layton

Yup, that does it more...gotta go.

i hear it has a "happy ending"

by that girl in the icebreakers polypro ad that is always on the sidebar? she's smoking hot

Dude, you dis the poster, you dis "Roj"

Or save a few bucks, avoid trademarked techniques with fancy names, and just do the stretches I mentioned.

Psoas is easy to stretch, and an adjustment may help, but it needs to be stripped (rough massage) and actively stretched. Here are the two best streches for Psoas Do a lunge with the knee on the side that hurts pointing to the floor, but have your legs a bit more spread apart than a usual lunge. Press your hips foreward, keep your back straight. Raising your arm on the affected side helps to legnthen it. Option two...on a bed. Sit on your butt bones on the extreme edge of the bed. Grab your need to your chest on the non-affected side. Lay back carefully onto your back so your affected leg dangles off the bed. Have someone press down on your affected leg while you press up for 5-7 secs. Relax, repeat-getting a deeper stretch each time.

Hells yeah!

Took 6 hours to the base from the car, 9 hours up, 3 down to the base, 5 back to the car. Skagit Gneiss.

5 stars! Kinda like Middle Cathedral

The Rat and I went clamberin' up the NE Face Central Buttress on Davis Peak the other day. It had been on my list for too long, plus it won the coin flip. The experience was full Cascades Immersion. Thankfully it hadn't rained in a few days so the moss and shrubs weren't totally soaking wet. If one found themselves ready to "hike" out in the rain, then one would be in for a real treat. The trip was a bit surreal due to the start in the Diablo Dam town site, or Zombie Town as I like to call it. The town is a pure Hollywood zombie film movie set. Perfect pretty little house, nice yards, new cars in the driveways, but not a soul or sound. The silence was broken by an air raid siren just as we started hiking. Opening scene: Perfect 1950's dream town juxtaposed by a piercing air raid siren. Intruder Alert! The zombies emerge from their homes desperately hungry for brains. Flashback: Pop is on the porch smoking a pipe while Mom comes out with a tray of ice cold lemonade. Billy is flying an airplane on a string in the yard. Then BLAM! Nuclear bomb mushroom cloud. Fade out, and back in to the family twitching on the yard as the radiation mutates their genes in to brain eating zombies. The airplane lays on the yard, its wings broken. It's weird being so close to civilization, but being so cut off in the back alley of the glacier basin below Davis. Nothing but rock, snow, and zombies patrolling the lowlands. Better get some pitches in while we hunker down and hope the situation changes. From the river to the camp spot, it's only a mile. And 3500' of elevation gain. Put your trekking poles away for this approach. Rolf and I got some early bonus pitches in on the headwall guarding the peak. Junglegym Jones. Crossfit in the Amazon. Wear your goggles, bush snorkel, helmet, and spiky toed shoes. The Stetattle creek trail is the famous site of the big bloody battle between to native tribes (history lesson someone?). The climb was interesting. We didn't use a guidebook for the climb (or approach/descent), and after reading it when I got home, it really wouldn't have helped. The go left, go right, go up instructions on a 2500' climb would have only confused and irritated. We wondered if we were doing the 2nd ascent. Actually, this climb was really not much different than doing a 1st ascent except that we knew that Doorish got up it and called it 5.10, so really, how hard could it be? I'll spare the details of the actually route itself. I'll just say it's fun, there are some fun moves, it's totally gorgeous up there (especially the top!), and there are some sections of routine mank. I busted out my ice tool on one pitch for a M5ish moss mantle. The rock was covered in mucous when both feet became disconnected from the mountain and I had to do a grab your wrist one arm lock off and claw/grovel/dolphin-flop my way up. I also gave up a lead to Rolf cuz I was being a total pussy, which he of course hiked and said it was easy. BUT WHAT ABOUT MY FEELINGS????????? One fun thing that happened was when a falling rock chopped the rope midway into the core at almost exactly half rope, and I didn’t notice it until Rolf was committed out of site on a particularly challenging section. It was equally fun following the pitch. “Take!”….SNAP! It slowed us up doing short pitches on the headwall sections, but what sucked was 60’ raps on the “hike” out. We switched to my 6m which is also fun to rap on. No pesky friction on the belay device, and plenty of fun knot puzzles. The other lines on the face look so/so. After looking at them and down them from the top, I'm glad with our choice. Burdo/Cairn's route looks the best since the upper rib it ascends looks pretty and clean, but the lower part looks way shittier and you'd only get about 4-5 pitches of climbing out of the deal. Since the face is a one route per lifetime kinda job (unless you have emotional problems....Pete?) might as well choose the most aesthetic line. Autumn gardens and Seraphin prow don't look like they are worth the effort. And of course the NE face couloir looks fun in winter (nice one guys), and there are other opportunities for winter lines too. Speaking of other routes, the NE face of "Jay Peak" aka "The Roost" is almost a carbon copy of Davis, albiet shorter. It's probably 1500' vs 2500' (the beckey guide is wrong). So someone should go do the NE butt on that guy. The approach looks very reasonable if you go up goodell creek and camp on top of the peak. The other way up Jay creek or Stetattle creek is according to the Beckey Guide, "only for those who have a guilt complex and wish to punish themselves". Looking down from the summit (we continued on to the actual summit adding a bonus pitch) is crazy. 6000 drop right down to the river in a bit over a mile! I'll give you a dollar if you base jump it. The summit register was visited by the ghost of Roger Jung. I keep running into him in the mountains. Spooky. The alpine meadows and rock walls all over Davis and surrounding areas is very pretty. Millions of ponds and camp spots. Also all the leaves and plants were turning, so the colors were great. Perfect sunny crisp fall day. Go get your girlfriend's hikin' boots outta storage and drag her up there. You'll have a very scenic pretty location for her to break up with you. Also, this is an excelling choice of routes for a cascades newbie, or those from Colorado on a road trip on their way to boulder in Squamish. The hike down was uneventful, and we had a blast hopping down the glacier with one strap-on crampon each. Gear: the usual up to 3.5”, pin aren’t useful, but a small ice tool is. RP’s or HB’s are usefull so you see pretty dangly things clipped to the rope when you stare down.

