Could one possibly ride a mountain bike up Russell?
Are there any facilities along the way?  A potty with running water perhaps?
Aright, just kidding.  We better stop with this line of questions or Laura will cook a 12 course meal. 

One other thing--people seem to often refer to the entire route up the North Fork drainage as the "Mountaineer's Route"--this is not correct, is it?  You can take the North Fork drainage up to many destinations, right?  Thor, or Carillon, or East Buttress, etc., without taking the MR, which I understand is the gully right of the East Buttress above Iceberg Lake, correct?