Mount Adams, the only reason I turned around was due to ice, which we had no crampons and it was icy late in season, and early in the morning.

I don't hate anyone. Your not even on my sorta bad list... I was well just a little offended when you through in the words fool. You have your doubts about me living long? I'll show you!

Well first off, I'm good with navigation. Second, I know were Paridise is... I mean how would I have created a page of information on it? Physically, I am in shape I would say, I'm telling ya, on the last trip I was pacing myself, but did not realize that it would make me look so bad to make a good choice, sometimes I guess appearance is important... or atleast I think that's what Mark told me. The weather... I know when to call it quits with weather, I also looked at the weather forcast before hand which is why we did not go on the weekend... now I could though use some work on my technical skills. So I could read and practice knots, as for staying in shape I been running almost every night which not just a sorta hard, but to the point were I am laying down for a long time because It's exausting. I'm hard core in spirit, so I think If I just worked on my technical skills, I think I would be set! As for when I said faster, I mean get faster at getting to base Camp!

Thanks malcolm777b. As for having 50+ pounds, I would say about 9 of those pounds were water... I had a heavy tent, and sleeping bag, plus my light wieght pad which there's 20 of my pounds. Then I've got a jacket (which was heavy) a long sleeve shirt, one extra layer of pants, headlamp, locking caribeaners and all that perlon, and tubular webbing stuff, which harness included. Also there was food too, sun screen, and that was most of it... I had Mark moderate my pack, which pretty much everything I had was essential... BUT If I had somehow convinced my brother to use his sleeping bag, and found the good tent which was in his closet, I would have probably had around 42ish pounds. As for ice axe arrest training, C'mon I'm a pro at that by now. I'm also exprienced on steep snow and rock.

It says I do not have permission to delete this photo... http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=48636&cat=502 I reposted it because I catigorized this one wrong... I think... so can an admin get rid of it?

Now here's my problem... now how am I going to do Mount Stuart? No experienced partners = no go....

Aww it's ok... I guess then I need to be FASTER!

Thanks for the offer... already did that one too! http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7970329

I don't give up so easy, infact, I almost never give up (when I give up, it's because it's too dangerous). As for my route... the Cascadian route is the one.

Thanks for the offer, but I already did this one...

Awww your cramping my style... first off, some of you guys are acting as though I have no scrambling experience.... hiking? I want to go forword, not backwords.... although mabe it would not quite be going backwords hiking, but still, I've already been hiking for years, but this year probably made the most irresponsible choices of this year. Is Stuart really over my head?

Who wants to climb Mount Stuart this weekend? I have scrambling experience wether it's steep rock, snow and all that good stuff. This trip might be an overnighter depending on what is prefible of who's going. So I hear the route is estimated to be around 12 or so miles. The Peak is 9,411 feet high. Email me at: admin@hikrs.com

I like Mark's advise about what next.... sounds good to me. As for Pilchuck 71... Thanks! I appreciate it.

As for the duct tape... I had to duct tape my feet on my bike trip.

Or not...

Lol... I thought you already knew some of these climbers... they got an interesting sense of humor... well atleast you know now.

