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Nuttin wrong with a little aid

I recently broke my ankle. No way I could have walked out of Dragontail (much less the Smoke Bluffs) on it. Seems like a lot of climbers have injured their ankles, I imagine lots of people will have detail to add. Do you care to give us a mini-TR on the accident? My partner and I had a near catastrophe on the Fin two summers ago when he knocked loose a suitcase size block that hit the rope, tugging him off for a 30+' winger, and came within a foot or two of braining me. Could have been ugly.

Never mess with the

Sage wisdom from Joe Simpson "You gotta keep making choices, even if they're the wrong ones" That makes me smile, a lot

Amazing, beautiful, wonderful

Someones gotta ask the tough questions.....

Sorry to hear that. Walking through the forest in the north cascades last weekend it's scary how dry to underbrush and moss is. I hope this isn't our year to burn on the westside.

Yeeaaahhhh!

So if this is the crux, and you have gear at yer balls, whats with the R part of rating? Is it the semi-loose block, or is there easier runout climbing? Know what I'm saying. 5.10b with a stretch of 5.8R sound cool for many folks. 10b R sounds sketchy for many folks (me included).

11+ OW and chimneys on left edge of Zodiac Wall. Haaah beat Dru to it!

Maybe not what you're going to cook up on the Abruzzi Ridge but it's freakin tasty and high high in calories..... 1 package dried tortellini 1 can chicken breast 1 package dried pesto some olive oil and parm boil water, pour some off to make pesto boil tortellini 15 minutes drain toss everything together, fry it up a bit top with parm follow with half a package of Jello no-bake cheesecake cooled in the snow

It's always hard to find the first time and the second and the....basically follow Dru's directions. You need to go pretty high in the third summit gully before breaking out of it. trail is pretty darn obvious so don't get suckered out of the gully to low.

I thought they banned that pretentious ass?

To put this all in perspective I think we need to keep in mind that F-9/11 only made slightly more in its opening weekend (21 mil vs 19.5 mil) that a movie by two worn-out black comedians dressing up as white transvestites. (White Chicks) I guess Americans are hungering for cross-racial, cross-gender roll playing as well.

The Dolphin SEWS

Thanks Lowell. Nice photo! Even looks like there's a mini-Nooksack Tower on the west ridge. Sorry to ruin your super-secret first-ascent Michael. Honestly though....Your a goober

Jordops right. The route description of passing a rock band doesn't add up to what I saw, might be the much wider gully further west?

Since breaking my ankle I haven't climbed shit in 3 months. Last weekend I hobbled myself real good climbing in D-Town so I'll be taking it easy a while yet. Dams are cool The lakes are at full pool and excess water was being dumped through a spillway on Diablo Dam. Absolutely incredible freakin waterfall free falling hundreds of feet into a deep narrow gorge. If you've never driven across the dam do it next time you're in the area, better yet stop in the middle at a little parapet and toss a large pumkin off. Boats are cool Took a 25 minute boat ride 12 or so miles up Ross Lake then backpacked out the east side trail. Very mellow, very nice, highly recommended. Mountains are cool There are really bitchen faces you can't see from Highway 20. Case in point, north face of something? There is the most stunning coulior I've seen in the Cascades on this face. 1200+' vert, no more than 15' wide, avg angle of 50+ degrees. Not to hard to get to once you're in the area either. Several other nice lines as well. Anyone ever climbed it? Bate and Switch! I couldn't hitch us a ride back to our car, so Jennifer stuck out her thumb while I hid in the shade. The second car by pulled over, I popped up and we both jump in. Guys had just climbed North Early. Thanks dudes!

I give this the -award for chester-beater-post of the month

Un-Freaking-Real!

Good luck with that one

Looks like a sweet crag! Your attempts to have a debate on climbing ethics with Marty seems like a pretty frivoulous indevour when all he has to say is "We'll do what ever we want, so F*&k yourself!" Dane do what you (and 99.999% of us) know is right.

A) don't weigh much B) are flexible enough to be comfortable on long walks C) stiff enough to kick steps in snow D) climb well on low-5th alpine rock E) are waterproof F) are durable Any suggestions???

If 2000 people pay $770 thats $1,540,000 in revenue. I'd guess that Rainier is RMIs bread and butter. So maybe it's 2.7 million in revenue.