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  1. Hi Rick,

     

    Thanks for the resonse. I am still looking for a partner. Do you live in the Seattle area? I was thinking of a half day climb at snoqualmie pass or if the weather is bad making the trek over to Ingalls Peak or something. Email me at bighurtbob@hotmail.com if you are interested.

     

    Dan

  2. more of the same:

    They purposely infected African American men with syphilis.

     

    That is actually with out a doubt quite true. African American males were purposefully infected with syphilis to study the disease. We studied that case in microbiology in college.

  3. Daniel--why did you guys decide to camp at the hourglass? We were hoping you'd be okay because we heard rockfall (probably off the Wilson Headwall) during the night.

     

    Camping where we did was a poor decision on my part. We kept thinking we could find a nice, protected site 'just a little higher', but we never did. The rock fall all night was coming down from the gulley climber's left of the FF. We had a pretty sleepless night. Only one rock came down the FF and it came pretty close to our camp.

  4. 30 years ago my childhood physician was Dr. John Roper at Group Health in Renton. He was a climber and his office had lots of mountain climbing photos on the walls. I thought the name Roper was appropriate for a climber, or a rodeo cowboy. Is this the same John Roper that has climbed all that stuff in the Cascades?

  5. KKK,

     

    I think I saw your group on FF. Did one guy in your party have a pony tail? I was with a guy and a girl. I was greeting folks with 'hola amigo'. At the top of the finger where everyone kind of stopped, we saw the group that placed pickets to protect a pull over a crevasse lip thingy (you guys I assume). We went left and down - it was quite easy. We turned around shortly thereafter, one of our party was running out of steam.

     

    Dan

  6. 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.

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