yellowlab03

Were the mountains blue?

Thanks for the input/advice. I'm just going to suck it up and head to the doc and see what she has to say. I'd rather it be nothing than something.

I like my Scarpa Triolets. All leather, pretty warm but not so hot that my feet get soaked when moving, heel welt, comfortable to hike in for the approach.

Texas Pete is better to me, but I have a bottle of Frank's in the fridge too. I can get small single size ketchup packets of Texas Pete at the chow hall too which is a bonus. Oyster's with some Frank's or Texas Pete is the shiz!

Warm to hot. Lunch counter was in the mid to high 70's when I was up there two weeks ago, and Muir was probably about the same though it felt like it was way warmer. It might not have even been that warm at either places, but you have zero cover and are totally exposed to the sun. I was in shorts and a t-shirt at both places.

I ran more asleep at the wheel wrecks as a fire fighter than I did drunk driver wrecks. If you are having a hard time concentrating or staying awake, it is best to pull over and grab some sleep. I wish I was better at making myself pull over and take a nap, most of the time you convince yourself you can just power through though and you just keep driving. I woke up after my truck took out a corner post of a barbed wire fence once, that sucked and woke me up real quick.

I have the Triolet's and I like them a lot. They have no insulation so if you stand in one spot on snow or in the cold your toes will probably get cold. I have been up Adams in them and was fine, and have been on Rainier in them and was fine, but both were in June, July and Aug. My boss has the Mont Blancs and he likes them a lot and doesn't have anything bad to say about them.

Anyone have problems with their achilles tendons getting super tight after climbing/hiking in crampons all day? I was on the DC route on Rainier all day yesterday, this morning I couldn't walk down the stairs my tendons were so tight. I had the same thing happen to me a few weeks ago after getting off of Mt Adams. Is this a common thing?

You should have seen me when I lived in DC.

Dude trust me I have won some serious awards in the dumb shit catagory. And yes, nerds need wedgies! Cool kids pick on nerds and bang the prom queen, in return nerds get awesome jobs and get to marry trophy wives while the former cool kids make minimum wage and divorce the now fat with 4 kids prom queen. It is the natural cycle of things, everyone knows that!

So let me get this straight, while in uniform, you walked up to some guy and insulted him and then got punched in the face and now you are surprised/upset about this? Call me crazy, but if someone walks up to me and insults me I'm probably going to punch them in the face too. Would you walk up to a group of Black Panther's and call them bigots and racists too? I'm a big advocate of play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

must refrain...

Ya, there is a huge boot track going to the left, and also trail markers made of stones and a fence post every so often.

I have the newer wasabi green firstlight. It does not breath well if everything is zipped up, but what tent does? I have the vestibule for it, and will open up the rear vent and usually sleep with the vestibule closed up and the main tent door wide open. A few times when it was really cold, I zipped the main door but left 6 inches or so open up top. I have maybe 8 nights in it now, 2 around 15 degrees, and the rest at 32 degrees or higher. Oh I have always slept two people in it, I haven't been out in it by myself yet.

The snow on the summit was rotten, and about 12 inches deep maybe. There were a few guys snowboarding down off of the false summit around 5:30pm the day before, other than that I didn't see any ski tracks at all.

Trip: Mt Adams - South Side Date: 7/24/2012 Trip Report: First time with this so bear with me here. The wife and I wanted to cut our teeth on something relatively easy and non-technical, so after reading up on Adams we decided it was the best option. We did the standard South Side route, which we had tried last year. The problem we had was that we tried the winter route like last year when we should have done the summer route. The summer route is 98% snow and is a very direct route, the winter route was mostly talus fields and follows Suksdorf ridge. We could have reached Lunch Counter twice as fast had we followed the summer route and probably not rolled our ankles umpteen million times! Pics: Trail from Cold Springs just before the winter/summer route split. This is coming from the winter route = No fun. The snow to the right is the summer route = easy and direct Hood and Jefferson St. Helens Piker's peak from Lunch Counter. Lunch Counter from Piker's Peak. True summit from Piker's peak. Mt. Rainier from the summit. The glisade from Piker's peak down to lunch counter was pretty wild, the tunnel had to be 4 feet deep in some spots. It took us less than 45 minutes to get from the summit back to our camp at Lunch Counter. This dude was cruising around our camp for an hour or so. Snowfield at the bottom of Lunch Counter heading back to Cold Springs. Cool pic of St. Helens. Cornice on the summer route. Last shot before heading back to the car. Awesome trip for us! Glad we did it during the week, because the Ranger at Trout Lake told us they had 430 something people on the mountain over the weekend. Looking forward to Rainier in two weeks! Gear Notes: Boots, crampons and axe if you start early otherwise stay on the rock band and you almost won't even touch snow the whole way up from Lunch Counter. Approach Notes: Take the 183 trail and follow the boot pack to Lunch Counter, follow boot pack from lunch counter to summit

I found an ice axe on the winter route of the South Climb on Adams, PM me with the color and length and I'll get it back to you!

No shovel then huh? Awesome, I like carrying less stuff!

Is there a lot of snow at lunch counter or are the tent spots melted out yet? Going up next week and want to know if I should pack a shovel or not.

Awesome, I really appreciate it! I have been looking at a few of those sites and not understanding anything on them. I just want a better understanding of what is going on.

Looking for some info on reading weather. What do most of you guys do? I go to websites and see what I think I need to see, but not 100% sure if what I am looking at is what I need to be looking at. Hope that makes sense. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I will be back from Ga about that time and will be looking for someone to do some climbing with as well. Not sure what my time off will look like, weekends are a for sure, a few weekdays should be easily do-able. I live in Yelm, so not too far from Rainier.

Thanks for the tips and ideas guys really appreciate it!

Are those little tiny black seeds that as soon as you put them in your mouth they get a slimy snot like consistency? My Grandma sent me a huge box of seeds that were supposed to be a miracle seed full of Omega 3's and supposed to help level out blood sugars in diabetics (I'm a type 1 diabetic). I tried adding them to all sorts of stuff, but the only thing I could stomach them on was ice cream with fresh blackberries. I *think* they are called indian running seeds sometimes?

I smoked my wife on the walk to lunch counter, then she got sick/pissed at me. We ended up coming down. I feared for my life that night, I figured she'd bash me in the head with a rock while I slept. LOL Note to self for the next time, walk at her pace.