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If doing the standard north ridge ascent, the trickiest part of the climb is the descent. So when deciding which couloir, choose wisely. Stuart and its north ridge is one of the most classic of mountains, enjoy!

Fricking rain.....

Ok Pope, lets see the photos from Midnight. Also, are you saying Pat Timson is a wuss for putting up a bolted route? Just curious....

I have to disagree you need that gear. No need for rope, crampons, or ice ax on the south side route. Bring plenty of warm clothes and shell and good boots, it can be like the Artic up there when its 70 degrees down below. But it is just a hike, they used to take mules loaded with ore up and down it. You will want to do it in good weather and watch the clouds as you climb and skedaddle down if they approach if you don't have good route finding skills. As if you get in a white out on the summit or false summit or somewhere in between, you could get off route into advanced terrain but thats unlikely if you are paying attention.

I was going to see how the weather turns out Dave, but was thinking give it time to warm up and dry off a bit, so maybe 10 am or so? Not sure if Young Warriors or Dods or Jills would be in shape? Might be relegated to the SE corner. I will probably need a partner also, so was were you thinking Dave?

Looks like a window of opportunity for all the Beaconrawk hounds on Thursday-Friday. Forecast of sunshine, so hopefully might be dry for a bit and might see you guys out there. After that, i think its closing up for the season. Then you guys will have to hit me up for some climbing out here on the east end of the Gorge. got the goods last week, 3 stellar pitches before the sun went down and the rain came again. As long as there is sun out east here, its pretty darn nice even if its cold as the rock soaks up the heat.

Some Grizzlies in North Cascades and other areas near Canada, thousands of black bears and mountain lions everywhere else. Best not to go into the woods, as they can jump on your back and rip your throat out and feast on your liver. Nothing to be to concerned about, I worry more about the boogie man under the bed at night myself personally. But then I try to make allot of noise when bushwacking, I don't go into berry patches unless alert, and don't wear deoderant or cologne hiking or backpacking and also don't pack tuna or meat sandwiches or anything to pungent on me.

Holy sheep shit, that rope is orange! brrrrrrrrrr, much warmer at Club Sport yesterday then Beacon I am here to tell you.

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I climbed with a friend of the Christianson brothers who was going to Central, but never met them BITD. Most of my climbing crew was from Seattle area. Mark McJizzy, who are you, got a photo, maybe I recognize you from back then? I was in Moore Hall, 77-78, Stevens Whitney 78-79, then offcampus for the last 3 years. But I was at all the keggers. and there were allot of keggers.

What the hell is right, why is Pope climbing in his underwear? Must be why they call it "free" climbing.

hey, how is Fred Stanley doing? I went to CWU back in 77-82, and climbed with Fred a few times on college outings at Peshastin as he was a professor there. Nice guy and talented climber. Is he still climbing? I'd buy a shirt that said "Lead your 60 bitch". It has a nice ring to it.

Good on ya for getting out and getting up it. I climbed yesterday also here in the Col River Gorge. It was 36 degrees at 1 when we started, and we did 3 routes. Two 5.9's and a 5.10. Rick took a good whipper on the first 5.9 when his foot slipped on the wet rock. 5.9 felt like 5.11 it was so cold. Not much wind but the water on the rock just froze your hands, and my feet were blocks of ice after a while. I think we'll wait for the sun next time, but it has been cloudly for so long that we had to get out. Probably same as the Index climbers, its cold but it was fun!

What route is that? got to be 5.12, burly looking.

I once rapped the Snow Lakes Trail and that was brutal. Silly hikers walking on the ropes asking questions, mud, the difficulty of finding anchors. and the switchbacks, oh man! Don't get me started, not a pretty picture let me tell you. So if I was going to choose a trail to rap, Aagard is much higher on my list.

Summiting K2 without oxygen. Burly endeavor or what?

If the guy wants to rap Aasgard Pass, who am I to tell him no? Only comment I have is why rap anchors when in the photo there are perfectly good trees to put the rope around? Its not like you're top roping off them, just rapping. I'll take a tree over a bolt anyday. Whatever, as long as you're having fun and out there doing it, you are heads and tails above ninely percent of us setting on our arses reading about it.

Real men hitchhike

Super rowdy

Those boots are to cool.

Just ordered my copy off Amazon and man am I stoked to get it.

Stellar TR! Looked like allot of fun.

Save someone else's ass and tell it like it is.

I'd love to go Joseph, but also got to many commitments with the family and Christmas right around the corner since I have not done any shopping. I did manage to do a little shopping and pick up another ice tool for myself though, so I have a matching pair, which is nice.

Write a letter to the Editor and complain. I just did.