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6/30/04
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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It's nice how well Ruth holds onto snow in the summer, eh?Ah yes, the classic and deceptive "fools' shortcut." It got me too, on my first time out there.
author=Marcus link=topic=10622.msg43287#msg43287 date=1216076822]Ha! Are we going to paint lines next?We? Feel free to do whatever you want.I forgot the snowboard lane though. It goes more like thi...
author=CascadeClimber link=topic=10622.msg43279#msg43279 date=1216062773]For pretty much the same reasons that skiers rabidly prefer 'fresh tracks'. It's also bad form to posthole down...
Yeah I've only been on the Emmons route once but it was pretty disappointing how the glacierhikers managed to plunge step every square meter of the route, especially the wide corridor which other...
Living is dying; all the living you do kills you a little.But a little dying is no reason not to live.Life IS killing you. You don't have a choice--but you do get to choose how you live.Try to l...
Dumb is hard to define. Perhaps the dumbest thing to do is to inadequately consider your choices and the likely consequences. Prophylaxis should always be subject to a 'cost vs. benefit analysi...
At the risk of beating a dead horse...Wands and compasses are themselves technologies in a certain sense. But perhaps what people really mean when they say 'technology' is 'electronics...
author=jdclimber link=topic=10009.msg40352#msg40352 date=1210353648]Ash_j, yes, weather was a factor, but only one factor. In some ways, the stage was set for the weather.Using Amar's experience...
author=skykilo link=topic=10009.msg40357#msg40357 date=1210358811]GPS doesn't know where crevasses areBut GPS can know where you knew crevasses were when you could see where you were going, withi...
In reading of your experience, it appears to me that the following rules were broken.1. You were traveling un-roped on Glacier2. You were not together as a group.3. Non-skiers would think that 2:30 PM...
Sounds like you kept it pretty cool up there. I think that I (I don't want to speak for anyone else) would find it hard to fight the 'Down Now' instinct, even if didn't truly know...
I can only presume it's to injure, force, or otherwise discourage we the public from treading on Their ParkSo do you really think that they plowed in order to prevent you from entering the park,...
T/F: premature road opening would lead to parking/sanitation issues, and cars being left in the way of continuing work.I'm willing to bet that more of the budget is paid for by people who are loo...
It must feel great to fly.And I thought ski descents were over too fast...
Nice shots. I smell a telemarktips cover for the second one.
I have less of a problem paying a fair fee to the gov't... but a "service charge" extracted by a private company, through an exclusive deal with no alternative and no competition? ...
6000'? Is that the kind of motivated staff you get for $15/permit? Hey since they already outsourced permit sales to a ticketmaster clone ($7 "service charge?"), why don...
Despite the normal winter, I don't ever remember the Roman Wall looking that bad in the past, even in August and September.
Hood is Wy'East. Also St Helens is Loowit, according to some brief googling.
Yeah I've taken to doing this too. The original names are so much cooler anyway, and more often than not are related to names of the surrounding geography.
I think that's Klickitat as in one of the original names of the mountain:Klickitat
no way.
Perhaps we are both here in this photo, on the front page of Gauthier's Rainier blog:http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1016/3057/1600/Skiers%20on%20Summit.jpghttp://www.mountrainierclimbing.blog...
Hm, well I only see one set of tracks on that side in that photo, those being made by the skier. So unless I didn't leave any tracks... (oddly I don't remember hucking that big, but I...
author=David_Coleman link=topic=5007.msg21075#msg21075 date=1151375014]At the bottom we watched the rest of our party descend NFNWR, a cool site.Who skied the "bestest?" 8)
No man, I think that is me! That's was my sixth or seventh day skiing, ever. ::) ;D <-- (just to be clear, these are here b/c I ski crappy)http://students.washington.edu/ashwortj/N...
Dude, skykilo's thermos, that's like a collector's item! Now you're NEVER going to get it back.
Well unfortunately this guy (jimw) isn't hosting the video anymore, but there was a scene in it that was quite appropriate! Maybe send him a PM and ask for it? Some classic mano-a-ber...
author=MW88888888 link=topic=4519.msg19345#msg19345 date=1145494852]Like I said, where is not important. I don't care if it was a first descent, although that is fun to imagine. I enj...
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