Charlie

an art collection. Dane- you may have technology on your side, but I have unemployment! Besides, according to your profile, you enjoy inline skating, how much of a threat could you be?

Im outa here, done packing, off to Seattle- town crier in the morning. Who's up next? [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 08-24-2001).]

21- we came in from ingalls. "wouldn't it do your heart good to think of one of your precious paintings in Mr Popes hands?"

Damn! beat me by 4 minutes, while I was writing my reply.

it's in the candy box......now, what's this about wasting me? I have an unfair advantage, I just spent a weekend with Hemlock.

Pope, the latest issue of Outside magazine has an article titled "Road trip fashion, look cool, look real" one of the the pictures shows a dude sporting a purple turtleneck and black leather pants. You might want to check it out, I'm sure you'll find it useful.

"you may have trouble playing the clarinet for a while......sweetheart,baby,pal"...................."looks like we've got some wet work ahead of us."

colchuck glacier. Too bad you can't get there right now. (road's closed)

I did the same thing- Fred Stanley was giving a talk at the CWU outdoor club meeting. He gave a talk on local hikes in the area. He stated that he was more of a mountaineer, but would go ahead and talk about hikes. After the meeting, I talked with him, asking about what climbs he had done(Mt Stuart, Liberty Bell...) He said he had done them once or twice. I knew I had heard his name before, but I couldn't place where. When i got home, I flipped through some guidebooks- boy, did i feel like a jackass!

Did you see the boulderers? Those guys rock! We were having a snack at the lake when 2 guys showed up with crash pads! I said something to them lauphing. But they were in no mood for joking. One of the guys plopped down his pad, and with a very serious look, began pointing out boulder problems and difficulty ratings to his buddy. - alpine bouldering is very serious business.

Came down the cascadian yesterday. There is little snow to be found and, like said before, can be bypassed. I forgot how hienous of a descent it was! make sure you've got good beta as route finding can be tricky. The gully is full of loose boulders ready to come down. Capt- I saw your post in the register, pretty tame- I was very dissapointed. I expected a couple of pages of profane and vulgar spraying! [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 08-20-2001).]

Saturday night, while in the middle of a very crappy, stormy, bivy on the n ridge of stuart, I woke up and could see a star filled sky (the storm had lifted!). I looked down the valley and saw the fire in full force- it was quite an awesome sight!

Oh wait, that was a mirror!

This morning, I was startled to find that during the night, someone had hung a lifesize picture of "The Rock" in my bathroom.

ELLENSBURG- tieton- 45 min white pass- 1hr vantage- 35 min leavenworth- 1hr ice climbs (excuse me, ice bouldering)- 20 min snoqualmie pass (alpental)- 1hr mt stuart- 45 min hiking- 10 min hot college girls- nextdoor rivers- everywhere mt biking, teanaway- 20 min the tav- staggering distance seriously, the cost of living is dirt cheap (including property) just no jobs to be found. [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 08-16-2001).]

Bishop's terrace- 5.8 yosemite (best 5.8 in the world) Nutcracker- 5.8 yos Lost arrow tip, pitch 2 A1/5.12? yos Chimney start pitch, Royal Arches- 5.7 yos Snakedike pitch 3,4,5- 5.4 yos doublecross- 5.7 jtree Geronemo(sp)- 5.7 jtree cathedral pk, chimney pitch 5.7 tuolumne

damnation crack- lw outerspace handcrack- lw jellotower s face- lw classic crack- lw bo dereck- lw party in your pants- vantage air guitar- vantage godzilla- index last pitch of zebrazion- smith pitch after black pillar- dragontail/serpentine and yes, west ridge forbidden [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 08-15-2001).]

A late-ish start is how we bagged it last sunday- you bagged the tooth, sweet! How did you train for such a climb? Did it go free, or did you aid through the crux? And if so, did you have to nail or did it all go clean?

Is there still a fixed #4 on the offwidth pitch of the gendarme?

I got 2 viruses sent to me this weekend. Are you implying that somebody from this site is sending them?

I was there for that accident. Were you doing the tryout as well Beck? That was a trip. right in the middle of the whole tryout she broke off a cornice and took a 30 footer. Did you end up working for them? I got the call, but had already made plans. To be honest, by the end of those 2 days I had changed my mind anyways.

Hemlock lives 2 blocks from me here in ellensburg. Pope is also in ellensburg. (definitely not the same guy) I saw Pope and Dwayner climbing outerspace together this spring. (they are not the same guy) As for Dwayner and Donna- your guess is as good as mine.

I got the privledge to spend 2 days with Big Lou a couple of years ago. I attended the 2 day RMI tryouts(Iknow, Iknow...) And he was there for it. He was a riot. While Peter was all about business- in full nazi recruitment mode- Big Lou was all about shooting the breeze with the boys. I remember one thing specifically- Peter was right in the middle of a grand speach when Lou turned toward the tatoosh range and blurted out- "you know, I knew someone who died on every one of those peaks..." Peter just kind of glared and continued on. Peter-"OK, were going to do some role playing, say you're at muir, preparing to head for the summit, and you find one of the clients in the bathroom smoking pot, what do you say....?"

Hey! I just caught that one!!! Get it straight buddy, we didn't do it in a dumpster, she was as big as a dumpster...geez

party in your pants- vantage, leavenworth- classic crack(the name says it all), givlers crack(similar to the upper pitches on outerspace: same size/angle), poison ivy crack, and of course castle rock- an exellent place to get proficient at multipitch trad climbing, there are a half dozen 3 pitch climbs there that are all under 5.8. At index, there is the great northern slabs(my first trad lead), and the lizard.