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Excellent condition, only used for one Denali trip, washed once with down wash. Great Denali or cold weather bag. Yes, only $75, which is stupid cheap but moving in a week and don't have room for this guy so want it to go. Fabric: Pertex Microlight Color: Red Size: Left Zip, Regular Length

Kurt, Big thanks for your efforts. Are you replacing bolts at local crags via ASCA? May be time to up my donation.

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Still available.

Heading to Denali? Great bag for trips beginning mid/late May or later. Used for only one Denali trip. Good shape - moving and cleaning out the gear room. Fabric: Pertex Microlight Color: Red Left Zip, Regular Length

When using 7mm or 8mm tag line, yes - descend on two as you normally would. With the lead rope through the chains/rings. I don't use any extra biners for added friction. If I feel like I need more friction, an extra wrap with my autoblock usually does the trick.

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In any career path, there are trade offs. If you could work full time, every day, the guiding wages would not be terrible if broken down to an average hourly rate. You will not be building wealth, but you can get by. But the schedule rarely works out such that you are actually working full time (40 hours/week), especially when you're first getting started. A lot of guides have side jobs in the interseasons. There will be days that are long and hard and even if offered thousands of dollars for the day's work you wouldn't do it over again. There will also be days that you are having a great time with amazing people in amazing places and you'll be psyched to realize you're getting paid to have fun. Most days will be somewhere in between. One of the bigger challenges is the effect it can have on your personal life. Maintaining a relationship can be tough because you will spend a lot of time away from home and away from phones/email - it helps to have a very understanding significant other. Though not all, many of my career guide friends are single. You also have little control over your schedule, especially when starting out - i.e. when the work comes, you should probably take it. Friendships can go the same way - you will be on the go all the time. You will form many great friendships among fellow guides, but you won't see them all the time. Be comfortable being on your own/doing things for yourself. One of the best things about guiding, especially for the average early-mid 20s recent college grad (which is when a lot of guides start...and end their guiding years) is the time you spend with the clients. Most of them are older and wiser than you. In my experience, many of the clients are intelligent people that are successful and driven in whatever it is they do in life, and you can learn a lot from them. Pick their brains, ask questions, figure out what sort of career/life you might want if/when you decide to move on from guiding. And try not to let them pull you off of the mountain - some of them will try. If you're young, try to get on and do it for a few years. Then you'll know enough about it to decide whether or not its something you think you can pull off long term. If its not, you will have learned some great people management skills that will help you in your next career. And some rope tricks, too.

BD Tracer. Followed closely by Petzl Meteor.

Doesn't look like it: http://www.leavenworth.org/modules/pages/?pageid=190&path=32|190#id=webcams&num=2

SC, Shouldn't you be happy that they're there? It must have been pretty cool to "3rd class down past them", realizing what a bad ass you are for not needing them.

You were climbing right next to us, but didn't catch your name. I found this cam on Sunday 9/14. ID it and tell me where you think you might have lost it and we can figure out a way to get it back to you. Please let me know on this thread if you send a PM.

Quarryographer, Thanks! PM sent.

Taking a whirlwind trip to Idaho next weekend and will be near Riggins - heard about some limestone climbing there but can't find very detailed information online. Does anyone in the Seattle area have a copy of the guidebook that you wouldn't mind lending out for the weekend? Or know if it is sold anywhere in Riggins? Thanks!

Great! Thanks again for the work.

Mark, Thanks for the work - very much appreciated! If I recall, Fenderfour rallied a crew last year and did a lot of work on that trail. Did your work improve upon/extend the same path?

Dang - just got your message. I was overseas. Thanks for the work!

The weather forecast is looking better. Hoping it holds, I'd love to get out climbing next week - WA Pass?. Day trip or overnight is good. I'm free most of the summer. Also, I could be talked into heading down to the Sierra for the week if you're psyched on that (and could tack on a few more days).

I agree there is probably not a huge market for these things, but I'm not really looking at the story from that angle. Who knows? - maybe one day these things will be on the shelves, but I doubt it. I enjoyed the story from the angle of seeing what a really driven and obsessed climber gets up to when he is laid up with an injury.

Dang. Bold. Cool story and video. Thanks again for sharing.

Thanks for sharing! Maybe saw you guys up there last weekend while climbing the Grand Wall base routes? Was wondering what the orange fixed rope was doing way out there... Is that the flake that you climb past on The Sword? I never liked the sounds that thing makes and cant imagine climbing out on it...

First of all, I should say that it does bum me out slightly that this negatively effected your experience. That sucks. That said - I've heard the semantics, and know that feelings about these things tend to go towards the intolerance of religious zeal. But really, I'm trying to figure out why this anchor would really bother someone that much? Admittedly, Pumpline may not be an example of this, but IMHO many routes in Leavenworth as a whole could use more convenience, not less. There are good lines that are dirty and don't get climbed as often as they should because its a PITA to do so or because they have old hardware that needs replacing. In terms of impact, I guess I just see it differently. I think rapping off of a chain anchor is cleaner and has way less impact than hiking down eroding dirt or leaving a nest of slings around a tree or boulder.

Wayne, How is the road in there? Would a 2wd drive car be OK?