layton

just allow a little extra time for the "hyper-wallowing alpine snow hippo mega stumble"

shit, i have a climbing partner who fits that bill...although emotionaly he is a smoker, drinker, drug addict, and bible thumper....MARCUS

worst descent: hiking out when you didn't climb shit

i went up snow lakes trail, not colchuck. i "bet" there's a decent bootpack to the stuart lake/colchuck lake branch point, then a pain in the ass. snow lakes trail had a great bootpack up to snowcreek wall, didn't go any further. off trail travel blows, and awesome ankle traps in the talus. plus it just snowed up there. go for it, but allow some extra time. are you going to do prussik?

you should be PROUD!

and Ronald Regan!

maybe some NOLS courses and all will bow trembling!

if you're a moron like me, you'll fuck up the way you run the ropes on the reverso or ATC XP. get the pyramid or atc, same damn thing...and they feed way smoother. I've never had a problem with an ATC on skinny iced up ropes. for multipitch buy a gi-gi (small autolocking belay plate) for faster changeovers. the weight of an atc AND a gi-gi is trivial to the time savings.

hardly any snow either...but off trail it's a nice crust and powder for seriously awesome postholing!!! for extra suckage: bring snowshoes to work the quads, psoas, anterior tibialis, and wrist extensors.

is it comprable to NOLSe's??? I want some clout, dammit!

i'd like to be on that boat riding the tuna boat to taco town

Retail: Uncle Dan's Outdoor Store in Chicago: 4 years American Alpine Institute: 3 years Outdoor Center: 3 years Basecamp: 1 year NOLSE COURSES: Nolse Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course: 100 hours all bow and worhsip my opinion

hey Stacey

bump! anyone wanna be in charge for the next round? p.s. over 12,000 views!!!!!!!!!!!

fri night: b-day plans fell through. studied, wallowed in self loathing, watched "Ed Wood" which is very good. sat: studied, wallowed in self loathing with my roommates bottle of capt morgans, watched "The Grudge" which sucks ass. sat night: drive to leavenworth, bivy under a bridge, wallow in self loathing sun morn (5am) hike up to snowcreek wall; wallow in keep deep "birthday surprise" ankle traps, shiver in self-loathing, ate waffels, drove home sun night: spray and study, wallow in self loathing good times

i went to Leavenworth...er worthLeaven almost done studying, then I can have a Hams tall boy.

i celebrated my b-day today by driving 10 hours and failing on an alpine climb!!!!!!!!! just like old times.

dru's just calling me out which is fine, that's what dru does. yeah, i already wrote about both these events, but more as an on the spot "TR" I wanted to write something good this time...which to some of you it was (thanks for all the nice PM's!!!) and some it wasn't (you go to hell, you go to hell and you die!) and i see this thread is down to two stars now...

you shouldn't post your mom's phone number, Pete.

please post link to phone numbers

Thanks again. I'm sure you guys and gals know how it goes...I took a lot of time writing that and know that it's a little rough. But for now i really don't care because I had fun writting it and reading it too (even though I wrote it). So i'm not particularly pysched to edit it, or re-write it any time very soon. I have a slideshow, my t-shirts, and a guidebook to work on, on top of climbing, school, and a relationship (kinda). So I am chestbeating cuz I earned it!!!! I get put down all the time (mostly in jest!) and I put myself down all the time (even more -and I try to have that come across in all my SPRAY) so this time I'm not going to stand down because this came from the heart, and I PAID for the actions of this story more than you could imagine! My family thinks I'm hell-bent on dying young, and I lost the love of my life (the Saint) because of my selfishness. I have deformity in one of my feet that causes great pain after wearing any type of footwear for more than a couple hours. I can finally go trail-running for long distances, but I get achy pains for days later. And I still have major unpaid medical bills that I just hired an attorney to help me with b/c my credit is now ruined. Plus I had to live off my credit card for 6 months b/c I couldn't work so I've got huge financial debt too!

Well, call me a moron! Ok, I was tired when I wrote that. I meant that I tried to publish it after writting it. Duh. You got me on that one!

Hell yeah I'm bragging about those two points!!! ....but, you're right. I wrote this story w/out any intention of publishing it...I just wrote it for fun. So I added whatever I wanted. Then I figured what the hell, I'll see if anyone wants to actually publish it and the answer is no, which honestly doesn't bother me. Now on y'alls edititing criticisms, I really don't care. Isn't that what editors are for anyways? And as for the photos...well since this is in cyberspace and not wasting ink, so I threw in all the photos...once again what editors are for. I think folks misunderstood when I said how do you publish it on this site (which is what i asked) vs. actually publishing it. So unless you are a publisher and can get me published, save the editing tips! Folks are WAY too picky about what they read. anyway, I'm glad folks enjoyed it or hated it!

oh yeah, on the big four topo from Alan Kearney's book, the dark line isn't spindrift couloir...the penciled in line to the right is

So, I wrote this to publish it...but only Alpinist wanted it...in 500 words or less. So obviously, that's no good! I wanted to publish it here, but can't find the "publish" feature?? Can someone help. I hope you enjoyed reading this. Some facts may be wrong by the way. sorry if I clogged up the photo gallery by resubmitting some photos, but they need to be resized. my last photo disappead just a second ago, so i re-uploaded it for a total of 3...sorry. p.s.