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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".

Mitch Ryder Jimi Hendrix? What's the connection there? Perhaps that maybe Jimi Hendrix is the only person who could make "Devil with the Blue dress" interesting? Too bad he's dead. (oh, and it's Dr. Chuck to you )

In my original reply I was thinking of the dividend (due to it's that time of year), but this looks like it's a credit for returned merchandise! How can they get away with that? Don't they still have the satisfaction guaranteed or your money back policy? Has it changed to satisfaction guaranteed or you can exchange it for some other worthless REI shit?

I'll tell you whut... I haven't heard the majority of these songs people have mentioned, but I'll bet every single one of them kicks ass, hands down, on "Little T and A" I mean, if you were gonna pick a Stones song, there's only about 50 of 'em that rock 10 times harder than that anemic keep Keef happy contractual album inclusion. Hell, "Undercover", Stones do new-wave/disco, kicks ass on Little T & A. Sheesh. Oh wait, I was wrong, Little T & A does kick serious ass on "Devil with the blue Dress". Gag me.

OK E-Rock, I got one that is only about 15 years old. It is a cover though "Yu Gung" done by Pussy Galore That one rocks, pummels for like six straight minutes but never gets boring or wearisome. (contains sampling of Public Enemy back when the music industry was getting all up in arms about bands like Public Enemy using samples)

Unions are there so you dont have to change jobs. What good is it if you have to change jobs to get the benefeits you want? Can't you do this on your own without someone putting their hand in your pockets? This isn't 1912 New York by the way. I don't get your reply. Who is right? Who is wrong? If the union is there so you don't have to change jobs, then I'd say Gary ought to join the union, because he's not exactly in a position to shop his skills around until he gets his "union card" (PhD).

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