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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2008 - 12:39am PT
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sweet little green machine too.
let's here the story?
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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Yeah, LOVE that copter. The green is awesome. He had a smaller MD a year before but ended up autorotating it down to the glacier. It was a loss after it was recovered but nobody was hurt.
The day after I was dropped off was beautiful. Perfectly clear morning at 2 a.m. I made the summit of the mountain but I was terribly slow. It was supposed to be summer but it was an odd year and we had full winter conditions. You can tell just by looking at the size of the hanging glaciers. Postholing all the way down late in the afternoon while hogback clouds were blowing in from the NW. It was a white out before we hit the glacier. Snowing and blowing gusts up to 60kph. We worked our butts off trying to get around the glacier. My legs were cramping up from breaking trail with a heavy pack and constantly plunging up to my waist and working my way back out. My partner took over lead and immediately punched through a snow bridge forcing us to retreat and take a more conservative route. Dark came and the shelter was close yet still so far away. We considered digging in but I could see the shelter through breaks in the clouds. I thought I could see a light from time to time but we were the only ones out there when we left. After a long push and lots of determination I was relieved to finally climb up the metal stairs and into safety. Turns out a couple of Irish climbers had come up early in the morning and were watching our struggle all afternoon. They had hot tea brewed for us when we got in. I was too embarassed to admit I was wasted so I drank the tea and tried to be civil. The weather worsened, the shelter moved back and forth with the 120kph gusts. We were all stuck inside for 3 days. We had 1 day of food left plus snacks and the Irish guys had nothing. They were poor and had planned to bag the mtn and head back the next day. I scrounged around through some junk that had been left. I relished the opportunity to show off my poor man's culinary skills. Ther was a huge hunk of perpetually frozen butter in a box along with a zoplock of some floury stuff, an onion, a can of tuna and an apple. Turns out my guess that the flour stuff was pancake batter was correct. I made cakes and sauted the sliced apple in butter before adding my two packs of GU vanilla gel to make a sauce. It was awesome. The can of tuna and onion mixed with a pack of lipton teriyaki noodles to make a gut wrenching fuel that would take us over the col and back home.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Nov 22, 2008 - 12:23am PT
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Bump...
Baldy at Mt Rushmore
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 22, 2008 - 06:02pm PT
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2008 - 07:59pm PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 24, 2008 - 03:49pm PT
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So many great photos on this thread, and the last one not least.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 24, 2008 - 03:52pm PT
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Seems appropriate to revive it on Christmas Eve.
Celebrating a father-daughter ski outing yesterday:
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2008 - 04:52pm PT
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A couple days ago in Colorado's Indian Peaks:
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perswig
climber
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Dec 24, 2008 - 07:19pm PT
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Wearing wool knickers, Chiloe? (and is your power back on?)
Great to have snow for Christmas.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 24, 2008 - 07:26pm PT
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Hah, not wool or knickers, some technofabric pants w/gaiters (& knee-deep snow).
We got power, I'm happy to say, although it's been freezing drizzle all day here today.
Good thing we caught the perfect conditions yesterday.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Dec 24, 2008 - 07:29pm PT
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Roy, ice skating out across that flawless frozen lake looks about like the greatest thing I've ever seen.
Merry Christmas!
JL
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2008 - 07:41pm PT
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Yes John, that is pretty cool by my reckonin' too.
Credit goes to John Dittli.
Merry Christmas to you!
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2008 - 09:40pm PT
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A little modest mountain town Christmas adoooo...
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 24, 2008 - 10:14pm PT
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This is so awesome. Thanks everyone!
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2008 - 10:35pm PT
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very, very nice skip!
'love the flowers!!!!!!
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Dec 25, 2008 - 12:50am PT
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Wow Skip. Beautiful.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 25, 2008 - 12:58am PT
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a pad for all seasons. You are a fortunate person, Skipt.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2008 - 02:15am PT
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Some Christmas lights on the outskirts of Boulder Colorado:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 28, 2008 - 08:15am PT
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Living in Nederland, the mountain lifestyle is everywhere you look!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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May 29, 2009 - 01:04am PT
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View off the front porch
some Olympic mountain work scenes
some yard work
Olympic mountain play
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