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So I'm not going to explain why but I have $300.00 credit at MH. I've checked out their line of jackets, and have come to the conclusion that I wanted to get the trinity jacket. It claims to be a 100% waterproof softshell with all the alpine features. Anyone have experience testing it? No reviews exist online as far as I can find.

Bravo!

PW- You need to get on some real climbs. Love, WS

Of all the places I've climbed, Trout was easily the most humbling.

Funny enough, but after probably a hundred trips to Index, I've never been to Tieton or Vantage. Hard to pass up the best crack climbing in the state just an hour away. Been to Trout Creek, which compares to Index in its crack climbing, but not really.

Well played.

Might want to check out MSR. No crampons required if you are wearing snowshoes.

I haven't had much luck climbing in down jackets. They always are wetting out. Be it Mountain Hardware or First Ascent. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Synthetics, on the other hand, are a different story. The Stoic Luft is my go-to on hard alpine and ski touring. It preformed well on a particularly trying climb and since then I've trusted it completely. Now it's hard for me to justify bringing anything down in the cascades (besides the Peak XV- which doesn't have the wetting problem as far as I've experienced but is too warm for most things).

I cut a small hole in the back of my Brooke's Ranger overboots so they would be compatible with my g12's. Works well.

Wait!

Cale- Thanks man ya that is what I used to take the chair peak video, along with all my other videos. Ya I'm at VW Redmond quite a bit. I can be found at VW Seattle some days as well.

Cale- I have a head-lamp style attachement that works great for climbing and skiing. It basically is exactly like a headlamp except it's for a go-pro instead of a light. linky

I hate getting stuck. Got stuck twice last night, once with each of our Subaru's.

Sounds good. I'll bring the nitro.

Happy b-day Nastia. Haven't met you but your hardwomanhood impresses the hell out of me.

So, why spray on a climbing website if you don't climb (which I know is the case for some of these spray lords). To me, that is the definition of a wantabe. Ya, you can make fun of people on the internet, congratulations. (shitstorm commence)

As if anybody's writing style was a good excuse for making an ass of yourself by declaring someone's TRs not "worthy". I could understand some display of immature bravado if you were some kind of hot shot, but this is obviously not applicable to you. You've been on this website for over 9 years and have never posted a single TR. Instead, you post thousands of times in political rants in the flaming forum on a *climbing* website and wonder aloud why the dialogue is not up to some "academic standard" (as defined by you). To top it off your writing style is on par with a brain-damaged simpleton. You're an open invitation to mockery, j_bot. Not that we have to prove anything to anyone, but you're right, this is a climbing website. I love getting flamed by dudes who claim credibility yet provide no basis for it. I'm not citing J_B in particular-he's never done me wrong personally- but just the culture here in general and a few individuals (who will remain unnamed) in particular /rant/

Ok, so a consensus in the climbing community is pretty rare. I'm basing my opinion of some of the respected magazines opinions (and my own pondering of the issue). You have to trust some authority or what are you left with? Not much.

Kimmo - you bring up some good points about the locals having a dog in the fight. Do you think their (the climbers who chopped the route) method had a neo-colonial tinge to it? Or is it more like the consensus of the climbing community overwhelmingly favored their actions (which seems to be more the case from what I've heard). In most cases I say leave people's routes alone (barring discussion of certain notable examples of breaches of ethics like the compressor route or other vastly over-bolted or unethically bolted climbs). But this is an exception I think.

Last night I used an old biner to tow my car out of the ditch after a failed hill climb. Not sure what that lends to the conversation but I bet at least 4,000 lbs of force was exerted on it. That's not the first time I've used it for that task.

Washington local here. I'll pm you details.

Wasn't Jason Kruk the guy who crapped his pants in that off-width?

Very good crampon. Head and shoulders above the g12 for ice and mixed (but that should be a given). Felt great on them, even never having used mono points prior to purchasing them.

8a.nu is for chestbeaters.