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Bit of a long shot but...If you've got one sitting around collecting dust let me know. PM or e-mail. dberdinka AT gmail DOT com

I scoped it quicly this fall by climbing the standard route. The first pitch is packed with greenery but otherwise looks pretty good. The last pitch ends with 40ish feet of face climbing on what is poor quality granite for the area. I wasn't left feeling overwhelmed by the potential qualityof the climb.

So...can we start from the top..... ..why is it you hate people with nice tents? Does it extend to cars, boxes of cereal, phones... ...or is it just tents?

I'm interested. Where are you? Going to Sausage Fest? you could e-mail at dberdinka AT gmail DOT com

Please keep it that way!

Make sure to shave. They'll be easier for your partner to find.

Honestly dude. WHAT COULD POSSIBLE BE THE MOTIVE FOR OWNING 15 CAMHOOKS???

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Since when the fuck did Pete start getting all lawyery on us? Stick the spray for gods sake! And dickhead one more practical difference is that gay people in Washington are going to continue to feel like their civil liberties are being infringed upon until they can actually be married. Meaning another referendum for them to loose.

Go fuck yourself Tvash. Your original post compared what happened in Washington ("Everything but Marriage") and Maine ("Full on fucking Marriage") as if they had some equivalency. Are you really claiming that gays now have full equality in Washington? And actually feel that way? No way! Sometime in the near future in this state there will either be a referendum for marriage or one to repeal legislatively/judically enacted gay marrige. I'll put my money on that failing here just like in Maine. Asshole And Bug. You hurt my feelings. Are you denying that many people could concievably support one but not the other?

Huhhh I'm of the impression many gay people (and straight) would vehemently disagree with you.

There's a significant societal difference between equivalent benefits and actual marriage. Plenty of people could support the first but not the second. Marriage would fail here as well.

There are some absolutely amazing videos out there of that trip on a blog put together by Renan Ozturk. Search them down, your work productivity will go way down for the day.

My wife likes it when I call her during the day to let her know I'm not dead yet. Which makes it easier to get out more. So yes I carry and use the damn thing. I even think I might get a PLB soon. Pilchucks analysis makes a lot of sense to me the older and more conservative I get.

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So...basically it sounds like a big waste of time. What is this Calendar Butte you guys are yapping about? A forgotten gem? or a big 'ole pile of shit?

That last photo is Whatcom Peak? Which implies you climbed Spickard then ridge traversed past Redoubt and Bear down to Whatcom Pass then out...LIttle Beaver? Am I right? Sounds like a long, beautiful journey!

Tallest Tree sucks. You can have the gay chameleons book though.

Nice lot of stuff. PM sent. Where are you?

Get use to it. Climbers are a shifty and unreliable lot.

You can't have my "Buzz, Buzz Busy Bee's"

So what are these "egregious examples" everyone in Canada has their panties in a bunch about? There must be some particular lie that has you guys all fired up! Did Steve House actually fix 1000s of meters of line up north Face of Alberta, Emperor Face on Robson, North Twin? Help us out....

A long time ago we braved a scary taxi ride through the streets of Lima to a drab government building surrounded by machine gun nests to purchase topographic maps of the Cordillera Blanca. While the memory is sweet, these maps have been collecting dust pretty much ever since. Thought they might serve someone else better. Each is about 2' x 2.5'. It covers the entire range north of Huaraz. $15 plus cost of shipping so figure $17. Paypal is great Detail (click for larger) Layout

They're from the "Ribbon Mine" which apparently was in operation until 1956. They mined for chromite. Plug the following coordinates into Google Maps 48°42'55"N , 121°57'15"W Little bit more data here. http://www.mindat.org/loc-18134.html Considering how wild that valley feels it's hard to believe all that stuff is in there. At one point there must have been a pretty serious trail or road going in there. Evidently 50 years of plant growth can cover up just about anything. I found an outcropping of chromite on the ridgeline above Wiseman Lake. Metal ore is heavy!

Interesting looking "peak". Photo from this years NWMJ.