Woodcutter

Crap movie, nearly as depressing as the book.

Nice, do you have any photographic evidence that you weren't really on the couch!

I dig the goat journalism.

...the march of progress!

Great trip report & extra info from dbernika.

Fuse bindings from a few years ago. Burton highbacks: a bomber setup. $50 cash in Seattle. I will ship if I have to but I'd rather not. Thanks Jake email is best jakeevans100 at hotmaildotcom

Top quality. Old guys rock - especially old guys with previous form!

...that is the nicest & most helpful thing I've happened upon all day. Rock on!

Top quality photo describing the non-trivial downclimb. Rock on.

PM'd I have a hangboard you can have for cheap

Great effort. It's a real shame the rock is so crap up there, otherwise it might almost be fun!

Pack is sold. Boots are sold.

Scarpa Charmoz US 11. Good condition. $50 Mammut skywalker: Used once; One size: $25 OR Expedition crocodiles. New, never used.: XL $20 Lowepro Sport 200 AW camera pack: Good condiiton: $40 Petzl Shunt: Little use. $25 Would prefer local (Seattle pick up) Will ship, PayPal & buyer pays shipping. email me jakeevans100 at hotmail dot com

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I like Mark Twight's layering: When you're moving: Whatever doesn't make you sweat or freeze & wicks so you don't get wet from sweat. So a synthetic or wool baselayer and a midlayer thin fleece if you run cold or it's cold. Then wear (or carry if the wind is dead) a wind-proof layer which might as well be waterproof but must breathe (Goretex or the like) since this is the PNW & it does rain. You need to be cool, almost cold while moving, this is key. When you stop moving: Put on a big fat puffy coat over the top of it all. Synthetic is cheap & good & not really that heavy, it just makes your bag a bit big. Down, in my opinion is a waste of money if you haven't got much. Add more layers if you run cold, I run very hot so I'm usually under-dressed, but freeze my ass off at night so I wear all my clothes when sleeping. Boots? Scarpa if you have broad feet, La Sportiva if they are narrow. Make sure you can wiggle your toes. Take full gaiters if you get cold feet. NB: This is not gospel, otherwise a bunch of angelic music would play as you read, and it isn't, is it! Ha. Rock on. Have fun.

I splitboard & I own a BD speed40, but I refuse to use it to splitboard since I'm totally convinced that the active suspension would be a nightmare. If you had to use it, you'd get used to it, but the fact that you swing the entire pack around every time you turn is hard enough if the pack's heavy, without the pack also moving independently. I use the BD for climbing only & I love it for that. I use a Mammut spindrift 40 to split with, and it's great, doesn't fit quite as well as the BD pack, but good enough. The Mammut pack has 4 front fixings so you can lash you board on the front as a solid, also it carries split skis well.

Reckon?

Since I got a friend of mine to draw this for me, I felt the need to print it, so I've got about 10 of these, it's a back print, there's nothing on the front, and I only did size large. PM me if you want one $20 in the post, or $15 if you're in Seattle & can pick it up. Jake It's from a cafe in Wellington, there's a sculpture above the bar, it rocks

Dromlite 2litre It's all I ever use, never leaks (as long as you use a different nalgene screw top or glue up the little stupid spout (that accidentally opened in my pack and ruined a camera body in the Windrivers)), the absolutely brilliant thing is when you fill it up with hot, or boiling water @ bedtime & stick it between your legs to sleep, really keeps you warm at night. Bad taste? Don't put anything in it but water & smoke for 20 years and there's no problemo.

...well I was kinda hoping that Victor would lead the pillar, but he didn't like the look of it. And since it wasn't nearly as well formed as last year & brittle, that saved me from having to fall of it again! Ha. Nice one Danny. Pic below is Danny's from last year, shows the fat runnel well.

Trip: Colchuck - 43rd birthday gully Date: 11/18/2014 Trip Report: At about 7800’ on Colchuck there was ice last year & it was there again this year, on the right lobe of the Colchuck glacier. The righthand big pillar was chandeliered, brittle & seemed mostly unprotectable, plus the Frenchman was worried that the ice on the slabs above was too thin. Looks like a hell of line though. P1: (...is below the idiot in the white helmet) We went left around the back of pillar, looking to get on the big fat runnel, (but the ice was so hard & brittle that my Sarken were bouncing off & tools were not sticking, not plastic, it looks badass, steep). So we went further left up the snice gully, lots of gear in the ice & belayed at a good rock flake off a threaded wire (still there). Lovely pitch. P2: Steep snice, 2 dodgy screws, 1 good wire & belayed off ice axes All in, a nice steady route, easier than the NBC at this time of year, short & sweet. Hiked up to the summit and laughed a lot & did a bit of shouting. There is great potential up here, it was my birthday, old bastard now! Ha Gear Notes: Cams; metolius 0 to BD 3, rack of wires, pins, 8 screws. Vin Rouge from the Rhone. Approach Notes: The night before to the lake

Wrap the upper shafts in carbon, the usual way you lay up carbon fiber, with epoxy, it's all pretty easy You could have an additional thin layer of foam underneath the carbon if you think you'll need more insulation. If you put down a base layer of tape to protect the original shaft, you could cut the whole carbon bit off every season when it's all banged up. Should be light & tough & insulated & look fairly OK I'll do it for you if you're ever heading through Seattle with the tools. Sounds pretty easy. Jake

Wrong size for my purposes, still available!

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