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Holy wow, serious respect for that endeavor. There are a lot of fuckheads who will ride their snowmobile up to the crescent glacier or bird Creek meadows (Instagram #mtadams hashtag, even mountaineer ppl).. Doing what you did human powered is impressive. Also Saturday wasn't much of a weather window really, tho I guess East of the crest at Adams it held a lot better than hood. Always dream of a winter/super early accent of Adams. Thank you for sharing.

will he? his last post was the one above mine on 4/15/10..

i want to bump this in honor of hugh and stevenseagal and many of the other folks who no longer post here and provide entertainment.

I'll talk to buddy who went up today but snow quality? Thank God this TR didn't have a statement about the old chute being steeper than normal, like maybe 110° and "glad I had two tools with me". Sounds like you had a righteous day out, enjoy the mountain and still have the rest of your Saturday. Cheers

what the hell is wrong with the site? ppl having issues posting TRs and i tried to make a response from mobile, no luck, just blank? here's my re-written comment: "I'll talk to a buddy who went up today but snow quality? Thank god this TR didn't have a statement about the old chute beeing steeper than normal, like maybe 110 degrees and "glad I had two tools with me." Sounds like you had a righteous day out, enjoy the mountain and still have the rest of your Saturday. Cheers!

It is a Swiss commercial. Those Swiss with their dry sense of humor.. wonder why such an incredible best of both worlds product didn't previously saturate the market.

someone else had an issue posting their katahdin TR recently. site issue it seems

It's a parody right? The music.. Haha

Organize a mass group protest, but only with news media alerted/ready. Doesn't Dane have some ancillary connection to SEA media? Anyone willing to get footage of their kid crying while powertrip ranger grills and agitates? Think one 6pm segment on the news would probably be particularly effective in this popcorn culture. Don't waste your time writing a letter.

i dont know wtf their naming exactly means but you've got full bail, hybrid, or full strap/baskets. The Nepal has a toe bail lip, I don't know what people's experience with it is, but by far the best feeling, quickest access is with a toe bail, fully automatic crampons. At least in my experience I prefer that more than anything, they just make it easy and least amount of bulk, and most secure fit. if anyone can chime in or you find positive comments on the internet about full auto/using the toe lip/bail... I would go that way.

I took BCEP in 2009. Because I didn't know anyone who climbed and it was one hobby unlike fishing, photography, drawing, cooking, gardening, etc that if you screw up your chances of dying or serious injury are very high, and you're likely to screw up if you're new. Didn't seem prudent to try to learn on the fly, I always imagined thumbing through Freedom of the Hills somewhere steep on the side of Mt. Hood as the wind whipped...Prior to that I was avid backpacker/scrambler. I found 90% of it to be a waste of my time. We went on 6 or so weekend's of 'conditioning hikes' that I had all done before in order to 'test' us..because the course is so broadly geared you had people who have never done more than a flipflop walk around multnomah falls are trying to get revved up to climb Hood or such. A lot of course time was spent talking about things like 'its important to eat while you exercise'. Waterproof layers are good. This is a gaiter. Strong boots are good. etc. That said the parts that touched on: ropes, snow, and rock were helpful. I learned the very basics of ropes and got to practice (knots, belaying, belay device). Got to learn a bit about snow techniques (pickets, bollards, self arrest, self belay, high dagger, etc) and practice. And got to learn about basic rock climbing, setting TR anchor, rappelling off anchor, etc. And there were instructors and assistants I could ask questions to: "why does this ice ax curve a bit, what does full auto crampon mean, etc etc" All of that info could be learned 1) from the right experienced friend(s), 2) freedom of the hills/online just fine. For me I wasn't at a place where I was so sure of myself on doing it #2 way. The biggest benefit though was meeting my first climb partner. Shortly after the class concluded we basically said "fuck this lets go climb" in response to applying for their totally weirdo climb schedule where you're expected to brown-nose and volunteer in order to be selected to be in a group of 6, 10, 12 people to climb a mountain on a weekend months ahead of what you'll know the weather will be like, and pay $15 for the application to boot. [i hope they've changed this since then]. So we climbed a ton that first year. And when we had questions we contacted for instance the gal who did our 'rock' instruction component and she said, tell you what, why don't I meet up and we all climb, and so then we had a new friend, outside of mazamas, who educated us further. Same deal with one of the assistants who befriended us and I've climbed and skied with outside of mazamas. But I'd like to imagine their more advanced courses get rid of a lot of the BS and are more focused, educationally speaking. I speak less great of Mazamas but for the right person/people they're solid and I still support them as a resource in the climbing community, they do a lot of good work and help a lot of people. I've specifically never been one for student government and groups of that nature and it seemed like they had a strong vein of that organizational aspect, so I bristled maybe more than the average person.

