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Hmmmm....who to trust? Walter Cronkite, "most trusted man in America", or Scott Harpell, who claims Cronkite is liar without even backing up his assertions. Who to trust? Walter Cronkite? Scott Harpell? Hmmmm....tough decision.

Here's a comic that was probably inspired by Squid's newsstory above:

How about this effort of the Brits to influence the US vote?

Is it that wall a bit North of Cutthoat?

Put a pinch of Vitamin C in the iodine water. It reacts with and gets rid of the iodine. It's fun to watch the brown iodine water turn instantly clear. Of course, unless you dose it perfectly, then you get the taste of vit C instead, but that's not near as bad.

If you could rap bolt it, means that you've climbed it already. (unless you helo'd up there I guess ) Will we get our name in your guide if we climb it? Do we have to wait for your damn guidebook to find out what it is? Is it in the Bugs or WA Pass?

More snaffle goodness!

Here's a good one...

It's the Goth/Nihilism part of Twight, without the "light is right" part.

I think he's wearing a cotton shirt though. Definitely lose points for that!

Hey Scott, Here's a tip. When girls steal dumb things from you like giant boxes of Mac and Cheese, they are flirting. They want you to come and get it back. Not to say that you shouldn't be proud of your hard work filling a dorm with Mac and Cheese. Just, that perhaps maybe you could have gotten a bit more out of the situation with all that hard work. Of course, maybe girls got nothing you want?

Shorts over polypro should not be worn by people insecure about their climbing ability. Discuss.

Did Beck get Dru's password??!!!

No wonder they didn't want to go to war with Iraq! This proves that those French have been in cahoots with Sadam all along!!!!! Two words: smoking gun

Sorry buddy. You remind me of a whiny child griping about his sister getting to stay up 10 minutes longer than him.

I think there was a post on that a while ago. It could be because you didn't follow the instructions carefully. You need to have the subject line be "Suggestion Box". Jon gets a shitload of spam and so he sorts by subject. If you don't put Suggestion Box in the title, there's a good chance he won't find it. If you did follow the instructions, then well . I hope it was a learning experience for you, and helped distill your true thoughts and feelings .

Hey Robbob, I'm sorry that you feel wronged by the mods in that they changed the category under which this "climbing" thread is stored. Perhaps you should see if something can be done about it. Please refer to thememo from Jon. Perhaps you missed it before. Here is the relevant part reprinted.

Great job Telemarker! That looks really nice. You mentioned how it was never harder than 5.8/9. How often was it 5.8/9; that is, how sustained was it at that grade? What was the average grade?

The Golden Harvest in Vantage has always been good to me (close sorta early though). Excellent pie! There's another place (E-burg?) right on the freeway (north side), the "Bar-S" or something with "Bar" in the name . Anyway, they give you your own personal thermos when you order coffee. Prtty good if you're beat and not looking forward to fending off sleep driving over the pass.

When the driver is doing some tight manuevering near obstacles, you can slam your arm into the door to make a loud thunk. Back in high school I worked at this restaurant. The guys in the restaraunt next door liked to taunt my buddy the dishwasher. They lured him out into the back alley with a promise of food or something, and enlisted the bread delivery guy to lock the door behind my friend once he was out the door. Then the next door guys pelted him mercilessly with eggs, and he couldn't get away. So anyway, he was beaten and depressed, and wanted to go home, but I convinced him we needed to get even by starting to fill up this huge chowder pot. When more choice ingredients kept going in: greasy chowder, old food from the bus tubs, assorted veggies, tabasco, etc.., my buddy brightened up. We climbed up on the roof, and were going to wait until someone came out the back door. This gas-station attendant nearby saw us and must have figured out what we were planning (he probably witnessed the egg pelting) and started throwing rocks at the back door. Sure enough, someone came out to see what the racket was and we doused him. The first wave splashed in front of him, but the next covered him. Apparently when he went home to change he found a tomato in his underwear. Ah...high school.

Selected rebuttals: "Condorphamine has 2-3 bolts too many [...]" Per pitch or per stance? "Sickle Crack at Index. Too short and the traversing bit is annoying." Just continue up blockbuster then the trough up to the classic 5.6 Pisces crack and you've got a classic pitch.

"Elevator's closed. Use the stairs." "The more people drive, the less intelligent they are. That's why I ride the bus."

Something screwy's up with the gallery. It looks like a lot (all?) of the medium sized pix got expunged or moved or something. Unfortunately, the way the post TR function works it automatically puts the medium-sized pix into the TR's (I think). Anyway, to find those pictures you can go to skyclimb's member gallery ( link) and look through the thumbnails and find the shots. It's a pain to find the member galleries too! Oh well. If in the future you find a TR with missing pix like this you can also get the URL of the picture (right click on the little red X's) and remove the "med" from the name which, I think, will get the URL of the giant picture (which still exists).

Where would you take a visiting climber to showcase your local area? On a day trip? For a weekend? Day Trip --------- Index - either Lower Wall Circuit (GM-HOC + Godzilla->Sloe Children, Thin Fingers), or Davis-Holland. Upper Wall has the views that would be important to show off your area. D-Town - It'd be a hard decision between Dreamer or day on Exfo-Dome climbs (2 out of Jacob's Ladder, Rain-Man, Dark-Rhythm, maybe top out if they wanted to bag a summit). Great views on these, and either characteristic WA jungle or the granite sidewalk for great approaches. Static Point- WA jungle, old growth, then beautiful view climbs (Fuddhat or maybe Shock Treatment, Lost Charms thrown in if time). Tooth! (if time was quite short) Vesper N Face Columbia Peak for an incredible view hike Weekend ------- Shuksan- Fisher Chimneys, easy, but not too easy with awesome and continually changing views. Forbidden - if we could get a pass Washington Pass - just about anything NR Stuart(w Gendarme) (long weekend) Note I've left out L'worth, just not enough views, though Castle Rock is tough to beat for moderate cragging with history.