keenwesh

jesus this chem class is boring, leaving my mind to wander.

ahhh, for a non climber! but this guy is training for the mountains, thus he has a rope (hopefully) and can get the added bonus of practicing his knot tying skills while suffocating himself.

sounds like that "breath trainer" that was reviewed a few months back in R&I, they decided it was garbage. if you really care about restricting your bodys intake of oxygen might as well masterbate with a noose around your neck.

always love reading your blog and the book you sent me a while back is one of the few that I brought to college with me. goodluck and don't give up man. definitely gonna get the vaccine before going in (down?) for the australian kiss... whoops, made a sex joke

I'm pretty sure they traversed off the top part because it was absolute choss and incredibly dangerous to climb. But yeah, that lower face could be ascended by my 80 year old grandmother.

double entendre!

DAS

One of the best parts of the summer is doing a trip with the old pops, although the constant wails of "tension!" and "watch me here!" can get tiring at times... He's always stoked on wherever we go though, and I get to lead all the classic pitches.

mountainproject has real climbers, summitpost is mostly hikers/"mountaineers" or euros. take your pick. lots of threads on mp on missing gear and my cam sling is torn is half, is it still good to climb on?

summitpost sucks, used to be good but got swamped with ads and threads about stupid shit. So like half of this site...

this is so cool, in my 19 years I doubt many things about the us government. Our veterans deserve the utmost respect and this i exactly that. We need to take everyone who has endured great hardship or wildly violent experiences into the mountains where none of that shit matters. shit, a few of those dudes were missing limbs! A big round of applause to the guys who took these people up, this is badass!

Marc and I watched Honnold top out on freeway, onsight solo, from the top of the split pillar last year. We both just stood there silently, in awe of that dude. He climbs so smooth and solid, there was no doubt that he would make it to the top. We talked to him the day before too, just a mellow guy without any kind of ego. The man is a badass and he doesn't even know it.

inspiration peak was pretty hard to get up (and down)

bring a #4 c4 next time. I placed that thing (and walked it) on 3 of the 4 pitches. beautiful route. the flaring chimney sucks though.

badass! did you manage to grab my stuck rope on the descent off inspiration?

45l cilogear pack can easily hold a weeks worth of backpacking gear/food. I wouldn't go any smaller though. I don't think I could get a pickets traverse sized load of gear in a 30... whats the weight difference anyway? I picked up the 45 worksack last spring and have used it a ton. best pack I've ever owned hands down.

haha sorry, I couldn't resist creating a little shit storm right there. while I personally don't carry/see the need to carry a PLB I am also a 19 year old with no children and no one who is dependent on me, plus I feel that I am fairly conservative and realistic about my abilities in the mountains. later in life I might actually pick one up, not because I want to survive if shit gets really hairy but because others are depending on me as a father and I can't imagine not growing up without a dad. My fist line of defense against dying though is making good calls and keeping a cool head when shit hits the fan. Carry on with the discussion about which beacon mrgecko should get and please disregard my previous post.

what ever happened to being self reliant? how about instead of buying some fancy device that can call in the calvary when you get a splinter you take a WFR course and act conservatively when you're way "out there" and realize that if you fuck up you could die. I go to the mountains to get away from it all, and having a button to press that sends a chopper really takes away from that.

it's 5.8ish, really fun and good. there are edges to stand on every body length so you never have to place gear from a lieback. the fingercrack that finishes it off is steller too. git on it!

sounds like you get to quit early!

coulda given you one last sunday...

I came pretty damn close last spring. was held underwater for 6 minutes. If it wasn't for my buddy getting me out I wouldn't be here today. If you're running class V, don't swim. I'd love to get on the clear fork though, supposedly one of the most beautiful places in washington/the world according to people who've been there.

theres much better kayaking in the gorge below that choss... supposedly it's choked with wood right now though unfortunately.

when I say s face I mean rapping directly south from the notch, on the skiers right side of the south face. Like I said there were 2 anchors with new tat on them visible from the notch but we couldn't see anything below that and it got steep and kinda blank looking. it's not near the south face route, farther off to the side. The actual south face is incredibly sheer, I couldn't believe it when we trundled a huge block off and it didn't impact until just above the glacier, quite a bit of airtime off that thing. someone should wingsuit it.

Thanks guys! does anyone know the word on the descent that goes down the south face? I'm wondering if things might have went smoother had we gone that way. We could see one rap station down about 75 feet from the notch to the skiiers right, but nothing below that, just steep grey rock. Do the raps keep heading right around the corner? please people, this is the shit that keeps me awake at night!