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Thanks, you have confirmed my suspicions!

Has anyone been to the north side in the last few weeks?

Watch http://www.westcoastice.com/ and this forum for trip reports, if we get a early freeze some low elevation ice climbs can form over the boarder in the Hope area that are really fun, but they are all just super weather dependent. Bellingham is a generally warm place, most of the year there is not much besides what Wayne mentioned.....

Trip: Washington Pass and the Sierra - Many Date: 7/10/2014 Trip Report: Blog post from some summer ramblings including a dozen or so long routes in Washington Pass and the High Sierra. Sorry for the graduation and school photos the climbing bits follow, just wanted to pass the stoke. It seems everyone is getting out and I have been lurking for a while and finally have some images to contribute. Have fun and stay safe out there! -Kirk http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/2014/08/graduation-and-summer-road-trip-2014.html Gear Notes: Lots: unfortunately I'm no Alex Honnold. Approach Notes: Truck.

Trip: Mt. Snoqualmie - NY Gully Date: 1/1/2014 Trip Report: What a fantastic day out! I know there are quite a few TR's on this route, but I have not seen any this year. We tried to make lemonade from the cold and dry snap we had there for a while. I have no idea what shape the route might be in now.... http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-york-gully-mt-snoqualmie-mixed.html Cheers! Gear Notes: Single rack, few stubbies, pins, nuts, sausage and cheese. Approach Notes: Car.

Trip: Southern BC - Piccadilly Circus Date: 12/11/2013 Trip Report: Mellow day out after finals right at the end of the cold snap, I think we caught one of the last days. Sorry it took me a little bit to get this up, work and then stuck in an airport for a few days without wifi... http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/2013/12/southern-british-columbia-ice.html Same route G-spotter posted. It was a very enjoyable afternoon, lets hope it gets cold again, or I'll just start driving father I guess. I didn't realize it, but you can subscribe to conditions updates at www.westcoastice.com which seems very helpful. Cheers! Gear Notes: Tortilla chips. Approach Notes: Highway.

Such a cool area! The lake goes on for eeeeeveerrrrr lol. Nice too meet you guys up there! You hit the weather a bit better than us. But thanks for what was left of some of the skin tracks. Photos look great too! We tagged East Castle, North face of Carr, and East Couloir? on Davidson the first day out when the weather was still good. We checked out the NW face of Castle but it was way too cracked up to navigate and rap into, so that was a bummer. The weather kind of went south and we made a 6hr slog over to Garibaldi in intermittent clouds, but the weather socked in below the summit which was also a bummer. Mellow day next and made it up deception in the storm, and then also tried to scamper up Price in the fading light but encountered some sensitive wind slabs and headed down and took off the next day in a whiteout. The approach trail was pretty heinous it got baked and turned into ice.... Have a good winter and stay safe! Cheers, -Kirk

Trip: Red Rock for a few days: trad & sport Date: 12/15/2012 Trip Report: Sorry for the repost, we got shut down on some of our bigger objectives but still had a good time, some photos here: mountainsaremyhome.blogspot.com Gear Notes: Warm place to stay is nice Approach Notes: Car & backpack

Trip: Burge Mountain - Tonasket - Few Date: 8/11/2012 Trip Report: Cool area in the middle of nowhere I had never heard of! I look forward to spending more time there eventually, there are tons of routes to explore. Early spring or late fall would be the best seasons I think. Mountain project has a few of the walls, but not many route descriptions I was able to track down a local PDF that is about 25 pages, let me know if anyone is interested and wants a copy. http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/ Gear Notes: Sun screen and water, or an alarmclock to wake up early. Approach Notes: Drive, walk to the walls.

Trip: Darrington - Many Date: 8/1/2012 Trip Report: As time goes on somehow I seem to be more and more drawn to spending days in Darrington. It makes no sense, I hate run out slab climbing, but then I return and do it over and over again.. So many climbs to explore and new things to learn! http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/ Gear Notes: Draws and a Small Rack Mostly Approach Notes: Drive, Walk, Climb

Trip: Mt. Baker - Coleman Headwall Ski Descent Date: 7/11/2012 Trip Report: Another TR from this increasingly popular line. It is a bit late in the season, but still had a fantastic trip. Enjoy! mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com Approach Notes: Snow free to treeline, running shoes are nice.

Trip: Mt. Adams - Southwest Chutes Date: 7/7/2012 Trip Report: Ok there are tons of TR's on this, but rather than writing I will let the photos tell the story. Enjoy! mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com Gear Notes: Sticks to slide on. Approach Notes: Car, good luck parking on a busy day.

