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I agree with TTK, to some extent. I live in Issaquah and commuted to Pioneer square for eight years. I took the bus or rode my bike. Commute by bus was about 20 minutes. It would be an easy enough to commute by bus to Harborview, but I am guessing your schedule reguires you to drive. I would hate to drive into Seattle. If that is the case, I would consider renting an apartment/buying a condo in city within walking distance to Harborview and then buying a cabin in Leavenworth or Mazama if you want a place to get away to. A colleague of my wife and her husband did that. Small apt in Capital Hill, house on Orcas Island. (They were avid boaters).

I noticed you are in Sammamish, I am in Issaquuah. If you want to swing by and take a look at my MKI which is for sale you can see for yourself.

I am selling an Integeral Designs, MKI Lite tent, yellow. This tent is in excellent condition. I would need to do a local pickup, I am in Issaquah. I can email photos if interested softwareninja AT live DOT com.

I am selling a Feathered Friends Widgeon sleeping bag. The bag was custom built with 850+ fill and 2 oz overfill with an Epic shell in regular length. The bag weights about 3 1/4 pounds, stuffs small, and is very warm. It has been used exactly twice, once on Denali once Aconcogua. The current MSRP is $629, I am asking $350 and will include a genuine yellow Evazotte winter weight, full length sleeping pad. If interested, email softwareninja AT live DOT com. This will need to be a cash, local pick up deal. I live in Issaquah. I can email photos if interested.

Thanks G-d we have KirkW to police these here newbie boards lest someone get some salty talk along with their nickel's worth of free interwebs advice. Although I feel a little dirty knowing that he he follows me from interweb forum to interweb forum. I think that, much like my 10th grade girlfriend, he has an unhealthy obsession with me. It is probably because I look so attractive in Prana.

You got me there Kirk, you must feel very clever for 'outing' me. I am not climbing right now as I am struggling with a serious immunodeficiency. You're just too awesome for me. Make sure when Dane comments, you call him out as an armchair mountaineer, because he's sick too. Asshat.

You are an expert backcountry skier, yet you lack avalanche forecasting/rescue skills? Really? Thank god SOMEBODY said it. They dont have avalanches back east?? Yeah, and KirkW jumped down my throat for it.

Geez Kirk, I apologize for offending your delicate sensibilities. Allow me to rephrase my response so no one's feelings get hurt mmm-kay? Most expert backcountry skiers in this neck of the woods have completed avalanche training and are able to make in the field assessments of slope stability. Furthermore, most experienced backcountry skiiers ski in groups and carry beacons, probes, and shovels and the knowledge to use them in case of a burial. I would not recommend someone not intimately familiar with local areas, weather patterns, and avalanche conditions to go backcountry skiing alone. East coasters in the past have underestimatded the local weather conditions to tragic ends. Is that better Miss Manners?

You are an expert backcountry skier, yet you lack avalanche forecasting/rescue skills? Really? I would not recommend someone not intimately familiar with local areas, weather patterns, and avalanche conditions to go backcountry skiing alone. Seems like the last east coasters who started wagging their dicks around Mt Hood in winter ended up dead.

Tools sold.

Same siders are born that way, it is not their fault and they deserve all the same rights as us opposite siders.

The name for the phenomenon is 'Herd Immunity'.

I am selling a NEW unused pair of Black Diamond Viper ice tools. These are the copper colored version, one with a mini hammer, the other with a mini adze. I would like to sell these as a set with a NEW unused Black Diamond Spinnner Leash for $400. This set up would cost $510 + tax in the stores, so I think $400 is reasonable. This would have to be a local pick up deal as I am not really mobile right now. I am in Issaquah so you could be swinging your new tools inside an hour of buying them. Please email softwareninja AT live DOT com if interested. I can take photos of them if you want to put your glazzies on them.

Thanks for the clarification, I misunderstood the intent of your previous post. The fact remains that I paid for a Sno Park permit to use a specific Sno Park that was never plowed all winter. I went on weekends at a Sno Park that access Mount Rainier. Obviously the plower's discretion sucks. BTW, fighting tickets is easy, you just show up to court, request the officer issuing the ticket be at the hearing (officer has to take time out of his schecule to attend, never happens for a parking ticket) and the ticket has to by law be dismissed. The odds are very much in my favor, believe me, but thanks for your well wishing.