Climb: Davis Peak-NE Face Central Buttress Date of Climb: 9/29/2006 Trip Report: The approach The route: The Climb Lookin Down Another ghost on the summit The Rat Only a 1/2 mile to go on the hike out!

which is why my beta was posted in a cantankerous way

i spelled it wrong b/c i didn't take the time to care. it's the same technique they use in blasting kidney stones, it has showed significant promise in the Tx of plantar fascitis. I'd look it up, but i'm still on summer break for a few more days.

Bendgirl. Here's my advice. Buy a guidebook. Watefall ice by Joe Josephson and West Coast Ice by Don Serl. Open it to the Map Section, find where you want to climb. Flip to that part of the guide and find routes you want to climb. Read about the season they are in. If it doesn't say, search message boards for that area with the name of the climb(s) you want to go do.

i'll be right over

nice nick! (but just so you know using the phrase "LOL" is seriously gay)

i've led psychopath a few times now, am a quivering bitch, and did not find it spicy in the least. go figure. good idea 4 a link-up though!

muffy, that's a slow healer. Ask your care providere about wearing a posterior night splint to keep your ankle flexed while you sleep, or even more fun, exracorporeallithotrypsy

maybe you also got an inversion sprain too? do the ol' PRICE and get it worked on after it's not too acute. if it still bugs you after you get it worked on, yeah, get an MRI. the think with MRI results....they really are only going to help the surgeon know where to do the cutting. so unless you can't recover w/o surgery, why bother?

maybe you bruised your extensor retinaculum (the layer of connective tissue that covers your extensor tendons...like a bridge on guitar that keeps the strings in place) and the tennis shoes are compressing it even more? that's just a guess, it could be anything

looks like a photo essay of my dating life

how you know about hestra?

Yes, they do make some stupid shit like a $200 pair of slacks and their ice glove is as dexterous as a pair of boxing gloves. But Aermet Pick! Fuck, why did they have to leave? Best $150 i ever permanently borrowed.

Well, concidering it's on the "internet" I think I get as many copies as I want. And I'm in it way more than twice......

Thanks Pope, I was actually serious about that choice...but nothing else (ever).