JZickler

Awesome. Thanks Daniel.

Has anyone been lately? Thanks! Jeff

Checking CL and other gear sale sites has almost become an obsession! Fortunately, Carbon Co. MT is Mayberryesque and the Sherriff's department has been great to work and they're proactively working the case. A stark contrast to the "police are powerless to help you" attitude from agencies in larger jurisdictions. Jethro and Jim-bo have been sloppy and I'm pretty sure they'll get caught.

Great advice, John. The climbing was fantastic and we were grinning ear to ear until we got back to our vehicle. Talk about a buzz kill.

Trip: Beartooths - Funeral For a Friend Date: 11/10/2013 Trip Report: Sunday the 10th Ben Boldt and I enjoyed early season ice on the Beartooth mega-classic Funeral For a Friend. We spent Saturday cragg’n on flows lower in the canyon and punched through the drifted snow on the road to the Glacier Lake TH. On the hike in Sunday morning we encountered typical Fall continental snow conditions – bare ground in spots and 4 foot drifts in others for the first mile and consistent shin to nut post-holing through sugar snow from the bridge to Glacier Lake. We found the route to be in fantastic condition. All the major flows were in fat (in comparison to other reports I’ve seen) and the perfect golden granite made for great moderate mixed climbing. When we made it back to our vehicle that evening we discovered it had been burglarized and the thieves cleaned us out of nearly 15k of gear! Below is the short list of high $ items that were taken. If any of you Montana guys out there come across back-woods drug addicts selling climbing doohickeys that they have no business possessing let me know! Nikon D800 Camera Body Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 Lens Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 Lens Fstop Loka Camera Backpack Nikon SB700 Hotshoe Flash Nikon SB600 Hotshoe Flash Hoya 72mm UV HD Digital Filter Black Apple iPad2 Black Diamond Stigma Skis (orange) w/ Fritschi Diamir Eagle Ski Bindings K2 Coomback Skis (blue) w/ Dynafit Radical ST bindings Scarpa Maestrale Ski boots size 27.5 Mammut Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Beacon Camalots .3-4 (with color matching Photon biners) Master Cams 00-6 (with color matching Photon biners) Cheers! Jeff Gear Notes: Ice screws and a small rock rack Approach Notes: Too bony for skis but snowshoes would have been nice.

Congratulations! If you're looking for something adventurous, consider the Lion Tamer route on Lions Head peak. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1025757/TR_The_Lions_Head_Lion_Tamer_7 It's the best alpine rock climb in the Idaho Selkirks by a long shot. Harrison Peak and Chimney are fun if you're looking for something short and less commiting. Moderate trad craging of decent quality is non-existent around Spokane proper. Hard sport climbing is where Spokane shines. If you're willing to clip bolts check out Marcus or Metaline - both very close to Colville.

Sweet! Looking forward to it, John and Jess. Sooooo beers afterwards?

You can buy the Mammut Supernova all day long for $149. Dry treated and comes with a rope bag. Mammut ropes are durable and handle great. http://www.mountaingear.com/webstore/Gear/Climbing/Dynamic-rope/Mammut/10-mm-Supernova-with-Rope-Bag-Package/_/R-225379.htm

Nice job Scott! Beware the rabbit rat on p 3 that bit the tip of Spencer Davey’s finger off. Chalk it up to karma, Dank.

LR at 2:17 made me cringe! Even in retrospect that wasn’t fun.

Found on 9/1. PM me if it’s your’s.

Any beta on the direct finish?

