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Hey TLG, Did you go as a naked midget or as fried chicken or both?

I thought you were a homeless climbing vagabond?

You guys are sehr helpful. Gutmutlicheit to ya. What about this one? The Prow? That is so cool. It's in Yosemite I'm guessing. I wanna climb that thing.

This is a cool looking climb. Anybody know where it is?

True, if you stick it deep inside. But it looks like an OW from the ground . It's a fun pitch, quite varied, though a bit dirty. Many years ago Dave Shuldt, cascadesprayer extraordinaire, schooled me on that thing. And by the way, no real OW technique required on Battered Sandwich either.

Here's another one

JayB, Thanks for posting this stuff. I was thinking that since you have the ability to draw the lines on those pictures you must be able to dink with the brightness. Those topos are much easier to figure out when you digitally brighten them up a bit (see attachment).

Here's the trail "map". Battered Sandwhich is at Private Idaho. Doesn't look like the Private Idaho topo is on that website. If you go to the far right of the crag, there is a nice dihedral/RFC with a bolted arete on it's right. Those are Senior Citizens in Space (5.7) and Spineless (5.10d++), respectively. The next weakness over to the left has Battered Sandwhich (5.9) on the right and Istanbul (5.9) on the left, both of which you may like given your mentioned preference for wide-crack grovelling. Further over left is a little gem called Magic Fern (5.9), recognizable by the splitter flared OW crack at midheight. You can walk off from the top by heading up through the forest about 20 feet to where you'll come to a trail. Follow the trail right just a little ways to where it winds it's way down in a slot behind a big slabby rock.

Did some liebacking at the Rock today. Some jamming too. You anti-liebackers are funny. Sounds like gym climbing. "Dude nice send but the lieback is out, you have to jam" It'd be fun to watch you guys jam an arete

Climbing. I am doing that now. UW Rock, JayB's sandbag. I sugges all of you in greater Seattle area do the same. Woo Hoo!

Let's see how much mileage we can get out of this one.

Lieback or LAYBACK ?

Lieback

Hey c'mon!! On this board "whiner" is a joking term of endearment. Thanks for saying thanks. and BTW noone wants to hear your whines about your computer problems Just put out damnit. .

PP, Yeah Free Cat is/was really nice but I think it's coated now. Don't know for sure about Garden Wall for, but I walked by it last spring (with Matt H and Dr. Jay) and my Mind's Eye says "mossy". DBerdinka cool man! What's up with that last pitch of Lovin' Arms? What line did you take? I have previously a) bailed to the left via the horizontal halfway up, b) climbed up that cracklike looking thing that run up right of center. Someone told me the other day that the route (above the horizontal) actually goes straight up, left of the cracklike thingy, and has one bolt hidden in it somewheres. Can anyone comment on this?

Get with the program whiner!! Aren't you the one that resolved to send in many trip reports to CC.com? What did you climb last?

It's the bolted slab just left of the crack, but the crack would be fun too I bet. Nice job Catbird!

GREAT GREAT!!! EXCELLENT! That climb is fun huh? How do you think it got that crazy name? I figure it is because you can put your feet on one side of the dihedral and back against the other and just sit there like you're in a Lazy-Boy just hanging out but with a bunch of air under your butt, like a senior citizen in space!!! What do you think? And battered sandwhich. There's a good 'un. Cool name fun climb. Battered like smashed or battered like coated in batter? Greg next time you oughta try out your self-belay rig on End Run over at Hag Crag. That's what I was planning if I ever get around to that kind of shit.

What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?

We had it going so well there for a couple of days. Trip reports and climbing talk out the ass!!! And now, we got like 5 threads on peace marching? Blech! OK the Oval carabiner thread was allright, but let's build on that and produce more climbing-related diversion!!! Greg W how was Index? Did you climb Libra Crack? Erik, you were probably out there too, what got sent? Liberate any pitons? I shamefully sulked around the office and worked a bit and otherwise chewed up a beautiful day. Today though I will heartily attempt to go out to The Rock. I will work on JayB's "Over the Rainbow" problem. WTF is up with that JayB, what's the beta getting from the 3rd to 4th hold? I can't figure that shit out. Wayne's Inspiration TR was excellent. Stuff like that (and more of it) puts this board way up there in terms of high-class climbing internet entertainment. Keep it up guys 'n gals. C'mon, I'm already fretting about this orange-alert-hide-in-your-bathroom-with-duct-tape-around-the-door-with-three-days-of-food-and-water shit enough. Why do I have to read it on this number 1 PNW climbing resource!? TALK SOME CLIMBING GODDAMNIT!!!!! meekly yours Chuck

Kent State? I was reminded of that one when someone posted some stupid bolting joke using a picture of one the dead at Kent state.

I agree, in this case anyway. Stopping the traffic is a way to get a lot of attention to causes that noone knows much about (gets on the news where it wouldn't otherwise). For this situation, everyone already knows what's going on, unless they live in a hole or something. This cause is guaranteed to get airplay and a march that does not inconvenience commuters will still demonstrate the numbers that are against the war. So there does not seem to be a reason or need to stop traffic. That said, they (we?) are NOT trying to stop traffic right? The march is on a Saturday and travels through an area gridded with parallel streets. No problems.

F*CK Fairweather. He drinks those pansy cider/wine cooler drinks

That's probably not it Mattp 'cause I just copied the HTML code straight from what CC.com is sending out, and it works fine once the code is on my machine, but does not work when I'm looking at it on CC.com. Once the pictures are cached though it seems to work fine.