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In my haste I missed that link, thanks! Eerie, and I'm sure lent an air of seriousness to the whole endeavor.

Nice work! Exciting looking climbing, and steep! Does anyone have a write up on the accident? I am unfamiliar with it.

Pitch 3 is just getting you ready for D-town.

5.9 A2 in the Rockies should be the ticket.

Oh, and what Rad said too.

Great TR, but I was hoping for a few bear encounters..... Funny, I was just talking to friends who were up that way this summer, but never made it over to the springs. Thanks for the update!

Warm and dry up there this past weekend, all the new snow was long gone, even on Friday. New snow on the way later this week though....

TRIP REPORT!

Cool, thanks for putting on my list Curt!

Why they don't replace those pipes with driveable fords is beyond me. My parents live next to a retired NOCA maintenance guy and it still pisses him off when they have to work on these crossings nearly every year.

One of these years I gotta get into rafting

You know Spray when you see it.

In a normal year, the PT is pretty boney come August. While things are a lot worse than normal for the date, it isn't like it wasn't passable earlier in the season.

I guess I missed this the first time around. So classic!

Wind direction is key. The Newhalem fire blew up today so it might not be so clear right now.

No, at least what I hear (and personally think) is that we are opposed to giving more land to NOCA to manage. In my view, the USFS land in question is already adequately protected under the NW forest plan (or wilderness protections if any of those lands are included in the ALPS proposal). If the NWFP is amended significantly to undermine that protection, then I will re-evaluate. Until then, I will oppose the park expansion, for the many reasons outlined above.

Weird. I never have had an issue uploading with Firefox. I always dumb the photos down though so maybe that is the difference?

Bring steel crampons and some patience. It was in shockingly bare shape over a month ago. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1141133

Some great photos in there! Some day I will climb in the Alps, some day.....

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article30756399.html Condolences to the friends and family of Mr. Moldver. He sounded like a good man.

Pardon me, "Iron Intestines" Trent.

Still sounds like I should keep it on my list. Thanks for the report.

No flowing water on the Cascadian, or west ridge, but there is a bit of snow below the true and false summits that you could melt. At least I think it should still be there.

Quite smokey up the Cascade River yesterday, but it is raining today so who knows what it will be like in a couple weeks. Wind direction will be key.