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By Ian Wolfe
From Boulder, CO
Jun 15, 2007
Another contemplative moment for me on Resolution Arete, a climb which turned out to have more self exploration than physical climbing for us. Photo by Tom Gray.

I need a partner to climb several of the northwest's classic alpine routes. Mostly taken out of the Cascade Select Climbs book, I am looking to do commiting routes from the North Ridge of Stuart to the Northeast Buttress of Slesse. I onsight solid 5.10 and am looking for people who can follow 5.8 or lead up to 5.11. Aid skills are great too (Liberty Crack, anyone?). I am a very safe climber, and have a lot of experience on both rock and glacier travel. At this point I have from July 16-29 off, plus mulitple 3-4 day breaks before hand. Let me know if you are interested in doing some climbing this summer!
By Mark Nelson
From Coniferous, CO
Jun 15, 2007
In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. <br /><br />The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. <br /><br />After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.<br />

Awesome, Ian. Have a good summer up there, man!

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