Cornfed

Does this sound like anyone else out there? My wife used to be my primary climbing partner, but since our daughter was born (21 months) climbing is very low on her list. Climbing for me is still something I love to do, which has meant abandoning the girls at home. I'd love to meet other like-minded climbing folks (I live in Seattle) or hear suggestions from others who have solved this problem. I think the best solution is for 2-3 families to make an outing of it so that there are many belay and care-giver hands to help watch out for each other. The next question would be: what are some good crags that are kid (i.e. < 3 years old) friendly.

We saw your tracks heading out this morning. By the looks of your accomodations, I understand your early departure now. We were surprised by the plentiful snowfall last night. We were camped half way down the lake and had a 4am wake-up call to try the NE Couloir on Colchuck, which turned to a 6am revised plan just to ski the Colchuck glacier. I'd say your estimate of 15 cm at 2:30am is probably right and it was still whiteout and snowing at 8:30am when we abandoned the plan due to no visibility. Enough snow had fallen that we barely hit the crust on the ski down. Interestingly, it doesn't appear to have appreciably snowed anywhere else in Washington State last night.