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Climbing picture #4, at Washington Pass is really cool. It's hard to tell the angle - looks hella steep. What route is that on?

Anybody want to aid a few pitches? PM me in the next hour. thx! --Michael

I agree, the bod is a great harness. But I do something that will get me flamed. My older model doesn't have a belay loop, so I use a locking biner to hold it together, and I attach my locking belay or rappel biner to that one. I really like this system, but it's open to charges of cross loading...

Yikes. That's pretty lazy if all you hafta do is toss the feces into a moat, and you don't even do that.

oh right. gross. Another plug for hanging.gif above...it's a keeper!

Dru do you think I can mount robie reed?

this one time I camped in a tent on the glacier (snowfield really) below forbidden peak. We got there in the dark, set up near another tent. From a sound sleep I awoke to my own screaming - something huge hit me. The tent was sliding down the slope, we were in the dark - total confusion! Finally got the tent open, and a basement freezer size block of ice was calmly sitting next to us. That wasn't there before! It had "grazed" me, bounced over our tent, and come to a stop. After that the usual drill - all night descent from Boston Basin in the rain, sore back, etc. Close call, but lucky!

Just to be "constructive", here is the only meth lab I know about from that area: http://www.midfork.org/fram?url_id=10

Actually Ray I don't know what you are talking about. I don't know if I'm just a real poor communicator or not, but I'm just trying to be a regular guy, spraying away about things I barely understand. I respect and encourage your ability to spew better than anyone. I add my own chunks to the splatter, and we have a laff riot.

good one ray Bronco, that's awesome. I think we need that forum.

whatever, I saw something wierd and I mentioned it. The day an honest city fuck can't fan the flames of rumor on this site is the day that I'll call a bad day.

I encountered a strange place east of the old trail, July 2002: "30 minutes later, I got back on the trail which dropped to a road. The road then climbed to a scary "Meth lab" looking house. I heard someone crashing around near the house, so I bushwhacked to the road higher up rather than walk across the yard, not wishing to disturb someone(thing?). "

thx for the nominations on that snowpatch spire pic. Indeed Robert's version is awesome: you can see all those steep (many aid?) lines on the face.

Sure, I will work on it in the spring...

thanks ChucK!

I second (or third?) Damnation. Does it make sense to layback the lower 20 feet? Really awkward jamming for me...

i love the german toilet article

It's too bad, climbing and "tag-along camping/fun-time-outing" don't mix. Especially in winter. I have been on both sides of the skill/expectations divide, no fun either way. A pot of black ichor for ye!

We saw no ladybugs on Steel Monkey this morning, but found fun C1 nutting. We also looked for Shirley on the lower wall, but couldn't decide where it started. Some big rockfall blasted the Quarry area. Here is a picture of me belaying.

Huh, wierd that the link didn't work for you, it does for me, and I'm on another computer now. It was: http://www.mountainwerks.org/cma/2001/images/meorbit.jpg Anyway, we changed our site name from mountainwerks.com to mountainwerks.org. Got tired of paying the domain fee for .com. So somebody could "dev it out" and make it way better than our crappy mountainwerks.org site! I think if you do that traverse you should climb Storm King too. It's right next to Goode, and you get 4 100-highest peaks...

Hee hee! Check out this thread this thread to see the inspiration for my misinformation. Hey Steve! Here is one of the pictures you took: pic of mvs thx for sending those slides. Our conversation on the route convinced me to start using slides, now I've got pounds of them. Anyway, that traverse does sound awesome doesn't it?

I'm glad he is going to be ok. All the castigation is unnecessary. I just see a big plug for having a surgically implanted compass. I'll bet he wished he knew which way south was so bad... Maybe it's time to buy one of the big-ass watches with a compass in it.

If you read the text very carefully, you'll see that the team climbed to the top of the north buttress of Goode, which is just a little different from having climbed to the top of the main peak. Lotta people didn't catch that.

That was a real treat to read, thanks for sharing these revelations...

Checked it out this morning with danielpatricksmith. The main falls were raging, but we climbed a fun rambling WI2-3 line on the left. 50 meters up and leftwards on good ice steps mixed with thin drytooly sections, finishing on a distinctive ice ramp. We rapped from a slung column just below hanging shrubbery. Pitons and stubby screws were handy. There was a lot of vertical solid ice to the left, well away from the spray of the falls, but it seemed too thin for screws. Popular trail is well packed, didn't need flotation, but using x-country skis would probably be fun...