EISPIRATEN

simonov wrote:Maintaining my record of always meeting someone I know on the mountain, I ran into Vitaly (mve) just below the summit.

Mitch, It was nice to meet you and Ingrid:



Great day at the mountains -- the weather was just perfect:

Cool adventure! Thanks for sharing.

I am still amazed by the second image -- that's Everest base camp in the left bottom corner -- we are so minuscule!!

These two pictures are just amazing -- thanks for sharing!

having done considerable amount of woodwork and construction I am just floored by them carrying all that plywood and beams up there!!!

Kumar is a tough dude! No hip belts for these guys ...

Wow, "all roads lead to Rome", but you guys took a long, tough one awesome climb through some inhospitable terrain.

Do you know if the Ski Hut trail is clear of snow and passable without crampons yet?

This picture of Namche that you took is incredible -- it looks as if the whole town is about to slide off the cliff (knocked on wood):

Cool time-lapse of the Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/11673745

Ura Ura Ura!

Great pictorial -- keep it coming

Where did you stay in Phakding? How was it?

Great vid and the song dude!

That's awesome -- keep it coming man! How did you like staying at the Yak & Yeti hotel?

Norma: more exposed than others :shock: Very cool TR -- thank you for sharing great story and these awesome pictures. PS: did you get new boots? How did they work? I am still searching for a good pair of boots for my GF. She's tried LA Sportiva NEPAL, TRANGO S EVO and now KARAKORUM. Nepals really du...

Great TR Mitch and yes, "Mishe" is a great place to take kids to -- not too hard of a trail and lots of "cool" things to have them look forward to when the going gets too hot ... And you are absolutely right "cool weather hike" on this trail is just awesome. Here is a p...

Terrific TR Patrick -- thank you for sharing these great photos.

Very cool, I am interested to read Fritz's TR and I wish Cindy "Happy Trails".

Do you know which outfitter Fritz went with?

sounds good

Thanks Alan.

It looks like there are two ways of getting to the parking:

a) via 39 to East Fork Rd.
b) via Glendora Mountain Road

Which one is better?

Thank you again!

Thank you guys!

Do you typically burn full 3 liters just on the way up? 1.5 liters for the down hill?

Perfect! Thank you. I'll print this out:

Thank you for the great intel and tip about stashing the water.

Is this the same path that you described?
http://www.summitpost.org/route/264070/ ... ridge.html

I've never hiked Iron Mountain and with Baldy still covered in patches of snow I am hungry for a dry-land all of a sudden :lol: Is the "Getting There" section on SP accurate? http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock ... ain-1.html Any tips on approach, start-time, permits, and the climb its...

Thanks for the good intel Sam and Kevin! I guess we'll wait few more weeks ...

TacoDelRio wrote:MVS, I was wondering where you've been.

Still here, just got busy at work ... Hey, I just saw your recent youtube vids -- you guys are crazy climbing the Bowl at night. And Zack screaming series was pretty funny

Sam,

If I wanted to take the regular Ski Hut trail all the way to the Summit would I still need crampons or is there a way to make it to the top using the dry land?

Nice work dudes! Man, I've got some catching up to do here been busy at work and haven't been back to the mountains in a while ...