Alex

I am going to walk across the frozen Puget Sound to Bainbridge!

Not the snow, melt, then freeze: we need a hard RAIN, THEN a hard freeze. Like a Pineapple Arctic Express Train Wreck!

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As an aside, its always interesting to see where these thread resurrections lead. I believe the post I made that started this thread was the first post I ever made on cc.com!

You clearly haven't lived there. The Rat is what it is: a place for underage lifties to get hammered.

Bug, with these temps it will be for sure. Also, there is little snow up there right now go git it b4 it gets buried.

I dont know if anyone has ever climbed it either, it has certainly been attempted though, and watched for a very long time.

...and even worse than that, you know the weather wont be this nice again until June 15th, 2006....

kind of looks like the area around silverstar, like the first part of Vasliki Ridge. But since jordop is posting it it must be in BC somewhere, eh?

I'd suggest you make your decision partially on your working arrangements. If you have to/want to commute to the East side daily to work (like across a bridge or sumfin'), living anywhere North of the Ship Canal bridge and dealing with 520 is certain death. If you have no such constraints, you're in better shape. I've lived in Cap Hill, First Hill, Eastlake, Wallingford, Mt Baker, and Seward Park and worked in Fremont and Ballard; I think the Eastlake neighborhood takes the cake.

If you buy them to burn them, please pay full price!

Gary, we got in an accident Christmas day with our Toyota. We had a 1.89$ roll of duct tape and a single hefty bag to work with; the patch over the rear window lasted the entire trip to Banff, including -30C temps and the 60-75mph drive to Banff and back to Seattle with only 1 spot retaped the entire time. There seemed to be a couple keys: the surface doesnt have to be warm when you tape, but should be as warm as possible and has to be absolutely dirt free. Clean the surface as best you can, warm up the tape as best you can, warm the surface as best you can (inside a garage for a few hours, or a shake-n-warm applied as you tape, or an XGK/canister stove held at a safe distance). That said, Nashua brand model #357 duct tape is well worth the money spent if you can find it. Stock up.

ah! another victim! http://www.mountaineersbooks.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=545

someone forgot to log in correctly

did you check out the new guidebook that Mountaineers books published last year?

well, I can do yard work, 1 out of 7 isnt bad....?

no moderate dry tooling however, a stick clip will get you up at least one of the routes if you are not up to leading. There is a fixed rope on one of the projects that usually gets really iced up, but if it isnt too icy youre welcome to use it to TR off that anchor. i doubt there will be any 2 pitch ice routes in below 4000-6000 ft anywhere right now

Fumunda?

The writing needs some work, and punctuation, and stuff.

fantastic picture!

but no one's biting

If the weather is good, the av hazard is good, and you are fit, go for it. You will feel real stupid (and die) if the av hazard is bad and your dogs set off a slide that kills you though. The South slope is prone to avalances by the headwall there around 11k. But otherwise completely soloable. The summit of Adams does not have crevasses that I've seen from the South. The route is commonly soloed year round. (If you continute N, there are some as you top out on NNW face and Adams Gl however).

8200 to summit and camp or down the other side in winter sounds like a really hard day. You dont want to bivy on the summit if you dont have to. Even with semi decent weather elsewhere, the summit can be capped by a lenticular and fierce winds at any time. In summer it would be a really hard day. With good weather your plan sounds feasible. But I would not bet on you getting good weather 3.5 days in a row. Alex

nice pic, its hard to orient yourself if you've never looked at Chair from this vantage, but the sweeping buttress in the center is the NE buttress, the righthand face is the N Face, and the normal descent gully is the gully leading down from the col between the main summit and the next summit to its left.

I've always wanted to go in there, but its a long hike in