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Thanks everyone! I feel I am about %75 better and am still experiencing some nasty symptoms but my enegy is coming back and day trips are looking like a posibility very soon.

Nice report and photos. The views from the summit into the Nooksack Cirque and Price Glacier are almost to good to be believed.

I don't know the mileage, but the Ptarmigan Traverse has many of those attributes.

Nice job! Out of the half dozen or so routes I have done on Stuart, SGC feels the most alpine, what with the snowed/iced up rock climbing on the West Ridge portion.

Very nice photos. The strategic placement of the climbing honey no doubt helped.

We did not find the cam.

I found out the hard way that it doesn't have to be super hot to delaminate the soles. I stuck a pair of wet boots on the floor of my truck with the heater blowing on them. The next time I wore them the soles just peeled right off.

Not on the poll, but a really beautiful head of think, shiny, dark hair usually turns my head regardless of the body it is attached to.

Did you do this with Mark Bunker? If so, I think my partner and I were right behind you guys on the route. We watched you do the variation and it looked good, but harder than I wanted to lead so we didn't follow you.

You could be right, I saw it 15 years ago.

Chad, are you in B'ham now? How are you liking it?

I work with a woman who was one of Carlos' professors at Huxley College. She was a climber herself and remembers Carlos as being very interested in climbing at the time and said he was a nice young man. There is a photo of Carlos on the summit of Mt Everest with a 'Huxley' flag hanging in the Huxley College main office.

Thanks for the heads up.

Sadly, an emoticon does not exist that adequately expresss how funny that was.

I think you may mean Serpentine Arete? I haven't done Backbone, so I can't compare the two, but Serpentine had a few good pitches and a whole lot of scrambling. I felt the NE Buttess of Colchuck right next door was a much better route. Many more technical pitches, better rock, minimal amount of 4th class.

All I know about this poster is what she looks like in a bikini, and I say that's enough for me.

Me too.

This is good advice for anyone traveling to the Cascades to climb. Rainier is magnet for storms, it can be nuking on Rainier and blue bird elsewhere. Going east of the crest can often get you better weather as well. Think Washington Pass, Enchantments, Stuart Range, Entiats.

I thought the problem was 5.10+

Circumnavigate Mt Rainier on skis if the weather is good.

Why would these women wear dresses when they knew they would be wearing harnesses? Don't they know we can see their panties?

It is hard to believe in this economy, particularly the housing segment, developers are still building.

May is hit or miss in terms of weather. If you are going before Memorial Day weekend expect to walk the road to White River Campground adding about 6 miles. There will be snow. A lot of snow. Conditions could be good or they could be bad depending upon the condition of said snow. Best of luck.

I climbed more in the Cascades last summer than any of the previous 20. I thought the weather was awesome and never got skunked.