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You know @wayne, you were mainly the reason I had it on my list! I seem to remember you talking it up many years ago and it lodged in my brain. Glad the TR brought back some memories. Glad to have helped add some info to the interwebs @joe_catellani @willithewanderer!

@StevenSeagal!!! My faith in spray is slowly being restored.

I'm glad they finally put a via ferratta up der Waddhorn @G-spotter

So..... what's the story on the guy's fall? Just a misstep? Falling rock or ice swept him? How far did he fall, etc.... Not good, sorry to hear about your involvement....and nice work on getting up and down the climb safely.

Amen.

Calvin was a force of nature who, unfortunately, I had the chance to hang out with only once. It was at a Mount Erie clean-up event he hosted in Dallas Kloke's honor, the year after his passing (2011?). Afterwards we climbed Zig-zag in memory of Dallas, Calvin with a rope tied around his waist and in Nowegian welt boots- just like Dallas had done on the FA. RIP Calvin, you are missed.

That's a tough and insecure feeling solo (I can only imagine). Strong work to get up and down without a serious mishap!

I can't resist the irony of giving your post a "like" @ilias

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I think you have to have them in a post? @jon ? @olyclimber

So many good photos! Just went back thru and perused again. I need to put this on my list again I can see.

C'MON!!!! I don't think I've ever seen that sort of behavior in such a spot in the North Cascades. Nice work, that's a great trip- certainly one of my favorites. And yes, the slog up the Blum "trail" is indeed soul-crushing.

I have to think that there were on the summit??!!!

That's not what Fred writes (nor Wikipedia). I've always thought that the Cascades end at the Fraser River and those volcanoes in BC are part of the Coast Mountains. But it is probably just semantics. The volcanoes are typically not related to the rocks they protrude up through, but are all related to the subducting of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the NA plate. In that sense I suppose all the volcanoes from Southern BC to N. California are related.

WHAT??!!

Now that is amazing. I thought he was a dead man. That must have been exciting to have his anchor blow apart while he was being pulled by the helo.

Yeah! Wow, though, crowds on Goode?? That is pretty crazy.

@mattp!! Good to see you back around these parts....

DAMN!!!!!!

Slesse's pocket glacier is way less dangerous than this though:

Fred said it was a great incentive to not fall.

Some might say you guys were Bi-Winning @pup_on_the_mountain@OlegV.

That's what I was wondering....how much less the risk in cooler weather. Probably really hard to estimate without recording a bunch of video and tallying ice chunks by time of day/temp. over several years. And I imagine it would be location specific since the angle of slope, rock type, etc. would factor in.

This TR is filled with truth and greatness!

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