philfort

Give Caveman beer

Well, this is only midly related to climbing, but anyway. We were at the Colonial Creek campground getting ready to head in to Mt Logan, when this boy runs quickly by us into the bathrooms. One of my friends is in the stall next to the one this boy *tries* to get into. He didn't quite make it: (ok, I edited this post and changed it to a link, because the picture was too gross - so that's a warning to you if you click this!) http://www.mtnphil.com/Logan/Poop.JPG [ 01-16-2002: Message edited by: philfort ]

Well actually, David Parker is right - as the weather systems pass over Puget Sound, they do pick up extra moisture in the form of spray from Caveman, et al... On a related note, I hear the Cheam Range near Chilliwack is getting a lot more precip these days.

And just what autosig would that be, eh? Ha ha ha! Now who looks like the fool!?

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How about something more on topic - funny mountain names? -Nippletop, in the Adirondacks -And of course, we all know what Grand Tetons means. -Big Bosom Buttes, North cascades.

I don't think so, not right now anyway. I think when the ski resort is closed you "need" a NW forest pass.

quote: Originally posted by JRCO: Why can I get a digital cell phone for $69 but a digital avalanche beacon costs $300+. Is that a serious question? Because they sell 300 million digital cell phones a year, and only a few thousand beacons?

quote: Originally posted by Beck: Road gets gated just past the Silverstar drainage, just on the North and East side of Valskivi(sp?) Ridge and Wine Spires, if I'm remembering things correctly. I believe its now gated in Mazama, about 7 miles down the road from Silverstar ck.

quote: Hopefully you haven't learned that from action man, forrest! This would explain how forrest gets up all those hardcore routes...

In canada: Orgasm, Saskatchewan Dildo, Newfoundland

quote: Originally posted by David Parker: Sequim is not on the east side, but the north. The weather (moisture laden clouds) doesn't usually back up that far from the Cascades and just basically passes over. I don't know my Olympic geography very well. It actually looks like its at the NE tip of the peninsula. I just remember reading somewhere that Sequim was an example of the rainshadow the Olympics produce. I think its most pronounced on the NE side of the range. I guess the bulk of the weather comes from the SW or something

Yeah, there's some kind of rain shadow thing going on there. I think some of the "east side" towns in the Olympics, like Sequim, only get 12 inches of rain a year or something. I've also noticed the "last ridge" of the Olympics (Townsend, Constance, Brothers, etc...) cloud free, while everything else was socked in. It would be nice to be able to predict when this was going to happen, so you could plan and take advantage of it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with TR'ing ice. How the hell else are you supposed to learn? Of course, like caveman said, if you're at a place where there's other people, and someone wants to lead it, they should get priority.

Actually, americans get their powder tax *rebate* at the border (assuming it was a big enough purchase - which by the looks of it, it was). Canadians are stuck paying it.

quote: Devils Club is negotiable just deal with the minor pain Caveman, judging by the way you seemingly dismiss devils club as a big problem, it's obvious you haven't ever had to deal with *real*, *manly* devils club. Maybe you're mixing it up with gooseberries or something

When dbb and I climbed a route on the N Face of Kent (maybe, just a tad easier than N face of Colonial huh? ) , I also forgot the rope. Realized it about 20 minutes up the trail. Except, I didn't forget it in the car. I had forgotten it in Seattle. So we lost at least two and a half hours driving back to get it. Luckily, we had done an alpine start, but the climb didn't require one, and we made it to the summit area by sunset. Gregm forgot his ski boots once, on a 3 day ski trip in the Sawtooth wilderness near Lake Chelan. He realized it somewhere around stevens pass, but it was too late to go back and get them. I think he tried to find some rentals in wenatchee or something, but failed. So he just hiked around all weekend while we skied. Actually, there wasn't much snow considering it was July, we did a lot of hiking too.

Probably an avalanche husky or something. Sledders need slightly larger dogs due to the heavier weight of sled vs. skier.

quote: Originally posted by jpbulger: By the way, am I the only guy on belay!?!? Caveman and Dru should be given special titles for having over 2000 posts. So it would go something like: On Belay ( < 10 posts)Rope Lead ( 10 < posts < 2000)Spray Lord ( > 2000 posts)

Drilling a hole wouldn't work. Dru's magnet thing will work, because it will pull the fonts outward on your hard drive, and thus on your screen (magnifying them). The drill thing would probably just result in some letters not showing up I think.

What wit!

quote: Originally posted by trask: I'd like to get her some edible underwear but am not sure of the size or color. I'd like to help you out. Feel free to have her contact me for a personal appointment in edible underwear fitting.

I've got a friend who uses the term "shnasty", to refer to a particularly unpleasant section.

This is a long shot, but does anyone know if the logging road that ascends Bob Creek on the north side of Cashmere mtn is open to the public, specifically to snowmobiles? I called the ranger station, they said there was some private property around there somewhere, but not really sure where. The road is marked as "restricted" on maps. Does that mean its private?

Who is that, and why are the trees growing diagonally?