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But if you spend all your money before war starts your new toys might not be that helpful.

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Try the North Fork of the Sauk River. It's flat for a ways then uphill to White Mountain. Traverse and drop over a ridge to the White Chuck, "Glacier."

Kind of a long video, but it addresses health and obesity issues. President Nixon, the sugar industry, and FDA don't look too good. [video:youtube]

I think part of the criteria for making the list is being sponsored by Redbull. Where's the kayak off Pallouse Falls? [video:vimeo]6514728

Thanks for posting information and pictures

No Kevbone that is a fake tornado. This one is real [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhPu5AHDMHM

Yep, living in a place where you walk out the front door, click into yours skis then climb and shred does not suck We had fun on our trip, and we only skied two out of hundreds of nice lines outside of the village.

Yep, I give Toast a thumbs up for the announcements too. They recognize their class may generate some conflicts and they're willing to work with climbers looking to climb routes they would like to use for their class. That's a good message.

No need to travel the globe. You can build your own big wall [img:center]http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/baloncici/baloncici0812/baloncici081200139/4041813-big-wall-made-from-curved-grey-stones.jpg[/img]

If you plan on coming to Ski-In make a post so we can get a count. We can't post directions online, but we can send them via PM if you need them. Send either Dave or I a PM. There should be enough snow for good skiing, and climbing on the eastside is fun. [img:center]http://www.danbbs.dk/~rep/pictures/animation/skianim.gif[/img]

I've maintained business insurance for years. When I first got a policy my agent told me something along the lines of, "Only use the policy if the financial hit is large enough that you can't settle on your own." I've stuck with that policy.

Whatever the outcome, given the situation and the coverage it will hurt REI. Maybe just a little but still...

There are alternate version of, "The Rapture." [video:youtube]

The end of humanity as we know it has already been documented [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSCe40HMv1c&NR=1

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I'm not surprised all you fuckers are still here See You in Hell

Yep, I remember seeing you guys. Climbing the N-ridge with skis was a good move given the conditions.

It's the party size that's the issue. Yep, party size is the majority of the problem. Clogging up an area occurs primarily while rock climbing with a few exceptions. While a party size of 12 on an alpine climb is acceptable it gives students the wrong message. In the end most folks travel in groups of two to four while alpine climbing, so new climbers need to learn how to climb in groups this size. Climbing class instruction at a crag has to be an exception unless you run a small for profit guiding service. It's nice to see the Mountaineers giving folks a heads up when they know a large group is heading to the crag.

Trip: Mount Baker - Coleman Headwall Date: 5/19/2011 Trip Report: When I first started climbing, ascending the Coleman Headwall was on my tick list. Unfortunately the headwall was usually covered in snow during the early summer. By the time descent alpine ice climbing condition appeared I would usually be on a climbing trip in the Canadian Rockies, so I never climbed it. The headwall ended up gathering dust on my to do list. Eventually I started to see skiing pictures taken on the headwall. I looked in the basement and found my old climbing tick list and there was the Coleman Headwall looking neglected. It was happy when I invited it to join the ski descent list. Given the current mountain snowpack and some descent weather forecasting I decided to pull the trigger. Jeff H and I left Seattle after rush hour on Wednesday the 18th and drove as far up the Heliotrope ridge road as we could. With about 2-miles left we found parked cars and a big patch of snow blocking the road. We decided to park and walk from there. The snowpatch ended in a short distance, but 4-wheel driving didn't seem worth the bother. Eventually we hit solid snow and started skiing. Since we didn't know the winter route we followed the standard trail to Kulshan Cabin. We skied up to the 6000 foot level shelf below the glacier and set up camp. Camp Close up shot of the Coleman Headwall Alpenglow on Baker Sundown At about 6AM we started climbing and ran into a few other climbers and skiers. Everybody was psyched to see nice calm weather. Ascending the Roman Wall Summit Party Most people we ran into were skiing back down the Roman Wall, but a couple folks were doing a loop trip down the Park Glacier and ending at Mount Baker Ski Area. We left the main summit and headed over to the Grant peak summit, then started looking for the right entrance to the headwall. The top of Baker is flat but then starts gradually rolling over. Neither of us new the right entrance, so we spent a bit of time traversing and looking at the topo map. The snow consistency varied from corn to ice to granular ice pellets then back to corn. Eventually we found a line of corn snow following the Roman nose for a bit till we could see the wall. From there we descended skiers right onto the center of the Coleman headwall. View Down Looking back up we realized we could have cut in sooner. Our line was nice, but maybe next time From there we followed the center of the headwall. We found ice chunks, ice plates, and nice old powder. The headwall is an exciting combination of skiing and route finding. View from the base of the wall. Another shot Here is a rough sketch of the line we took on the headwall From the base of the wall we traversed back to the Coleman-Deming Route on Baker and to our tent. A few folks we met while ascending gave us a rough outline for skiing out the winter route. We decided to go for it, but we were below most of the tracks headed that way. In the end we found a route through steep slopes and trees that brought us back to the standard ski route. From there more sliding and slogging delivered us back to the vehicle. All and all a good time, and I'm pretty psyched to finally spend some time on the Coleman Headwall. I'll have to go back and ski some different variations to the descent line. Approach Notes: Snow drifts stop most vehicles at 6-miles right now

Sorry about that. June 4th and 5th.

Ski In June 4-5 Based on Dan Millers reports on HWY 20 clearing the road, "should be open," before Memorial Day. I talked to Dave Parker. While he hasn't posted, he is da man when it comes to arranging the campsite. He has other plans for Memorial Day, but he is on for June 5-6. He has permission to use the campsite too. I'll try and get Dave to make a post. One thing the property owner wants to know is the size of the group. If you plan to attend make a post here so we can get a count.

Wastral could have reduced his long rant to: TAV, I'm talking to you. Fuck you you fucking fuck!

The Irish drink Guinness and whiskey. [img:center]http://www.drinkhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/jameson-irish-whiskey.jpg[/img] No whiskey or pork for Osama. [img:center]http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bacon-gun2.jpg[/img]

The point is setting a goal knowing you can't just flip a switch tomorrow to achieve the goal. Once you set the goal you devote time, energy, and money to achieve the goal. Kind of like alpine climbing a difficult route on a far off peak, or all kinds of things humans do. I agree wind and solar power have some major problems when it comes to storage. That doesn't mean we shouldn't make use of them and devote some resources to overcome storage problems. I've read a couple articles regarding the use of ocean buoys using waves to generate power. In the right location you get a constant power source. The idea needs some work, and it may be of little use to folks in Nebraska, but it sounds like a worthy investment. Most of the US population lives near coastlines. http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/25/ocean-buoys-to-provide-10-of-us-energy-requirements/ Private companies can do some of the work, but it takes public money too. A Swiss guy discovered velcro in 1941 without public funding, but it received little use till NASA astronauts started using it. The next thing you know velcro is a everyday useful product. It's an indirect spin-off of a bunch of taxpayer dollars. I'm not sure how Tang fits in, but there are other items that came from the idea of traveling into space at taxpayer expense.