rbw1966

When the hell you wanna do it? I'm ready when you are.

That just sounds wrong man.

Are you sure those times are correct? In years past, the sale has not started until 9 p.m. Mountain Shops been doing this for years. Its an awesome sale. Wish I wasn't going out of town.

This subject rears its head every year on the board. Do a search for more info.

I've done quite a few of the canyons in Zion and all were great fun. Its my understanding that they're changing the permit system so you may want to call in advance. check out Tom's web page for some spectacular pictures and beta around the Zion area. He's working on a guide book for that area right now so a good source for current beta. For what its worth, I was there in august and I didn't think it was that bad. Stay in the slots during the day, drink yourself cool at night.

Went up and climbed the West Crater Rim early Saturday morning. Conditions were pretty favorable except for some persistent clouds just above the summit until the bad stuff rolled in as I descended. Also, got slammed by a blast of wind as I raised over the cornice protecting the crater rim that knocked me back down the south side a few feet. I belly-flopped over the lip of the ridge to the north side but the wind was just too much to try and deal with so I retreated back onto the south side of the crater rim. I traversed it over to the top of the Hogsback and then descended back down the mountain. Lots of loading on the south aspect of the ridge made things a bit spicey but overall a pretty mellow excursion. Aside from two fellows climbing Leutholds I didn't run into anyone else the entire time until the descent and then only saw two other climbers.

Works great in Amsterdam too. Someone in Portland started a similar program but the homeless folks were stealing the bikes and keeping them or selling them.

I've probably posted this a thousand times. My apologies to those who are tired of the reptition. I use T-2's and Sabretooth crampons. I've climbed everything from mixed snow and rock to WI3 in them with no problems whatsoever that I could attribute specifically to the boots or crampons. That is, any problems was due to poor technique. Obviously, any plastic boot is going to suck for technical rock climbing but for climbs where I am approaching with skis I will always use tele boots and sabretooths. I'm not experienced with AT gear so will defer to others for that input. Furthermore, I have had partners who had problems with their crampons popping off at inopportune times. I've never once had my sabretooths pop off. The sabretooths are fitted with an extra notch so you can extend the frontpoints out to accomodate the duckbill on the tele boots. Like any other potential boot purchase, make sure you mate your crampons to your boots before purchasing to make sure they are compatible. Hope this helps.

Second the earlier comments re beacon. I'd venture to say its the most spectacular basalt monolith in the NW with a variety of climbs within the 5.7-5.11 range. Be aware of a few things: 1. Raptor nesting closures 2. the railroad tracks are private property and if the ranger sees you on them you WILL get a ticket 3. rockfall is a very real hazard--not so much from touristas but from other climbers 4. it can be very crowded on a summer weekend. The south and east sides are the only closures. The rest of the rock is open.

Roger--I bet you work in the Wells Fargo Tower. I used to lock my bike there too. But if I am going to leave it downtown whilst in class I might as well use my locker by my office. It sonly 3 blocks away and there has never been a theft from one of them. Thanks for the offer though.

Chris-- It was a krypto U-lock, not that it matters. This is the third bike ($400, $2000, $600) I've had stolen in downtown portland and all three were secured with Kryptonite locks. Thankfully I still have my road bike so all is not lost. It still bites.

I hope you are talking about bikes, cause I am. My bike frame was 21"

I'm 6'3". You're bike is too small for me.

Yeah, it totally sucks. After my escond bike was stolen downtown, I started renting one of the bike lockers by my office but am too lazy to walk back to it after class so ride to PSU and lock it to a rack. Won't be doing that again.

2000 model Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo. Not top of the line but decent enough. Set me back something like $600 clams new. I'm insured under my homeowners policy but its a 1K deductible.

So I leave class at PSU last night at 9:30 all set to cruise home on my mountain bike only to notice something very strange. Bike gone! Some loser stole my bike. Bike thieves suck ass. End of rant.

or "Beefchub Millionaire"

Did you climb them?

E Type Jag?

Viagra gone up in price? Sorry to hear of your plight. Thought I'd at least let you know whats available here.

Any good with marketing? We're hiring.

Ahh, DFA, because no star shines in your sky quite as brightly as Adamson.

The basalt photo looks like Tieton.

Looks like the marsupials as Smith. Thin Air?

Not according to DFA