Ben Beckerich

Hola Anybody got a lead on where I could snag me a big ol' panograph or pano-esque print of the Fairweather sub-range?

Knee pain on descent.... That's akin to complaining about head pain on hangover.

I would have agreed with this sentiment, until a couple months ago. Then I survived my first ever slab fucking avalanche on the south face of iRock.

So when s dis shit happpening

sketch.. Good job getting on it, and somehow not sliding the whole fuck'n face Primo route, in ice conditions.. my favorite on the mountain. Can't imagine trying to do it in deep snow, though.. hell of an effort, that'd be. Strong men, thou must be!

Dude can ride a snowcat, or post about a snowcat, all he wants.... but a memorial thread for a dead guy ain't the place to do it. Simple noob technical error, I'm sure.

lolz.. win for "most inappropriate post ever" You're posting in the wrong place, bro.

I'll give away my size 10 Invernos

Should we just liberate the North Korean people?

I see Scarpa Mont Blancs on sale for around $300 pretty often

Major... time for a ski lesson

Happy Christmas and a merry New Year, dirt bags

Yea... I guess it might come down to that. ASTROV..... to the oodie!

t. Must climb. What is too steep to slide, yet has safer approach and descent while the snow continues to heap?? Open to the entirety of the US Cascades, anything up to M4/I5

What course doesn't at least provide beacons??

Looks tiring.. Good job gettin' on it though. For posterity - you can traverse the headwall to the left gully and downclimb the first step to gain access to the right gully- i did it a couplefew years ago. Never stepped foot on the eliot that whole climb

Last I heard: -Rock is actually pretty good, some multipitch lines established -Weyerhaeuser owns the peak and surrounding land, and doesn't allow climbing, nor even entry in the area

Roger.. thanks (I didn't realize you guys deleted them)

Why cant you edit old shit? I propose a change, at least in the Yard Sale forum... Having to bump an old ass thread to mark it as sold is lame.

There's enough snow - but watch conditions, man. Climber triggered a south aspect slab slide on Tuesday.

Climber triggered a small soft slab avalanche under the West Chamber on the south face of iRock yesterday at 10am. Climber and partner had discussed concerns about snow stability, and were sampling the snow at the time of the slide.... if you're into irony. Victim was able to roll out of the slide, exiting about 20' below start. Slab crown about 25-30' upslope from victim start point. Soft slab, S=1, D=2, 12" average crown height, ran about 100-150' downslope into open terrain, slope angle at slide was around 35-40 degrees. ALL lee slopes are heavily loaded, with all this high wind and cold temps... be very fucking careful out there this early season, boys. Just goes to show you - it's never "too early to slide."

NO WAY

No way. There's literally only been like 3 days yet this season where anything could have started trickling down. Astrov and I were up there (on bikes, not boots) weekend before last, and it was utterly bare. Absolutely nothing but ugly dusty bare rock and dismally shrunken glacier - I've never seen it look like that. It was awful

Most of the time it's visible and you just walk around it. Sometimes it's filled in and you just walk over it. Sometimes it's partially filled in and covered up, and you could fall into it if you don't know where it is. Sometimes as it's filling in, the left and right ends fill in with unconsolidated powder that won't actually support your weight, relative to the surrounding snow, and if you step into it just wrong you will sink in... possibly up over your head... and the Coleman glacier will spit your mangled body out into White River Canyon in about 25 years. There's also a secondary crack that tends to open up to the lower-right of the bergschrund... sometimes it's there, sometimes it is not... and all of the above conditions also apply to this crevasse.

But then you have to feed her n carry her shit n listen to her bitch for the rest of the trip.