NWbrandon

I doubt my father pick up some of the Canadian stuff so it must just be that the levels are low enough that it didn't cause him any issues. He tells the story about picking up some coffee at the rest stop early one morning and the lady offered him some red licorice, figured what the hell no biggie, turned out that 2 little strips of red vines kept on the shitter all day. Enjoy finding out what your threshold is!

goatboy Another thing, not sure how far into this you are but Fred Meyer has a great GF section to shop from. The u-bake double chocolate and chocolate chunk cookies are great. You can find some oatmeals out there the are pretty good as well. PM with an email address if you would like some more specific info.

So, my dad has been hit by this disease (4 years now) and in the beginning it was no beer, YIKES!, only Mikes Hard Lemonade but AB is brewing a Redbridge beer that is pretty damn good . Sometimes difficult to find, surprisingly many Walmart stores carry it, and we just found some at a gas station in Naches on Sunday so it is getting out there. As for the eating habits of a climber/alpinist....not sure what you eat, but I can say that most of the things he carries out hiking and/or hunting haven't changed all that much. There are some great bars out there, LARA, Bumble Bars, and ThinkThin (protein). He doesn't use any GU so I'm not sure of the label on that one. Bread is the tough one, you can buy the stuff that is rigid like styrofoam or the shit that crumbles in the pack, either way they are total crap! The best bread, yes I eat it too when I'm around, is the good stuff that mom bakes up. Trail mixes, cheese, jerky don't seem to be issue for him. Hope that helps some, I'm sure the lead on the beer will!

About 5 weeks ago I found myself on the unfortunate end of a fracture of the 5th metatarsal in my left foot (running accident) and I've taken to our forums here with even more lust while on the couch with a beer in hand . Foot elevated of course. As the winter gear I had on order before this "issue" came about gets dropped off by the UPS guy and I find myself with 4 more weeks of zero weight on this foot, I thought I would ask the question to the group.... “What could I expect to experience in regards to recovery, from the point of view of a budding alpine climber?” Has anyone out there dealt with this same fate? Right now the only joy of my previous life in the outdoors would be the pack on my back to carry the beer from the store since my lame arse is stuck in these crutches. Any words of encouragement out there?

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Nice Job! Question, my party and I are planning to climb this Thursday (18th) evening/summit Friday morning and your comment about the Slednecks have me wondering..........would my "big rig" make it up to the far camp parking lot? Were there any blowdowns over the road? Maybe some chains and a fair amount of luck would get me there. What say you?