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Standard route on The Lions, or the NE buttress of the West Lion for more of a challenge. I wouldn't call Needle (across from Yak) an "adventure climb" cause its one of the most popular winter destinations around. Welch is kind of long to do as a day trip with only a 2wd. Make a good weekend out of it. Standard route on Blanshard Needle is a lot of fun in the winter. Or how about - Ben Lomond. Take the skicapilano.com shuttle up the Furry Creek road and giv'er from road end!

Being a cop in a dinky little outpost like the Ditch is nowhere as glamorous as say, being a vice cop in Vegas and measuring strippers' pasties for potential vice code infractions. So these guys are usually the bottom of the barrel failures that have reached their level of incompetence thru demotion. No wonder they over react. Short dick syndrome.

Tonopah is closer to Bishop than Ibex

Climb: Howe Sound and Chilliwack Valley-Climbing and Digging Date of Climb: 12/11/2004 Trip Report: What a great weekend Party - Friday night. Saturday morning - off to Horseshoe Bay. Board water taxi with 11 other people plus dog. 40 minute boat ride to Anvil Island. Pay off bible camp caretaker, find trail, hike to summit of Leading Peak. Fun day out with good views. There are some neat crags on Anvil but none of the rock is granite. Great views of Howe Sound and Garibaldi. Ran back down to the dock in order to distract the water taxi operator while some hikers straggled in a bit late. then it was off to the Troller for beers If you don't know where Anvil Island is it is the pointy island/mountain you pass on your left side just by Porteau when driving up to Squamish. Then on Sunday I was supposed to go climbing in Golden Ears but both Shaun and I slept thru our alarms. By the time we met in Chilliwack it was ~8:30 so we decided to just spend the day checking out conditions. Jones Lake: north faces in Cheam Range had a lot of powder snow. Looks like there is a great ski route down the SE face of Cheam to the base of Lady's NE buttress. Trevor would do it! Nesakwatch Creek: spent 2 hrs filling in the infamous washout, which has washed out AGAIN. Got Shauns truck through only to find that there is anotherwashout just past the Slesse Memorial trail fork on "Gate Hill". Great view of Slesse and thin ice on the Illusion Peaks, nothing worth climbing yet so we went and ate burgers instead Very nice 2 days of blue sky in December! Gear Notes: Beer Hiking boots F250 pickup Water taxi Approach Notes: Howe Sound Logging road

John Sherman named his dog Thimble, maybe you should name your dog Mandala

What's the best season? Seems like April might be ideal?

Q: What is the difference between Vantage and a talus pile? A: Some talus piles are stable.

Stay. "C'mere, Stay. Heel, Stay. Fetch, Stay. Sit, Stay!"

There's choss and then there's sucky, pigeon-shit smeared volcanic dung columns....

no it is the Wild Granites, see Tim Toula's book.

Well if you want to be precise the whole Solar System is moving at 70,000 km/h towards Mu Hercules... tell that to the next cop who tickets you.

Smithj? Lillooet? Skaha? The Nodder Oh My God?

The sun is fixed in the sky. We rotate towards the sunrise. Sorry if I gave it away

Wild granite to lance, in your neck of the woods. Bigger version of the pic is in the Gallery

No that is some unclimbed ice at the "Undisclosed Location". If only I could get some of the seed mix the ice farmers use.

VANTAGE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUCK

Slesse Glacier Avalanches..Not Just for August Anymore!

but there is in "goat fucker"

There is some interesting ice forming in places other than Lillooet...but not thick enough to climb yet although it made it thru the Pineapple Express without vanishing.

Highway 1 between Hope and Lytton was just closed because of major rockfall. Americans going to Lillooet this weekend better take the Duiffy via Whistler.

Do names like Forbidden, Torment, Terror cause you fear? Stay in the bar and drink another beer These mountains desire not your presence here. On the snowy slopes of Mt. Big-4 Mikey Sprayton, Necro's whore Needed rescue. Boy was he sore!

The Bonus Army and its Historical Significance The United States Army fought no major wars in the 1930s, but actions that it undertook in that decade contributed importantly to the development of the U.S. as it is today. In particular, the so-called Bonus Army incident led to specific and lasting changes in both the publicly perceived role of the United States Army and the way in which war veterans are treated in the U.S. These changes resonate well beyond the military. At the conclusion of World War I (WWI), veterans’ groups pressured Congress to approve a cash payment calculated on the basis of the number of days soldiers spent on duty.1 A version of this “bonus” was approved in 1924, with the caveat that payments were to be made in 1945 rather than immediately.2 Under this compromise, veterans were issued Adjusted Service Certificates guaranteeing their future. Less than a decade later, however, the nation’s descent into the Great Depression and a Congressman named Wright Patman intervened. The Depression brought great economic pain; WWI veterans, like the rest of the population, suffered from high unemployment and food shortages. Although Congress in 1931 allowed veterans to borrow against their future bonus payments, Patman pushed further, introducing a bill to authorize immediate bonus payments. 1 Donald J. Lisio, The President and Protest: Hoover, MacArthur, and the Bonus Riot. New York: Oxford UP, 1994, 7. Except where noted, details of the Bonus Army incident in my summary are drawn primarily from the Lisio book and Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001, 179-204. 2 Ibid., 7-8. 1 Patman’s efforts to hasten the bonus payment resonated with struggling veterans across the country.3 Up to an estimated 20,000 veterans and sympathizers converged on Washington, DC to demand passage of the bonus bill. Demonstrations and peaceful marches began in Washington in May 1932. The demonstrators took shelter in several ramshackle buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol, and in a shantytown on the Anacostia Flats, east of the Anacostia River. President Herbert Hoover refused to meet with the leaders of what had come to be known as the Bonus Expeditionary Force, or Bonus Army. After passing the House, the bonus bill was soundly defeated by a Senate vote in mid-June. Nevertheless, the daily marches continued. On July 28, Secretary of War Hurley ordered the police to evict the veterans from the buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, which were scheduled for demolition.4 Fighting broke out as the police moved in to enforce the eviction order, escalating into a riot in which two veterans were shot and killed. Local officials quickly requested the intervention of the U.S. Army. President Hoover deployed the Army to disperse the crowd. General Douglas MacArthur led the troops in, using heavy-handed techniques to chase the marchers across the river to the Anacostia Flats. Once there, MacArthur exceeded his orders and destroyed the shantytown in the Flats, driving the Bonus Army from Washington.

wild "things" doesn't make hexes

Highway 20