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In 10 easy steps... 1. Left clicked on your attachment link in your top post to open it, 2. Right clicked on it to bring up menu, 3. Left clicked "Copy Image Location" to put it into my buffer, 4. Left clicked "Back" to go back to the thread, 5. Left clicked "Reply" to open a post to paste it into, 6. Left clicked the "Image" toggle, 7. Pasted the copied address into the dialog box, 8. Hit "Continue" to post the message and image, 9. Voila'! 10. Enjoy PS: you should resize your image to something smaller. I don't know how to do that.

Welllllll..., I can't change that. It's 290 miles from Kennewick to Darrington, and only 225 miles from Kennewick to Clearwater. So I can save about an hour's driving time each way. And one can get about 6 to 7 pitches on most of the routes at LD, and that's good enough for me right now. I just wanna go there, that's all. I haven't been there yet this year, and time's running out.

...potential link between cannabis and mental illness. Coincidence???

Cla-asss... cla-asss... CLA-ASSSS! SHADDAAAPPPP! thenk qu. Sister Mary Elephant

uhhh, excuse me... it's already fallen off the tree.

Time! It's all about wasting time! Amatuer... Yeesh!

Whooooa, what did you before you took that pic?

Thanks for the pics, wazzu. I hope they entice someone into going. FWIW, I've always thought of the arch of Fat Albert to be 5.6-ish. It goes 5.10 on the upper pitches, IIRC. C'mon peepull, look at that granite!! Look at those flakes! Look at those faces! Look at those dihedrals! And this is just one half of Lightning Dome; there's more to the right of the pic. Then there's the Rolling Stone Wall to the right of that, Then there's... well, you get the idea. Fat Albert is the arch behind the two trees on the right of wazzu's top pic. Cretin's Corner (5.8/9)is the obvious dihedral in the center of the frame.

So would I, but the word I'm getting from folks I know that have climbed it is that it will surely spank me. I wouldn't want to get up there and then puss out on you. And they're saying that the first three pitches are the only ones worth doing. This buying/moving to a new home/city and opening up a new office is really cramping my climbing. I was doing so good up until Memorial Day... C'mon, you really want to go to Clearwater anyway.

Naah, Tieton is too hard for me right now. I can cr00ze all the 8s, 9s, and some of the 10s at LD, and it won't be near as hot over there (I assume the fire is out by now).

You forgot to add in the bullwhip snaps... I like that part.

Thank you. Unwarranted.

This fish has seen that lure...

Bump! Come on, you know you want to go! Don't leave me hangin'.

Right, whatever. What you apparently don't know is that I happened to live through those times as well. You really are Crampon, aren't you?

I'd have to agree with Trogdor on this. I've crossed this glacier many times at this time of year in the past, attempting the lower eastside variation of the NR (the entire ridge). One time, our fearless leader insisted that we leave axes and crampons in the car and go in tennis shoes for the approach, saying, "It's August, no problem!" I countered, "But it's the north side, ya doofus!" Long story short, I cow-towed to his belligerence, then watched as he slipped on the glacier traverse and rocketed towards the cliff below the "cheater's north ridge start", unable to stop himself. He managed to steer himself towards one of the rock outcroppings, and crash-landed into one, injuring his hands/arms in the process. My advice: take at least one thing with pointy bits on it. An axe or crampons. Personally, I'd take crampons, cuz they'd be easier to stow once you're on the ridge.

I'm stuck on , too.

My recent calculations here indicate that Dru will top 30k in approximately 23 weeks, or just under his own estimate of 6 months.

pics? TLG ought to be along any minute now...

I'm in! I'll be the one that looks like a belay anchor block.

Bummer... but at least the view will be nice. Yah, I've looked across the river at "The Dorsal Fin" every time I go down there. It's best done at this time of year as the river is at its lowest for the approach. Sorry we couldn't hook up.

Upon review of the MRNP "tourist" map that they give you at the entrance stations, it would appear that there is no good way to get from Paradise to Mowich Lake CG. Do you have a Washington Gazetteer? It looks like a crap shoot either way you go: Leave the park at the Nisqually portal (SW corner) and you've got a bit shorter drive on some shitty roads (706 to 7 to Alder to Eatonville to Kapowsin to 162 to 165 to Carbonado and finally to Mowich Lake) to the NW side of the park. Or you could head to the Stevens Canyon portal (SE corner), and you've got a lot of driving in the park at lower speed, but then you can hit SR 410 to make up some of the time, stop by and visit Marie in Enumclaw, then head south to Carbonado and pick up the trail there. If it were me, I do the Stevens Canyon/SR 410 thing. YMMV

"He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- wuh, look at the bones!" --Tim, the Enchanter

OK, so all my regular partners either have their kids this w/e, are running a triathlon, are going car-camping, or haven't called back yet. I really really really really wanna go to Lightning Dome for the long weekend, but need a partner (obviously ). The climbing is a lot like Leavenworth's 8-mile Buttress and SCW, with clean granite, bolts where you want 'em, and no bolted cracks. Runouts, where present, are somewhat long and contemplative... While mikebell thought it was a long drive for a westsider to make for a climbing trip, he did enjoy the rock quality and the aesthetics of the surroundings. Soooooooooo, I'm most likely looking for an eastsider (cuz it's a shorter drive) who leads in the 5.9/10 range on trad and slab/face, wants to climb in a really cool setting, and who doesn't want to pay for trail parking passes and shit like that. So I'm calling out guys like: pindude wazzumountaineer MCash shapp CatManDoo ...but this is an open invitation to all cc.com-ers, so that means you or anybody else who wants to hook up for 3 days in Idaho. We could even do a day trip down to McCall and tick Slick Rock regular route if'n you wanted to. C'mon! Help a brother out, man! PS: Don't let all my talk about being fat and domesticated and all scare you off... I have all the cruxes wired from before I got married.

Although that is a morose subject, I do agree with arch and think that a separate forum would be appropriate for remembering our fallen comrades.