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Hmmm....Just got back after skiing at the Timberline Lodge and it's snowing, windy and a whiteout.

My first try with an iMovie but cannot figure out the transitions.

Devils Kitchen Headwall variation 1c, Mt.Hood 01-27-2010 [video:vimeo]9084038

I have downloaded a bunch of pics and yes it does work better than before. It just does not look consistent with the rest of the website.

Yes, we made it on our descent after summitting via the Devil Kitchen Headwall. Totally agree about the postholing city. It was even worse at the base of the headwall. We used poles with no powder baskets as 5' pickets for self-belay. Perfect powder for skiing from the summit though.

What happened to "Gallery"? Why does it have an outdated blue format and a bigger font? Firefox runs updates every few days but it does not seem to help. It's been like that for the last few days regardless of what Mac I am using.

What are the improvements of the new Ergos over the old d/c ones?

I wish your "antagonist" climbing routine last summer included the advice of your climbing partners to slow down and not to overindulge yourself in climbing harder grades non-stop Arrgh!

The best part is the voodoo satanists is actually us, according to Maggie Koerth-Baker: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/13/haitis-real-deal-wit.html

Good job, Mark. Keep it up.

Would it prevent a male from having sex with her?

I doubt it would succeed in humans though.

IMO, that Classic Crack at Broughton would be a total bitch as a first crack climb. It is over-used and polished to the point the jamming sucks big time. So, I dont blame your gf for hating it. On the contrary, The Sheer Stress (also on the Red Wall, to the right off the Classic Crack) is a completely different ball game.

Not in P-town though. Not all of us are that lucky to reside close to Ltown!

Yeah, dismal week and no ice! But take a look at Sunday in Troutdale: http://www.climbingweather.com/searchResult.app?srch=97225 If it holds, Lodestone and me will be climbing some 10s on gear at Broughton Bluff. You guys are welcome to join.

Thanks to all for the thought-provoking thread that goes well beyond the DP risks. How far would you go in pushing the objective danger limits? You might get lucky and survive in an undoubted tour-de-force. Or not. Or would you always appeal to risk assessment? Or intuition, the sense that is not rooted in anything as concrete as physics or experience? The choice is yours but at the end of the day it all comes to the ultimate wish for the loss of loss.

"For the fifth year running, France takes first in our annual Quality of Life Index. No surprise. Its tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world's best health care." http://www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010 In case you are curious, we are #7. We can't be bothered with Quality of Life; we have wars to fight in faraway places. The French ... well, read further: "Houses cascade with wisteria blossom; outdoor markets are everywhere. Foie gras, pink garlic, Armagnac, and crystallized violets aren't gourmet fare for locals. Rather, just another day's shopping." And here is the complete data set: http://www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2010/?field=final

We did not see any that are in or was it buried in snow?

Only if you gonna rap your ass off that - Touray! We might as well teleport you down on the safe ground.

Yes, and it is why vertical V-threads are a personal preference of locals in Hyalite. JoJo & co. did some strength testing of horizontal vs. vertical which was published in CAJ so he might elaborate more on that.

Thanks for the laugh! So, did your Female Companion enjoy the special olympics with rednecks and beer while you guys were skinning your butts up to 5500'?

Trip: Alpental + Leavenworth Ice Date: 12/25 - 12/26/2009 Trip Report: Day 1. Trying to utilize the dry cold spell that blessed us over holidays in PNW, Tom and I headed to Alpental to check out some ice. The original idea was to ski the approach and climb whatever ice we could find was in shape. My sprained ankle was still swollen and had been bugging me, so the skis were stashed en route. A nice try though! The Kiddie Cliff falls were half buried in snow, so we crossed over above the Source Lake to the Bryant Buttress area that looked more promising but not by much and climbed the Bryant Buttress left (WI3+) with its steeper and more solid start (P1) and not so solid P2 to the ice pillar and then mixed traverse to a tree anchor. Kiddie Cliff falls: Bryant Buttress left: Tom on the P1 Bryant Buttress left: Me on the P2 Bryant Buttress left: A Pro ornament called "Better not fall" on P2: Bryant Buttress P2 anchor: Chockstone falls: Day 2. We were curious about the conditions in the Mountaineers Creek Drainage and hiked up for a half hour on the road #7601 to find out the falls were not in. Got back to the gate and headed up to Hubba Hubba falls instead. What a gorgeous day! Leavenworth at its finest. We climbed a right variation in two pitches. The ice was excellent, V-threadable and took screws well, more often than not. We rapped off a V-thread atop the P2 and then off the tree on the P1. Hubba Hubba falls: Tom leading P1: P2: Rapping off the V-thread: Me ice bouldering on the P1: Gear Notes: Ice rack and doubles

I sneered at myself for being a lazy ass.

but I waved hello