CascadeClimber

That's because the trails and roads most often used to get to the thing are all washed out. The road to the White Chuck Trailhead is out about 10 miles from the TH, and the trail is washed out, too. Good luck- L

That parking spot was chosen based on divine intervention by the Universe. Looking at the pic it's hard to believe it took us a couple hours, many busted knuckles, and a bent shovel handle to dig out. Khusia! ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE ICE

Drury...Drury...Drury... Ba hahahahahaha loren going off over the edge now. Someone please sedate me until late December.

Oh GOD! This is the last thread I needed to read in f0cking AUGUST!!!! Dave, that last pic of me on Dribbles- I don't think I'd seen that one. Arrgghhh! Writhing with severe withdrawal spasms. Arrrrrrrrrrrr! Oh by the way, ice season is in full swing in Oz and New Zealand. The down south boyz are posting pics on mtncommunity. I'm off to my 12-step meeting now.

I use a Canon S9000 and 11x17 paper, then laminate them. I get nice, reusable maps. The printer and its replacement, the i9100 will print up to 13x19, but I have yet to find inexpensive 13x19 cut sheets. The printer also makes excellent near-photo quality prints on paper from 4x6 to 13x19 (photo-grade available from Canon).

You don't have to approach the north/west side via the scree slope on the west side. There is a climber's trail that goes from timber up the north ridge. We went up that way and down the endless scree to a delicious swim in the lake on an incredibly hot day.

It looks spicey-fun. The top crevasse was kinda sketch two months ago. Could be a good warmup for ice season.

Bug wins: My wife finally caught the native squirrels tearing the bark off the tree. Maybe the sasquath was eating the squirrles?

We melted 6+ quarts of water last Friday night at 10,000' in 75 minutes with a Primus Alpine titanium canister stove. That seemed pretty quick to me.

I-90 east to exit 17, Front Street. Right (south) off the ramp onto Front Street. Right (west) on Sunset. It will almost immediately on your left (south), across the street from the new library. Issaquah Brewhouse or Rogue Alehouse or something. Was originally privately owned, but is now owned by Rogue. The food is much better than it used to be, and the beer is great.

Been meaning to post about this for a while. When I got home from 38 that night I found a jacket in my pack that is not mine. Black pullover, midweight, Mountain Hardware. PM me if it's yours. -L

Decent food, good beer, shitty hours- they close at 9:00 or something. LAME.

As of three weeks ago it was getting skied.

You mean like by (for example) obscuring them with a 14 paragraph diatribe of utter nonsense? Yeah, let's certainly not do anything like that.

You can record the audio yourself by plugging a tape deck or walkman into the "line in" or "mic" jack on your PC. Windows includes audio recording software, I'm sure the Mac does, too. You'll want the video saved as an uncompressed AVI file, which is the best format to use for additional editing. It is not the format used by video DVDs, but AVIs can be saved to a data DVD. Both Windows Xp and the Mac OS include software for editing movies. Windows Movie Maker is basic, but remarkably able given that it is free. I'm not sure if WMM will let you author a video DVD (this is a surprisingly complicated task for software), but most consumer DVD burners include rudimentary authoring software. MVS and PhilF have created some great shorts. Video editing is a blast but can really suck up hard drive space and time. Good luck- L

Wait! A late entry on my behalf:

The crux was at about 11,500 a month ago, and I'm sure that one remaining bridge is gone now. Whether it will go now depends on your ability/willingness to climb through the icefall. IIRC, there was a bail option to the NFNWR then, but that was a month ago. Also, we could not see the crux crossing from camp. Good luck. -L

Most computer users are unaware, which is not dumb, nor is it surprising or unusual. Computers are complicated. Anyone who tells you that computers are easy to use, simple, and reliable is trying to sell you something. Mac users are generally more difficult to help because they are often quick to jump on their soapbox and start defending all things Mac. Macs do break, even OSX. They also crash and deadlock. In an AD environment, they do not integrate as well or as easily as PCs running Xp or 2k. For example, there is no way to lock down a Mac with group policy, or to centrally manage patches. I was a Mac fanatic for many years. I owned an SE and a Quadra 630, and used a IIci at work (I battled for 6 months to get a Mac rather than a PC). I used to dish out all manner of shit to people who had to fiddle with bat, sys, and ini files on their PCs. But now the Mac OS sits on *nix, which is chock full of text-based configuration files. Some are cloaked in a nice GUI, others aren't. There are web sites that won't render properly using the browsers available for the Mac, or that require that you juggle multiple browsers. Office for the Mac will always be an afterthought for MS, depsite their assertions otherwise (where is Powerpoint for the Mac?). Macs have their place, but it isn't in the hands of newbies that need to easily interoperate with the rest of the world, or in an otherwise Windows-centric business environment where there is no compelling Mac-specific need, IMO. But about laptops. Whatever you get, get a warranty, at least three years. I've seen more failed hard drives in the last eighteen months than in the previous ten years (all makes and models). Make backups of anything not easily replaced. CDs can work, but an external drive works better. You can find decent Dells on eBay. Latitudes are better than Inspirons, though a bit more expensive. If you buy used, better to choose one that has warranty coverage remaining. 5400 and 7200 RPM drives are faster, but they also run hotter and use more electricity, and generally have a shorter lifespan. Swap files suck, but they are necessary. More RAM helps, but doesn't eliminate them. All LCD screen are not created equal. Laptop screens are usually designed for low power consumption, not color accuracy and/or brightness. I have a Dell D600 that I use with an external LCD when at my office. The external LCD blows the doors off the laptop display. Batteries, even lithium ion, wear out. After 300 charge/discharge cycles you will notice a marked decrease in battery life. Batteries are not usually covered under warranties. If you are a heavy user (like me) plan to replace the battery every 12-18 months, if you want advertised run time. OSX is, like most things Mac, very visually appealing. -L

90% sure they are Viper-specific.

Mac users drive me up the wall.

Just to be clear: It isn't the stitching that is degrading on the side of my boots, its the kevlar material itself. The stiching that is torn out is where the outside heel-back material meets the inside heel-back material. Here comes the seamgrip, though it won't be nearly as fun as doing two Bibler tents in a small garage.

As I suspected, he clearly has his hand in the pocket of middle class America: "Hey W, I'm used to you lining the halls of Halliburton with the bank you pilfered from my pocket, but if you want to play pocket billiards, hows about you do that in your own pants eh?"

I thought it was for sealing seams, not 60 square inches of poorly chosen/placed material on a pair of $250 boots. Sometimes I'm to literal.

I was trying to get a pic of that girl behind you, but you got in the way.