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We are reaching a time of unprecedented climbing and pre-climbing chestbeating, yet for some reason the only climbing reports to come from this obviously productive weekend are reports of Dryad's ascent of Liberty Bell , pictures of 6 year olds toproping 5.3 with incorrectly tied knots , and a little supersecret cryptic banter over some route somewhere around WA Pass . C'MON GUYS N' GALS....GIVE IT UP From reading this board today it appears that beyond the aforementioned items the most exciting event participated in by you "climbers" is listening to Shrub's speech on the way home. MORE CLIMBING TALK!! Erik, GregW and your other mysterious guests at WA Pass....What did you climb? Was it fun? Was it scary? Was it Alpine? Mattp, what were you doing up at WA Pass? Toast! Did you climb Malachite or what? Scottyterrorix! Did you climb Thomson? How did the Newbie do? Peter Puget!!! We loved your trip report that one time. Can you grace us with another? Layton and Jordop, what are you really doing? Anybody else that I have insensitivly left out... MORE CLIMBING TALK!!!! Punch some keys about climbing instead of the 87 billion. I've already got AM talk radio, (the Dave Ross show 710 KIRO) to fill me in on that political stuff. Uncle Tricky? Bobby Peru? What did you do?

He is With Other Women

The bubble gum is new.

Excellent time Dads and kids!! My daughter now wants to go climb some more. I asked my son whether he had a good time and he said "No. I had a GREAT time!! ". It was kind of like a Pub Club only with little kids running around in the background, whacking each other with light sticks. Thanks again Hillweasle for getting us set up with a spot (Chatter Creek group site is NICE!! ) . Great meeting all you guys and your progeny.

Those bolts are so crazy. I love how the threads are about five inches out there so there can be a huge lever action on the things. Then they got that bubble gum all over them like that's gonna help .

That brown gully-system above the spindly tree in the foreground right is where AlpineK and I witnessed spontaneous (?) massive rockfall. Just in case anybody wants to know.

How often do you guys replace your rap/belay biners? Those things seem to get a groove worn in 'em fairly quickly.

from Retro: a cool way to equalize two bolts using a single tie-in rope from The Sloop: 2 32 oz beers is closer to 6 regular-size beers than 4

MOUNTIE! DIRTY MOUNTIE!!! I've seen you and your staggering ilk, crushed under bizzarely huge packs, exhausted, soaked to the bone from sweating all day under your Penta-ply goretex, and, most offensively, with your gaiters tangled uselessly around your ankles, sideways, tripping over your broken home-made stirrups, covered in pine needles. YOU SUCK!!

Those battries gonna get hung up in the chimblies.

Nope! Cool people are hanging out here .

He's ropegunning GregW up the the Dolphin Chimney...either that or the Beckey Route on LB.

Sounds cool bro. We can talk about me in the "Smack Chuck in the Head at Pub Club" and talk about you in the "SMARTER THAN THIS GUY FORUM"

I think a popular forum here would be a MAKE FUN OF NEWBIES FORUM . Only problem is, that might be confused with the already existing NEWBIES FORUM so maybe we could call it the " SMARTER THAN THIS GUY FORUM ". Then we could also use this space for trashing on accident victims.

Well SHIT!!! Isn't anyone bringing any guns!!??!

hey dbb, what/where is "voodoo doll"?

There is an easy way to do that move onto the ledge. I discovered it last spring with Mattp. I wouldn't want to ruin everyone's fun by posting the blow by blow on the internet though By the way, it cannot be that secret as the key hold was very well chalked.

He's one of the folks that assoiates alpine climbing as "shitty". That route did have an alpine feel, however. So what made you associate it with "alpine"? I did it. The only thing I can think of is the aforementioned stretches of easy brushiness, and I guess also the fact that the canyon up there feels pretty wild. Also, I guess there weren't any bolts (besides one shitty one).

He/she wasn't too thrilled about the battery thing?

How about the Black Flag classic You bet that I've got something personal against you

The Urioste guide (Red Rocks) describes the Frigid Aire Buttress route as having an Alpine Feel. Perhaps in his mind it means discontinuous climbing (steep parts then less steep bushy parts)? Is Crap Crags that huge chimney system that you walk over right at the end (right side) of the Bellygood traverse? That looks Alpine . Has Fern (or anybody reading this) done that one? Looks adventurous!

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Not quite Speaking of water pu[t]rification, a couple weeks back I was at the surplus store and they told me the Army no longer uses iodine, but Chlor-Floc tablets. They looked real handy as they came in little foil packets so you didn't even have to carry that (dinky) heavy glass bottle. What they do is Chlorinate and Floculate (?). The Floc part is some agent that makes all the sediment in the water bind together which can then be filtered out with something more crude than a special water filter (the box says to use flannel). So I tried 'em. I put the little tab in my bottle and shook it up and it got all full of milky white sediment. I filtered it out using my t-shirt. The t-shirt got all gummed up and I had to use two different parts of my shirt to filter out 20 oz of water. My t-shirt got patches of slimy off-white goo on it. The water still was cloudy, but I didn't feel like running it through my shirt again. I drank it. It tasted like pool water. Yech. Chlor-Floc tabs

Yes. It is such a pain to have to boot them all up when going through the airport security

Hey Gary, On the surface your Triumph plan sounds quite logical....except for one little thing. You chug a litre of water at the lake then guess what? Whether it's in a bottle, purifying with iodine, or it's in your stomach... YOU ARE STILL CARRYING THE WATER UP TO THE COL!!! I do not believe that stomach linings counteract gravity.