eeep.. I know IE is corporate browser (yes it is the base one that many of our applications are developed to run on) but my lord the performance, especially previous iterations for years (8, 9, 10) was absolutely terrible compared to alternatives, at least among IT I work with it has been a punching bag/joke for years. Does this problem persist on other platforms (your phone? ipad?). When you say it persisted between systems, were you doing an image restore or some form of backup or truly from a ground-up and fresh OS install the problem persisted? Seems you can isolate pretty easily to your machine. Give it a go in Chrome on your machine and if it continues you can figure it is something at a deeper level, otherwise you've further isolated to IE.

not a big help but IE is not a good browser. CC has been one of the most reliable "keep me logged in for years" sites around. Try chrome or firefox?

nope no way. in the first picture there are 5 people and the second only 1, it must be a different spot.

I think you're dialed in and good. Sunday does look good and I expect it to be somewhat busy up there. Would you consider climbing up and down in the PG and skiing from the hogsback? Still a good ski and minimal exposure there to avalanche concerns (mostly lee of crater rock). Maritime storm snow generally settles pretty quickly.. seems like greater snow is falling right now through Thursday than Friday-Sat window. Pit: top of hogsback (where it terminates, not where people chill) is not a bad place, assuming you're not digging into the covered bergschrund. I've done one there I believe. If you'd like, I can tell you that you're stupid, but I don't believe it is warranted.

i occasionally have knee pain, comes and goes in a knee, or both, i don't give it much attention, but can usually be attributed to weak/strong leg, that's why it isn't bilateral..it might be in your dominate leg because that one is overcompensating for a weak one. Or in the weak one cause it's weak? for instance, my achilles has been tighter in my right, non-dominate leg for years now, no matter how much stretching. Even after foot surgery on the left foot and having non-weight bearing on the leg for ~2 months the achilles on that side still has more stretch/doesn't feel tight like the right. throwing one thing out there.. maybe Layton can throw you some good exercise/stretch ideas.. i am not good help for your knee pain there..

i've got ~4yr bc skiing, avy 1, climbing about 7 years. Have a few people I ski with but have never felt like one can have two many outdoors partners between schedules and objective preferences. I'm also kind of looking for folks who'd be down to skin in and do a base camp around Jeff, TFJ, or around Willamette Pass/Diamond and get some skiing in over a weekend.

that's a juicy hook!

haha you said it explorer. I'm supremely entertained, CC doesn't seem to get this type of exchange so often these days where all sorts of people pile on the silliness outside of spray. But you should just shrug it off and trust your gut, don't let jokers cause you consternation. The OFG uptake and investment from your pitch is all the validation necessary. As someone who loves teasing people, the best response to neuter flippant people is to not respond.

When did we find out it has been discovered by possibly many people before, some of which frequent here? While sarcasm can be hard to see through the internet, dbernika's hyperbole canyon may have been a commentary in jest on the 'amazing' discovery. Maybe dbernika can clarify but I have my doubts, just my 2cents. Coming from someone who believed this was a troll (and it appears perhaps a touch over-stated in significance of magnificence) but it's still cool.

well, don't classify yourself as a volunteer. Find someone to pay you $5 to do it...

nice! we were the first two who skied down the old chute and through west crater. sunday was a choice day out, weather wise, but reminded me of the spring shit-show..that was obvious by how much activity there was in the lot.

I too have wondered where he went.. was he a sponsored skier at all? I didn't get that impression but it seems like he should have been.. some seriously impressive stuff

Northwest Avalanche Center: http://www.nwac.us/avalanche-forecast/current/mt-hood/ Updated daily. As for El Nino and avalanches.. snow causes them. The weather doesn't particularly matter, el nino or not, as long as snow is falling and wind is blowing, risk is there. The variables on the ground are so much more complex and pertinent than global scale weather systems. Don't even worry about El Nino..

I do beer photography. I hashtag anything related to breweries in my pictures. Why advertise for them? because if they like my 'free' advertising they will use it and direct more viewers to me, ask to use it and do a quid-pro-quo on beer, or ask to buy it and pay me. And as jared suggested, it doesn't cost me a thing or take a moment, and I enjoy the products..