philfort

Seabury Blair's backcountry skiing book has stuff listed in the Olympics. Take a peek, but definitely don't buy the book, it's quite lame. I've only been up there once, but Mt Angeles has some nice south-facing gullies that drop right down to the hurricane ridge road, a couple of miles before the lodge. I tried to ski'em once, but it was a little too icy. You can bag the peak too.

???Where is the real beer? http://www.unibroue.com/products/3pistoles.cfm ??

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Cascades: ...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT... .TONIGHT...RAIN OR SNOW. SNOW LEVEL RISING TO 2500 FEET.5 TO 10 INCHES OF NEW SNOW. WIND IN THE PASSES WEST TO 15 MPH..THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...SNOW OR RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES. WINDY.SNOW LEVEL 3000 FEET. 1 TO 2 FEET OF NEW SNOW. AFTERNOON PASSTEMPERATURES THURSDAY 30 TO 35. WIND IN THE PASSES WEST 10 TO 20 MPH.SOUTHWEST WINDS 30 MPH GUSTING TO 60 MPH HIGHER ELEVATIONS..FRIDAY...SNOW AND RAIN TURNING TO SHOWERS. 6 TO 10 INCHES OF NEWSNOW. SNOW LEVEL 2000 FEET LOWERING TO 1000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASSTEMPERATURES 25 TO 30. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES NEAR 30. WEST WIND15 TO 25 MPH. .FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...SNOW SHOWERS. 5 TO 10 INCHES OF NEWSNOW. SNOW LEVEL BELOW 1000 FEET. Adds up to 28 to 54 inches (70-137cm) by saturday.... hmmm.

Same reason it say he "Mountain Dude".

I bet I can't.

Which one of the squares is not like the other?

It's not my picture, it's scot'teryx's from his Enchantment TR. I just saw it and pondered that ice conditions were better back in october than they are now.

Ice!!!

1) Rainier 2) Dan Larson 3) Rainier again.

quote: Originally posted by markman: Rope? Who would use a rope on ice? Could that be.... sarcasm?

quote: Originally posted by max: I'm assuming the average of the "great"/"sucks" ratings for all the magazines out there must be near "neutral". I don't know about rating scales, all I know is I kept getting issues, and they kept sucking. They sent me a thing saying "This is your second to last issue", and I was like, well, this isn't very good, it had better get better next issue. Last chance. And then the next issue came, with a note that said "renew now! This is your last issue!!" and basically had a blurb dissing Rock & Ice and Climbing, those 'fancy US' magazines, and saying how Gripped was where climbing was really at. And I was like, huh, I don't think so. Climbing and Rock & Ice are much better reads. Don't know about the European stuff, it's hard to get that here. So I guess I don't know of any really good climbing mags. [ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: philfort ]

It's not the best time of year for climbing in the Cascades. Most of the alpine rock climbs are still very snowed up. That time of year the snow is transitioning from winter to spring mode, so its often slushy and unconsolidated and avalanching. Often, but certainly not always. During a cold snap you could get nice frozen stuff. If you want rock at that time of year, I would do something on the east side, say in the Stuart Range, where things melt out earlier I think. Snow might be more consolidated there too. And the weather is better.

wow, you DO have time on your hands! Looks... seven-fingered-jackish ?

How steep is it? Is it the one that drops down from right near the summit? (just looking at a map here...)

Dru, I swear I remember you making posts in defense of GRIPPED.... ??? Anyway, I let my subscription lapse, because, as Dru just said now, GRIPPED sucks.

quote: Originally posted by gregm: i like the "dr evil" feeling of having my own blimp.

The Book "Wild Snow" indicates that the first descent was in 1980 (Chris Landry).

A weather balloon we found on Adams last summer had a pre-addressed envelope to return it to.

If you clip an 8mm diameter biner to the small hole, and have one rope coming out at a 50 degree angle, and the other at a 40 degree angle, and then squeeze the metal pin, the reverso will play "Ode To Joy". Try it, it's cool!

Banned? Since when? I'm pretty sure White River rd is open to snowmobiles to the White River campground.

That's right, no pictures of you. And I even have a picture of my ex-girlfriend up there.

photos of-Mt Rainier/Lib Ridge/Carbon glacier-Serac in the Coleman glacier-A peak in the St Elias range-Same peak from a different angle-An underwater sea slug (a co-worker's hobby is scuba)-a secret project -canadian flag-a few small photos of other stuff like friends drinking, sand-skiing, etc...

Sedro Wooley sounds like "see your willy" huh huh hhuh hhuh