Ade

Nice effort! The best routes are the ones you have to try and try again on anyways! Ade

Nice pictures, esp. the last one! I suspect that the ice on Index is rarely very good. We found lots of cool looking lines that turned out to be 4-6" of snice pasted onto blank rock with, as you point out, hard to protect rock. Ade

optimize => leave at home

I have a pair. There's a review here. http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/climbing/2006/01/review-vasque-ice-9000-double-boot.html I have large wideish feet.

It's me and Mark B on Night n Gale. Nice pictures!

I just wrote a review of the Firstlight. This is based on use Peru this summer as well as the Cascades on pervious summer and winter trips.

That's what I thought I needed for the Blanca too. But I actually used a Nikon D40 for most of the pictures I took. In Peru you're rarely out of Huaraz for weeks on end so I just took two batteries and a charged with me. Never even needed the second battery. I had a Canon A640 as a backup which sort of meets some of your requirements but is a bit bulky. Pictures here: http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/climbing/2007/09/peru-picture-gallery-part-ii.html

Pictures from Peru... http://www.ademiller.com/climbing/gallery/andes/peru_2007/index.htm Not much climbing I'm afraid, spent far too much time ill.

Nice job! I'm glad one of us worked out how to post pictures from Huaraz. Good meeting you guys at Jo's Place. My Peru trip didn't involve much climbing due to getting sick a lot but I got some nice pictures of Pisco Oeste. http://www.ademiller.com/climbing/gallery/andes/peru_2007/index.htm

I see this on my browser too. IE 7.0 / WinXP Pro SP2. The other pages are fine.

Crossfit Eastside doesn't have levels, formal testing, T-shirts or a boot camp to graduate before you can become a member. We do have a board for people to write their goals on, these don't have to be CF specific. After all most people are training for something else not to be good at CrossFit. The only two CF gyms I know that do any of this other stuff are the Seattle and Portland HEL ones. If it works for you go for it, but I can think of numerous reasons it doesn't interest me.

So this whole "level" and T-shirt thing? Did they steal the idea from the Scientologists?

Depends which bit of the Alps. I can recommend the Mello valley in northern Italy for some fantastic multipitch granite as a wet weather option. They meet your >1000' 5.10a requirement.

Because you've climbed a load of pitches with them or because you believe the hype?

We climbed it in spring via the Nelson-Gerson. The ridge looked likea "unique" climbing experience... http://www.ademiller.com/climbing/gallery/cascades/nooksack_2004/slides/17_the_nooksack_ridge_and_shuksan.htm

I've been adding more pictures. Site updates get listed here: http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/climbing/labels/Site%20Updates.html

Nice... Are you sure about that date?

Given that the upper pitches in summer are a huge slab I'd vote for the latter.

The pictures for this finally got put up... http://www.ademiller.com/climbing/gallery/yukon/good_neighbor_2005/index.htm

Nice job... Elsewhere the snowpack sucketh.

Nice job! Great shots of the route too. The turf is where it's at for sure on that thing!

The URL for the pictures has changed. They're now up on my new site... http://www.ademiller.com/climbing/gallery/cascades/dragontail_serpentine_ridge_2004/index.htm

Anyone interested in getting out this weekend? I was thinking of Lil'wet. Try and hit some of the 4s and maybe 5s depending on conditions and avoid the inevitable crowds at Marble. PM me if you want to go. Ade

Thanks for the info.

Get some. Go again. Travis - Why don't you go climb something worth telling us about and then come post about it. So far all I see is a bunch of worthless posts about what you're going to do when conditions get better.