Dru

There is some super kick ass bouldering in the moraine below the north face of north Twin sister. Super grippy peridotite. Overhanging cranking in plastic boots. did it without the pad just like the cavewomen did.

What about the splendid brutal violence of the artistic statement of a chopped bolt next to a 00 TCU seam? A 'readymade' a la Duchamp? Or socialist realism?

I got short hair and short goatee. Kinda like Kurt Smith but better looking (hey ladies!)

Look out for those goats I undestand they are so urine addicted they sometimes don't wait for you to pee but come up and try to 'nurse' from your.... Actually i just made that up. Hee hee!

quote: Originally posted by Beck: I think you're supposed to either 1) short rope the girl to the top, 2) stop right there, feed her some valium and massage her feet with soothing salve until she feels better 3) camp in the wilderness in some cranny no ranger will find you and break out the coconut oil or 4)fireman carry her to the top. Assuming she WAS a SHE, Dru! She would kick my ass! I make her lead the hard pitches and carry the heavy gear! [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 09-24-2001).]

Is it faster to go in by Asgard Pass or Snow lakes anyways? What are the respective times in?

Slings don't kill trees - people kill trees. Stand up for your rights to use slings responsibly. A message from the National Webbing Association.

Ahhhh... it was going to rain all weekend in SW BC allegedly. so a bunch of us canadians decided to go to Leavenworth eh? 2 hours to go cross border so I left Chilliwack at5:30 and didnt get to 8-mile till 1:30 AM. Sat AM we decide to go to Prussik Peak. Buy our dumb parking pa$$e$ and head up Snow Creek trail figuring if ranger stops us and asks why we have thermarests and overnight packs and day use permits we will tell him we are meeting Capt. Caveman at the peak and that he has the overnight permit... as this would be hard to disprove. Anyways hike up that fucking trail for hours and eventually come to Nada Lake. wait an HOUR for my partner to catch up -she has sore feet- sit around and ponder - she wants to bail. so we hike all the way back down that stupid trail with our big heavy packs... RRRRRRR . that night in the campground we have to put out our CANDLE LANTERNS and sit in the dark because 'candle lanterns don't have an on/off switch' and are therefore open flame and prohibited under the fire ban. i could do a lot more damage with a MSR stove with an off switch but thats too much logic for the dumbass ranger. bah! Sunday - OK lets do something adventurous to make up for missing out on Prusik. So we decide to do the Wild Traverse on Midnight. Hike up stupid steep eroded sand pit of a trail . arrive at rock. traverse out on ledge. WRONG LEDGE! traverse out on another ledge following trail of cairns. also WRONG LEDGE (way too low). figure out where right ledge is - by now it is 2:30 PM. ho hum some other day. hike back down to Castle. Decide to do 'Directissima'. stupid hot. blow sequence near top. battle in cam. pump out. decide to hang off cam - go to hang and notice cam is held in by one tooth of one cam and the rest are umbrella'd. just looking at cam is enough to make it fall out. so i don't get to hang but terror suddenly makes me notice hold in front of my face i had mised and i power through to the ledge. drive home. traffic at 30MPH thru baring, index, startup etc due to huge posse of RVs not using slow vehicle pullouts. fucking dumb asses! 5 hrs castle rock to CDN border. (should be 3.5) so..... chest beating aside - 2 days, 7000 feet of elevation gain and loss, 2 pitches, 1 route, $65 US (that's like $100 CDN). I dunno if it was worth it or not. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 09-24-2001).]

johnny that post was 8/22 not 9/22!!! I was in fucking leavenworth having a fucking stupid time this weekend!!! (see separate thread)

Teddy Ruxpin was a bear Teddy Ruxpin had no hair Teddy Ruxpin didn't care Cause Teddy was a Dukho-bear You guys never head Sons of Freedom going in WA did you?

I'm not gonna know until next Wednesday or Thrsday when theres a good weather forecast... I might just sneak down THIS weekend though, its pissing rain up here. If I did, I'd probably go harrass the Capt. on Prussik.

Here a picture showing TG''s route. Scary death serracs are visible if you squint. One of the few pics on the web without clouds over the summit! Thanks to david wassermann for the pic.

you can put flags on other things too: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/39627_phallic20ww.shtml

Picture taken from rexford. tamihi, american and canadian are left b'ground, mcguire is right b'ground, crossover is far right.

quote: Originally posted by Beck: THE END (finally!) Thank God!!

Looking forwards to the sequel, "GU or Gag".

you don't deport citizens, you exile them.

'Lillooet' is prime from December thru early March (really everything from Lytton north) Whistler/Pemberton is a bit less reliable but often just as good during that time, especially the Birkenhead River. Squamish and Fraser Valley are great when they come in but that is usually for about a week each winter, if that, and if they are in you can stay home and climb good ice in Washington. Check out Serl/Kay West Coast Ice guide for more info. Past Lillooet the next area with good ice is 3 Mile Gap at Revelstoke. There is some ice around the Okanagan but generally not a road trippin area.

Oh so its like what you used to have growing on your face Mr Evans?

how long does it have to be? (is 2m ok??) could i lie down and hack my way along an ice rink (WI 1)? if no to 2), does alpine water ice count? cause last year the waterfalls on N face of Old Settler froze up in end of Sept. ha ha I will beat you all to this one!!

CaveMan you are gonna have to open a can of whup ass on OfficeSpice for me as I'm too lazy to get out of my chair and come over there to slap some sense into him.

I think it would be funny to set a time-lapse camera up and watch the mighty tree flex its roots and bust the sling into pieces like a strongman breaking chains wrapped around his massive biceps. "HERO OF THE BEACH!!" Maybe itlll be in the next Koyaanisqatsui movie.

If you wanna be sponsored you gotta chest beat for your sponsors about how hard the route you did was and how good the gear they gave you worked. This is a good site to practice your sprayin' technique on! I suggest you contact Team Gander Mountain as they seem to have lots of available gear.

Hmmm yeah - if the slings are tight and dont weather enough they could cut into the tree, if it grows. Moral of the story: tie loose slings.