AlpineK

quote: Originally posted by Zenolith: re: brittney. is it just me or did her boobs get bigger again? talk about being in the bullring...that girl is sitting on a dock with her bra falling off and she wants us to think she is a virgin? She may very well be a virgin. I think she's excellent at marketing, or at least her handlers are. Also she's a total hypocrite. I mean she's obviously selling herself through sex, but she loves to talk about how straight laced she is. Fuckin tease. She's going to wreck a generation of boys. [ 03-03-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

Check out the photos: Spearhead photos [ 03-02-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

Matt Like drew's link says they want to see your beeper, shovel, and probe. All we did was drag our huge packs over and that impressed the woman behind the counter enough that she didn't ask to actually see all our gear which was good because neither of us had avy probes. Yes Fissile is steep! [ 03-01-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

quote: Originally posted by Fairweather: Trask, I'm glad I'm not the only "right wing nut" around this forum. Every time I try to talk sense around here I get flamed by the lefties! I'm surprised Winter, W, Alpine K, and the lot haven't shown up here to roast you for "spewing hatred"....not to mention killin' those cute lil' racoons. Ted Nugent rocks! Sorry F I've been skiing. I guess if you think I'm a flaiming liberal you don't understand much of what I've said. I think Trask could make fun of Jenna Bush. I don't know why you can't Trask... Good hillbilly Fairweather... lame ass Republican...likes Texans...all around bad.

I went into a Hooters in Boulder CO one time. I had some high expectations that were dashed after I saw the wait staff. Of course this was Boulder and I think due to the high degree of PCness there the place only stayed in business a year. We'll have to go back to Index on a dry day, and well Hooters I don't know. I know some goo places with great scenery up here though.

Nice Climb!

I wouldn't mind some rock climbing before my next ski trip!

On Wednesday the 20th I was looking at the weather forecast, and I noticed that starting on the weekend the weather prediction was for stable weather for a number of days. After doing some more checking I phoned my buddy C and suggested that we head up to Canada and ski the Spearhead Traverse. He had to work on the weekend, so we didn’t leave until Sunday night. C came by my place during the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, so instead of watching Bon Jovi, we loaded up and headed up I-5. We got to Squamish about 11PM and camped out on the side of a logging road. 2/25/02 We stopped at Tim Horton’s for coffee and doughnuts and then drove up to Blackcomb ski area. At the main lodge we registered and got a backcountry lift ticket and walked over to the lifts. Standing in a lift line with a large backpack made us feel like freaks. All I wanted to do was get out of Blackcomb as fast as possible. After 3 lift rides and a T-bar ride we skied to the area boundary and started hiking. There were still lots of skiers hiking up the first hill out of the ski area, but after we skied down the first slope out of Blackcomb we were alone. The weather on the first day was good, just some high clouds and a ring around the sun. The skiing out of Blackcomb was great, lots of nice south facing slopes. We skied over Decker Mountain and Mt Pattison and set up camp on the Tremor glacier. The temperature dropped as the sun did, and we crawled into our bags and slept. During the night the wind picked up and snow started to fall on the tent. 2/26/02 We woke to crystal clear skies and an inch of new snow. After breakfast we put on our still to heavy packs and skied up Mt Tremor. From near the top we had an excellent view back to the ski area, and looking forward we could start to see our route make a big bend to the west. We skied across the Platform Glacier and up to Quiver Peak. From there we skied around Mt Macbeth. From high on Mt Macbeth we got an excellent view of the ski descent to the McBride Range, but since we weren’t headed that way this time we skied down the west shoulder of Mt Macbeth to a narrow corniced ridge separating the mountain from Mt Iago. The ridge looked a lot harder than it ended up being, and soon we were skinning up Mt Iago. From near the summit, we skied a west-facing slope, with a thick crust on the surface, down to the Diavolo Glacier. We set up our tent facing the McBride range and while we ate our dinner we watched the full moon rise over the mountains. Unlike the previous day there had been no high clouds, and so I was surprised when I woke to the sound of wind and drifting snow, which soon turned into the sound of wind and falling snow. 2/27/02 We woke up to a near whiteout. The cloud ceiling was a couple hundred feet above us, but well below the level of the pass we needed to ski through. We talked it over and decided to try and go for it since we didn’t know what the future held in store. Skiing up into the whiteout we soon started to loose our bearings. Our checks of the map and compass became more frequent. Eventually we ended up at a notch and looked over the other side to see huge cliffs. After further checking we decided we had skied past the col we wanted to ski through and we were looking down into the Cheakamus drainage. We backtracked to the NE and eventually found a col that took us onto a glacier draining to the north. We still couldn’t see, but we figured we were on top of the Fitzsimmons Glacier and we needed to bear west around the shoulder of Overlord Mountain. I headed towards a rocky outcrop and we skied just below it. In the clouds we thought we were finally on the Overlord Glacier, so we started to ski down. The snow was fantastic, but due to the whiteout we could only see enough to make 3 turns at a time. I kept seeing crevasses and cliffs below and quite often I would have to watch snowballs roll down the slope to make out what was in front of us. After a little bit of skiing we ended up at the top of some cliffs, so once again we got out the compass and checked our bearing. We came to the conclusion that we were still on the Fitzsimmons Glacier. I saw a ridge in the direction we wanted to head that looked like we could hike over, so we skinned up it. Reaching the ridge top the clouds broke and we could finally see that we had made it to the Overlord Glacier and the correct descent route. Looking back we could see we had just skied a narrow ramp at the top of the Fitzsimmons glacier with seracs and cliffs below our route. With a lot of relief we skied down the Overlord glacier to the base of Fissile Peak. A short hike brought us to the Himmelsbach hut and we ate lunch in relative luxury. We had left for our trip without one key essential, and so we started rummaging through the hut. C found a little container with three roaches in it, and we tried to no avail to make use of them. Fortunately some, “well equipped,” snowboarders showed up and we spent the evening talking, smoking and drinking (Thanks guys!!!!). 2/28/02 The weather was crystal clear in the morning. We got up early and hiked up with daypacks to Fissile Peak. We wanted to ski a steep chute on the north face, but the conditions were quite icy on the west shoulder, and since we didn’t have ice axes we ended up skiing down the west shoulder back to the hut. We packed up our gear, said goodbye to the snowboarders and hiked out to Singing Pass. The ski down to the pass was nice, and after two more climbs we made it to the top of the Flute and thus back to Whistler Resort. After three days skiing in the backcountry, skiing down groomed runs, on manmade snow, in a huge pack of skiers was pretty odd. We eventually made it to the base of Whistler and hiked back to our car at Blackcomb. We registered out and then went straight to the bar and downed a couple beers then headed south to the States and home. So this trip ruled. Two big thumbs up. In spring you could do the traverse with less gear, but we both had a great time doing a high mountain traverse in winter. I can’t wait until my next long trip! [ 03-01-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

