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great book, loved reading it. not everyone was an idiot in it though. What are the numbers for deaths on Mt trashington (a good name for it when the train is running). you guys need to define deadliest: atomic bomb/bullets/razors or deadliest: junk food, cigarettes Of the mountains, I'd say washington is probably one of the easiest places to die (especially for the layperson) on in any month of the year due to the weather

in the winter you may 'hike' washington, but there are also technical routes up it. and a winter hike could well be harder than volcanos out here. look at the weather yesterday i think that compares to anything you'd find most other places. The temperature continued to drop, down to -25 last night, while the winds were sustained around 60-70mph. thats some serious shit

first year of climbing for me, starting with mazama basic class in the spring (I'm from flatland usa originally so..) 2 summits of hood this in the spring some local crag climbing around pdx through the summer re-did the south sister hike but just in snow conditions, snow camping first visit to enchantments (no climbing..just lots of salivating) north sister (se ridge) took my dad (60) to wallowas and up eagle cap. curious about exploring more of the wallowas (china cap looks interesting) trip to mt robson provincial park/jasper for 60 miles on the north boundary trail (and a lot of salivating over possibe climbing in that area in the future) smith rock jefferson few trips this fall to climbing gym some scrambling up the brothers, adams then hood again over turkey weekend and finally something slightly more eventful on hood, a leutholds/reid mishmash 2 weeks ago

looking at mammut laser (schoeller®-WB-400 NanoSphere® dryskin extreme) mammut ultimate hoody (windstopper) or else something else that is powershield based (backcountry.com shift welder..millet super touring jacket, arcy gamma mx if i can find it in my size/discounted). seems like powershield stacks up a little better on the water resistance than windstopper? i read people here rave about the schoeller stuff but have never had anything made out of it. mostly for use in winter/spring volcano snow stuff. my fiance has the ultimate womens hoody from a few years ago and I think it seems pretty awesome, but would be curious to hear gearheads take on those 3 materials &/or those jackets? at the end of the day I think I'd be happy with any of those materials. right now I have an rab latok alpine (or whatever the slightly dumbed down version is) as my shell in winter, and use a marmot windshirt a lot when its warmer. thanks for any feedback

works for me! where you looking at?

I think that sounds good. And I do love that you can go up hood with minimal procedure...the $ permit stuff/limits for some of these other mountains is a crock (Adams, st helens). This winter 2x we have climbed hood and twice I had to ask for more climb sheets/pen/permit. We forgot to sign out of our sheet the first time, and a week later when we went back signed ourselves out. That was kinda funny, in that nobody looks at those I guess until after something is reported. There are so few forms it would take the FS 5 minutes to review them each morning, max. This last accident has moved me on getting some device for myself, and renting the poor mans beacon, MLU for $5 until I can buy a PLB or SPOT(maybe)-If only because me and my climbing partner were in the same area a week earlier, it has really made me feel it 'could have been me'. Anyways, with the PLB, it just seems like it makes sense to have. I'm never going to see that in my pack at any point and think it is stupid to have or not worth whatever weight or cost - and heaven forbid it would ever need to be used, in my book that means death or a condition that will quickly lead to such without help, with all personal alternatives exhausted.

i just bought everything on the site!!!!!!!!!

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/243140/?start=4900 if none of the coupon codes are valid right now bide your time and check that site until some new ones pop up (every few days)

trent: what PLB do you carry? from what I can tell about MLUs, I liken them to giving a skydiver a toothpick martini umbrella and expecting it to help if their chute has a problem. If there was something more effective than an MLU I'd be much more inclined to rent it. This most recent accident though is giving me some pause to think about investing in a PLB or Spot II (in a few months once the recall is done)

i like the idea, but not right now with media speculation/focus and trolls all over the internet. my 2cents

sympathy and love for the families for the sorrow they are feeling.

no expert here, but I just did Leuthold Coulior (or the upper half of it) for the first time last weekend and found it pretty mild if you for sure want to start small/close to comfort range. though there has got to be a similar coulior closer to you than that.

plinko -- where are you located?

old post i know; but does anyone have two cents on the conditions (i know some have done reid hw lately) of the leuthold? We're in the boat that the first post mentions (having only done the south side). We'd like to try something with a bit more challenge but not go too far outside our comfort zone.

was it ever worth arguing? anyone enacting serious lifestyle changing training advice from a single (or set) of internet forum posts has more problems than worrying about their tendons. the best way to learn is from experience -- if you blow a tendon perhaps you've learned you need to change something. And maybe you don't need to learn anything about tendon hyper-viscosity lipid mucus secreting vitrifying dynamics if your body feels fine with what you're doing.

this debate has really tendon and on and on and on.. knuck knuck so are you both convinced you can prove the other wrong and make them say uncle and that tendons (take a decade to get strong/regenerate overnight?). since neither of you will be successful using words, you should probably face off in a competitive wood whittling competition. winner gets to extract the loser's tendons and keep them as spares.

correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the hammer is modular. http://www.chep-net.com/reviews/Grivel-Compact-Black.htm for more info on the tool. bought it from a CC person on here who goes by clubfoot, sometime this summer. it is what i wish i had on the north sister traverse. better late than never

ahhhh... nothing too serious. clubfoot was selling this for a good price so this will do for now saw that next adventure had a few things that looked good, fit my budget, CAMP brand but not feeling too light, nor too heavy. Forget the name..

I think you're confusing me with someone else, mito.

that was my thought on it. thanks for your feedback.

Can i ask, anyone's two cents about climbing around thanksgiving -- I don't see hoot about climbing in late November much of anywhere -- glaciers still out of season in combination with weather windows (lackof)/low pressure systems moving through to boot? our group was tossing around the idea of going up the DC but would like to get anyone's feedback or alternative suggestions (elsewhere). not meant to co-opt your thread but might be a good place.

no lets hear a little update now!! seriously you posted so religiously, it was really positive and good - lets hear some more! You can post around the 21st again too!

how bout that, that is lila there in the middle. cool beans

i got those gloves too, very nice..

thanks for explaining baxter state park's regulatory attitude. i finished my thru hike there late in the season and its not like we didn't look to big k and all its regs and details for the thousand miles before it.. . Percival wanted things a certain way and to his credit a lot of that remains. why don't you call and discuss with them what you want to do in that april to may window if that is the best time you have available. I know that after October 15th people are still climbing K to finish. Even if you can't spend the night there they aren't going to ban you from taking your skis in for whatever you can do in a day if there is snow. I think they, or someone, had a particular reason to end overnight stays in those two windows. you and I might not agree or understand, but i'm sure there is a reason.