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I was invited out to Hope to help Tyler (tlinn) develop his local crag. "Bring your drill" read the email. I was the belayer last year when we climbed "The Sting" a 4 pitch 10a on the same crag. What I remember most about that was the North North Arete style bush crawl on the second pitch, on which Tyler was attacked by wasps. Apparently he has rigged a nice bypass so you don't have to climb this pitch anymore. Anyways this time I met tyler at the coffee shop, we drove out to the crag, hiked in to the cliff with Tyler showing off his hard earned local knowledge, by avoiding all the tick-infested bushes with a traverse through the forest. Arriving at the base of "First Blood" , a nice single pitch 5.6 crack climb that will one day be the 1st pitch on a 5-pitch line up the crag, we got to work. Today we were going to clean and climb some projects on either side of First Blood. Tyler started scrubbing an arete on the right and I began on a slab and face on the left. I forgot how much I like scrubbing. It reminds me of opening presents on Christmas morning you never know what's going to be under the moss. 9!!! hours later, our pitches were clean and we had avoided dehydration and suspension trauma, just barely. Tylers route was bolted and worked but not sent, mine was not bolted because the drill was out of juice. Just as well because a good rain storm should markedly improve the friction on this pitch despite my efforts with the broom. As darkness fell I staggered into the Hope Chevron for some much needed food. I was nearly arrested by the RCMP as a deadbeat, I was wearing Carharrts that were more duct tape than canvas and covered in the vilest dirt and filth. As I stared into the washroom mirror i had to laugh, with all the dirt sticking to the stubble on my face, for once in my life I had a real Dirt Lip. One day this crag will be an enjoyable destination if you are on your way to Skaha or weathered off Yak... but not quite yet. Tyler at work. I had forgotten how much of a workout scrubbing is, I know I'm weak but this worked muscles I didn't know I had. I expect I will be sneezing out dirt-crusted boogers for the rest of the week

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/93.html She was a travel agent selling tickets to hell!

Maybe you can convice them to move to Antarctica. They can take drug company marketing reps with them.

That hasn''t been the case in BC, which has had reference-based pricing for about 5 years now.

that's 25,975 approx.

and drugs that cost 10x as much but don't work any betterhave nothing to do with it?

Couldn't remember if I posted it already

More like "Is Asian purchasing of US debt the only thing keeping America from bankruptcy".

pres hands together, slight bow, "namaste! namaste!"

i remember a skaha trip when someone's hummus started to ferment cause it was so hot youre gonna camp on the easton glacier with no stove? WTF?

THis is all going to turn into the next Minnesotaclimbing.com, isn't it

Recent study showed subjects who inhaled oxytocin were significantly more trusting of strangers after inhalation.

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oxytocin it is.

This guy has to come up with something new every month to get his name in the press.... he sprayed to the mags how his new route Alcatraz was M14, then Gadd repeated it and said it was M10+ with spurs or M12 bareback.. damn imagine if you phoned the mags with a new 14d crack and someone repeated it and downgraded it to 10d.

Holy fuck you guys need to sniff some oxytocin!

only if you aren't attractive, obviously

once you use aztars on ice, you will find out they suck. this is my rock slipper and mountain boot analogy.

if you are looking someone in the eye and staring at his dick all at the same time, he's probably bent over or lying down

Jingle the rack of hexes you have around your neck and tell em you're a climber!

For Washington gapers who don't know where the trail is

can we save the polar bears by moving some to antarctica? do they like the taste of penguin?