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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.

Thanks for replacing those sketchy chain-link "hangers"! I hated the damn things, putting a prying load on an expansion bolt...

BD Cyborg Clips (2010) + Scarpa Charmoz = loose heel bails, with the adjuster maxed out. I'll have to improvise a fix.

"Your search for "ice screw" returned 1 product Petzl Charlet Caritool Ice Screw Holder" They also sell ascenders and daisies, but not etriers.

I got mine 4 years ago for $2400 with 135k on the clock. It's at 212k now. No problems with the 4wd whatsoever. It's gone through some brakes & timing belts & a new radiator, starter, and alternator. All of this can be done at home. Avoid the automatics (no power, horrible MPG) and the turbos (blown head gaskets as a rule).

The Loyales have 1.8L engines, 90HP. With 2 people it'll do 55 up Snoqualmie pass in 4th gear; with 3-4 people and gear it's more like 50 in 3rd gear. It'll do 75+ on the flats no problem. It used to get 26-28mpg when I floored it everywhere, now it's averaging 34 because I'm driving the speed limit, coasting down hills, and not idling. It helps to pull the AC fuse in winter so you can run the defogger without turning on the AC, which drags on the engine a bit. I also pulled the clutching fan for the winter. The electric fan is still there. And I pulled the power steering pump, who needs it? It's not so bad if you drain & plug the lines, I can still get into & out of parking spots with coffee in one hand... did I mention no cupholders?

I'm driving a '94 Subaru Loyale wagon, the last of the old boxy ones. It gets 30mpg all-around, and I just got 36 on a round trip to Portland (with a few tricks). The lighter weight helps (2600lbs vs. 3600 for the outbacks), as does the part-time 4wd. It's FWD until you push the button, then it's 4wd with a locked center diff and open front and rear diffs. The older ones, pre-1988 I think, had 4-low. Of course, it doesn't have airbags, side impact beams, ABS, cruise control, or cupholders. Sleeping in the back is doable, but not roomy. They need new timing belts every 60K miles, but if one breaks it won't ruin the engine. And they're cheap, $2k around here. As my only car, it's a great compromise between highway MPG and utility for every-weekend climbing/skiing/backpacking/biking trips. I'm always taking 3-4 people to the hills, and it's just barely big enough (slow & light?). I could afford a nicer / safer / bigger car, but this one gets the job done, so I'll keep it for a while.

Fixed the garage door at my girlfriend's place. Did timing belts & other car work to keep the adventure wagon going for another helluvalongtime.

I've got a repaired left shoulder and an injured but unrepaired right shoulder. Multiple dislocations on each. My routine is: Pushups, Dips, Pullups Cable machine: internal & external rotation, posterior rotation, one-armed pull-downs Free-weights: bench rows. http://www.elements4health.com/images/stories/exercises/onearmdumbbellrow.jpg Don't do the military press, I've heard it's bad for shoulders. See a doctor and a PT for more specific recommendations. Get really good with your feet, half the time I've hurt my shoulders it was from blown feet with my arms in a bad position. Become aware of your "safe" range of motion, and work around it.

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West Face variation on Monkey Face, two fun start options 5.7 or 5.8, and you can finish two different ways out of the mouth of the monkey. 5.7 if you go straight up or an exciting 5.8 rightward traverse if you take the Monkey Off My Back variation.