Dru

Given these lines, I think telling your intended bedmate "I'm not pope" is perhaps the most positive/effective thing you could say

All together now: Fuck Christian Beckwith!!! Of course you can always spray here about new routes... Unless the articles were shoddily written or something. I know 50% of the CAJ articles get rejected. But it is because they are CRAP not because of the routes not being good enough.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Not if you go with little William. Little William is not only a serious entrepreneur, he knows who lost booty on the route and where it is

quote: Originally posted by Rookie of the Year: As long as we are discussing new ski/snowboarding "jargon," Pow-pow and freshie are indeed synonomous, Ski-po are the asshole ski patrol sticking us for building jumps, unipoling is what one does when one breaks wipes out and breaks a pole against their hip, and a took (rhymes with duke) is a turok, or a knitted hat with a ball but not a tassle. You mean "tuque". Sorry dood. Any brimless ear-length headcovering incl. watchcap, but not including balaclava.

quote: Originally posted by erik: mount drul the chossiest peak in the range Thats Dru Peak to you. Mount Dru sounds like a command...

Since everybody seemed to like playing the 'name that peak' guessing game over the Unclimbed Ice here is a mystery peak to puzzle over. It ain't the Tooth (I think).

!! she's doggy humping that other girls leg !! jon, this girl is your type!

quote: Originally posted by Dwayner: We donate the numerous teddy bears and other stuffed animals to charity. [and no, we don't give the used "teddy's" of the other kind to the spousal units.] As long as you don't give those teddies to Beck cause we know what he does to/with them...

I nominate Mike Adamson. Big man behind the scenes here, generous with the cervezas, creator of the term "avatar", out skiing right now...

good to hear Rainier is in the Olympics. Seattle needs the rain shadow. bummer about Tieton getting so wet though.

quote: Originally posted by max: No, I see some trees. yeah, most of that anderson river stuff you would see more than "some" trees

Here's a pic of Lone Star.

I think you made your > the wrong way around. Imagine it as a little mouth that points to the bigger number...

quote: Originally posted by specialed: Canadian music = synth based pop

whats wrong with synth-based pop music? i just scored myself neil young's TRANS on vinyl last weekend!

i found an ice sac on Slesse as part of the legendary big booty haul once... gave it away cause i didnt like it that much.

CLOUDS OF SMOKE ON RAINIER TRACED TO MUIR HUT... see News at 6.

So, first of all, y'all missed my birthday god damn it, I registered for this board Feb 8 2001, where is my cake??? I've been waiting 5 days!!! Now, to the point, last year around this time there was some posting about the AAJ not accepting routes that were under Grade IV anymore. So in the new AAJ what do we see but tons of routes reported from Canyonlands, etc. that are like 1 or 2 pitches or Grade II or III lines on desert spires. But only one route from WA and that was Gauthier's line on Rainier I think, which has no given grade. So - did ppl submit routes and get rejected or did you all not submit because of some possibly false rumor that routes under Gr. IV weren't going to be published?

erik is no moderator... nothing moderate about the guy i thought allison was an avatar of adamson?

Picabo Street in TimbuktuDo I need to repeat that a boy named SueRockin to the beat of a kangarooLet me kiss your feet and forehead too. -Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Coffee Shop"

Hmmm, running down slabs creates more slack in system, so an alert belayer can supposedly yard in more and reduce length of fall... Also, slab sliding falls destroy shoe rubber real fast, so running down does less damage than sliding friction. From experience on Dreams of Passion at Smoke Bluffs... yup. Now - a buddy of mine was leading Potholes Direct Direct one time... he got to the corner that you layback the edge of and was just leaning around it with chin on arete when his feet skidded. Dude came to a stop 20 feet lower but with most of his chin eroded. Couldnt shave it and grew a 3-week goatee then picked bits of scab out of it for another week.

The naming came about in this way. In the early 90's he climbed some solo route on north face of Edith Cavell and named it "Tomoesque". He wrote a horribly, amusingly bad article for CAJ in which sample phrases were "Glistening and flashing, my serrated black blades attacked and wounded the moaning virgin ice." etc. Then he wrote an article for AAJ about how he soloed Borgeau Right-Hand and so on and noted "Barry Blanchard and other climbers had soloed these before but with previous route knowledge. These were the first on-sight solos". Well after that, about 5 routes got put up by Twight, JoJo, Bubba, Backes etc with names like "Bob-esque" (a 15m WI3), "Little Bobby OnSight" (the FA description notes that the route was 'on sight simul soloed'), "Bob-sized", etc. Hee Hee. Then there was the farce of him climbing Sea Of Vapors with Tuan as a WI5 and spraying about how he conquered a WI7 except he thought it was really only a 6+. Also he wrote an 8 page trip report about it in the ACC Clubhouse Logbook "My Rambo stuck. My other Rambo stuck." that inspired a flood of amusing parodies "My Stubai stuck. My other Stubai stuck." Never met the dude (Talkin' shit anyways) but I wonder if he comes across as such a puffed up spraymaster in person as in his writing? Also to get peaceful fun loving guys like Bubba and JoJo riled up you have to be kind of a dick I think... [ 02-13-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

maybe you should ask a cacade legend like steve house, i hear he recommends a rack of 100 gu packets, 2 cam hooks and a shovel.

quote: Originally posted by daler: sorry dru- but i have to ask if you hiked or climbed up to see if there were rap slings on the trees? dale The Secret Sprayer theory...who would keep quiet after climbing something like that? And the summer ascent/attempts of the neighboring buttresses (Culbert West Face on the left and Chinese Puzzle on the right) could've produced many such rap rings. Rap slings prove nothing much for winter ascents. Absence of rap slings proves nothing either...abalakovs vanish after 1 season.

Hee hee, keep the guesses coming, or you can surf over to www.bivouac.com for the story with text... PS that route formed up in early January and it is now gone, I think.