Pete_H

Mostly south. Lots of sun.

Sounds like a great wilderness experience; with only 4,000 of your best friends.

Cool. Looks like a worthwhile route. Thanks!

Dan and Eric are badasses for sure. One minor correction, I thought the ice crux was 2+, though, not 3+. Awesome experience. Thanks again!

Cool. It sounded like you guys had climbed the corner of the pillar, but it appears you were pretty right on. Nice work getting it in early season. Its a great route!

Nice work gentlemen! The first "crux" pitch should be this one: Which leads to a 5.11 fingers pitch and then to this killer 5.10 crack pitch:

Thats the biggest backpack in the world.

wrong valley

Very cool! Thanks.

Struessel / bratwurst avalanche

Throwing rocks and yelling at them seems to do the trick. If not that then a modern firearm used in "self-defense" would probably make them leave you alone.

Lame. The shitter should at least have buried it or covered it up.

Have fun everyone. Wish I could go but I work Sunday. Skiing tomorrow though!

Killer pic's. I've always wanted to climb there. I 'll have to get down there one of these days.

Should do that route finishing on Hyperspace, if you haven't already. The Pressure Chamber pitch is a can't miss.

40 of Steele Reserve

anticlimactic

Its funny, sometimes I read your posts just so I can have a laugh at how stupid you are. This is definitly one of those times.

Nice. I can't comment about Early Morning route but the other routes are all high quality climbs. There are a lot more routes at WA Pass you would probably like, NW Corner of N Early, Liberty Crack, and Rebel Yell on Chianti come to mind. The Kearny route on Bear would also be a worthy objective. I'd get out to Index as much as possible too - lots of high quality single and multi-pitch moderates. If you're climbing 5.9 at Seneca, you'll probably be solid on 10a or 10b here. Seneca is stout.

Its called the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Road.

Cascade Cobbler in Mazama. http://cascadecobbler.com/ James has done 2 pairs my shoes and done excellent work. I've heard this guy does good work and I'm going to give him a try. Ramuta indeed does a good job, but it will be cool to throw the local guy some bizness.

I don't see anything unreasonable about that. Operative language is "confines of a ski area." None of its Alpy's land. As you said, its NSF. "Ski area" would pertain to areas where patrol performs avy control. They should be able to close those areas.

I would like to see the actual language of the bill. I would think it would limit who could be charged to those who are ticket / pass holders. How far does the Alpy ski area extend out the ridge toward the Tooth / Pineapple Pass? The standard route of uphill traffic in the area would go further west of Alpy's purvue I would think.

Nice! I skied the NW Face a couple weeks ago in powder conditions. Cool to see it in a different season.

Looks deluxe! Nice pic's gents.