Wow wow Mark... hold your horses... now if your gonna slam me with these charges, I'm gonna have to moderate this. First off... one of the trips I ran away? What are you talking about? If I did, don't mind refreshing my memory. Second... you try to blame me for the Mount Adams deal (note this was on the way down), we were near the edge of the trail and where sorta uncertain, and then you go out and say "ok your dessicions are not good, why should I listen to you?!" and then dictated were we went, which was the wrong direction. When ever I would speak up and noticed something familiar, you would tell me I was wrong because I shouldn't be trusted because "I got us lost" even though we at first were next to the trail, and I did not want to say this but I think more of it was your fault then mine. I did not want to have to say that, but with you constantly saying it was my fault was irritating even though I don't think much of it was. Eventually I kept my mouth shut because you were angry, we should have stopped and brought out the map. Although it was the right choice for us to go up which I give you kuddos for doing. When we were further up the trail we asked a guy were down was, and he pointed to were we first were when "I supposedly got us lost". But it was very nice of your dad to drive me and my brother to Mount Adams and back, which that was very much appreciated. As for going to Mount Rainier without the proper skills, I will fess up though on that part, on ice and snow I would do great, but on crevasse rescue I probably would not have, because I have never been in one. But you had me come anyways, if you really are upset about me coming unskilled... why would you have went with me? You knew my skill level... or atleast when it comes to crevasses. Also when you said making look bad... even you said perhaps it was a good thing we did not summit because the climbers pulled off a few irresponsible mistakes. Although I could have done better to appear as though I were stronger when heading up. I did not realize I was implying that your father was selfish when I said "Mark's dad picks us up and he did not expect me, and it's almost ironic that Dan charges gas money for going home, but the climbers who I did not know did not charge me, I even offered the climbers, but they kept saying our company was good enough." My point of view when I said that was my mom hasn't chanrged Mark for taking him to any mountains, and I would have more likely have expected the climbers to charge me gas money. As for my current view point, I am sorry if it made your dad seem one sided, greedy or bad. I also appologize for not being as appreciative as I should have been. Also it was more like 240-260 miles round trip that Mark's parents took me, but it was very nice of them to do that. I thanked your dad afterwards, even before I got your response about how unappreciative I am. And it is fair, paying 15$... perhaps more would have still have been fair. As for teaching me Mark how to climb, thanks for teaching me what you have. You are a good teacher. But me failing to learn from my past mistakes? What?! How? As for you choosing not to teach me to climb, that is understandable... I guess that means I'll have to get even more inventive. As for patience... did I take too long to learn that? We did a lot of that stuff in a day or two, but you have also tought me a few knots during lunch at school. Also thanks for that too Mark. As for you calling them suicide attempts... they are living attempts. I am learning much, I am also experiencing much, I would say the last month I been better about doing dangerous stuff. I might not being even going to Rainier this year. Bummer... Anyways, sure if I go to Stuart, I'll have to let you know. Thanks Mark for taking the time to respond. Cheers Josh Lewis.

I wouldn't say that.... if you really want, I could spill out the PM's. As for describing my recent attempts, the guy who look me last week... he did not mention much about his recent attemps... so how is that weak on my part? If I wanted to, I could have not posted the whole dang trip report and it would have been all sweet this weekend. Mark told me not to post it, which I failed to listen to, but you know what buster, I like the truth, even if it's not sweet, thats why I posted the trip report. I did not expect for there be be such negative consequences for posting it. I didn't do that bad.... did I? Or atleast on the trip...

[quote=The Angry Hiker ]...or maybe you were driving everyone in the group nuts, so they ditched you at Camp Muir. Your nonstop yapping had everyone's nerves on edge, but even the subtle hints to put a sock in your festering cakehole weren't getting through. The frequent stops to fiddle around with your gear were certainly pissing them off. The crappy tent at Camp Muir probably sealed the deal. So instead of being honest and telling you that you're annoying as hell, and that they didn't want you to ruin their experience for them, they spared your feelings and told you it was your age & inexperience. But even then, there was hope. All you had to do was convince the leader that you were mature and responsible enough to continue with them to the summit. You probably could've earned some brownie points if you had been a man and said "Well if you aren't comfortable taking me, then by all mean's don't. This has been a great learning experience for me and I appreciate the opportunity to climb with you guys. Thanks for dragging me along this far, and good luck tomorrow!" Instead, you threw a big baby fit and wallowed in self-pity. Hmmm..... you know, some of this isn't even true.... you know that.... right? For example I did wish them good luck, also I wasn't really fiddling with my gear much, my food was on the out side, but time was precious. Good golly Miss Molly.

Hmmmmm Yeah, very likly... and some well stumbled across this because well, I'm guessing this thread is famous. Dang, why do I have to be stuck in the middle of all this.

I'm normal functioning non-autistic and I find this thread weird. LOL That's what I was thinking....