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Has anyone here recovered from late-stage Lyme disease? Know anybody who has? I could use some encouragement.

Car to car in a day.

Funny thing, I was just cleaning out my glove box and found two of these tickets that I had forgotten about. The tickets must be about 8 years old. I have not been carted away in handcuffs yet.

Probably more helpful to know if they are off their crazy meds.

I have climbed with a number of partners who got their start by taking a course with AAI. They all felt it was very worthwhile and came away with solid skills. I think since you live in VA, it would be a good way to get introduced to alpine climbing.

Nice TR and photos. Pretty area.

Lazy muther f@#$%rs stole my check, and I want it back.

Diedre at Squamish in November. Slipped on ice and fell onto a small tcu.

Parking lot.

That is an incorrect statement. Canister stoves work better at altitude. As atmospherice pressure decreases, so does the temperature of vaporization. An iso-butane cansiter stove may fail at sea level at temperatures a bit below freezing, but may work fine at much colder temperatures at 25,000 feet. This is why they work on high peaks in the Himalayas.

We rolled in around 9:00 PM Saturday night. We saw no one else on Sherpa. I wandered over and talked with a group of 3 (or 4) who were planning on doing Ice Cliff Glacier. Was that you?

Hello, It was nice meeting you as well. We hiked in to do N Ridge Sherpa but were met by wet, icy, snowy rock. We managed a couple of pitches but we were moving very slowly. I smelled an epic in the making so we bailed before we got too committed. It was a great day in the hills none the less. Dan

Maybe he just had a nervous tick.

Seattle Running Company - The owner, Scott McCubray, is a top trail runner and his staff has the expertise you want. I also like Road Runner Sports near Greenlake, but they lack the expertise of SRC.

I thought it was at the football field ~19k.

16,400, isn't that a bit above the fixed ropes on the headwall? I am guessing he fell off the ridge opposite of the 14,000 ft camp?

I have always stayed at the Climbers Ranch. Its reasonably priced, has showers, interesting collection of climbers staying there, and close to the action.

Nelson and Potterfield's Selected Climbs in the Cascades, Vol I covers that route in good detail: http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Climbs-Cascades-Jim-Nelson/dp/0898863686

Wow, thanks you all for your considered opinions, espcially willstrickland!

Mrs Smith and I need a new car. In contention are the Mazda 3, 4 dr sedan, Toyota Matrix, 5 dr hatch back, and Honda Civic 4dr sedan. Any experience with these cars, either bad or good would be appreciated.

I thought this was going to be about that climb at Index.

Geez Rob, don't you realize this may result in increase cell phone costs?

Hi Chad, I was in the area this weekend and got a look at Dragontail. From my vantage Triple C did not look continuous. Perhaps You could climb the Hidden Couloir, then the North Face then back to the third couloir. Considerably harder than Triple C, but nothing you could not handle. Dan

The word on the street is the road to Cascade Pass is closed 8 miles before Eldorado Trailhead due to a bridge that was damaged by winter flooding. Colin Haley just posted a trip report and said the Tenaway River road will likely be snow free to the trail head by this weekend.

Yeah, I am way more hard core. Wait until I post pictures of the raised bed garden I built.