MbPost.com -- It's SP for Mountain Biking!
Calling all mountain bikers! MbPost.com is SP's first sister site. Like SP, it is a collaborative content community, but it is focused on mountain biking instead of climbing.
This site is in its infancy right now, so many popular areas and trails are still "open". The site is built using the same core code as SP, so you'll instantly feel right at home with the navigation and features.
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 Masherbrum as seen from Baltoro Glacier
Aug 25, 2010 12:06 AM by Afzal
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Sep 1, 2010 2:19 AM by p-mike
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Accident on the Langkofeleck
by mvs
It was the most relaxed of trips. I guess that makes sense. When you are "geared up" physically and mentally for a struggle a thin layer of paranoia and heightened sensitivity protects you. I can say I'm proud of every time I backed off something like that due to a bad feeling. Happily it wasn't all the time!
I'd done a full round of climbs earlier in the summer and planned to stay home most of August. But Danno and I had one day to climb together and the chance couldn't be missed. He hadn't been out at all this year so we sought something easy. We decided on a somewhat obscure route on the Langkofeleck. As the name implies, it's a "corner" of the Langkofel, the furthest left side of that amazing bulk when seen from the Sella Pass. The "Ramp Route," well named, reaches the summit in 17 pitches with lots of easy ground, and difficulties to IV+ (about 5.6 YDS). We awoke early and drove away from our secret bivy site, munching on apples. The hike in took less than an hour, and we were very surprised to see two guys reach the base right when we did.
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Marathon de Desolation
by swick
If you have ever read Patrick McManus you are familiar with the idea of "The Big Trip." The idea is simple... find an area on the map as far away from roads and trails as possible, take a minimum of gear, throw in a few wild animals, preferably large ones with big teeth, add some weather, as much hardship as possible, mix with some bad luck and you have "The Big Trip."
We didn't start out planning a big trip, but the idea grew from a few enchainments in the Desolation Wilderness--first the Crystal Range, later Tallac, Dick's and Jack's, a day trip to Ralston Peak--and pretty soon we were wondering about linking them all.
A quick review of Summit Post revealed that Steeleman had linked all seven peaks in a two day push in his Desolation Death March in 2002. Rumor has it that Dick's Peak, Jack's Peak, Mt Price, Mt Agassiz, and Pyramid Peak had been traversed in a day, but it appeared that all seven major peaks surrounding the Desolation Valley had never been enchained in a one day epic. Game on...
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Christie, Noyes, Meany, Seattle, & Martins Lakes
by Klenke
It was a 4-hour drive to the trailhead after picking up our permits at the ranger station. We set out hiking at 12:30pm. By 7:00pm we were all sixes and sevens as we tripped into camp at Twelvemile Shelter, which is actually only about 11.4 miles from the car. This campground got flooded out a few years ago. But plenty of flat spots can be found in the gravel bedding. We camped next to the old shelter, which now is merely an old roof.
Sixteenmile Camp is only about 0.7 miles up the trail from Twelvemile yet it is called Sixteeenmile. This is odd. Someone we met on the trail said it was due to the trailhead being moved some years ago. I don’t know if I believe this. Anyway, a ford is usually required to get to Sixteenmile Camp on the other side of the river. But not this year (and maybe for a few years to come) because a big tree has fallen across the river. No more ford. At present a rough path through the brush leads to the gravel bar then over to the tree. But I expect in a few years the path will become “permanent” to the tree. The tree is difficult to get onto due to it size (until someone chops a notch in it) and it is hard to get off of (on the Sixteenmile side) due to a root ball, but a few sideways steps with good root holds gets one to dirt.
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The RMNP trail philosophy and a little insight into the future
by CSUMarmot
Rocky Mountain National Park is the one of the busiest national park in the nation, usually breaking the top 10, but it is a bit of an anomaly if you ask me. Behind GSMNP and Yosemite, surrounded by substantial population centers, and Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Olympic, destinations for their natural wonders, Rocky Mountain is really pretty single-faceted and unrecognized. Other than driving through it and stopping in Estes or Grand Lake, it isn’t the most spectacular place for the lazy vacationer. This, unlike most other national parks, is based almost entirely on its trail system. RMNP boasts its vast trail system, 355 miles worth of broad, well maintained paths that take you to or within a few miles of your destination. I would agree that this was true for about 90% of the trails, but there are some glaring exceptions that reveal some of their policy about maintaining trails.
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The Earth, Our Atmosphere, And You On A Mountain
by Florida Frank
Anyone who has climbed a major mountain is very aware of two climatic phenomena. 1) It’s harder to breathe the higher you go. 2) It gets colder the higher you go. If you are camping on the mountain add 3) it takes a lot longer to cook most food the higher you go. Though readily accessible, scientific values regarding these phenomena are often better understood by scientists, engineers, and meteorologists and less well known in the mountaineering community. I thought it would be worthwhile to post a table and few graphs with some basic explanation for future reference. Data referenced for this brief article are taken from the “CRC Handbook for Chemistry and Physics”, 76th edition. With apologies to the rest of the world, I’ve presented most of the data in American engineering units, i.e. – psi, degrees Fahrenheit.
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All My Folks Left Me Was a Bunch of Stupid Stories
by knoback
Climbing has its share of lost souls. This should not be surprising. It takes some degree of alienation to drive people to exposed, barren places. I guess it’s easy to write the whole lot off as misguided and maladjusted. But in our civilization, suicide is justifiable too. Our purpose is to produce more so we can consume more, so we can produce more. Wait, that’s not fair. We can also serve others so that they may prosper to consume more, so they can produce more so they can consume more. Or most nobly, we can work to advance the society so future generations may produce ever grander things to consume.
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