the Fairview? We were out about the same time in the Ruth for 8 days. The "Rudy in a Parka" (reindeer sausage with cheese in a pastry) from the Roadhouse is f-in amazing!

are you a NY ranger? if so, we talked about your trip last year to the Moose's Tooth.

I play hockey for the New York Rangers, which is why I'm so ugly. What did you guys do in the Ruth? I'm sorry man, I don't remember you telling me you were there. That place is awesome. And yes, it was the Fairview. I don't know how I made it back to TAT's bunkhouse that night. I just remember waking up in the morning on the floor in front of the bathroom.

What happens when you take off the gloves with a Florida Panther.

eh...they're just big pussies

I've spent some time in the Fairview. The most memorable part of Talkeetna was upon coming into town for the first time and driving "under" the flight path when a Cessna was taking off and coincidentally flying directly in front and over us. It seemed like they were about 25' off the ground (which, I think they may have been).

It was a shorts changing moment. We headed directly for the Fairview and the nearest alcohol.

Barile, Dickey, part of Goldfinger on the Stump, and a couloir on Werewolf that we thought might be a new route but just learned was probably something Freddie Wilkison had done called Cornhole Couloir or something like that.

AOR - you must have had a take off from the old private field downtown. cool. Apprently they used to drive down the street back when they used that one.

We woke up in the TAT bunkhouse to acrid plastic smoke when some drunk swede melted a plastic spatula on the hot plate. that sucked ass.

great town Talkeetna but I dont think i'd want to live there.

Talkeetna provided the muse for the biggest-hearted, best written thing in the history of prime-time TV:
Northern Exposure.

Was the drunk Swede Either Trym or Ule? Those boys are bad ass. They did the Moonflower Buttress basecamp to basecamp in a little over 30 hours. They also did a new route on Cerro Torre this year that starts on the Compressor route, traverse right across the headwall under the bolt ladder, and encircles the entire upper section of the peak. They called it the Corkscrew.

Wombat...did you do something online or put a video on Youtube? I seem to remember seeing something about a group just those routes you mentioned. What route did you do on Dickey? I stared at that east face for a looong time!

RR

I'll say it again, Oeno. Where do you find this stuff?