My original post was an effort to try and find a competent person to climb/ski a peak with, which I had hoped that on a climbing resource like this website, one would be not so hard to find. The post turned into a totally negative spray fest, so I chose not to reply to any of it, or to try to justify what was being planned. We went, we climbed, and we skied and it was awesome...and if someone around here was interested in going along but chose to spray a bunch of crap around instead...well they missed out on a killer mission.
-R