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Did a nice little 11 mile hike up to a great viewpoint of Mt Hood. Too bad the clouds were covering her.

 

Is that Lost Lake Butte Trail?

Looks like its available now.. I just got this email from Amazon.

 

 

That sucks. I've been using the Besta for a few years and it still seems pretty stable. Did you have the back panels installed?

 

After seeing this, I may look to add some more reinforcement on the back.

trip route, came home through Wyoming/Nebraska/Iowa.  3 hotels rooms for the entire trip, 1 night at my friends house in Western Montana and 8 nights in a tent.

 

 

 

Drove up to Logan's Pass and hiked to Hidden Lake on our first full day at Glacier. Also hiked part of the Highline Trail when we got back down to the visitors center.  The Garden Wall might be the most amazing glacial formation in the park that we saw.  I'll post a picture of that later if I can find it

 

 

Avalanche Creek on our last full day of hiking, we did this and the trail of Cedars as a good easy day hike.  Avalanche Lake was incredible, i'll post a pic of that later, too.

 

 

We hiked to Sperry Lake, this is Mount Brown, theres a lookout you can hike to up there on the Northern side, we obv. didnt do that.  It was 95+ degrees that day, this was the most brutal hike we made.  Saw Little Matterhorn and Edwards Mountain as well from here.  It was really awesome, but after hiking 7 miles of constant elevation gain, we were exhausted.

 

 

Looks great. I'm headed to Glacier in a week or so. Looking forward to it even more now.

I didn't think I'd be finding this for less than $30. Glad that others were able to get in on it too.

This is $13.98 on Amazon.com right now.

I just did a comparison between my SRC and OG and I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in a blind listening test.

 

My SRC sounds fine and I have a good set up. Don't think I've heard any complaints til now. Also, wasn't Rival Schools going to do a follow up to Pedals?

 

After Ian left and they were getting their bearings as a 3 piece, there was a report that they started working with J. Robbins on a follow-up to Pedals, but I haven't heard anything else. Then again, there was also talk of a 2nd Walter Schreifels solo album and a teaser about something going on with Quicksand. Who knows if any of this stuff will see the light of day?

Took a week off end of July but didn't know what I was going to do with it. Might try to do St. Helens for a day or two. Pretty excited about it now.

If you are talking about climbing Mt. St. Helens, you need a permit and it's likely July is already sold out. Check out the info here: http://mshinstitute.org/index.php/climbing/index

 

Otherwise, if you are just looking at doing some hikes around Mt. St. Helen's, there are plenty of great ones. Both Ape Cave and Ape Canyon are pretty great hikes too. Ape Cave is through a lava tube.

 

The book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Portland has these hikes and more. 

St. Helens has always been on my list of hikes I need to do. How tough was it?

It wasn't too bad, just long. It took us 8 hours total. First section through the forest, then the boulder scramble section, and finally the ash section. The top is like kitty litter and it's two steps forward and one step back as your foot slides down. I hear the winter is a better time to do it. The top is easier to manage in the snow, and you can ski/slide down. Also, it's easier to get a permit in the winter.

I finally got around to picking this up at a local shop today. Fully expected to get a black, but ended up with a green/purple merge. After first listen, I'm not sure why I waited so long to get it?

Saddle Mt. is a great hike, I was trudging through snow up there in February several years ago.

Check out Neakhanie Mt. Another cool coast hike.

http://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Neahkahnie_Mountain_Loop_Hike

I think he has some sense of peace with soul coughing now given the fact that he re-recorded a bunch of songs and even toured them. The other band members, that's probably a whole other story.

I'm down for some Soul Coughing.

Has anybody heard any of Mike's songs that he has been posting on drip.fm? I'm wondering if any of those will be seeing a phyisical release?

This makes up for 10 years of Pearl Jam basically ignoring the Southeast completely. I LOVE this set... And I would never have spent the kind of crazy money it goes for now.

It sucks for those of you who got crap in your package tho.

Congrats! I'd really like to get my hands on this one day.

Still a nice score. Especially considering some others posted on the PJ forums. Trade someone for something you need?

I agree.

I got a red Lightning Bolt and Mother Love Bone 7" today. I already have a black copy (actually 2 if you count my replacement) and the sevens box set, so I didn't need another LB. At least it's red.

Nice on the PJ20! I got a feeling I'm doomed for a non Ed project LP, box says it's only 1.56 pounds. Hopefully Columbus and Cincinnati stop mailing the package back and forth, this UPS MI service is terrible.

Those early PJ releases can't weigh much. Non-gatefold, lightweight vinyl.

I don't know much about the non-PJ releases, but OG Ten and Yield are probably good candidates for you.

Here's a picture from a recent summit of Mt. St. Helens. We had the top to ourselves for a whole 30 minutes.. Just enough time to eat lunch and snap a few pictures.

 

Nice score!! Mine is due in tomorrow, but tracking hasn't updated recently. 

My two favorites are Mystery Machine and Treble Charger. Probably not enough of a draw for releasing their stuff on vinyl.

The other reply about hydration is spot on. It will likely be extremely hot and that type of heat isn't something you want to mess with.

Zion has some unbelievable hikes, some of which aren't for those afraid of heights(me). Angels Landing is awesome - the last stretch has exposed dropoffs 1500+ feet straight down and chains to hold onto. That time of year though, you'll want to be up early before it gets even hotter in midday. Bryce might be a better bet for longer hikes. It's much higher in elevation and will be a ton cooler.

Great image. When I was up there a woman was on the ground clutching the chains and crying in terror. My wife stopped at about that point. I moved past the crying lady and went up to the top. Best view in the park.

I ended up getting one after about 30 - 40 minutes of dealing with the server issues. This is a pretty big gamble, so hopefully I get something good. We'll see....  My main wants from the LP list are Riot Act and Lost Dogs. 

I didn't get lucky with the blue variant, but I did get lucky with the warped/melted variant.

 

I finally got through after trying for about 30 minutes. Hopefully I get something cool.

 

Same here. I got through after about 30 minutes. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of it.

Zion is on the top of my favorite national parks. Hiking angels landing and the narrows were the highlights. I recently did some day hikes on the eastern border of North Cascades NP, another amazing place. Yosemite, the Tetons, Yellowstone, all great too. I'm jealous too.