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I found a tent pole 7/5/2013 sitting on top of the snow, a few hundred feet below a popular camping area on Ptarmigan Ridge. Contact me and identify the color, and we can arrange a hand-off. dennytrimble at gmail dot com

Yeah, I mentioned it mostly for people who want to make time lapses without spending a bunch of money. For daytime exposures I like to add an ND filter to lengthen the exposure, so you can shoot continuously and moving objects glide frame to frame. Otherwise, if you add a delay between exposures, fast-moving things seem to jump from frame to frame.

Excellent! You don't even need an intervalometer, just set your camera to manual, exposure to 30 seconds, shutter to continuous, and lock down a manual shutter release cable (the $40 one, not the $200 one). It's lighter, too

Stairs with dumbbells. Works your grip and cardio / quads at the same time.

Agreed, the Handren book is good. Gearlooptopo.com is great for the multipitch routes too. Really nice when you need a reminder where to go on the next pitch, how far it is, and if there are bolts at the anchor. Which apparently I have trouble with.

I just picked up an Exped Synmat UL7. I think it's 16oz with patch kit in the full size 20 x 72 x 2.8, with an R value of 3.1. Half the weight of my old thermarest, and twice the thickness. Slept on it for a week in Vegas, very comfortable!

Mammut Moses. Lighter than the Classic Wiregate, and still "almost" full size. Very skinny, great for racking cams. http://www.backcountry.com/mammut-moses-wire-gate-carabiner

Wow, thanks for your hard work cleaning up!

Nice work! I was up at the lake for some terrible skiing. Saw climbers coming out complaining of dry conditions (not you guys), and promising Utah Powder (damn liars). Saw your camp Sunday and briefly saw one of you in the 2nd couloir. Rock on!

I see the "no-spray" option is working for pages 2 and beyond. Thanks! Now I'm seeing a lot of MSH permit traffic, that's about as useful to me as spray. Any chance you could filter that out of the "Past 24 Hours" link as well? I'm just looking for recent posts that don't suck.

This has got to be a 500 footer. [video:vimeo]20212556

If it was stress corrosion cracking (SCC), they may not have cracked before they left the factory. But the constant tension from the press-fit could have caused a crack to develop after some time and exposure to a corrosive environment. Certain alloys and tempers of aluminum are more susceptible to SCC than others. 7075-T6 is bad, T7 is better, 7050-t7451 is bomber. For a good read, search for NASA Stress Corrosion Cracking.

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Full resolution quads: Concrete area Rest of the state I crop & splice these together, and print them out at work, but buying the pre-printed quads is a good idea too. If you plan on using GPS coordinates, don't forget to draw the grid lines on the map. They are marked on the border but not always drawn across. Lower resolution, but maybe useful: Acme Mapper

Cutoff wheel on a die grinder. It will get hot, but that area should be OK with the reduced hardness.