EISPIRATEN

Dudes and dudettes:

We might bring a lot more traffic to this site by taking Eispiraten stickers on climbs and leaving piles of them in summit registers.

Just an idea.

This was a poll. These haven't been imported. Sorry.

How to get seven different designs on one silkscreen sheet:



Let's see if the printers go for it.

Baldy in winter is a climb.

Baldy in summer is just a work-out.

Yus:

Man, I sure hope the spring is frozen, as you suggest. Springs can suddenly turn off and turn on for a variety of geological reasons. It would really be a bummer if the spring was off permanently, because it helps to make Kelly's Camp my favorite camping site in the San Gabes.

My car restoration is now officially complete:

The Sierra Club Ski Hut is not part of the Mt Baldy Ski area.

As you approach the Baldy Ski Hut from below, you cross a bubbling stream. If you look up the course of this stream, you will see the Ski Hut outhouse perched serenely above the stream. What's up with that? How can they stick an outhouse right at the top of a watercourse? And does the outhouse use a...

Holy shit!

Oh, hell, I never liked skulls in the first place. Never got into them.

Moar sticker designs coming soon, if I can convince he sticker printers to do me a deal:











And for Zach:

If you are traveling at or over the speed limit, why pull over for someone just because they want to do 70 down a mountain road? Short answer: because I want to be as far from a guy like that as possible. In any case, it's not for me to decide what the safe speed should be, especially if I'm alread...

Because most people are assholes. Or maybe they just NEVER EVER look in their rear-view mirrors. Remember, never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity . Personally, I will pull over at the next turnout if there is a single car behind me. I hate having people ride my ass d...

In my business, we hand out logo stickers at every opportunity. One is included in every product package, for example. Tracie got a few with the Eispiraten stickers. My office is here in the barrio, and every few weeks these two little Mexican kids, maybe 10 years old, come round begging for sticker...

HikeUp wrote:Thanks for the non-report of conditions up there . Did you bring axe and crampons? Did you use them?

I brought an ice axe. I prefer it instead of poles.

Thanks for the note on the peaks, I'll change the caption.

In case anyone wants to see conditions on the Ski Hut and Baldy Bowl trails, I was up there on Sunday, and took a few pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonov/se ... 176539758/ Maintaining my record of always meeting someone I know on the mountain, I ran into Vitaly ( mve ) just below the summit.

It is a blessing that we have country like this in California. I need to make a bigger effort next year to get out there in the winter and spring.

So about two years ago I offered to develop an Ice Pirates logo for Taco (I was a graphic designer in my distant youth). Two years went by without much happening, when suddenly a month ago I experienced a burst of creative vigor and started grinding out designs based loosely on a Jolly Roger figure ...

TacoDelRio wrote:Gonna hafta sport that hat on climbs!!!

It needs horns.

Great pics. What kind of distance is it from Lukla to Namche and Base Camp?

Something is broken!

I'm really going to have to do more Sierra climbing next snow season.

Is this damn DamOTclese poster blocked out for certain posters or something? I only see his/her responses in people's quotes, and his/her posts are witty enough that, by golly, I feel left out. What gives? When he left he deleted all his posts. All that remains of his posts are the portions quoted ...

mve wrote:Do you know which outfitter Fritz went with?

His friends he was meeting there are with Mountain Trip.

This is their blog: http://mteverest2010.blogspot.com/

Cindy Abbott (frequent Baldy climber) is with them too: http://reachingbeyondtheclouds.com/category/mt-everest/

Did you take the little side trail to Inspiration Point? It has the 180 view of the ocean with the plaque and podium pointing out the Channel Islands and Mt. Baldy, etc. Yes, we made it to Inspiration Point. I had to cajole the kids into doing it because they were tired and not really interested in...

Sam Page wrote:I saw a video of him on the summit of Kala Pataar (~18,500 feet). I think he has forgotten about the San Gabriels . . .

I think he is catching up with all the work he missed, but am disappointed he has forgotten where his real priorities ought to lie.

Fritz is holding out on us.

lilbitmo wrote:Great pictures Mitch, good job of helping the kids, keep me posted on the next one, I may tag along to help.

I'll try to remember to remind you: we'll be doing Bridge to Nowhere on 19 June.