Any climbers/mountaineers?????

**Justsayno** · 03-19-2011, 07:54 AM

Whats up guys, just started training again after a few years of excessive drug abuse, I'm currently training for another trip to Denali, me and my climbing partner are gonna hit the Cassin route (20000+Feet,Alaska Grade 5, 5.9, AI5+) Just seeing if theres any other climbers out there... Ohh and heres a pic of our route (Straight up the gut!) Denali is my favorite mountain and I havnt climbed it for a few years now so I'm beyond excited. I still have 13 months of training before we head out, I've got a lot of work to do...

Any climbers/mountaineers?????-denali1.jpg

The picture does not do the mountain justice, it's over 3 vertical miles straight-up. It's the second tallest mountain in the world (vertical-rise, not elevation)

**DSM4Life** · 03-19-2011, 07:57 AM

I climb things...

**Times Roman** · 03-19-2011, 11:02 AM

never did any serious climbing, but i did do some back in the day when I was younger and about 70lbs lighter

**Tigershark** · 03-19-2011, 10:06 PM

Went through the mountaineering school for the US Army at Ft. Greely Alaska.

**wmaousley** · 03-20-2011, 12:35 AM

Mountain Phase of Ranger School, always wanted to climb Cho Oyu

**Times Roman** · 03-20-2011, 02:34 AM

yeah, that's where I got my training ^ - (with the rangers)

spent a month in the mountains climbing mountains and survival training

but it wasn't anything formal like the school you mentioned. More ad hoc, with daily training and practice. did alot of repelling too. that was pretty cool

**Hazard** · 03-21-2011, 05:44 AM

I was doing some bouldering for a while..... loved it. I like difficult hiking and stuff like that but i've never done anything remotely close to what you do LOL - i'd love to tho!

~Haz~

**Justsayno** · 03-21-2011, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by wmaousley

Mountain Phase of Ranger School, always wanted to climb Cho Oyu

Sick, I want to climb Cho Oyu aswell, its the easiest (well least technical) of the fourteen 8000m+ peaks in the world. I wanna try it without oxygen. My life goal is to climb k2 (second highest peak in the world, by far much harder than everest) without oxygen, which is a very lofty goal. But just because it seems impossible doesn't mean you can't do it. congrats on Ranger school my dad was a ranger before he broke his ankle, washed out and went to med school.

**Justsayno** · 03-21-2011, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Hazard

I was doing some bouldering for a while..... loved it. I like difficult hiking and stuff like that but i've never done anything remotely close to what you do LOL - i'd love to tho!

~Haz~

Thats sweet, I used to compete in bouldering competitions a lot. You would be amazed at some of the bodies climbers have without touching a weight in the gym. You look like you're built for bouldering. High alititude mountaineering or extreme alpinism is mostly mental but it certainly doesn't hurt to be built like a dumptruck (you). On Denali we had 90lb gear packs and pulled 50 pound food sleds behind us uphill all day for 19 days. Squats, Squats and more squats. I lost 30 pounds in 3 weeks and I was eating prolly 5kcals, mostly fat. Its amazing what altitude acclimation can do you to, when we came down off the mountain I went for a run in town (I dropped from 21000 feet to 1000 feet in 3 days) and I was running so hard and barely evening breathing it felt so cool.

**lifeforce0019** · 03-21-2011, 03:44 PM

I have done Shasta and Whitney by the mountaineers route. Next up Mount Raineer. Denali is a dream of mine. But the weather is a crap shoot. Took a colleague three attempts before mother nature cooperated! Good luck!

**DSM4Life** · 03-21-2011, 03:47 PM

I'd love to try high alititude mountaineering. Maybe someday. I watched a documentary on it with the Sherpa guys, they are crazy little guys lol.

**Justsayno** · 03-21-2011, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by lifeforce0019

I have done Shasta and Whitney by the mountaineers route. Next up Mount Raineer. Denali is a dream of mine. But the weather is a crap shoot. Took a colleague three attempts before mother nature cooperated! Good luck!

Haha yeah, Denali is notorious for the most horrible weather on the planet and from my experience it deserves that reputation, I sat at highcamp stuck in my tent for 4 days straight, the blizzard was so bad we had to dig our tent out all night every night every hour because it would collapse under the weight of the snow. Getting out of your sleeping bag when the windchill was -85f at night to put your cold wet shit on to go outside took massive willpower, I would sit there and try to pretend the tent wasn't collapsing. Altitude really zaps your motivation to move. I remember taking a long drink out of my nalgene would cause me to hyperventilate for 30 seconds trying to catch my breath. Mountaineering kicks ass, people who don't get it only see it as suffering

**crazy_rocks** · 03-26-2011, 12:11 AM

climbed tallest in texas not long ago, guadalupe peak. a couple in adirondack state park. i think iroquois ans some more

**wmaousley** · 03-27-2011, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by Justsayno

Sick, I want to climb Cho Oyu aswell, its the easiest (well least technical) of the fourteen 8000m+ peaks in the world. I wanna try it without oxygen. My life goal is to climb k2 (second highest peak in the world, by far much harder than everest) without oxygen, which is a very lofty goal. But just because it seems impossible doesn't mean you can't do it. congrats on Ranger school my dad was a ranger before he broke his ankle, washed out and went to med school.

Med school will pay more in the end, so he was lucky. Yeah I also want to climb Cho Oyu with O2 but cant find the time. Everest would be next if I were to suceed at Cho Oyu, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.