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Roy, you're so angry. I love it! Let's go climbing and bitch about stuff together, I'm from the East Coast.

Ok, I see this other high point up and left and how you can ski SE from it. Understand now.

Dude, you need to ski with partners with easier names to spell Also, I'm confused, and I know the climbing route names can get confusing, but the SE face (climbing's "East" face) doesn't really go towards Snow lake. Were you guys looking to ski the NE Face (climbing's "North Face") and ended up skiing the N Face proper? Regardless, it looks like some good skiing!

Mostly Clutch [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eepsCXpLY4

Road is all snow, ski all the way in/out.

Oh, did you mean of the Cascades? Here are some: Full size are in my gallery.

Burly. Those multiple up-to-the-crotch holes must've been fun and exciting. Let me know next time you're in the area and I'll leave you some snowshoes by my car.

Kit Kats (waffery and don't freeze in winter), Almond Joy/Mounds (I love coconut/chocolate combo and the ridiculous amount of oil makes it hard to freeze in the winter), other assorted candy bars, some Gu when the candy runs out. Can find the candy bars for $.42/each, which makes it a lot cheaper than the energy bars I used to carry.

Frenchmen's Coulee seems to have the perfect height and layout. Not the best for setting up TRs without leading but if you have someone to take the rope up then you can string up a wall.

I dig the Mechanix gloves... ...and also feel the onset of nausea.

Awesome pics, thanks!

Excellent vid, Wayne - the music selection is great!

Sweet, that last pic is badass!

Wow Veronika, you're getting on it! Knee all better?

I make my v-threads angled downhill and haven't had a problem with ropes getting stuck lately. Only time a rope got temporarily stuck was when the v-thread was on a particularly wet climb. If the ice is pretty dry then I don't think there would be an issue of a rope getting stuck.

Awesome pics! Good work on the finding the plums! Good bender

Met a guy who had done just that. Since the hole in the Aztar's spike is large, the Quark griprest would flop around when bolted through it. He cut some aluminum to fill the empty space in the spike and drilled a hole for the quark grip rest bolt.

Sweet, it's got what plants crave!!

In my 3 trips last week 1/2 I saw the ice in the Source lake area just get thicker and thicker. I could only assume the NF is a go since it was good when we were in there. Now with the new snow... not so much.

Whoa, are those them newfangled Footfangs? Good work guys!

Hey Bob, thanks for the review. Interesting reading your comments on since some sound extremely familiar to me as a Nomic user. The top stein pull teeth on my Nomics have been filled down for the same reason - getting stuck when cleaning under bulgy ice. And since both tools have almost the same exact angles I also find that 2. Angle of ice, is exactly the same way with the Nomics - just stellar on steep swings, but hard to get a good stick on lower angled ice with the same swing. Enjoy the ice!

Congrats on getting that shoulder working and useful again!

Sloth... nice work and thanks for making me drool all of the keys, man!

Climbed more in '09 than in '08. Good enough!