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If you have to, I can pick you up at the airport. Come on down soon! I may get a place. It's getting wicked hot, and poaching a bivy site is really hard (or very far away), so I may find a place. My cell phone # is (702) 219-5786, but I don't answer it.

Harry Potter peak?

Comic Book, Exorcist, Illusion Dweller, and Sail Away. The best climb ever is a 5.6 called swiss cheese...seriously. In fact, the area that swiss cheese is in has tons of great shorter climbs. You can blitz the area. BTW, zero or one stars means awesome climbing w/ a Squamish rating. 3 stars is ultrasandbagged and rough. 4 stars is kinda sandbagged w/awesome climbing. 2 stars=choss. 5 stars=solid rating, awesome climbing.

I'll be back at the end of May begining of June, unless I hit rock bottom. Then you can look for me under the bridge on Chestnut street and Bay St in B'ham.

Just saw my truck. I am always paying attention. My hyothalamus is 10x the size of a normal human, and I can slog forever without climbing anything. That's my power. I didn't want to admit it, in case I had to register myself as a mutant. Call me the Observer, or Sloginfailure. Gotta go, evil lurks.

They haven't called me about my truck for the 2nd movie, so I don't think it'll make the cut. I want to know where the hell that scene was taken. Anyone have a guess that's been up to the rockies a shitload?

Once in a lifetime, the PERFECT conditions come along. I can't go this weekend (DAMNIT) cuz I've testing gore-windstopper fabric on the roof of my apt building. Anyone for some 38 degree NE facing snow slopes today? Jesus told me it will be fine.

Just watched it. Much to my amusement, my truck is in the movie. Right when Rogue gets dropped off at the roadhouse in Alberta (1st ten minutes of the movies), they show a parking lot scence. My truck is the Toyota w/a white canopy and stickers all over the tailgate. And I'm moving to las vegas in a few days until June cuz there ain't no jobs, and the weather blows.

Dirtwearing ugly troll crap said- "In doing my mother because you thought it was my father, this would suggest that you're a homosexual. Not really surprising I suppose. In light of this, I wouldn't want to fight you in case you rip your pantyhose or something. poof! " In which I respond in great haste No you're gay...you gay, gay, gay person. I blow sheep upon your shite. Glasgowkiss's underpants are under your fuck coward! Bitch under the shit buttplug, dick eatting aunty. What do you say now???

Yo bitch, you suck. I did your mother by accident cuz I thought it was you father! You are weak and I am strong. Blow me cream puff. -love mike

I always assumed they were the same thing. Since both climbs have the same first assenionists, and neither have been repeated (probably), then no one should really care. Go up there, look at the climb, do it. It's not Squamish, you can climb all over the face and it's still the same route basically! No one cares what variation was took on a snow/ice climb unless the F.A. team is in question like spindrift. But, climbing is pointless anyway so might as well squabble. I vote they are the same, even if they aren't.

Somebody better call Nelson and stop the presses. He was supposed to email me, but never got around to it. I don't know him, so I'll leave it to someone who does. Jason, I know your reading this. Put what you want in your guidebook, not what nelson did. that way you, Nelson, and Kearney can have the contradictory triumverate of guidebooks on big 4. Confuse the hell outta the folks from California..haha!

I have a slip-stream in my bathroom every morning. Damn woody.

Okay, I just looked at the 1997 AAJ for the route topo of Spindrift Coulior. I know there's a lot of confusion as to what route it actually is. On the photo with the route line drawn, it shows the route I took, along w/everyone else who claims to have climbed the Spindrift Couloir. BUT, the topo they drew shows a different line. One that tops out to the right of the rightmost saddle between the two peaks. It tops out on the slope heading up to the rightmost peak. I looked at a bunch of photos including my own and I see 3 other lines to the right of the gully I climbed. The one immediately to the right connects runnels leading to the ridge. The two to its right are steep lines directly on the face of the rightmost peak. All three look very steep with lots of tree, shrubs, and cliff bands. I would either assume that the gully I climbed is the one that Doug and Bart did, or they did the one to the right and misdrew the line on the photo of the face. Either way, reading their description, looking at photos, and looking at both their topos...nothing adds up to a clear conclusion. What do you think. Mr Natural? Anyone else notice the discrepancy in the AAJ's photo and topo?

I'm on its list. Got my snowmobile suite, and bag of flour all packed.

It'd be some serious effort getting over all the way east, like Matt said. I'd do the dry gulch route if I did a N.face route on the left side of the peak, like Alan Kearny did in his book. Just climbing the subpeak on the left looked like a serious climb. See the photo I posted earlier on the thread of the summit. The NW descent is pretty easy if you don't f^ck it up.

Was that you up there last Sunday? Either way, nice! Looks sweet! Did you see the pitch of gnar ice on top of the Black Dyke!

I'd give the climb a grade T4f, Rd55, and a 4ff grade of 22,a given the circumstances. I think Daler did it in T4am Rd53m, 4fe. Maybe I'm wrong.

What an amazing story! My heart is still pumping. I would do what happened. Shit. I've had random shit clip while climbing, but nothing that fucking scary! Damn!

SOMEONE PLEASE CLIMB SOMETHING ELSE AND CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!!!! Seriosly, we all are climbers and that's that!!! Too much inbreeding on these posts will make us turn on each other. NEW TOPIC! NEW TOPIC! How 'bout the Yoccum TR? Huh! Wow! Or the NY Gully TR! Those guys are needing some serious harrasing too!

Okay, then I'd give Big 4 a IV+ if you climb the cliffs or brush instead of avy gullies.

I agree its not a grade 5 either. I'd give it a 4. 4+ if the climbing is in challenging conditions. As stated by a few folks, the approach should not be concidered.

Sweet, I'm glad that christians can climb 510. I'll be doing that route when I'm forced to move to P-town next year. WAy to go.

I can do that faster Cpt!

I can tie my shoelaces soooo much faster and in way more style than any of you. At the base of Big 4, matt was sitting down lacing his shoes and he's like, "Shit!" cuz I was already done. Also, I can get into my car really fast too. It's like..."Where did Mike go" and then its like, "Fuck!, he's already in the car." You all are big pussies, especially you Russians. You are the biggest pussies of them all. Except Rich White climbers from the seattle area who are around 25-32, or still in High School. You guys couldn't tie your shoes or get into your car in 1/2 the time I could.