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At least it sounds like Slog has a fair amount of climbing experience and is familiar with Rainier. He may have made some bad calls but was able to use his experience and judgement to get out of it.

Thanks to Jon for all his hard work on this.

Well, play it conservatively. I'm no expert but high on Rainier is not a fun place to be in whiteout conditions.

This is why there's job security for climbing rangers and SAR personnel.

Pretty sure that's an 80's song

Just don't put it in our beer. Or, more importantly, our wine.

I dont think it is up for an aurguement that it does or does not prevent tooth decay. The question is should the government force it on you? Yes they should. They should also force all you fatties to exercise. And wear a dog collar that shocks the piss out of you every time you try and cram some junk food down your pie hole. Holy Shit! Frieh and I actually agree on something.

Nice Kev. All the hard work will pay off soon. Hopefully we can get out one of these days.

Nice work dude! soloing el cap is no small accomplishment. Just don't become one of those big wall loner weirdos.

Its a very obvious and mellow gully on the lookers right side

Look like good routes. Look forward to pulling on some of them!

We learn it early in the West, drinking and driving, chasing away from the ticking stillness of home toward some dim aura glowing over the horizon, call it possibility or excitement. Henery James once said there are two mental states, excitement and lack of excitement, and that unfortunately excitement was more interesting than lack of excitement. From the essay "Drinking and Driving," By William Kittredge

Don't you know Rob, Obama can do no wrong!

Wow. Thats a low snow pack for early May.

We just solved the debt crisis. I'll see if the President is available for a conference call.

Can we gift them our fat chicks?

What happened to that one child only policy in China? That was one thing I liked about them.

Every sperm is sacred.

Balls got chafed? Rock was too greasy? Sumthin?

Whatever you end up doing, don't schralp the skin track!!!!!

Summits are as out of style as M.C. Hammer pants. Its all about the line, man.

Awesome pics. Looks like very nice tour!

Index lower town wall is a good place to practice your piton craft too.

Trip: Black Peak - South Face Ski Date: 5/3/2013 Trip Report: With lots of new snow and warm temps forcasted, Eric W and I conservatively planned to scope out and ski a steep west face, which wouldn't see sun until early afternoon. When this face wasn't in shape we resorted to plan B, a ski of the South Face of Black Peak. We found surprisingly good cohesion between the new snow and the carvable crust underneath on all but east facing slopes in the afternoon. There was some pinwheeling and big snowballs coming down on south slopes but no wet slide propagation. N faces skied nice with some smooth porn (powder corn). A fun day in the mountains with stellar weather and good skiing. We probably did about 6500 vf on the day. Would have been nice to slay a steeper objective but that wasn't in the cards for this day. SE and NE Faces of Black. Ascending S Face Descending S Face An E Facing Bowl Hippy Porn on the Descent