CapitalNathan

Awesome! Thanks for the work to make this available once again.

I would also love to check out a copy!

Well since my backpack was nabbed out of the back of my car today I'm on the hunt for a replacement. I'm looking for a 20ish liter pack that can hold my harness and rack/rope on for the approach and my shoes, water, food and jacket while climbing. I was previously rocking an older model of the Arcteryx Cierzo and it did everything I wanted it to. Is something like the Cilogear 20L Worksack or the updated Cierzo worth the extra bucks over an REI flash pack?

"The window appeared to be best from the 20th of September onwards, with an unusually large high pressure system settling over the area for nearly a week. The 20th would be the last day of winter, and thus my hopes of making ‘winter ascents’ were unlikely to be realized."

Great pictures! I'm curious about the rappels you made to complete your descent. Several weeks ago I climbed up the Backbone and ended up making the descent in the dark. We were expecting a heinous, snowy slide fest but we stumbled upon some rap anchors complete with a 70 meter rope. We pulled up the rope, it looks fine and we ended up rapping off it. Was it still there for your descent? Does anyone know who might have left it or why?

Awesome work! All the terrain in there just begs for big traverses and link ups.

Awesome, I'll go give some of those a try. Thanks for the help!

So I'm in the same boat as Bedellympian but up in Leavenworth at the moment. Anyone got some suggestions for good routes to aid solo to work out all my rookie mistakes on? I realize that the obvious answer is to go to Index but I'm looking for some afterword locations in the Tumwater or Icicle.

Here's a photo from this past Sunday. There is just a little bit of snow travel towards the top. I had an axe for this part as well as some of the snow travel inside the Enchantments basin but plenty of people looked like they were getting by with trekking poles. Someone had suggested snowshoes to us the day before but they never left the pack and we felt fairly silly for bringing them. So bring an axe or trekking pole but no crampons or snowshoes. We did it in approach shoes and got soggy but were happy with our choice. ]http://imgur.com/V2YgC0c

Hey all, I'm a recent Leavenworth transplant looking for some partners. I've got all my own gear, am comfortable on sport to 5.10, trad to 5.8 or 5.9 and I love multi pitch climbs. Currently I'm working with a minor knee injury that slows me down a bit on steep or long approaches so closer to the road cragging is my preferred style right now. Hopefully later in the month I can get back to Snow Creek Wall or maybe some of the moderates on Prussik. I've also got a mountain bike and would love to do a little riding when I'm not climbing! Drop me a line and I'll send you my phone number. Nathan

I was there the weekend of the 5th and the campsite was unaffected by the shutdown. They were even taking out the trash. I would imagine they'll still up be and running now.

Ibex Shak Hoody is where its at. Full length zipper, one chest pocket, well fitted hood, thumb loops, and all wool. Alpinist gave it a solid thumbs and its currently 50% off at the Ibex store to boot. [img:left]http://www.backcountry.com/images/items/large/IBX/IBX0222/ASH.jpg[/img]

Thinking of the Ferrosi perhaps?

Thank you all for the advice. I think I'll go ahead and score myself a beefy rack and then put aside money for a trip. Suffering through school and wet weather leads to a lot of armchair climbing and online window shopping, maybe that led to my fixation on gear. The good news is that I got out to Vantage last weekend, I'm going again this weekend, and the crew is assembled to leave for Leavenworth the minute we're done with finals. EDIT: Oh, I also forgot to add that I do already own a helmet. I'm not going anywhere near that manky Vantage basalt without one.

So this summer I'll have a chance to blow around $2 grand on climbing gear with opportunities for pretty substantial discounts. This will probably be the last opportunity I have for these discounts or this much spare change on hand for the foreseeable future. What I'm looking for is what you would spend this money on if you were in my shoes. I've been climbing about two years and I'm comfortable doing 2 or 3 pitch trad routes. My goals for climbing are to get out and do some long alpine rock routes and work my way into big walls. At the moment my gear consists of -A nice pack -Plenty of sport draws -Alpine draws -A set of nuts -4 midrange Trango Flexcams -A 70m 9.8 rope I know at the very least I'll flesh this out into a full rack but what to do with the rest of the money is what I'm still pondering. The best options I see are A) Invest in a solid aide rack while I have the spare change and discounts. (Chris's recommended gear list for example) B) Save the money, keep dabbling when I get the opportunities and the use the money to buy used later C) Buy a rack, use the money for a large summer climbing trip, and worry about expanding my gear later. Many thanks taking the time to help out.