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*WARNING*
Please read our WARNING and DISCLAIMER! Traditional alpine mountaineering is a dangerous sport!

WARNING - *DISCLAIMER!*
Mountain climbing has inherent dangers that can in part, be mitigated

This Web is working toward compliance with W3C HTML 4.01

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Systems is the developer of Portable Document Format (PDF). This software enables documents to be displayed and printed exactly the same on different computers running different software. We find PDF indispensable in distributing many of our documents and forms that require accurate formatting to be useful. Examples of this are our suggested Accident/Incident Report Form, our suggested First Aid Kit and others.

Many new computers come preloaded with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can check your version by clicking on Help, About Adobe Acrobat, on an IBM PC. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader or if you have a version older than 9.0, just follow the instructions after clicking on the Icon below. You need this free program in order to fully enjoy this website.

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This Web was created and is maintained using Microsoft FrontPage 2002

This Web was created using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

This Web is optimized for Internet Explorer 8.0 (and IE 6.0 and earlier versions)
Microsoft makes this latest version of Internet Explorer available free over the internet. (IE 7 had a short life. It refused to link images programmed to take you to other websites, a device used by web developers for many years. This is still a problem in IE 8.) Use Internet Explorer 6 or 8 for a full experience with this web. Note that IE 8 offers a "compatibility" button to give better rendering of "older websites". We have a few photos with captions that will appear when the cursor touches the image. Actually, we did not use this feature very often and you won't miss much if you do not use IE8 in "compatibility view".

"Compatibility View"
We are working to transition this web to the fast moving target of evolving lap top and mini tower computers, LCD monitors with wider screen formats, evolving editing programs (with phased out support for the programs we have learned to love), new Browsers, and more changes we can think of at this moment of writing. We note that Microsoft has ceased to support it's Front Page web editor program! We find that our hundreds of pages were set in stone ten years ago, before CSS design flexibility was commonly used by web designers. We have tried to "update" to CSS markup language but find it is almost impossible to transition to Expression Web. We give up! We are sticking with Front Page!

We are surprised that IE 8.0 is not fully backwards compatible for "older' websites. As noted above, the user is now offered a button on the IE 8.0 Menu Bar offering a Compatibility View and stating that "websites designed for older browsers will often look better and problems such as out of place menus images or text will be corrected". Our web does look better in "Compatibility View" but the institutional icons placed with Microsoft FrontPage on our Home Page and our Links Page do not work. Hmmmm, that is nuts! Try Google Chrome or any of the other Browsers, they all link to the institution's logos. Go figure!

Make Internet Explorer 8.0 your default browser
This web works well in any major Browser! However, we are told that nearly everyone today uses Internet Explorer, so we continue to design our web with Microsoft. To make IE 8.0 your default browser, click Tools>>Internet Options. Select the Programs tab. Click the box next to "Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser." Reboot the computer. You will receive this prompt: "Internet Explorer is not currently your default browser. Do you wish to make it the default?" Click Yes.

Download Internet Explorer 8.0 for free!

Have you checked your "text size" lately?
Go to Internet Explorer, click View in the top toolbar, click Text Size, and chose Larger. ("Medium" size text may spoil the fine esthetic qualities we have designed into your personal web experience!) Some Browsers offer a Zoom function which may do the same thing - of may not. Just experiment!
Many readers have gone from huge glass tubes to very wide flat screen monitors. So far, our web still looks pretty good on our new 22 inch monitor! We use 125%. Experiment with your monitor!

Have you tried changing your screen resolution from the older default 800x600 to 1024X768?
Go to your Windows desktop, right click, click Properties in the pop up window, select the Settings Tab and adjust the slider to the larger screen area. Click OK. The screen will black out for a moment and the new setting will appear. (Watch out! You may be asked to decide to OK again or it will revert to your old setting - act fast or try it again.)

Try the new setting for a while for all your applications. You have a lot more "real estate" on your screen at 1024x768. You will like it!

Adjust your sound!
For more fun, adjust your sound. Several of our photo essays are accompanied by music we deemed appropriate to the occasion. Lots of the pages open with sound effects that may bring a smile or surprise. (If our sound bugs folks around you, just turn it down.) We are surprised that competitors of Microsoft have produced Browsers that do not recognize the mark-up language statement "bgsound" and therefore do not render the sound effects in this website. Go to Internet Explorer's recent editions and you will hear some good and surprising bgsound effects!

Site search and internet search provided by Google
Google provides the remarkable ability to search inside our site. Just go to our Search Page. Also, you can download Google's Tool Bar for your Browser. You can enable optional functions such as their free pop-up blocker, form fill, and more. Click on the Google logo for a connection to the Google Tool Bar download page.

Internet service provided by Coinet
TraditionalMountaineering appreciates the support provided by Central Oregon Internet:

Coinet is hosting our very large and active website with cPanel® at a site in Texas near a major internet hub, providing essentially unlimited bandwidth and blazing 100 megabit speed. If you have broadband, you will notice how fast our larger documents and graphics load on your page. cPanel® (and their WHM™ WebHost Manager) is the next generation web hosting control panel system.

Broadband service is provided by BendBroadband
TraditionalMountaineering appreciates the support provided by BendBroadband:

TraditionalMountaineering supports the following organizations:
We support groups that support mountain climbing. We urge you to lend your efforts and give your donation dollars to The American Alpine Club, The Access Fund, American Mountain Guides Association and American Safe Climbing Association.

The author is a member of the PayPal Developer Network:

Donate to help defray the expenses of this web:
Make a small donation to TraditionalMountaineering.org to help us continue to provide free information and instruction. Click on the PayPal link below to make a $10 donation.

Pacific Power Blue Sky Wind Energy powers this Website:
We purchase new wind energy in 100 kilowatt-hour blocks for $1.95 each. Investing in just one Blue Sky Block for $1.95 per month for one year provides the same benefits as not driving a vehicle for nearly three months!

TraditionalMountaineering.org pledges 1% of Net Income for the Environment.