sobo

TLG got it.

Nut suckin' Michael Jackson

Nope.

What Ralph said. I believe MSR calls them their "Coyote" picket. Clickety click

Years ago when I was still in college, I came out here from Virginia and did Hood and Adams together in under 24 hours, from car to summit to car to summit to car, including lunch at the Timberline Lodge and a nap at the Lunch Counter. I thought that was impressive for me at the time, but I guess it wasn't, given this latest news.

Sobo ... that's no way to speak about your former goat ropin' neighbors from Naches

I think this blows serious goats, and I'm ashamed to be a part of the human race when this shit happens. I leave my tent, sleeping bag, beer cooler, etc. out for days when I'm in the backcountry, but if I'm anywhere within the stumbling limits of a white-trash, mullet-wearing, drunked-up redneck from his pick-up truck, I pack all my shit back up into the rig each morning and set it up again that night at the CG. Just me, but I've never been pinched yet. I don't trust people around my shit unattended at any CG that's vehicle accessible. Toast, I have grown cynical with age. I sincerely hope that you do not.

Not very. But if it's icy, be careful coming down.

I knew that! Don'choo be messin' wit da klenke when it comes to word useage! He'll cut you down with enfilading fire!

madness!

Yeah, but my old Fire's could harken back to the oh-so-retro look of Converse "chucks", doncha know.

Joke Time! Heard this one from my wife this morning: How is a hardwood floor like a man? If you lay 'em right the first time, you can walk on 'em forever.

Only in Canada. Most other folks would call that the 5 Mile High Club...

$80 fuggin' dollars?? You have got to be fucking kidding me! How far can "fashion" go in this country? Might as well drop another Jackson and get the real thing. Jeezus Christ, I should sell my old Fire's on e-Bay for big buck$$!

hmmmm... who's the brat?

Jeepers, those look a lot like EBs!

I loved that woman... In the movie, I mean!

Hey, Where is ol' 007 and his Cho Oye trip anyway??? No activity from him on here since last August. WTF?

Several folks on this board have soloed Liberty Ridge (I haven't and don't intend to), but I have soloed the Kautz and Fuhrer's Finger with no probs. Mebbe give one of those a try? You'll only have the lower Nisqualley to worry about crevasses, as most of the Kautz and FF routes are along ridges or non-crevassed expanses, except for a short span at the top of the Wapowety Cleaver where the two routes join up and head for the crater rim area.

Yes, he and a coupla other friends engineered and built them in his garage. There were a couple of earlier versions, some less stellar than others. Version 2 met with an untimely "death" in a rollover accident coming back from a test run at White Pass. It was being carried on a car top carrier... The photo up-thread ^^ is of ver. 3.0, which was the version that made the successful summit of Rainier. Other versions followed, in a multitude of colors, which were used by Pete and 3 other gimps to make a successful summit of Mt. Shasta a couple of years ago. The pods are for sale, and Pete is making more to sell a fleet to a paraplegic rehab outfit in Canada, I believe. Pete takes it out on the snow once in a while, but for a "real" climb, he needs belayers and such. And yes, his arms are the size of most people's legs.

Mike: I found it easy enough. I think it's nice, but it's sad to see the old icon go... snowball: Nice work with PhotoShop. I appreciate it!

Not the same guy. I seem to recall that Pete got the NPS to approve his snowpod in quite a bit less time than you mention, by working with the NPS, not against them. But he is definitely not the twerp who forced the NPS to put in the ADA-compliant shitter. That was another guy who was competing with Pete to be the first gimp (and Pete uses that term for himself, so I'm excused) up Rainier. This other guy was using RMI guides to fix lines up the hill for him, then he would jumar them while lying on a sled device. They'd haul him up stuff that he couldn't or wouldn't jumar over. Basically horizontal jugging was his plan, and not a totally "clean" ascent style in our opinion, given the gratuitous assistance. At some point below Camp Muir, The Jugger got tired and frustrated with the whole mess, while Pete was making good time on the Kautz Glacier route. When Pete got to 12,500 and above the cliffs overlooking Camp Hazard, it became obvious to The Jugger that he was not going to make it to the top first, so he split and descended. He must have gotten pissed off somewhere along the way because the NPS told us that the guy basically got in their face and said that there needed to be a handicap access crapper at Camp Muir, this is wrong with that, whine whine whine, blah blah blah. I guess that's how it came to be there. Maybe he threatened to sue or something. Pete thinks it's a crying shame to have federal taxes spent that way. Pete's comment, "Who the fuck is going to crawl all the way up here just to take a shit in that thing anyway?! I don't even like the DC route!" FWIW, Pete learned how to shit in a blue bag before he got hurt, and he can still shit in a blue bag after the accident.

When were were up at Muir last weekend, I was impressed by how roomy the bathroom was, much nicer than I'd remembered. Then I remembered the spray on here about the "handicapped accessible" bathroom at Muir, and sure enough, that's what it was! So, if you can get your wheelchair up the trail and rock stairsteps, and across the muir snowfield, and you can get up over the bottom half of the dutch door and down the steps into the bathroom, there's plenty of room to turn your wheelchair around, as well has handrails to make it easier for you. Funny yes, but in the latest edition of Gator's book, he tells a story about Pete Rieke who spent 13 day trying to get to the summit. He finally made it up the Kautz Glacier in a modified wheelchair. He had some help, but the guy tackled it under his own power. Unbelievable! BTW Mike, the second edition is better than I imagined. Nice work! It wasn't so much a modified wheelchair as it was a modified bicycle/tractor/crawler. I was involved with all of his attempts on Rainier, and was one of the six folks that summitted with him in June of 2000. He cranked the thing all on his own for the entire trip, and never asked for, nor received, any forward/upward assistance from any of the many folks that tagged along with him. I am proud to count him among a very small list of my friends. Here is a pic of the Snowpod, v. 3.0: Here's the story. Yours truly is the blue smurff on the right. And those are gloves in my coat pockets, not manboob!

"...Muzungo god came down from mountain on strange horseless chariot, slaying our fearless warriors clad only in flip flops. We could hear them falling one after another as Muzungo god slew them. Evil eye on front of chariot cast strange shadows on our village at the base of the mountain. We feared for our lives..."

Did you find that while hiking at work?