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Did you say something about Al Gore. [font:Century Gothic]Paging Mr. Fayreweather [/font] And that phony climate change stuff.

Yeah when you're whimpering about wet and cold rock smart people are out shredding the knar.

Yeah I saw Laurie Anderson at the Paramount back a long time ago. She had Adrian Belew playing guitar and on one song wearing a sombrero that was about 10' in diameter. That was a good show.

I did some long searches over there, but I couldn't find a thing. That's a funny site they have. I refuse to take part mostly because they have the word Tele in the site title. Telemark

Language is a virus 8bhldlJ0Aus

Range would be a subset of Mountains. The pictures look nice

I've been told recently I'm no avy-exspurt.

Though I haven't taken any part in this discussion I'm an element in the whole thread. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Sorry guess again Ring ain't Rumr's nothing. Ring can be told what to do, but not by anybody on CC. I'm king of this page!

I met Ring years years before this whole internet thing was of any interest. Sorry Fairweather you wouldn't stand a chance.

I believe it's listed in the guide as the NW Bowl. As you approach it's to the left of the Skyladder but past the West Shoulder Direct. Photo Finish may just be the local name. I forget. It was a photo finish for us.

This climb Photo Finish ends with this pitch. I never really considered tunneling as an ascent tactic, but sitting with a pair of binoculars down on the Icefield Parkway I decided we needed a shovel to get to the summit. Sure enough after a couple traverse pitches it was either dig through to the summit or downclimb the face. Today after seeing Colin's pictures it ain't no big thing, but at the time to me it was a big fucking deal.

Yeah, given this winter I was planning on more snow. I have heard Cliff Mass from the UW mention that while temperatures were below normal this spring so was precipitation. As for climbing there are some big slots to deal with at about 1/3 height of the icefall. That is what changed our minds about skiing. I'd say climbing will be tricky there. The upper 2/3 of the route looks pretty straightforward. Possibly climbing may involve being prepared to deal with seracs.

The Owl Party

What if you support candidates like this one? 'Bunco' Bob Kelly What kind of climber are you if you only vote for folks like him.

Trip: Mount Adams - Adams Glacier Ski (attempt) Date: 7/12/2008 Trip Report: [font:Arial Black]Adams Glacier Skiing [/font] [font:Times New Roman]I've skied the south side of Adams a few times. Each time was good, but eventually I started thinking about skiing on the north side. I talked it over with Hugh, and we decided to give the north side a shot and see what happened. This year with our good snow pack I figured mid July would be just fine. Well things didn't quite work out that way. [/font] [font:Arial]View of Adams from our camp [/font] [font:Times New Roman] Saturday the 12th we hiked through the woods. I had tons of fun navigating with a new GPS. Eventually we broke out of the trees and got to the point where there were ski slopes ahead. We set up camp, but the weather was hot and the snow looked a little too soft for fun skiing. We walked around and checked out the view. One thing we noticed was that crevasses on the Adams Glacier were more exposed than we liked for good skiing. There's an obvious line on the west flank of the glacier, but there were some gaps open there. Eventually I decided to try and hide from the sun and bugs. I took a nap, but I couldn't escape mosquitoes.[/font] [font:Arial]Here's the view of Rainier from camp [/font] [font:Arial]View of Saint Helens [/font] [font:Times New Roman]Early in the morning we got up and skied up the mountain. Things were looking good until we reached High Camp. At that point the snow ended and we faced a long trudge with skis on our back. [/font] [font:Arial]View of the Adams Glacier from High Camp [/font] [font:Times New Roman]On closer examination our opinion of skiing on the Adams Glacier dropped. We both decided that we should have come up here 3 weeks earlier. High Camp is a nice spot with scenic meadows, but eventually we put on our skis and headed back to camp. At camp we cleaned up and skied down as far as we could. On descent I had more fun with the GPS. I've never used them much, but for professional reasons I needed one. I map trees, so you need devices that work under canopy cover. This one did fairly well. Anyway we got back to the car and drove north. This wasn't quite the ski I was looking for, but I've never been in to the north side of Adams. In fact the only previous time I had been in the area was when my father and I climbed mount Curtis Gilbert and Old Snowy. I was 12 at the time, so that's been a while. [/font] Gear Notes: The weather was warm. We had a lot of stuff for skiing, but all you needed was hiking shoes. I had a GPS, but you should never depend on stuff like that. Take sunscreen and glasses Approach Notes: I found these directions helpful

Nice. I always wanted to climb Columbia, but I never got there. Either ski the east side or climb the North Ridge/Face.

First Then Then

I'll bite. In 1986 I spent most of the summer climbing. I drove by myself to the Climbers Ranch at the Grand. While there I met this dude and we climbed the following things in Wyoming Grand Teton, Direct Exum Ridge Pingora, Northeast Face Wolf's Head, East Ridge. We then got bored with Wyoming and drove to Canada where we climbed: Bugaboo Spire, East Ridge South Howser Tower, West Buttress Then solo climbed Sir Donald. From there we drove to Edith Cavell. In a 4 day push we: Climbed the North Face of Edith Cavell followed by a day of rest then hiked into the base of the Wishbone Arete. The forth day we summitted Robson via the Wishbone. The weather at the time scared us, so we hightailed it off the mountain. After that I had a few days left before college started. I could have kept going, but that was the end of that trip. I don't think I'll ever top that string.

Yeah, I like that Ratpatrol2 one as well.

Those are some nice pictures. After watching some bad rockfall and hearing stories Goose Egg hasn't been high on my list. Your pictures look good though.

I was on the north side today. We didn't see a bit of smoke. I can't speak for the south side, but there was a distinct lack of snow on the north side. It appears to be melting fast.

I'll show up.

If we want to go back in time then we need to rename a few things. A big chunk of the area around Rainier Ave should be given the official name Garlic Gulch. On thing that isn't very nice, but would keep with the old time, is the north end of Madison Valley should be known as Coon Hollow. Source, other than stories from my dad

Thanks for putting that up. When I did the Wishbone Arete we ran into a mandatory jump between the rock and ice climbing section. It was pretty crazy. Only 6', but exciting.