mikeadam

You know...if you've ever seen the movie "Half Baked" you'll know that the main characters dilemma is whether he should give up weed for a girl or give up the girl for weed (It's a deep plot). In the end, and I quote he says; " I LOVE weed...LOVE IT!.....but not as much as I love pu$$y!" END OF STORY

See? Yet another example of the Canadians winter sports superiority! We must train more America! Smoke more weed! Smoke more cigarettes. In a like vein most French uber guides have a galois hanging out of their mouths about 20 hours a day! They don't wanna hear about it at the hut though.

I dunno...Bonzo is one of those guys who's done some pretty tough things on skis... So the fuzzy facts are: Weed is illegal. Some people smoke weed. Some people don't smoke weed. The wind blows. People who smoke weed need a wind free environment to use it. Their are some handicapped people in the world. They built a handicapped toilet at Muir to help the handicapped people. Some people consider people who smoke weed to be handicapped. Some people who smoke weed do not consider themselves handicapped they consider themselves enhanced. Some people like the smell of weed. No one likes the smell of shit. Maybe we can designate the crapper at Muir the smoke zone and then people who smoke weed can help clean up the air in the toilet and the people who don't smoke weed can smell the old musty sock smell in the hut in relative peace.

I dunno...sometimes I'm pretty amazed at the feats of people who are terminally dazed on weed. On the other hand they used to give weed to the Mexican Army to make them march better. And we all know how tough the Mexican Army is...

Teogo, From Nelson? In Nelson now? Do you know Todd Craig or Jim Gudjohnson? If so email me. Mike

You and the Norwegian girls are welcome to stay over at my condo in the pass. Or well...those Norwegian girls can anyway....I'll set up a tent for you Dru.

Max how did you end up in the republic of Boulder? Radio Free Cascades will attempt to free your mind at least.... Pope! Get off your duff brother and spray! Dwayner-ALOHA!

Where do you think Ascent was filmed? Another really awesome film is "Cloudwalker" with Jeff Lowe and Mark Wilford. It features an attempt on the Mooses Tooth with Jim Bridwell on camera, Wilford bouldering at the ever sublime Horsetooth Rez, and several Eldo canyon sections including Lowe taking a nice whipper on the Boulder hardman climb "Death and Transfiguration"...classic music and interviews too...

FYI: The last time I spoke with Dallas via mail he said he planned on printing an updated version with more climbs.

So once upon a time there were just a few of us who used to post at Cascadeclimbers, but now there are thousands registered and many many unknown lurkers. A history is in order: From time to time there have been periods on the website where a subtle push and shove occurred. Generally this revolved around two opposing factions known as "Sprayers" and "Those who choose not to spray". Sprayers preferred an irreverent approach to the whole concept of the electronic bulletin board and would interject tasteless, tactless and often completely useless information into each and every thread. Oftentimes this was done with the assistance of an avatar or login name designed to create angst among the fellow posters on the website. Trolling became an art and a science. Banal psychology was now a posting method. Strangely enough the whole concept of spray was created by an anonymous poster known as ZDFG. ZDFG promised us that the internet people were the demise of cascade mountaineering and skiing and that by posting on this site we would eventually lead to the demise of all held sacred and holy in Cascade mountaineering history. ZDFG suggested that we should all move back home and restore the Cascade mountains to their former isolated glory. The sprayers reacted by going one step further. We knew in fact at that time that we were and still are a blight on the ass of Cascade climbing. What a divine light we stand in. What a priveledge to spray.... ZDFG's challenge prompted many to adopt activities that could only be described as nefarious or underhanded. Many faux names began to appear and the first real BATTLE CAGE matches began to appear. These initial forays grew darker and darker as more avatars were spawned to stave the ranks of posts gone awry. Soon a veritable avalanche of hostile, belligerent and sometimes even funny posts began to permeate the site. Chaos began to reign... ...The non sprayers counterattacked. Among the alpine cogniscenti to disagree were MVS and Alex. Erstwhile warriors of light and justice sent to maintain order in the Cascadesprayers galaxy....others followed...and eventually the barrage of spray reached a standstill....weighed down by it's own ramifications spray ground to a brief halt... But then more warriors of spray appeared on the scene. Newer and more powerful models then previously believed possible...their initial tactics were deception. Postings caged in a Trojan Horse of legitimacy....we began to see the genius of Pope in the form of Big Lou sightings and observations...slowly the hibernating sprayers began to realize a powerful entity of spray had arrived and the wave of useless prose marched on...still...little bright lights of useful information would creak through the grey curtain of spray being spread like a blanket over the website....in response Caveman began to emerge and walk upright...AlpineK made his daring move into the limelight...Pope continued to woo us with his daring tales of one piece North Face defecation...Donna Top Step emerged as the premier female sucubus....Dru emerged as top poster engendering possible initiation into the Tarzan Awards...Erik's snappy offhand remarks created more angst then previously believed...more would follow.... Still there are many posters dormant now that no longer post...SnowLeapord...Dwayner is nearly reticent....Donna Top Step is extinct and buried in the cesspools of Boulder Colorado...how many more will go silent??? TO BE CONTINUED ("Avatars Revealed for the 1st time" PT2)...or feel free to tack on...hey it's spray anyway...

