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I tried it with Chrome. It works fine, at least for me. Like it

I try to remember the future [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ1gJanU3iw&feature=related

Nice photos! I used to go on BC ski weekends to a hut at Android Lake with a college group. It's a fun place.

I work in an industry where there is voluntary certification. You can run a business without hiring employees with industry certification. It's an open market. If companies employing folks who maintain certification charge a price a little higher than average and run their business successfully for some time other business will take note. A business owner who does not employ folks with certification is just going to charge what he/she perceives the market rate to be.

Nice video, but.. Why do you have an issue with Pansies? Fort Walla Walla Museum See page 16. I'd advise you to run if you ran into this Pansy.

Nice Dan! Long rope solo climbs are memorable events you won't forget

Or trashing the Enchantments is just fine.

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Yep, Kevbone that's one of the most idiotic things you've ever posted. The Enchantments are not a long way away. Well if you do more than drive to 7-11 for Cheetos and soda. The area is a fragile alpine environment. Without some limits it would be overrun and trashed.

Did I watch a 2 hour video posted and recommended by Kevbone in Spray. What part of Fuck No do you not understand.

Hmm, asking for advice on how to avoid permits on a public forum. There's no way somebody responsible for enforcing permit rules would read that

Trip: Mt. Goodie - NE Buttress Date: 9/4/2011 Trip Report: Climbing the NE Buttress of Goodie has been on my mind for years. A cool looking climb in a somewhat remote area of the Cascades. Throw in an approach that looked like a pain in the ass. What could be better? Fortunately other climbers I know share this view. I haven't done a multi-day climb in the North Cascades National Park for some time. As a consequence I'd forgotten some details about registration. We ended up signing in at Marblemount instead of self registering. A crack of 11AM start from the trailhead, no problem. In any case tanstaafl and I made it to the crossing of the North fork of Bridge Creek and lost enthusiasm for brushwacking and scrambling. Our plan involved climbing the route the next day, but adding the mandatory brushwack and scramble sounded over the top. Instead we spent Saturday scrambling to high camp then resting. Camp You'll noticed we brought a tent and sleeping bags to camp NE Buttress I marked the main route, but the route includes climbing/scrambling to the Goodie Glacier then glacier climbing. At about 6AM on the 4th we left camp. Route finding wasn't too bad heading up to the base of the buttress. Eventually we reached the moat, and swiched into rock climbing gear. The route isn't too hard. We ended up simul-climbing and swaping leads when the leader ran through the supply of gear and slings Climbing on the route We didn't see anybody on route till we reached summit and ran into folks doing a multiday ascent and carry-over. Summit Shot After a brief rest we looked at the clock and figured we'd better move since camp was a long way below. Our descent involved a combination of downclimbing with a handful of rappels. We were pretty psyched to make it to the glacier while daylight was available. Getting out of rock shoes was nice, but then we started down the glacier. At this point a combination of exhaustion and lack of a clearly marked path set in. We wandered on the glacier trying to remember how the hell we'd navigated through the icefall in the morning. The sun was going away and we were traversing. Eventually I found a route through the icecliffs but it really was dark at that point. We scrambled to a point where we knew a cliff separated us from the tent. Daylight sure is nice while climbing. Eventually some hard reality set in and we realized the tent was out of reach until the sun returned. After some stumbling we found a spot that was somewhat flat and somewhat protected from the wind to hunker down. Sitting still in the cold for 7 hours, no problem Eventually the sun returned and we saw our tent about 200 yards from us. After a bit more downclimbing we finally got the dinner we missed out on. We agreed to take advantage of sleeping bags for a bit but then hit the road. Goodie Logan The descent to the river really enhanced the fun factor. We saw a chute that avoided a bunch of brushwacking and headed down it. From reading the guide it sounded like there was an alternate route through the lower cliff bands above the river. We started crawling through tangled webs of tree branches until I noticed we were cliffed out. A bit of swearing ensued. Eventually I saw a line where a scramble through the band of trees might return us to our original ascent route. Sure enough it worked out Marked Routes The red line marks our ascent and green marks the descent. I put an x where we realized we were cliffed out. Once down to the river we ate a 2PM lunch then started the march to the car. We didn't see it till 11PM but we sure were happy when we did. The peak sure is cool, and I'm happy it's off the list. On the other hand car camping and cragging near the road sure sound nice right now.

When you climb you risk injury. Failing to get a permit places you at a different risk. How much risk are you willing to accept? You make the call.

I wasn't talking about the Californian part of Canada Druel.

Summer's over. Nice photos

Not quite A really important warning [img:center]http://www.crystalinks.com/dragon.gif[/img]

Descending the west ridge involves one or two rappels and scrambling. It's a good option. Route finding isn't too bad.

The Northwest Arete on Sir Donald is my pick. A couple thousand feet of rock varying between 5.2 and scrambling. Technical climbing comes in steps not long sections, but the exposure is killer when you leave Uto-Sir Donald Col. [img:center]http://inlandnwadventures.com/Adventures/SirDonaldAttempt/SirDonaldAttempt_026.JPG[/img] A lot of climbing history too. [img:center]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6QR0McKWUPo/TcOBqFZ7AyI/AAAAAAAABDY/OU6j-4vhU30/s800/Sir-Donald-Glacier.png[/img]

Nice Bill We all have to pay taxes Mark, but there are exemptions. Take food for example. http://dor.wa.gov/Content/FindTaxesAndRates/TaxIncentives/Def_Deductions.aspx#ExmptFoodSales The reason food is exempt is everybody needs it to live. Being taxed on it takes a much bigger chunk of income from somebody making $10/hr as opposed to somebody making $100,000/year. Public lands are a public resource. They should be something everybody has access to. Sure you and me can fork over $30, but what about a family who might want to take the kids for a hike but due to regulations and permit costs can't swing it. It's just one more barrier keeping folks away from land they as a citizen own.

Double that

I'm pretty sure Kevbone's favorite guitar players are not superheros

Rambling as opposed to Incoherence. Everybody has a a different threshold level

I'm not sure what it looks like these days. In the past we would avoid the first descending couloir and climb up towards Athabasca Mountain. At the third couloir dropping back down we would descend. That didn't involve rapping when we did it.

$25 US dollars or Canadian funny money? How many did ya nosh? He might respond when he comes back down, but his post might not make sense

To trigger a helicopter rescue something else was going on.