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  1. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. 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).]

  5. 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!

  6. 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).]

  7. 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).]

  8. 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?

  9. 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.

  10. 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....?"

  11. 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.

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