Sorry I missed everyone. Halling went to Rainier and I stayed home sick. Next time!

Yeah...a bunch of "Tools"....

Rambo 2's become knuckle busters after about grade 3+.

Don Cone a retired Boeing engineer took me on a backpacking trip when I first moved here. We did the Bogascheil Loop trail (17+ miles-Olympics) and climbed 2 peaks in less than 24 hours with full packs. Don was 63 at the time, I was 23 and a NonCom in the infantry. I only beat him back to the car by about 40 minutes and I am not convinced that he was hurrying at all. I met him while he was doing the Ipsut/Spray Park/Seattle Park/Mowich Lake loop back to Ipsut in a day which we completed together. Years later I was in full blown burnout mode in the tech industry when I ran into a man near alpental who was then 82 years old. He demonstrated that he was extremely strong and agile as we came down from Cave Ridge. He mentioned that he was a retired Boeing employee and then gave me the secret to his youth. He said that many of his contemporaries did not even make it to retirement or had complications afterwards from a life of servitude. He mentioned Ed Bolton as a friend of his (This is the guy who saved Wickwire's butt on the Willis Wall). He said he had always held back from ever getting too stressed or overly committed to his job. At 82 and with me in tow I realized he had the right attitude to enjoy life. I admired his philosophy and youthfulness so much I decided to follow his program in my own way, and quit my job about half a year later. No 20 year old huckster could have inspired me to do that! Several times this past winter/summer I was schooled by older climbers including Retrosaurus. I now primarily climb and ski with a guy who's 46 that has as much enthusiasm for the sport as I do and he even occassionally shows the young punk how it's done, but never beats his chest about anything despite a fine record of climbing and skiing in the Cascades and Europe. I am convinced that the older you become the better you become even if it begins to hurt more. Then again when you watch Ben Manfredi or Jens Klubberud in action there's something to be said about youthful prowess.

Is there going to be Hamms beer there? I'll see if my friend Amanda will bring her crew of Jaagermeister girls along.

I have heard from several ski patrollers that radio bands can become an issue also when used in close conjuntion with transceivers.

I agree. It's also a good chance to discuss some things like how hard would it be to get a portion of our "involuntary fee demo" money shifted over to the support the NW Avalanche Center which I would support.

Sloth, The story above is not a fabrication. We got that email from a legitimate source. Note that the information pertained to a Euro location hence a Euro band which jives with the information you posted. Mike

I don't think anyone is idolizing anyone Captain C. I think it's just about respect, but I understand that sometimes the joke doesn't have to be funny to everyone (or anyone for that matter). Some people write websites, AND climb mountains, AND ice, AND rock, AND ski AND lay around on the couch smoking while waiting for that call...NOW where's those non filtered Paul Malls????

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Lowell Skoog can't bushwack? Wrong...wrong...wrong... http://alpenglow.org/ski-history/notes/ms/lds-journal.html#lds-journal-p1045

So is it Tuesday then? I'll be packing chrome. I'll bring Halling.

Steve Marts was the photographer for both films but never appears on film or gets mentioned in the narration. The short film attached at the end of "Fairweather" is the film "Ascent". The narration says "Mountaineering lingers on the fine edge of tragedy". [ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: mikeadam ]

Does anyone know who the 2 climbers in Steve Mart's film ascent were/are? If you've never seen Fairweather & Ascent: Ascent is a cool little ice climbing film made in the 70's and features pscychadelic 70's style mood enhancing music while 2 guys rappel into slots and climb out using aid techniques. I wanna say it was filmed on Baker, but the panorama at the end always throws me off. Does anyone know what mountain that was filmed on? Fairweather is a film about an expedition to the Fairweather range involving 4 local Washington climbers that ended in tragedy. You can read about the climb in Jim Wickwire's book "addicted to danger". The film itself is excellent. Mike

E/W = No sweat.