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Exfoliation Dome, Jacob's Ladder (Darrington)

Had some excitement on Devil's Tower, taking forever to do the Durrance route, then getting the ropes stuck on the way down. First time lead climbing on our own (without "mentor") on our honeymoon at Smith. Super slab, giant pack, one set of QD's a set of stoppers and 3 cams. Catch is, I was convinced that you couldn't fiddle around while climbing to place the piece, then clip in the draw, so insisted that we put all pieces on draws before climbing , thus only 6 or 8 pieces. Well, we did the first two pitches, then luckily my wife convinced me it was stupid to keep going to we bailed and didn't die.

Rage does a pretty cool cover of that Cypress Hill "To Kill a Man" too. Al Jourgensen was on NPR the other day condemning some T-shirt put out by some trendy store that says "Voting is for old people". I think people are taking this upcoming election pretty seriously eh? Oh yeah, another rockin tune is "Streetsweeper" by Unsane or is it "Vandal X"? It was on some Sub-Pop singles club single.

Static Point has some pretty stoney names "Fluorescent Green Crab Traverse" "Spencer's Spaceport" For shear volume of disgusting names you can't beat the Bill Robins legacy at Vantage sample

If you do the N Ridge, you can camp on near the N Ridge and though you still need a permit, it is easier to get than Boston Basin. I don't think there are any quotas. When we did it, we were able to self-register for that area. Also, as the rules were then (1999?) If you camped out of BB the first night, you could camp anywhere (BB for example) the next night.

New link: Seattle area crag overview That old one's done busted

Yep it was like that last year, but I don't remember it being a "floater" before that.

Did anybody mention the Brothers yet? If you live in Seattle, that one's got the "volcano" appeal that you're always seeing it. It's not technical at all but has a bit of exposure, plus a hike through the "Valley of the Silent Men" or something like that. Fun ridge hike is Alta Mountain. Gothic by Monte Cristo and Enchantment Peak are both good ones that are easy scrambling the whole way until short 20 feet of class 3 right at the summit. A good possibility for a rock climb is a mutlipitch slab climb (if you're up to leading it). Trust your feet slab climbing is so easy when seconding, plus pretty hard to get hurt. Of course you really gotta trust the newbies belaying. Taking a newbie on a traversing climb (Prusik) might be asking for trouble; i.e. falls are not safe. If the newbie freaked out on that part where you traverse South of that turret (right after the slab move), that would be a bad scene. Also, isn't there a hand-traverse start of the summit pitch? North Ridge of Cutthroat would be good. There are good views to either side, but the ridge is quite wide so you'd never have to worry about the newbie falling off the side. That one might be a pain getting down though.

Great report! Is that face the same as the "Northeast Slab" climb, or is the NE Slab further left? Do you know?

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Check this one out: evilfungus Best trip report for The Tooth I've seen since G-spotter's.

So that's what this is all about? A very complicated way to get Osama, and limit Arab nuclear proliferation in the process! I can get behind that! What a complicated chess game played to perfection by the proud anti-intellectual! To think that he'd had all that planned out 7 months before we even captured Sadam! Brilliant. So Iraq is merely a 200 billion dollar, 545+ American lives, 8000+ Iraqi lives, sting operation? Whoa!

Now which one of those missions exactly did we accomplish?

Air Guitar is easy, but it's a DEATH climb. Try Pony Keg. That one's pretty damn easy. Just don't clip those controversial bolts out right, even though you can reach 'em, `cause that's cheating.

blind melon?

Rodchester if you quibble with Marylou's statement do you also dispute Greg's that you can just get another job if you don't like how your current employer is treating you?

Danger Bird! I totally forgot about that one. Dru, you're the man! Except for the fact that you're such a dick! How about that one on Hawks and Doves... "Live music is better, Bumper Stickers should be issued"

Powderfinger. Yeah that's a great one. Sedan Delivery is awesome too. Last night I was cool at the pool hall Held the table for eleven games Nothing was easier than the first seven I beat a woman with varicose veins. She stopped to see herself in the mirror Fix her hair and hide heir veins And she lost the game. Like a Hurricane I could do without, but seems like a lotta people like it. Better than Devil with a Blue Dress though

Sure enough they'll be selling stuff when the moon begins to rise Pretty bad when you're dealing with the man and the light shines in your eyes

I only looked for my favorite lyric of that song. Sure enough, it was wrong. "C'mon baby let's go downtown" is gotta be one of the best Neil rockers "Snake eyes, french fries, I got lots of gas..." Funny thing about "Rockin' in the Free World" is I never really listened to it. I just heard the chorus and thought it was this dumb sellout song. Then I saw it in concert and he played it all sad and sorrowful instead of the "radio version", and I finally realized that the "keep on rockin'" was a sarcastic dig at Reagan. Guess I was outa the loop. He probably made lots of money though from people like me that didn't listen closely to the lyrics, but unlike me relished the idea of "bombing the russians in 5 minutes".