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Randy Cube Rat
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 2910 | TRs | Pics Location: Near the Siamangs |
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Mon May 07, 2007 8:47 pm
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Yet Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2634 | TRs | Pics Location: Happily Ever After |
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Mon May 07, 2007 8:49 pm
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Mesahchie Mark A Lerxst
Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 700 | TRs | Pics Location: In Wonderland |
What can I say that hasn't already been said? Great trip, great people. Love all the pics and movies. Wish I brought glacier pants for the glissade - yeooow!
Also wish the weather cooperated. Still, you could feel just how steep the slopes were, and how jagged the adjoining towers and ridges were. Very cool.
I didn't take many pics, but here are some I did take. Looking forward to the next adventure!
Road Trek Looking Up Enter Super Secret Gully Further Away Than It Looks PiB and Tazz Ascending Sharp Left Turn Ahead
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Yet Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2634 | TRs | Pics Location: Happily Ever After |
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Mon May 07, 2007 9:49 pm
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Crack that whip, girl!
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Matt Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4307 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Mon May 07, 2007 11:32 pm
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Sorry, been busy with minor tasks like helping my son with his book report, helping my other son fill out financial aid applications for college, making sure they have meals, clean clothes, etc. Not to mention reading all 484 pages of the military sci-fi space-opera novel that I checked out just before the trip. Oh, probably shouldn't have mentioned that. Okay, sorting pictures now....
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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Matt Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4307 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Matt
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Mon May 07, 2007 11:49 pm
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Pütz-in-Boots wrote: | Matt...this is not a request...this is an order. Post your pictures. We wait every image with baited breath. Mine happens to be snapper. |
Every image? Be careful what you ask for...
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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MtnGoat Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 11992 | TRs | Pics Location: Lyle, WA |
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Tue May 08, 2007 12:04 am
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Great pics, especially the eatery piled high with grub. love the quotes!
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Tazz Member
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7902 | TRs | Pics
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Tue May 08, 2007 12:32 am
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Matt!!!! LOL BUTT shots!!! I don't think you got mine because I was the slug behind all of ya!!! Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
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Matt Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4307 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Tue May 08, 2007 1:56 am
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Here are the photos. No time for clever narration because some whip-wielding bait-breathed women are ordering me to finish faster. (Hmm, there’s something strangely exciting and disturbing about that sentence.)
Log blocking the road What’s missing from this bridge? Not the Wrong Gully (actually very short, exits to easier slopes on the left) Notch in center, summit at right Six-legged six-armed step-kicking machine Everyone in unison, left, right, left, right Hikers moving up, clouds moving down Icefall and cornices fading into the clouds Up from the valley, with Lewis behind Approaching the notch At the notch Yana wins the prize for whitest teeth
Beyond the notch and into the clouds. Ah, hiking in the northwest.
These pictures look like they should be in a chapter titled “Last Photos of the Lost Expedition”
Traversing below the rocks 1 Traversing below the rocks 2 Traversing below the rocks 3 Tazz coming up from the notch Traversing toward the final corniced ridge Up to the ridge
No butts about it, we’re making it to this summit. (Check labels for specific butt IDs)
Tazz Not Being a Butt
The summit provided just a few glimpses of dramatic spires below, and nothing but gray space to imagine what might be beyond the corniced edge.
Summit Group Summit Tea
Then it was back down into the clouds.
Descending from the summit Returning to the notch 1 Returning to the notch 2
We indeed glissaded about 2500 feet on the way down. The glissades triggered snow slides, but the snow was just firm enough to keep the slides slow and relatively shallow, without gaining dangerous depth or speed. If the sun had been out as we earlier wished, the wetter softer snow would have made the slope too dangerous to travel.
Where did all these giant snowballs come from? Mark & Dicey glissading Putz glissading Snow slide wavefront.
After the glissades, my remaining photos served only to demonstrate the coating of water blurring my camera lense.
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“As beacons mountains burned at evening.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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Tazz Member
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 7902 | TRs | Pics
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Tue May 08, 2007 7:13 am
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Quark Niece of Alvy Moore
Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 14152 | TRs | Pics
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Tue May 08, 2007 6:50 pm
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Matt wrote: | Before dinner:
Randy: "I'd like a burger deluxe with cheese."
Waitress: "Round here we call that a cheeseburger." |
I love this. at a small cafe in Colorado, my dad once ordered a "cheeseburger without the cheese" because "hamburger" wasn't on the menu.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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naturealbeing Member
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 1565 | TRs | Pics Location: Great Mystery |
Move over Randy, theres a new City Boy in town.
New City Kid 5.13.07.
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