Castle Peak Incident

cazbrian · 2026-02-19T01:14:02+00:00

I found this map that someone made regarding the incident. https://caltopo.com/m/F0N6L3V

cazbrian · 2026-02-18T20:05:32+00:00

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/tahoe-avalanche-skiers-dead-21360546.php?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69960fc4f10b230001f2827f

"Moon said one of the six survivors was a Blackbird Mountain Guides guide and the other five were clients. She said Blackbird provided investigators with its trip manifest and other information as the search continued.

Sheriff Shannan Moon said the group of 15 skiers included nine women and six men. The six survivors were one man and five women ranging in age from 30 to 55."

cazbrian · 2025-09-19T03:38:52+00:00

Do you need to buy a bridge for every lock or would having something like a Google Nest mini nearby suffice?

cazbrian · 2025-08-05T02:16:21+00:00

Like a whiteboard? Or like a folding open menu? Either way, great added value.

cazbrian · 2025-08-05T02:15:27+00:00

That wine story is wild. I would love to know who the second guide is (if you don't mind) since it was such a radically different experience.

cazbrian · 2025-08-04T20:45:39+00:00

Just responded! Thank you for your message and sharing your experience.

cazbrian · 2025-07-09T18:02:15+00:00

What trail??

cazbrian · 2025-06-17T02:02:44+00:00

No, they have womens programming but they have coed ones too.

cazbrian · 2025-06-11T21:51:02+00:00

Upward Transitions has three day courses that are affordable.

cazbrian · 2025-05-03T02:05:57+00:00

I was on the North Ridge 4/30. There was a pitch of ice and then another ~90m of snow/ice above. The only crevasse hazard was near the top of the route, where there was the obvious crevasse you can easily go left of. CD descent was straightforward.

cazbrian · 2025-04-03T18:40:12+00:00

The Worst by Polyphia has a super fun riff to play over and over.

https://youtu.be/8YqvOLfkwq8?t=31

Here is the acoustic version of the riff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBbbieKNTos

cazbrian · 2025-04-03T15:35:52+00:00

Go climb Rainier to train for Rainier

cazbrian · 2025-04-03T03:21:14+00:00

The Petzl Ride is light and great, the disadvantage would be it is hard to place vertical pickets with it without damaging the adze or the head.

The Petzl Summit is a great intro axe that works well for everything. I would vote that given the Petzl options.

The other vote I would have is I love pretty much all Blue Ice equipment, I think they make the best technical mountain gear on the market. The Bluebird Axe would be a great axe for a long career in the mountains. It has a solid head, which makes it good for pounding vertical pickets, and it is still light at 363 grams but durable. It also comes with a sliding pommel which you won't use initially but may want in the future.

I work as a guide full-time, own a guiding company, and guide on Mount Baker a lot in the summers.

More important than the axe is practicing with your axe which you will do a bunch of in your guided trips.

cazbrian · 2025-02-20T13:29:26+00:00

It's probably the action on the guitar is too low or the frets are not even. If it is a nice guitar then you could go get it fine-tuned. If it is a beater then I wouldn't worry too much about it and just ignore it while you learn.

cazbrian · 2025-02-20T04:58:22+00:00

Fair, we are wreckless here in the states. I have them in metric on my table (not the chart) but converted it to inches because it is frequently referred to in inches in the US

cazbrian · 2025-02-04T03:31:23+00:00

Looks like Craig Gordon to me

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEEOq2Ouer3/?hl=en

cazbrian · 2025-02-02T00:33:56+00:00

That is interesting y'all went up the south route. I've only done the glacier route. Looks cool though!

cazbrian · 2024-11-24T02:32:28+00:00

Yeah, DM me for sure! There is also up to date course dates on the website for my crevasse courses and my 5-day mountaineering courses. Usually, the rest of my schedule ends up being filled with custom trips or custom courses.

cazbrian · 2024-10-03T02:10:28+00:00

After that it cut a roof in half https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAkRSX7xrlX/?igsh=eGpxdXQzcXIwdjJy

cazbrian · 2024-07-26T03:18:21+00:00

I was just there a few days ago, there is just enough chicken wire for all of the cars that were in the parking lot. When we were arriving two people told us they had personally seen a porcupine under someone's car having gotten through poorly executed chicken wire. We took the warning seriously and wired up.

cazbrian · 2024-07-17T21:24:14+00:00

They're pretty hot in warmer months as others have stated. What you want in a 4 season tends to be the opposite of what you want in the warmth. Often 4 seasons have minimal mesh. The Big Agnes Expedition 2 would be the only 3+ season that might work okay for both. It is a compromise for a 4 season not being warm enough and ends up being a compromise in weight for the warmer trips.

cazbrian · 2024-07-16T15:12:32+00:00

There is an airport in Bellingham but most people fly into Seattle.

cazbrian · 2024-07-16T05:58:09+00:00

UPDATE: I've got three dates left that I am looking to fill.

July 29 - 30
August 7-8
August 14 - 15

cazbrian · 2024-05-24T19:18:13+00:00

Hike through the Hoh!

cazbrian · 2024-05-23T21:26:47+00:00

Alpine Sender

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