An *ideal* climber's town??????

[offwidthclimber]

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Originally posted by freeclimb9:

...Kecthum, IDThese towns aren't trendy, but they've got what you asked for.

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ketchum is way cool, but that place is pretty damn trendy and way $$$. soon enough sun valley will be like aspen, co. the millionaires replace the locals, then the billionaires replace the millionaires.

with the sawtooths and baldy at your back door, however, it would be oh so nice!

too bad there isn't shit for work in stanley, id. now there's a mtn. town!

peace.

[Norm]

As trite as it may sound and even considering the original poster was whining about the rain; I've got to go with Seattle.

Yes you have to commute to the mountains to play but:You can actually find more appealing work than selling soft serve to tourists.Your boss might actually believe you if you tell him/her that you need 5 weeks off to go to Alaska or you’ll quitYou don't have to live next to brain dead redneck troglodytes.You can ski year roundThe coastal snowpack is inherently more stable than the continental snowpack (not that we don’t have periods of extreme avalanche danger, rather that we have more days of moderate avalanche danger.)North Cascades National Park (3 hours)Leavenworth (2.5 hours)Squamish, Whistler, and Lillioet are all reasonable weekend tripsPlenty of good beerThere are single women here

As for some of the other posts

SLC: That place still feels like a back lot from the set of "The Stepford Wives", and whoever came up with the idea that a 3.2 IPA was ok should be taken out back and beaten

Bend: Bachelor’s flat a pancake and you get to huff snowmobile exhaust on most of your tours.

[admin]

definately crossroads, south of the microsoft campus...

1) you can walk or rollerblade to campus2) redmond VW is totally close by3) on sunny days you can go boulder at marymore4) scenic 520