EISPIRATEN

Arriving in Lukla we made our way on the trail and the 10 day hike to Everest Base-camp. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/58/dsc01447r.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6039/dsc01450l.jpg http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/716/dsc01443l.jpg Guides & Porters looking for work http://img185.im...

That's awesome -- keep it coming man! How did you like staying at the Yak & Yeti hotel? The Yak & Yeti is a pretty sweet joint. Used to be one of the Royal Palaces. You never know who you're going to run into there. It was especially sweet after almost 3 weeks on the trail. The shower, food...

We started off on April 15th with a 13.5 hour direct flight to Hong Kong ... http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4127/dsc01329z.jpg http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5712/dsc01328o.jpg http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8793/dsc01317b.jpg Fritzilla in the streets of HK http://img132.imageshack.us/im...

Hi, everybody! Just want to report that my friends Denise, Paul & Cindy reached the summit of Mount Everest a few hours ago (Wohoo!) and are at Camp 4 resting before making their way down to Camp 2 tonight .. Mountain Trip Report Didn't mean to keep y'all hanging without a report, but I wanted t...

Nice report, Tim.
Really like your pix ..
Cheers!

Great job, Mike! Some nice photos there ..
Congrats on being the last winter climb/first spring day-climb!
That's a route I'm truly looking forward to do.

Beautiful pix and TR, Elwood! The burn images are surreal.
That black bear print would look great cast in plaster ...
Cheers-

More shenanigans ..

Nice TR and photos, lilbitmo! I really enjoyed this outing and getting to know y'all ... Glad we didn't punch through those soft snowbridges into Mill Creek like Bluerail did! http://i40.tinypic.com/23w2kh5.jpg lilbitmo demonstating the post-holing technique http://i42.tinypic.com/fngxsk.jpg Tina he...

Nice job, Sam, Norma and Dave!

Nice pix, bluerail!
Looks like a fun time.

Nice pix, HikeUp!
Beautiful terrain.

turtle, a dedicated pee-bottle comes in handy. It's a hard adjustment to make until you spend consecutive nights on the mountain hunkering out storms. Tentmates will appreciate not being bumped as somebody tries to dress and open a tent to the cold. Just make sure to clearly mark the bottle!

Totally spontaneous, all day.. Headed up Baldy with a friend from work, Matt, who never climbed Baldy in the snow. With daylight savings it was dark and unusually windy at 5:45AM First thing that happens was unusual .. A skantily clad 20 year old girl shivering in the cold and wearing only a skimpy ...

turtle wrote:Our cave was just a few feet to the right, with the (much smaller) entryway tucked in alongside a tree.

Roger that, saw that one too but I didn't see the real size of it!

Hehey, saw it yesterday and was wondering if you guys read our Mill Creek report?


Nice job!

Nice job, guys!
Great write-up, Sam.

Nice job, GigaMike!

Thanks, guys! Very Cool! Was it warm in your cave? Its been cold and windy the past few nights. Were you post holing a lot on the way up Mill Creek? While tunneling we got cold crawling on hands and knees. After we changed clothes and settled in our sleeping bags we found it quite comfortable, even ...

Nice TR guys! Glad things worked out for the skier and all the people who contributed to making the rescue. Outstanding job! Whiteout land-navigation skills are a must in the BC. It reminds me of a party of three who got caught in a white-out just 400 horizontal feet shy of Camp Muir (10k) on Rainie...

The goal is a bit of a secret and to my knowledge still unclimbed .. http://i39.tinypic.com/16kvq7d.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/15s2eqd.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/rvm73b.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/9jjbir.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/qzqe1c.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/viefww.jpg Notes of caution: 1) Slee...

Your best bet is to stay on the same ridge I did. The wind usually strips most of the snow off of it. I wouldn't dig a test pit unless you have been trained in it. It may give you a false sense of security. I would just avoid the chutes. That after traversing some of the largest avalanche debris pa...

Does anyone have any insight into what this could mean for avalanche danger next weekend? Is there not going to be enough new snow to worry about? Mitch, that's entirely relative to actual snowfall and the composition of existing snow-pack layers on the slope you plan to access. The only way to rea...

Nice job!

Nice pix, tortuga!

Niiice!

I've got some pickets I can contribute to the anchor, and a dry rope. There's probably two good ways to do this - rap down on an autolocking belay device like a grigri or cinch, or tie into the end and have someone lower you off the anchor. Bert, lowering is probably the safest way - using a mechan...

Couple of pix I have on file, if it helps .. http://i46.tinypic.com/o10qqw_th.jpg http://i45.tinypic.com/35kix6o_th.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/28lxpq8_th.jpg Zen Chute http://i49.tinypic.com/2nkj2o9_th.jpg Figure Eleven Chute http://i45.tinypic.com/2j64ljs_th.jpg Girlie Man http://s6.tinypic.com/11k...

Beautiful pix, Vitaly!
Thanks for the TR

Nice job, Ryan! Well done.

Let me buy you a real beer now ..