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Sometimes conditions on snow can be really deceiving. On one of my earlier climbing trips I descended soft snow, but found out there was solid ice under it. I fell while trying to retrace a few steps. I had an ice axe and went into proper self arrest form, but on solid ice the ice axe was of no use beyond giving me some control of my angle of slide. Eventually I came to a stop on snow with no ice under it. There was no skiing involved in that. No matter what kind of axe you have they won't always stop you.

Scott Baio ain't that interesting. If you want good trailer park entertainment stick with the best. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-p-APVHCo8

Yep Serpentine Arete is the climb. It's fun. Serpentine does have more scrambling then Backbone Ridge.

We've got 5 volcanoes. We could take out the Midwest and East Coast.

I guess he didn't have much experience with rope tows

Somebody sent me that video a while ago. I have to give more points to these chicks though. 40 foot footlock ascent in 19 seconds, or something like that. [video:youtube] This is from the International Tree Climbing Competition in St. Louis last July.

Here are some pictures from the Ski In last year [img:center]http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/515/medium/1-View-Above-Hairpin.jpg[/img] Skiing in Willow Creek [img:center]http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/515/medium/Descent-one-day-2.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/515/P1010093x600.JPG[/img] [img:center]http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/515/medium/Descent_up-day-2.jpg[/img]

Here's what Cliff Mass has to say about upcoming summer weather NOAA 3 month outlook Above normal temperatures [img:center]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vgawnhRg_KY/S8UsTugK5QI/AAAAAAAACZA/rhWORCP7gPc/s400/off03_temp.gif[/img] Below normal precipitation [img:center]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vgawnhRg_KY/S8UsT8W4uKI/AAAAAAAACZI/OvB_YAVV604/s400/off03_prcp.gif[/img] You can look at his blog. He describes how predictions and observations differ Cliff Mass Blog

That little schwacky part crossing the creek is always amusing. I like the video It looks like you traversed skiers left at the bottom of the couloir?

Cheaper than UW tuition, and not quite as out of state as you assume.

She went to about 5 Colleges, but finished her last semester at UI. A degree in communications I think

Of course there's the obvious candidate [img:center]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/232/105/n39828197526_8880.jpg[/img] It may bring more action to one of the better Facebook groups. UI Students, Alum, Professors against Sarah Palin

If he didn't have enough space to use his hand cell phone he wouldn't have had enough oxygen to survive 3 to 4 hour under the snow like he did. Perhaps Gym would like to tell us a story about a incredible climbing adventure he survived thanks to his bluetooth cell phone.

Matt has a good point. While wide pro can help, the offwidth is in a dihedral. You can add in face climbing moves to the mix. For an offwidth it isn't too bad.

NWAC runs out of money in the spring, but according to statistics I've seen there are a lot of avy fatalists then. New snow + warm weather + south facing slope = bad

Sure, carry a cell phone if you know you're going to get reception where you are going. Granite mountain next to I-90 would work, but there are lots of areas in the Cascades with no reception.

Kevbone is a resident of Washington Oregon won't let him live there, and Washington keeps asking him to leave.

In area avalanche Kazakhstan style [video:youtube] I bet they didn't open the lift that day. Looks like a cool ski area [img:center]http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/3838333.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/502970.jpg[/img]

[font:Arial] Lesson #1 [/font] Do not piss in the camp fire when fellow campers are within 50 feet or directly downwind

A friend sent that to me a few weeks ago. Funny stuff.

No doubt, that sounded like a real bummer to go through. Have a drink when you get back to the house.

I've been up that side of Adams several times. Most skiers ski it in the spring. South facing slopes turn to corn faster than northern ones, and booting the climb is the common ascent method. Every time I've been there there was a boot track up the ascent route. In conditions like that ski crampons have little value. Regular crampons let you ascend early in the morning when the snow is harder. Early starts are a good since you ski earlier in the day. If you start late more snow turns to slush by the time you're actually skiing down. ilookeddown has two other good points. Hauling camping equipment up the hill isn't necesary. Just car camp and do it in a day. Unless you really want to tent camp higher on the mountain that is. Since the common ascent route gets booted so much it tends to be chopped up. The SW Chutes are a lot better. More difficult skiing, but they ain't super exterme. Make sure you know when to cut to skiers left to regain the ascent trail.

Society shells out $4Mil and gets Feck in return. Sad. Actually, your failure to read shows itself in these comments.

Fairweather spends hour studying the details of talking points emailed to him by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. He knows his stuff

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