Trip: Mt. Stuart - Gorillas in the Mist Date: 7/7/2012 Trip Report: Scott Coldiron and I took advantage of the splitter weather this weekend and climbed this gem up the impressive West Wall of Mt. Stuart. We raced out of Spokane Friday evening after work and arrived at the trailhead around 11 pm. The parking lot was packed – not surprising given the great weather on a weekend following a holiday. After situating gear, we rolled out our sleeping bags in the parking lot and racked out for a few hours of sleep. Of course, I woke up 10 minutes before my calculator watch alarm chirped. After a quick breakfast of Dave’s Killer Bread, peanut butter and lukewarm coffee from the night before we hit the trail. We maintained a casual pace up to the trail and gained the pass just after daybreak and got our first glance of the route up the shady NW aspect. There’s still a tremendous amount of well-consolidated Spring snow in the Stuart Range making travel fast, easy and reasonable to do in lightweight approach or tennis shoes if you don’t mind slightly soggy feet at the end of the day. We made Stuart Pass at 7:30 and dropped down to the snowfield where our line was immediately visible. We scrambled up to the small ledge that marks the base of the route and flaked the rope and racked up. I took P1, the crux, up the splitter hand crack. The climbing was pretty cruiser until the last couple of awkward moves pulling on to the first big ledge. I set up the belay on a large ledge to the right of the “hanging corners” at the base of P2 and Scott quickly followed. From then on we switched leads, chatting about how fun and varied the climbing was when we met at each belay station. Blake provided some beta in the days prior that made route finding easy. This wall is highly featured and complex and having a route overlay with pitch descriptions was very helpful (thanks again Blake). By P8 the wall was in full sun and it began to get uncomfortably warm. Had we been a bit quicker we would have been rapping just as the sun hit. We hit the West Ridge and poked around looking signs of a rappel station with no luck so we built our own directly in line with where I thought the route began. On the second to last rap I slightly miscalculated where the ends would touch down and I was forced to hike the rope to where I could kick off the wall and swing over to a small tree I slung and redirected the ropes so Scott wouldn’t end up in the same position. Ascending the rope was the last thing I wanted to do after a long day. That said, ***DO NOT FOLLOW THE RAP LINE THAT STARTS WITH BLUE 6MM Cord!!!*** I promise it will ruin your day. The route description below is not mine – it’s copied directly from Mountain Project. It’s tits accurate. P1 - 5.10+ or 5.11- Locate obvious hand and finger crack/splitter. A small ledge exists, maybe 15-25 feet above the snow or talus. Follow splitter to ledge, mantle, move right up yellow corner/chimney, and belay. P2 - 5.9 Move left, up hanging corner, around an arete, up another hanging corner, left around another arete, and hand traverse left to bolted belay ledge. p3 - 5.10+ Climb face holds up and left to 4" crack and slung flake/horn near large orange roofs. Follow diagonal cracks up and right to the continuation of the big corner. Might be easier in 2 pitches. P4 - 5.10- Head up and slightly left, past Yosemite-style V-slot and finger cracks/stemming features. p5 - 5.10 Up and Right on obvious features, past small tree, to belay on long, narrow ledge. p6 - 5th - Move the belay rightward, well past a large detached flake. It may give the impression that the W. Ridge or top of the wall are very near. It's not. p7 - climb up and right, mostly easy, with one 5.8ish spot 25' off the ledge. You want to get into a clean, grey, v-slot, chimney/gulley/groove. p8 -5.8 Step right in the top of the V-groove, and follow the long corner for 60m of awesome 5.8 cracks and corners, even a small roof. Ends on finger cracks on a slab. p9 - A short thin-hands splitter leads to lower angle ground, and one can keep climbing endless low 5th class to the summit, rappel the wall, or descend the West Ridge/West Ridge Gully. Here’s a link to a few photos -https://picasaweb.google.com/Zickler1981/StuartWestWallGorillasInTheMist?feat=email Gear Notes: #1, 2 & 3 Mastercams, .5 to 2 C4s X2, 1 - #3 C4, yellow and purple Link Cams, set of nuts. Approach Notes: Tennis shoes

I’m surprised Dane hasn’t chimed in already. I’m a big fan of the Exremes - rigid sole, warm enough for winter craging and light enough for summer climbs on the volcanoes. http://coldthistle.blogspot.com/2010/11/la-sportiva-trango-prime-trango-extreme.html