[Reliable weather forecasts?]

@Kyle M has a great writeup on his blog with some handy links: https://climberkyle.com/2021/11/03/weather-in-the-cascades/

[Colchuck NE Couloir Slide Accident (Feb 19, 2023)]

Going to keep this brief as I don't think an open forum is the place to criticize.

Completely agree with you AJ, assuming there was even a slide at all. I'll just lay out the facts for those without the time to read the report.

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Three of the four victims caught and carried in the avalanche were not wearing helmets. The one surviving victim was wearing a helmet.

None of the climbers were buried or ever partially buried.

The slide happened at 1:15, the remaining 2 climbers not caught in the fall decided to ascend for 45 minutes before descending and didn't reach the fallen until 5pm.

 

No one in the party had communication equipment. No one in the party had any avy experience.

 

There was a known storm blowing in that greatly hindered rescue efforts.

[Last week of March... where to?]

21 hours ago, mthorman said:

Look into Granite Lake ice climbing in the Cabinets Mts of Montana.  It is a fat year this year and typically the end of March is pretty good in there (baring we don't get a crazy warm up in the next couple weeks).  

+1

This should give you some stoke: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nu2WVpm0cLpc_YFD82CVZ_CeXZM0A6XA/view

[Fatal avalanche on NE Couloir of Colchuck]

Interesting article... Followed some links and found out I met these guys on Denali last season. Small world.

 

Respectfully, they should have known better than to be in that terrain and that remote given the avy and weather forecast that weekend. Very unfortunate regardless. 😢

[WA/OR Ice Conditions 2022-2023]

11 hours ago, bedellympian said:

For those with a high clearance 4WD, you can currently drive to Pole Creek TH in the Sisters (OR) and a 2 hr ski gets you to numerous N facing flows off the E buttress of North Sister.

Nice! I've heard murmurs of some routes up that way and just saw Artem's post earlier today on FB.

 

You guys have a chance to check out anything on Broken Top yet?

[WA/OR Ice Conditions 2022-2023]

Probably no surprise to anyone but all the gorge climbs are toast.

 

You could maybe climb the first pitch of Crown Jewel today but everything else had a stream running through it and was fading fast.

 

I can share more pics if anyone really wants to look at rotten ice.

[WA/OR Ice Conditions 2022-2023]

19 hours ago, KingsMM said:

Here's a few photos from today in the Columbia Gorge. We TRd Cruiser and Water Heater at the West Bridal Veil Area. Crux was driving to the climbs with multiple closures. Both were in WI 3ish wet condition. So fun!!! I'll post some more pics if I get some from my partner.

Nice work, we were planning on heading that way Friday morning but all the road closers kept us in place. Doubt they'll last until after Christmas sadly

[Poll: Supporting CC.com]

Thanks Kyle for sharing this in the FB groups.

I've lurked here for many years but can't remember my login so made a new account.

I own a few sites/forums and your costs are very reasonable, especially given the amount of content that's on the site.

I donated via paypal but more importantly happy to donate some of my time if you'd like it.

I don't have any experience directly with Invision and haven't written PHP in ~5yrs but don't anticipate it to be a problem.

I have extensive experience with other forum softwares like vB, phpBB and XenForo doing everything from setup & administration, to developing.

 

I live down in Salem so can't join any of your Seattle area fun but happy to hop on a call if you want to talk shop.

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Also Kyle, the stack here can't be that archaic. IDK how much playing you've done with WP on your personal site but it can get real nasty, real quick. Even then, php isn't that bad compared to things like jsp, native asp, and whatever weird custom things people used to do in the 90s and early 2000s that some corporations still run on...