News of Ethics, Spray, and Slander

On the Pik Pobeda page a guide service is noted. I looked at their web page and found that the mountain in the back to looks a bit like Rainier. Errrr... not.

http://www.dostuck.com.kg/central-asia.html

I heard about this on NPR the other night and had to look it up.
This is freakin hilarious!! Saddam & Gaddafi even make an appearence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnL5oUePM8

and I did not see the end coming. Ouch!

quote from a dude on rc.com for a guy complaining about partner who almost got him killed in Yosemite..."DUDE! Check out the pants that guy was wearing!!! Is he a Euro or something?? If so you should learn something from this.....all Euros are to be considered sketchy until proven otherwise!"

40 foot factor 1.75 fall on WFLT yesterday

Is there a difference?

So, I just recently moved from Reno, NV to the Pac Northwest.

I've climbed a respectable amount in the Sierras


And I'm putting up some good numbers in the Washington Cascades



And I'll tell you what...

I am getting WHALLOPED up here on these tiny little Cascade peaks!

*The approaches are ALL burly
*There's almost ALWAYS some kind of glacier travel involved
*The objective hazards are constant. I feel queued up ALL the ...

Has to be Florida! Florida is like a death sentence for anyone who loves the mountains; a geographic mistake. Hell I'd live in Texas before I lived in Florida! I find any place without so much as even a small hill deeply depressing. When I'm 90 and can no longer walk, make sure to push my wheelchair to a window with a view of some 14'ers so I can continue to at least dream about ...

For $176,000?!!!

Is Austria really that desperate? What if we sold a Maroon Bell? It's really strange. :?

I was thinking we could donate money to the small town at their base called Kartitsch in hopes of saving the mountains from development. I can imagine some rich panty stain building a house on top to impress his sycophants. ...

Weather reports had snow snows falling in pretty much every mountain range in Nevada. I decide to give it a try anyway; the plan is to drive down Phinney Canyon, hike up to a saddle, onto a ridge, then up and down a few bumpsto Grapevine Peak. Foggy morning, some snow flurries, and limited visibility...I walk up to what I thought was the saddle, gain a ridge, go up and down a few bumps, and ...