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Its in the next few days apparently.. this small system brushing the area is really swabbing hood good with clouds and wind. We went up much later than you probably. Crap vis, crap skiing mostly down low (pocket or two of o.k. stuff). Didn't expect much, just hoped for some breaks or a bit of burn off. Talked to someone who must have talked to you, re: worst navi from up high, really glad to use GPS for some help. Think a return on Tuesday...

hmm.. true. never got below 30 degrees at 7k all day today. 7 inches of new at 9k extrapolated for this evening, none tomorrow. judicious evaluation but possibly some excellent skiing higher. lee side climbing, not so great. come on now you've hit DKH in february in much more meager 'windows' by mon-tues-weds i bet east side is great, supportable crust in AM, corn in PM

sunday will be good. and the whole week looks great

suppose that is why runners are never very fit must be all the stationary weightlifting and yoga stretching they do. not the hours of cardio. come on now, I willingly defer that you probably have much more knowledge of human physiology but speaking in absolutes such as that cardio does nothing for fat loss is bull. maybe you mean 20 minutes a day cardio? or you're just going to say cardio at large? i had the least body fat of my life after walking 1800 miles.. exclusively cardio. wasn't the strongest I've been, but certainly the leanest.

probably doing all sorts of things wrong (frankly i'm impressed with the pack sizes you mentioned Mr. Shultz) but I like the mammut trion guide for a overnighter size. hear good things about the spindrift guide as well.. haven't had my hands on it.

Heya there Mr. Summit. Yes I went in there to tour I think late may 2012 and was met by a lot of lousy dusty blowdown crossing in ski boots from pole creek before we donned skins sometime after soap creek. 2011 was much kinder in the spring with snow going to the trailhead in early june I believe. From what I've seen on a few volcanoes around 6k and lower the snowpack is hurting and early as possible is going to be good. If you can manage to get in there that is [fire closure] Will have to look at access to middle and north from 242 which opens later and is longer i think.. booo. upside is i heard the pole creek fire burned intense so manybe when it does open the b-line from the trailhead to north is really direct last year skied south sister a week or so after the road opened (late june??) and it was car-to-car on skis but the ~2 miles of plains blows on the way down when you just want to be skiing and not putting on skins again. some scaled skis would be nice then for sure.

^ the above... so we verify but our actual usernames can stay the same? The first sentence 'policy change regarding usernames..." Or are you saying our posting username will turn to our full name?

at a distance a single black boot sticking up out of snow might just look like a rock. but if it has fluoro yellow or orange then it might get investigated.

bump. as far as material bummers go this is up there, sounds like a nice rig, feel for ya.

looking for someone who can sew some extra shit onto a backpack (hipbelt pocket...size zipper access..small open wand/picket flap under/below ski straps, is what i have in mind) will mail pack where needed but pref PDX area, SEA second. any recommendations? side note any custom pack makers to recommend (other than mchale?) thanks

cooper spur and some of the face to the west (climber right of cooper spur, climber left of NF gullies) has been skied. conceivably if u carried skis up the gullies u could ski cooper spur or snow dome, I think. but only for truly experts (the spur).

i use dual socks in climbing and hiking boots. thin liner that fits well (not bunched up at all) and a midweight sock atop that. Consider using athletic tape or some other burly type to tape your ankle well so that the friction is going the tap, not the skin. Not saying put a tiny piece of moleskin or a single strip of tape, but tape all the way around your ankle where you get the blister so that even with friction the tap isn't going to get pulled off. my wife does this on her heavier boots if she is planning on doing a long uphill day (like mt adams in the summer). also can use bodyglide or some waxy substance on your heel to reduce friction. I like the double sock and or tape idea, pretty cheap to try but you may need a better fitting boot.. you can get heel slip in many good fitting boots, depending on how they are laced and what type of motion.

awesome climbing! when I saw the video length was 20 minutes I figured it was 5 minutes of climbing and then done.. wow.. he kept at it! your wife's commentary is adorable and i mean that in a most sincere way - her quiet encouragement that is barely audible and then her calling out to him. great job!

hiking on the AT with my gf (now wife) we found more than our fair share of deer ticks in/around places that I am thankful I had the help of someone else. This was in PA and into the NE..lyme central chiggers suck for the itch, as bad as fleas or worse. but they are not a disease transmitting vector so... i rate tick as 'worse'. ill take a body of chigger bites than a case of lyme disease.

Skinning up Maiden Peak, OR

Rainier/Emmons at Dawn

Tumbling Glacier, Kootenay Rockwall Trail, Canada

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can you please show me where this posting rule is? I read the contest rules and saw nothing about the size of the photo.

i too have read that the Dynafit One is wider in the forefoot/toe box. Finding the TLT5 painfully narrow on my flat, splayed foot, I have hope for the One PX, but cannot say definitively.

of the 2010 model i have, i would not wear it above 15 degrees. my wife, she would enjoy it any temperature 32 and below. personally i'd say its usage begins at 10degrees but more likely single digits or even lower if you were going to be moving. there are lighter down coats that will keep warm at those teen temps and just below. this may be a coat to let go of worrying about unless you can find a 2010 version for sale in your size.

to my knowledge there are two version, but perhaps now a third? The 1st was all single material. The 2nd version added reinforcements to shoulders and arms, a bit of weight, not sure the down changed though that review is irate about a perceived change. as to reduction in down, the 10.5ounces is almost 300grams of down. thats not shabby. "8000m" down parkas seem in the range of 450-650 grams of down. (depending on 800/850/900fp). not sure what amount is in mine but I have a 1st model as I got it at an incredible discount (about $120).. it ends up serving duty for my too-cold wife when snowcamping. But functionally I'd only use it in a greater colder range or going up rainier in the winter.

newman, what kind of 'in the area' did you have in mind? a little to the east is indian heaven wilderness. surprise lakes camp ground (and others in that vicinity. An even closer one that I think is pretty slick is to go along the Lewis river trail. Its all flat, it goes through some pretty spectacular old growth, right along the river - you can snag a spot a mile or so from the car and about a 25 minute drive from MSH TH. There is even a spot along the river in the first mile or two with a rope swing out into a deep spot, though I've never swam in the upper Lewis. cheers

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