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I wonder if Toyota is ever gonna do an ad campaign based on that fact? Lawrence of Arabia had a big fleet of Rolls Royces for tooling around the desert in, I think.

Dont the Taliban drive toyota PU's??

Matt A, was he leading trad or sport? and did he lead in the gym or not? i wan to know how impressed i should be

Rockies have been pretty warm and wet so far and most ice is just starting to come in again as the temp dropped a bit last 2 days: Check forecast at http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/scripts/citygen.pl?client=ECCDN_e&city=WXA Gyms are for happy spiders not dry tooling. Metal picks can scratch hand holds! Get some of those plastic picks Grivel makes or wrap your picks and mono points in duct tape.

you ever notice "denali" is just "denial" misspelled?? my spell checker did. Scott important key to success is coming up with a catchy team name. TEAM HARSH REALM is still taken I guess, maybe you guys could be TEAM SWILL BEER or TEAM WE HATE MARK TWIGHT or something?

erik you got to post more, Lammy has passed you by like 100 posts!! that rust is a protective coating against sunburn - you put on titanium oxide - i use iron oxide.

quote: Originally posted by Terry: Dru, border crossing was Aldergrove. Other than the stupid questions it was a quicker crossing than pre-WTC. Most of the cracks were moist or had water running in them but the faces were dry. My first trip to Squamish with one of the other CascadeClimbers was spent climbing in the rain about 13 yrs ago. We did Diedre with a small river running down the crack. Neither of us can read real well and spent an hour or so trying to climb the headwall at the end of the climb, not realizing we were done. Actually, I think that was all Walter's fault. Of course there were no other idiots up there climbing in the rain. I think we wandered by Funorama on Saturday. I thought I knew where everthing was and had my old yellow guidebook. Now I realize that the MacLane 1992 guidebook is also pretty outdated. I guess I'll have to buy another one to keep up with the changes up there. I also need to add Doo-ood to my vocabulary, based on the conversations I had with the two guys we saw. Terry Make sure you buy the one that says "2001 Update" with a yellow spine and 140 new route supplement on yellow paper at the back, it costs the same as the 99 edition, but it has my name in it about 6 more times!

"oklahomo" was a spelling mistake on my part. I dont want to suggest all them damn okies are gay. im certain there are lots of sheep cows and goats that could testify differently!

quote: Originally posted by Kathy: You sure are one sexy climber Dru Yeah, baby, yeah!

quote: Originally posted by Thrasher: panther is a pretty cool dude to think of this. Winter is pretty boring and why not spice it up? Do you get snow in Oklahomo or what?

quote: Originally posted by max: I once climbed Mt. Baker with the sole sustinance of one box of Little Debbie Fudge Dipped Granola Bars. On the summit I found what I think was a Baby Ruth (like in Caddy Shack...), which I promptly gobbled. Did a nonspot (oooo!!! AHHH!! (sarcasm)) of the Fisher Chimneys with a friend. Between the two of us we had a round of Gouda cheese from the BGO (Bellingham Grocery Outlet...) and...you guessed it.. more Little Debbies. I think maybe we had a couple powerbar type things too. No food-booty found. Good thing you said "Caddy Shack" and not "Pink Flamingoes".

quote: Originally posted by Kathy: I'm glad there are so many people out there who can recognise true character when they see it. It sure is cold up here on this glacier, and David and I don't have much to talk about any more. It sure would be nice to have a visitor. If you are gonna make jokes like that you should spell your name Cathy!!!! Maybe you can give us some beta on Cocaine Crack??

what about bobsledding on a cello case while guys in white snows suits with guns chase you like in that james bond movie?

quote: Originally posted by Sean Halling: Do I get any points for spending a lot of time with keepers of the mullet? I once had a truck with seven inches of lift and Super Swampers, but unfortunately the military didn't let me grow my mullet out much then. I wanna get a big jacked up truck with a hydraulic suspension like the Citroens used to have, so I can drop it from 6 feet off the ground to low-rider with the push of a button. that would be super pimp. but the mudflaps would definitely drag behind in lowrider mode then.

is slothrop anywhere near winthrop? I noticed his L is a capital L now too. Not a wishy washy lower case l that looks like an I in that front page font. [ 11-19-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by sisu suomi: Mullet...youknow if you get an ichthyology book out you will discover this is a species of fish. Also the mullet hair cut in the 70s and 80s were very popular with the hockey crowd. Ya beer, chips and blood sport!!!!!!!!!! Mullet is new word taking over. Up until 1999 this haircut was known as "hockey hair" and proudly seen on Jaromir Jagr, etc. long after most sane people had abandoned it. Reason: the back is the only part of hair that sticks out under the helmet anyways so it is the only part woryth growing long, no one can see the rest if it is long or short. Actually mullets can be long on the top too but real hockey hair is short top and sides and long back. On little kids the variation is to have a rat-tail braid hanging down the back.

I had an AFRO once . Mostly I am a skinhead these days.

quote: Originally posted by pope: Dubious distinctions? I've been sun-burned bad enough to puke. I took a class from Fred Beckey. My dad got Chouinard's autograph for me at the airport. I've also got Big Lou's autograph. I've down-soloed Canary, and I watched Todd Skinner "free" City Park. Well, it wasn't all that free. I've also bailed off Liberty Crack at least three times. Pope- if you dont have a lady friend to apply the sunscreen you can wear a condom on the sensitive area and prevent the painful burning from occurring. I have been drunk enough to puke many times but through application of common sense like this, never burnt into puking range.

Terry going by the forecasts this is gonna be a winter with dry, sunny days every month of the year. 15C and sunny in January etc. I was down at Burgs & Fries. Some friends just bought a house in the Smoke Bluffs and I was doing all the routes that end up in their back yard which border crossing was the farmers comment made at? sounds like something you might hear at Sumas. The guy there on the US side really dug my Boreal sticker once :"Think Less... Climb More? huh? The Original And Sticky?" How wet was Octopus garden? That things usually soaked for 2 days after rain. You should check out Funarama if you are over there. "Ramapithecus" (see yellow guidebook update) dries out fast and the pro is "bomber". And you can try to snag the FFA of "Working Class" (not in book - goes left out of First Class) - the move past the bolt is probably about 1-move-wonder 11b. [ 11-19-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

I wasnt at work until 8:30 I-Am-Boney! But you got it right, Capt and I are homeboys and insults are flattery. Thats why we are 1000+ posts ahead of your 3rd place showing. get with the Fu@king program and catch up!

I guess Pan Dome Falls was nowhere close to forming up??

$10 for two saved lives, those guys rate themselves pretty cheap!

Bronco, i would mail you some chili but they would probably think it was anthrax or something. sorry. i will bring some to lillooet I guess .

So what did everybody do? I went to Squamish on saturday - climbed a bunch (7 or 8) of smoke bluff type routes at the Bluffs with some friends i ran into. went to a slideshow at a friends saturday night and showed hero shots of myself etc. went home at 2 am on sunday AM and saw lots of meteors along the way. no one wanted to go up s ridge of welch sunday so I slept in sunday AM, went for a bike ride along the river, changed oil & filter in the pimp wagon, made chili. lots of chili. im going to be eating this god-damn chili all winter long I made so much of it. anybody want some chili?

Quarks kick ass. Or some of those Cobras. Or Axars, or anything else with a big curve near the head. Be prepared for big line ups in Banff on not much moderate ice yet if you are going there now. it was +15 C on saturday that is very warm, rock climbing weather.