That's fine. You guys haven't won in 50 years. Don't get too big a head though or we'll send up an aircraft carrier to Vancouver, and then we'll see who wins.

Wait till tomorrow.

Unsolicitated spew is what he does best.

The real rat could go on at lengths using the subjects: Feck, fire, venus, Zion, praire fire, George Will, reach around. Don't fuck around, the real rat is distempered and a two face piece of shit. [ 02-24-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

Technology is so amazing. CrazyJZ is pissing people off while in Africa. Yes Richard he is nasty, but have some respect for your elders. He was climbing big walls in the ditch and pissing people off at Castle rock while you were in diapers. (Unless you're in your 30's)

Did someone say cocktails?

That took me a little time to figure out.

The hut is so much nicer filled with smoke.

You will break em if you ski down on them. They are cheap though, so if you or your friend wants to check out AT skiing with little commitment then they are a good choice. At least as long as you already have a downhill setup. [ 02-22-2002: Message edited by: AlpineK ]

I had a logger try and get me to fight one time in Bovill cause I was wearing fingerless gloves.

Yo Rat check your PMs. When it comes to rank I think you know a thing or two. One thing I know CrazyJZ is always higher in rank than me.

I admit it. I am RURP. And don't listent to RURP tell you anything different.

You've posted more then 10 times

I know some bars in Boville and Clarkia they should be forced to stop at. I'm into this concept. I hope they do it.

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: And so we have yet another cc.com liberal circle-jerk going. Sweet I would love to drive xc in some huge truck. I don't like a bunch of the language used in the above article, and I don't buy into all the attitudes. I don't think we should drill national parks and such just cause even if we drilled the shit out of North America we still wouldn't be energy independent. There already is a lot of oil on tap already. Why not spend a bunch of money on renewable stuff and fuel cells. In the long run the US would be in great shape. Just think of how much money we would save from fighting wars in the midle east. I'm afraid GW is owned by big energy companies that can't see past burning oil. But anyway how about that Jenna Bush? She sure knows how to party!

quote: Originally posted by pope: Did you see that trendy little hat Jean Enerson was wearing this eve? I wonder if she bought it or shoplifted it.

quote: Originally posted by Alpine Tom: Most bathroom scales are not particularly accurate. Or repeatable. I can gain or loose five pounds on mine, depending on how I stand. ...but if you're trying to compare the weight of, say, two different tents, or sleeping bags, it probably won't work. Oh I know that, but you can get product info in catalogs if your trying to be really accurate. And if your trying to get within 5 pounds so you don't have to pay excess baggage then you are nutty (not necessarily in a bad way)