Trip: Squamish BC - A few Classics, Diedre, Woody Mountain High..etc. Date: 6/12/2012 Trip Report: So Juneuary is in full force, I had hoped to be skiing or climbing more but the weather is not helping much. Oh well. We caught a little window last weekend and had some fun. Nothing too exciting, just some early season rock stoke, we live in a wonderful place!! Enjoy below http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/ Gear Notes: Rack + Beer + Salsa & Chips Approach Notes: Car and Passport

Jason, just curious what your doing instead? Arunas is the man, he and Jason compliment each other very well, such different styles and skills, its like yin and yang. Very cool. Thanks all for the support! The work and time so far required has been pretty ridiculous, but I think its also really rewarding and enjoyable to be creating things from scratch with your hands. Its crazy to look back and see many pieces of work we've done in the last two months it feels like its been ages. I hope things go well in June! Sorry why the link doesn't seem to work for some navigators, I've been to it with Mozilla, Chrome and Internet Explorer and never had a problem, but if anyone has suggestions let me know. I just added the most recent project, a backcountry ski and climbing one piece suit out of Tyvek, I think it came out pretty good, blending form and function is always difficult so a little bit of function was sacrificed for fashion, but in general that's not how I like to work. Cheers!

Nick, my hand renderings are ok, I haven't had that much practice. They changed perspective and rendering 2 to a junior class, so they only teach grayscale marker renderings for a few weeks right at the end of fall quarter, and the rest is mostly line drawings. Bummer to be #14, but looks like your doing just fine if this is your site? http://nickhallphotography.com/ veryyyyy nice images. Thanks for the support!

So I've been stuck inside for the last two months spending a ridiculous about of time on school work (actually more like a year). I am in an Industrial/Product design program. We have a big review where 30+ students get cut down to 12 in June, so that has put the fear of God in all of us. Anyway I hope to pursue outdoor gear in the future. I have posted a lot of my projects and renderings on my blog. I figured some of you other gear heads out there might enjoy browsing. Cheers! Kirk

Nice work boy! Sad I was working looks like it was fun!

Thanks all, it was a great trip! I lurk a lot on here and I know its nicer to have TR's directly on the page with photos, but after loading and editing it all once for the blog I was out of energy to do it again, so sorry about that...

Wayne, it was our original plan to climb both summits like you, a few things contributed to our decision not to. Time: we ran into a rock band followed by a pretty big cornice right at the top of the saddle, we could have climbed it but it would have been a very dangerous down climb, or the added time of another rap, as it was we had a 16hr day moving pretty quick most of the time, you rapped down the south face, with descending the thread we then had to go back up the n col of the Outto, down the s face(rap again) and across the basin and back up to the chopping block. Gear: we prob went a bit too light, we only had one 60m 8mil rope, 1 pin, 5 nuts, 2 cams, 2 sticks and 2 rap rings. Climbing rock in ski boots is not very inspiring, we weren't sure how much of the rack we would burn on the decent(we found pretty good horns and natural stuff so it worked ok), also from the photos you guys used two doubles, so we guessed whatever you had left for anchors would be for full length raps. haha and finally we were both getting pretty sketched out at that point and just wanted to get the ski down done

Trip: Southern Pickets - A Thread of Ice 2nd Ascent and 1st Ski Descent Date: 7/4/2011 Trip Report: Over a clear weather window Louie Dawson and I spent 3 days adventuring, climbing, and skiing in the Southern Pickets. Sorry it took a lot of work to write and add photos all info can be found here: http://mtnsaremyhome.blogspot.com/ Gear Notes: Lots Approach Notes: Long

easy trad? 5-5.9, maybe some sport routes/tr on really harder 10's? Anyone down? Live in Bellingham, have full rack and car.

add me, been looking for partners, erratic schedule sometimes weekends sometimes mid week!

Humm good question, If we get another clear snap for a few days might be worth checking out again, as there isn't much else going on for ice, and its around 5,000 so seemed to be hanging in there pretty good.

Thur 2-4-10 So after a very long tour out to the Coleman Pinnicle from Heather Meadows, we happened to come back accross iceburge lake and the herman saddle. Table mtn from this angle is impressive, just a massive wall. Has any one done death picinic? Looks to start around 5,000ft. I looked up any info I could find, which wasn't much other than its two pitches, one ice(WI5?), one mixed/snow, N/NE facing, I know most of the season here seems to be hurting but from the lake and the saddle the ice looked pretty darn good, though the upper snow section looks scary at best. From the side it looks like 70-80degrees. Any thoughts? http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/medium/IMG_15091.JPG[/img]

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