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Has anybody actually asked them where it is, in a nice way? I'd bet they'd give it up in private. If not, then it is sort of silly to post it to the internet.

I totally agree with Sisu on those KFC ads. Most car ads are pretty annoying but the VW ones are almost always fun. The Seinfeldesque one with the guy licking the door handle still cracks me up every time BEST AD (possibly ever) is that Victoria's Secret "What is Sexy?" ad with the AC/DC guitar riff . That ad is better than 99% of TV shows.

It matters if you've never climbed there, but are trying to figure out what would be good things to shoot for.

Some bolts and a #2? blue tricam pocket. Also, a big outcrop to sling right when you leave the ridge to climb up the face. There was a fat bolt at that spot when I climbed it (many years ago) but no hanger. Maybe there's a hanger there now.

Get the darkblue Tri-cam (#2??) for a pocket on the first pitch of Sky Ridge. Yeah, and I sorta like those wired hexes now too.

So, since the CC.com day is slow enough that DFA's query on nutz minutiae can get a fairly rollicking response... How about you galz/guyz giving me your views on Valley ratings as gauged by Index ratings? Last night, Mattp (under the influence of an unknown volume of beer) told me that the ratings are comparable and, if anything, Index was a bit harder. On the other hand, there was some guy down at the Rock one day who seemed to get scared just talking about climbing in the Valley. He said a 5.8 in the Valley was like 10b at Index. His GF was backing him up. So what say you Index-Valley vets? Valley virgins wanna know!

If you climb a lot with your rack you are going to become very attached to it. If you buy the good stuff (Camalots, Aliens, TCU's, Friends), over the course of many, many ascents the extra pennies/ascent you spend will be recouped handsomely by the warm feelings of satisfaction and security you will feel using the best sh*t. Conversely, if you buy "good enough" gear, you will get a dig in your ribs everytime you pull those babies out. Check this out too. If you're really tradding just to please Dwayner and Pope, then you probably won't be doing it very long. In that case disregard the above advice and minimize your monetary exposure by purchasing the cheapest shite possible.

Hexes are the BOMB at Smith dude

Yeah, except that that place was way pricey and they practice FALSE ADVERTISING on their website. They advertised cheap drinks late on Tuesday nights, but when I bought a pint, they gouged me for 1.25 more than the advertised price. The bartender just laughed it off (and still charged me the steep price) when I asked him about the special. Checked their website today. A month later the non-existent special is still listed. Probably an oversight, but still, they SUCK for that.

I was informed last night a pubclub (chestbeat!!! I was there. I was there ) that, for the record, noone who goes to pubclub smokes. The reason as to why non-smoking places are loathed by many has been oft stated. Those places usually suck as far as being real bars in terms of criteria other than CO ppm and freedom to suck tar into your lungs. Is perhaps this belief born primarily from our forays to the Blue Star and Pig and Whistle (those places blow!)? Or are non-smoking bars uniformly sucky? I don't really go to bars excepting Pub Club so I don't really know. I'm cool with trying out a new non-smoking place. I really don't like having to wash my clothes!

LET'S GO TO A BAR WHERE EVERYONE HAS TO WEAR BAGS OVER THEIR HEADS, THEN MAYBE TRAKS WILL SHOW NOT THAT i GIVE A SHIT

What about glissading? Y'know, butt, boots, crampons, trashbag, etc... Shouldn't lift skiing be broken into green circles, blue squares and black diamonds? Groomed, not groomed, off piste (I learned that term just today ), manmade snow, out of bounds, moguls, crap, rocks, twigs, ice?

Hey Fool, Try searching for "Juno" in the N. Cascades section, maybe the climbing board.

Grady's Grady's GRAAAAAAAAAAY-DEEEEZE!!!

I used to live across the street from Grady's. That place was OK. Good burgers and fries. But I think you got an uphill row to hoe Forrest. Grady's is pretty hard to get to from Ballard. How late are they open on Tuesdays?

you guys are really f*ckin' full of yourselves

click this! But seriously, how far is Castle Crags from Ashland? Seems like there's good stuff in Trinity Alps.

Ooops! REason NOT to drink in Ballard: from Seattle PI :

I know a quick dirty way to get a posse to back me up. Hey! How about we drink somewhere in BALLARD?! Didn't we already have two PubClubs in the last month outside of Ballard?!! Don't we have some ground rules about this?

While I agree with Mattp, when I was learning (downhill heels locked, not tele) I found that going skiing multiple days in a row produced huge leaps in skill. Lessons good too. (can't comment specifically on tele skiing except for the fact that I tried it a couple of times and didn't succeed in teaching myself how to do those drop-knee teleturns)

What is this? Some sort of passive-agressive fight picking? OK I'm game. Where is this Pyramid place and why should we drink at a place that sells such shitty beer? The only beer more overvalued than Pyramid is Corona and McTarnahans.

Are you one of those psycho gun nut dudes too? At least they weren't hooking or drytooling (I don't think).

Today at the Rock there was a problem marked on the overhang wall using blue tape like in a gym. It had the little starting point arrow with the name and grade written on it "Hail to the Elf Princess V2". Dude, I onsighted it ! Coach and I figured it was probably Pope that put it up.

I hear ya SC, but you can't go home again. KCMU sucked before it left campus. That clock's not gonna turn back. Your need for purity may be causing you to miss out on a pretty good thing. Being able to choose which show to listen to in a two-week window is PF sweet. Happiness = reality - expectations.