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I can't remember exactly how the system my friend and I use goes (he sets it up) but it's basicly a z pully and uses 2 jumars and a static rope for hauling the webing tight. You can get the webing VERY tight this way.

Are lithium batteries better in cold temps. I've used some generic battries that just die when it gets below freezing.

I'm planning on going to Rainier Mar 14-16 and wondering if one can drive the roads to the White River Campground at that time of year?

Damn school work! I could fall asleep in a second

The windchill has no effect, or very little, on how cold your feet are.

This past weekend I wanted nothing more than to hear the sweet sound of a snomobile and suck it's noxious fumes. We'd just finished an 8 day traverse of the Shulaps range near lillooet and had 30 km of flatish logging road to ski back to the truck. The snow was breakable crust and powder and I wanted a damn snowmobile track !

Not going to join the pickets today Fern?

AlpineK, I dislike snowmobiles when I go skiing so I go to places where I KNOW I won't find them. snowmobiles have every right to go into the backcountry and enjoy it as well. snowmobiling is a multi million dollar industry and does a lot more for supporting the economy and tourism than a bunch or us shopping at MEC. The Lillooet Land and Resource Managment Plan (LLRMP) is currently working on boundries where snowmobiles can and can not go. In highly used areas they may have certain months or years that snowmobiles can not use a certain area.

Sucks to be them I guess

Damn picket lines mean I have to bike 5km because the damn buses stop running at blanca . Why don't the TA's just strike and stick with it. none of this wishy washy strike from 8:00am-10:00am and go back to bargaining

Jordop, We're thinking of the Stein Divide Traverse from Lillooet lake to the Fraser River. It's going to be weather forcast dependant though.

9 day weekend !! My "reading break" at school begins on the 14th and goes till the 23rd, MWAHAHA. Ski traverse

This could possibly be the funniest thread I've ever read

maybe if we go aid climbing . I have a midterm at 12, maybe you'll have to solo aid .

I've used the ski crampons but on AT not tele skiis. It works great in hard spring snow or for scary traverses.

Seems that December 17th 2002 the road was snowed in to 1500 ft leaving 10 km of logging road. 300 posts!

Maybe 100ft of 40-45. It's casual. Easily skiied if good snow

If you have ski crampons you might not need em but it gets pretty steep.

How far up the baker road is it plowed?

To bad about the hundreds of other people who die around the world every day to

"Skiing the buttress in the sense that I will have skis on instead of snowshoes up to 11K. Not planning a ski descent or anything, just prefer to be in skis than in snowshoes for the lower part of the climb." That's exactly my point. Your only using the skiis to 11 000 and it's not technical ski terrain below that. Who cares if they're a bit sloppy. In your initial post you asked for solutions to the "problem", there are no solutions to the "problem" (other than common sense such as tightning laces and getting used to them), that's how Mountaineering boots ski.

Are you planning skiing the buttress or something? Obviously you won't be able to ski as well. Chances are the snow will be rock hard anyways and will not require much ancle support. I find if I cranck the laces real good before the down they're fine. I've used both the scarpa vega's and the red koflachs on 500s for 2 years and they worked fine. I only recently bought some AT boots for weekend trips but still use my Plastics for traverses and longer trips. It's not like your going for the turns on Denali either.

Snoboy, I've had 2 pairs of ascentions that have had crappy glue peeling from one side to the other. I still have the second pair and plan to take them back to MEC shortly. the guy i'm returning them to asks employe: "well uuuhhhh have you been uuuhhh pulling them apart when it was like cold?" Stefan: Uuuhhhh ya, it usually is when I ski "