This forum is awesome. I never knew it existed until the day I attented Taco's clinic at the bowl on the 8th. Thanks again for that Taco, not only did I learn from you guys, but it was also an extra bit of motivation to finally go experience the bowl.
Man, I had a BLAST that day! It was really fun to climb with so many people, as opposed to my usual solo or two man team trips. I went up the mountain with my good friends Andy, Don (Lcpl Hughes), and Ted. Then, I had the opportunity to meet some really nice people such as Taco himself, a fellow named Johnny who was really cool, simonov, and a few others whos names I unfortunately forget.
I had the chance to talk to fritz and bluerail briefly as well. It was nice meeting you guys.Anyhow, Andy, Ted and I showed up at the mountain around 7am and made our way up to the trail a little past 8:30am. We were worried about being late for the clinic but we made it on time thankfully. After hanging out for a minute, we started heading up the bowl until we reached a shaded tree which seemed to be "the spot". There were people practicing self arrest and glissading. After all that good fun, we decided it was time to climb, so up we went. I did not feel like following any tracks so I just went straight up from where we stood. Then we followed the ridge until we reached the rocks at the top of the Bowl. We "chilled" there for a few until we pushed for the summit.
BTW, I saw a dog out there.. near the summit.. That dog is a beast. I never even considered bringing a dog up there, but it's obviously not that bad at all because that dog was having a blast! It would suck if a storm suddenly hit the mountain though. You can see this climbing canine superstar in my video below..
The summit was intense man... It gave me the chills to be up there. Not only because it was f'ing cold, but also because it was so amazing and sublime up there. It's the kind of summit that makes you extremely eager to go climbing again soon. After appreciating God's most amazing creation (yes, mountain tops), we had a lot of fun running and jumping around like fools. Then glissading down the entire bowl was also pretty epic. Thanks for everybody out there for being really nice and supportive. It has been one of the greatest climbing experience I've had to this day!
Here are some pictures and a video I made of the trip... (Notice the dog!)
http://picasaweb.google.com/bushidanny/ ... ViaTheBowl#
Keep on climbing!
Welcome to the board! Glad you had a great time and enjoyed the clinic. That day was kinda the beginning of the winter heat wave we are experiencing and the snow was very soft and forgiving. As i said that day, the glisssades and self-arrests were in slow-mo. 
