Dru

Yes but i have no kids yet (that I know of )

Many years ago on a trip to do the Olympic Beach traverse a guy I was driving with bought a glass of Budweiser in a restaurant in Keystone, WA while waiting for the ferry. He went off to the john and we drank 99% of his beer out of the glass and filled the glass back up with water. He couldn't/didn't notice a difference!

I like that beer in grocery stores thing in the USA. Does Pyramid still make that Espresso Stout? That was some good beer.

Specialed, you should have run up onto Bellygood and trundled on them!

Them's fightin' words Cavey! Bring on the battle cage! I seem to recall you drinking half of a case of COORS LIGHT and thimblebellying out, I had to drink the rest... that's the action to go with your talk of pints of heavy!

quote: Originally posted by lambone: ??? Chocholate is poison to dogs big fella... Pick your poison I guess! That the point, give em a chocolate bone, kill em both ways! One less shit hound.

Unibroue "Eau Benite", "La Maudite" and "La Fin Du Monde" www.unibroue.com

So Joe Catellani is wotan of ballard? what will be revealed next - that Erik is boltmonster?

Even if it is made out of chocolate?

The Denny's between Eugene and Salem, or the infamous HOLY SMOKE A TAVERN in Glacier/Sumas.

That burger place in Madras at the highway forks is pretty damn good for grease loading on the way to Smith.

I wonder if Lambone did 'on the lamb' or not? Bone in or bone out?

quote: Originally posted by Mtnclimber: Check out MClane's SW BC alpine select guidebook. It appears many of the climbs in the Chahalis group and many others have easier approachs than I thought and derserve a second look. This book offers good approach information and the route information lays out and good outline of the climbs but good route fiding skills look like a must. It aappppeers Mtncymlmer needs good speling skills tu not gjust gud ROUTE FIDING SKILLS (sic)

What about the Cascadeclimberettes out there? Let's hear from you girls. Anybody want to get spotted (with reacharound) by Chris Sharma? Drilled by Joe Brooks? Crushed in the strong arms of Tiffany Campbell?

... duck? It has already seen the view from Dead Horse Point: http://www.quinnarama.com/rdhorse.html

Check the trip report on www.bivouac.com, or the beta in ALPINE SELECT (with photo!)

Hey Lambbone, you want to get married on a "moutain" [sic] eh? Just so you know, the French for sheep is "mouton" not "moutain". How will your bride feel about the bestiality aspect of the ceremony?

You're too hard for me man. I plan to do a multi day traverse of some 4th and 5th class choss. Sorry but the destination is secret by whim of the partners.

If you could have ANY climber you wanted as a partner for one route, what route and which climber would it be? Would you do an unclimbed Cascades FA with Fred Beckey? A hard aid route with Chongo? Something rad alpine with Alex Lowe (yes you could bring him back from the dead!!)? Something on the North face of Jannu with Tomo Cesen? Or would you do the "Purple Helmet Ride" with Rachel Babkirk?

Some on the alpine conditions report on rock and ice online right now.

SQUAMISH CLIMBERS FESTIVAL The 4th annual Squamish Climbers Festival will be on 6th – 7th July 2001. Events:  July 6th (Friday): Slide show by Ed Cooper, who with Jim Baldwin made the first ascent of the Grand Wall in 1961, 40 years ago. There will be other speakers spanning the decades from then until now, featuring first ascents at Squamish and notable ascents by Squamish climbers around the world. Howe Sound Inn and Brewing Company (a.k.a. brew pub), 37801 Cleveland Avenue, 8:00 PM, $10 food and drink not included.  July 7th (Saturday): Guided tours of the Little Smoke Bluffs and to the base of the Grand Wall. Climbing wall at Squamish Station.  July 7th: Climbing workshops by local instructors and guides. Gear placement, movement skills, self-rescue, and aid climbing. Meet at the Little Smoke Bluffs parking lot at 9:00 AM.  July 7th: 40th anniversary celebration. Guest of honour Ed Cooper, and other climbing pioneers. Including a barbeque and beer garden hosted by the Squamish Lions Club, music, door prizes, and awards. Meet old friends, eat and drink, have fun. Totem Hall, first left turn after and just north of the Apron. $10 admission, plus food and drink. A group photograph of all involved in any first ascent or first free ascent at Squamish will be taken at 8:00 sharp. Tickets for each evening can be purchased at Valhalla Pure Outfitters in Squamish Station, at Climb On Equipment in the Chief Plaza, or at the door. For additional information contact Kris Wild at (604) 815-8637 or wildrockadventures@yahoo.com.

WHAT? Oh yeah Tuoloumne, yeah. There's some good climbs there! WHAT? Oh, Yosemite, huh, yeah. I did this climb with some girl there once. Yeah, huh. Girls! WHAT? You climbed with some girls, huh? Oh yeah. FB is 78 this year and still going strong!

That is an excellent question - what is the best piton to place in a tree? On the NW Passage at Squamish the Beckey beta goes something like (blah blah) "... climb difficult cracks for fifty feet to the great One-way Tree (A4). Pitch nine: nail up tree for thirty feet to rope throw..." - I always wondered what type of pins you take for that tree and if you are nailing a crack in the tree or just pounding angles straight into the bark [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 06-26-2001).]

Actually Lambbone, its not just Washington ice climbers that spend most of their time climbing trees. the same is true of washington mountaineers and rock climbers too! ever take a close look at mount index? ever climb one of those routes? 25 pitches of tree climbing with the odd rock move...

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: It's plenty easy to get 1/2" hangers, pretty standard fare in my stompin' grounds of southern Utah. 3 1/2" x 1/2" are the norm in soft sandstone, and 1/2" angles hammered into 3/8" holes are pretty common as well. PLEASE don't try to get the drilled angle thing going on granite!