It sounds like there is no oversight of the commerical operators paid through Sno-Park pass sales. They have no schedule to adhere to and plow at their discretion meaning that the less they plow, the more free $$ they get. I think if I get back to it, I will not be purchasing Sno Park permits and if I get a ticket in an uplowed lot or near one I will fight it in court.

I am selling some carpentry tools. All are in excellent condition. I thought I'd try here before going to Craiglist. 10" Bosch Portable Tablesaw similar to this one, but with a non rolling, folding stand. $250 OBO. http://www.lowes.com/pd_294100-353-4100-09_4294857520+4294965864_4294937087_?catalogId=10051&productId=1208633&Ne=4294937087&N=4294857520+4294965864&identifier=Bosch&langId=-1&Ns=p_product_prd_lis_ord_nbr%7C0%7C%7Cp_product_qty_sales_dollar%7C1&storeId=10151&rpp=24&searchQueryType=1 7 1/4" Dewalt worm drive framer's circular saw with case: $75 OBO http://www.lowes.com/pd_74269-70-DW364K_4294857528+4294926871_4294937087_?productId=1209479&Ns=p_product_prd_lis_ord_nbr|0||p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1&pl=1&currentURL=%2Fpl_Corded%2BCircular%2BSaws_4294857528%2B4294926871_4294937087_%3FNs%3Dp_product_prd_lis_ord_nbr%7C0%7C%7Cp_product_qty_sales_dollar%7C1&facetInfo=DEWALT Senco air Finish Pro 35 nail gun with case: $100 OBO http://www.homedepot.com/Tools-Hardware-Air-Nailers-Nails/Senco/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbl93Z1ct/R-100615085/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053 Senco air stapler. $50 OBO Photos on request and I will consider reasonable offers but I am tyring to pay medical bills, not clean out the garage. Thanks for looking. Also, I live in Issaquah and will need to have suff picked up. I am home all the time, so stop by on the way to Snoqualmie Pass and take a look. softwareninja AT live DOT com if interested.

Last time I tried to use a Sno Park it was unplowed and I got my truck stuck in the lot resulting a $240 towing bill. The previous time it was also unplowed and some dudes with a big trailer for their snomachines complained that we took up too much room in the small area in the driveway that was plowed.

This shit happened to me, that dog would have received the same treatment. Our dogs are given rank (higher than ours) and are brave and awesome Americans. If you think I am going to let an aggressive, loose and potentially rabid dog take a chunk out of my highly trained pooch while on restraint, you have another thing coming.... My wife had to physically restrain me from beating some hipster's ass when he insisted he needed to 'help habituate our dogs' by allowing his unleashed dogs near mine. I'm sure that was the last time he tries something like that. I could see the 'oh shit' look in his eyes as I charged him, dukes up. You don't fuck with my dogs.

Maybe one should premptively report unplowed Sno Parks in the weeks before one plans to utilize said Sno Park to ensure it will be plowed.

Weather typically becomes much more stable after July 4th and continues to stablize through August leading to long stretches of good weather that can persist through September. Depending upon your objective, earlier in this time frame may be better in terms of solid snow bridges and less icy conditions. Even two hot weeks can turn a route from a steep snow climb into an ice climb that requires a second tool and ice screws and belays. I would first decide what your primary objectives are and come back and ask for more specific weather advice for those routes.

Chockstone Falls?

Thanks for the heads up. Twice I have tried to use the Sno-Park at the junction of HWY 410 and Crystal Mt Blvd. Both times it was unplowed.

My preferance is to stay in the shelter, others prefer to tent it. If you are planning on a longer trip and have the weather window, spending the first night at Muir and a second night at Ingraham Flats can aid in acclimatization. Then again, spending a day to move camp will only save you like 90 minutes on summit day and you eat an entire day to shelp all your crap another 1,000 vertical feet. The Beehive is an exposed, small spot and is inconvient unless you are descending the Gib Ledges, not recommended in May due to rockfall late morning.

I regularly climb on a single strand of Edelweiss 8.5 mm Sharp on moderate alpine routes. In my experience a half rope is more durable than skinny single ropes. The sheahes just seem to be thicker and tougher.

The microbiologist in me is outraged. The evolutionist in me sees this as stengthing the gene pool by removing the dumb ones.