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I remember when you did that route with my partner, Eric Sweet. He became very good, very fast, then moved on to other things. I think he races motorcycles now.

I thought this thread was about stoke.

My guess, crap. TC seems to form later each year, now it seems to be best late March and April.

This one time, coming off of Ham and Eggs Couloir on the Moose's Tooth in the Ruth Gorge...

Yes.

Agree with the above. Buy 5mm or 6mm with whatever seems to be the most supple. Some tends to be stiffer than others, so just go by feel. I used to use 6mm but had a bad habit of using them for rappel anchors. Now I use 5mm so I'm less inclined to do that unless I'm in dire straights.

I sent you an email and a PM.

I'm guessing some climber got a Ph.D. in math out this.

Two former frequent CascadeClimbers contributors were buried while standing beneath Kiddie Cliffs. They both lived, but lost a lot of their gear as I recall. I think the approach to Chockstone Falls would be similarly threatened, if not the climb itself.

Thanks for the warning Alex. I think the ease of access and proximity to Seattle lull some visitors to the Alpental Valley into a false sense of security, but make no mistake, it is very threatened by avalanches.

My experience with GoPros is everyone's climbing footage makes me sea sick. Some enterprising engineer should build a gyroscopic stabilizing base for those things.

FYI, cold artic wind out of the north this morning = cold stable weather... Stay tuned, late December in the mountains could be very good if this continues.

Based on what I have seen in November and so far in December, I would bet that if these cold, dry conditions persist that winter climbing in the Cascade River Valley will be very good by the third week of December.

Is this solid fuel coal by any chance? Because that's been done before.

I'm sending you a PM, I'm interested.

Also, I have a pair of regular ski poles (not collapsible) that I found in the C-J Couloir, the grips have been chewed on by some sort of varmint, but those are FREE for the taking.

I have an uber classic Grivel Air Tech Racing (1st generation) complete with a custom red paint job. Extremely light, yet the forged steel pick penetrates ice very well. It is 58 cm. If interested, I would let it go pretty cheaply.

Run on trails instead of roads. The undulating terrain will force your ankles to become stronger and more flexible. Just a thought.

I agree. It reminded me a lot of Synchronicity in Lilooet, steep ice pillar, steep snow slope, steep ice pillar, steep snow, short hard mixed step...

That couloir dead center would be pretty cool too, in the right (iced/mixed) conditions. I wonder if that has been climbed? NE Couloir is to the climber's left, around the buttress out of view I think.

Kit and Steve Risse I think.

I attempted to ski around Snow Lakes in winter, but avalanche conditions were too high. We should get Juan in on this action. I honestly don't think TFT in winter would be that hard, assuming one had the right conditions. I don't think it would be any harder than the big rock routes done in winter in the Stuart Range.

TFT end of December?

Grivel had a plastic snow shoe that used a heel lever crampon style attachment system, but I don't recall it integrated with a crampon, I don't think you could wear both at the same time.

I look forward to being able to climb again, anything really. Funny, I think a lot about products for climbing and had something like these in my mind. A plastic type snow shoe that uses a crampon's attachment system. Nice to see I have good ideas. No follow through, but good ideas.