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Tazz Member


Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7909 | TRs
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HA! look at the pics. Some folks are in full overnight packs and then another shot is with days packs. Then everyone keeps changing their clothes!!! Oh and different folks in different shots! that pooch looks like NB's pooch!
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Middle E no more moustache


Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 432 | TRs Location: Seattle, WA
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Did you check your GPS? I'm pretty sure it would have shown you were really on North Mtn...
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Opus Wannabe


Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3609 | TRs Location: The big rock candy mountain
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Tazz wrote: |
HA! look at the pics. Some folks are in full overnight packs and then another shot is with days packs. Then everyone keeps changing their clothes!!! Oh and different folks in different shots! that pooch looks like NB's pooch! |
It was a very strenuous trip, hence the clothing changes. We were really sweating on that steep slope. As for the packs, we were pretty heavily loaded for this one just in case we had an unplanned bivy. The Si glacier is an unforgiving place. I think they just look bigger in the early photos because we had rain covers on them. |
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Layback Mariner's Fanatic!!!


Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 5715 | TRs Location: On a Bike
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What was the bergshrund like? Did you bring pickets? I want go go back next year and bag the first winter ascent.  |
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Grizzy Yellow Cedar Hugger


Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 1935 | TRs Location: Switchbacks
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A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
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Magellan Brutally Handsome


Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13089 | TRs Location: Inexorable descent
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To pull this off in a strenous one-day ascent is certainly remarkable. Kudos!  |
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Slugman Slower than ever


Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16132 | TRs
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It's not such a tough route. I took Daisy up there, she managed to jump the crevasses quite easily. I, unfortunately, fell into one and was killed instantly. 
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Tazz Member


Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7909 | TRs
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer


Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10967 | TRs Location: Going to Tukwila
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Nice work! Like dicey, I'm surprised that the glaciers are open this early, but with all the global warming and whatnot, I can understand the massive amounts of early melt.
Slugman wrote: |
It's not such a tough route. I took Daisy up there, she managed to jump the crevasses quite easily. I, unfortunately, fell into one and was killed instantly.  |
Thanks heavens your ghost has both a sense of humor and an internet connection. 
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Tazz Member


Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7909 | TRs
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I still want to know if that is NB's pooch!!!! ? |
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Opus Wannabe


Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3609 | TRs Location: The big rock candy mountain
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Tazz wrote: |
I still want to know if that is NB's pooch!!!! ? |
Nope, not NB's dog. He belongs to an OSAT member named Tino (?), I cant remember the name of the dog though. |
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Slide Alder Slayer Member


Joined: 14 Jan 2002 Posts: 1931 | TRs
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My favorites are the Goo and alcohol refreshment drinks and the switch from plastic to regular mountaineering boots. Be that as it may the perfect April Fools report, very well done! |
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doehle Advanced Slacker


Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 18 | TRs Location: Seattle
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Well done Opus, still trying to decide if the TR or responses are more amusing!!  |
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Opus Wannabe


Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3609 | TRs Location: The big rock candy mountain
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Thanks all! It was fun to write up and piece together. I should say only one of those photos was taken on Si itself. The rest are cobbled together from a crevasse rescue training trip on the Baker Easton glacier (nobody noticed he was prussiking out with two ropes!), a trip up Teneriffe, Talapus lake, and snow camping practice on the Stevens ski slopes.
Of course those are all just stand in photos, next year I plan to find the real Mt. Si glacier!  |
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JimK Member


Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 5491 | TRs Location: Ballard
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What??? You mean that wasn't the Mt. Si glacier??? 
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