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i'm gonna send with no chockstone bivi so there The following projects are conditions dependent: 1) Sailor Bar Gully 2) Jackass 3) Crucible If we have a "normal" winter then I will probably try to climb some stuff in the Chilliwack and Skagit areas or in Golden Ears park area if I can get a week off during good stability conditions. It seems though that when you get normal winter condish the stability is all during the week and forecast hazard goes up to High or Extreme on Friday PM as it starts snowing..

so, off that site, who does that leave?

1) You mean Neufeld/Struthers/Barg/Brayshaw/Spagnut/Cairns/Rose/Alez/Janez' girlfriend/Frimer/Burbee lines I think there's about 7 or 8 established lines or variations now 2) Isn't it surprising no one has climbed those dihedrals yet with all the activity? Take a lawnmower, weed whacker, trowel and gardening gloves. And knifeblades. Lotsa knifeblades.

Dol Amroth means Crag of the (somethingorother). It's the high tower in the city of Gondor. Orthanc is the other tower nearer to Mordor. Dol Goldur is in Mordor, I think. It's marked on the LOTR map anyways if you have a book handy. Caradhras is like I said, a stolen Welsh name. It's in the Misty Mountains. The Fellowship gets avalanched trying to cross it so they go through Moria instead. Big mistake. Mindolluin is also a peakin the Misty Mountains.

weird? the pagetop was lost in the phantom zone there for a minute

I guess I missed the sno-cat one. The other two Strickland examples seem to fall within what I defined as hype. Although if one examines the original thread one can see that as many responses if not more were critical of polishbob as of will. But taken all together what percent of posted TR's ignite flaming? One? Two? The overwhelming majority are welcomed with and Here's an opinion. Most of those who aren't posting TRs are not doing it for fear of flamage. That is just an excuse. They are not posting because of 1)modesty, or 2) they just can't write. Maybe some lurkers will prove me wrong

As for the LOTR names: hmmmm. We have some up here too... Gandalf, Aragorn and Shadowfax in Phelix Creek. Obviously LOTR had a lot of influence on certain generations of climbers. Half the climbing routes on Yamnuska have LOTR names... is it really any less of a relevant source for naming inspiration than Paul Bunyan (and his stump, and his bounding blue kangaroo) or naming peaks Primus and Tricouni after certain brands of hardware of the era? Caradhras was stolen from Welsh by Tolkein directly, I believe it means - Red Mountain. (klenke there's another one for you). Mindolluin is more of a Tolkein coinage. Dol Amroth, Dol Goldur and Orthanc ditto.

My source is a section of Clayton Mack's book "Bella Coola Man" called the Mesachie Box, describing black magic, in particular, a hamatsa (cannibal) dance in which a dead woman's head was dug out of a fresh grave and eaten by some shamen; also other black magic and bad occurrences from Nuxalk and his own personal history. It may be a turn of phrase that was more commonly used up here than down there? also I read somewhere that when Christian missionaries were preaching in the Campbell River area they described the Devil as being 'skookum mesachie' or 'hiyu mesachie' or some words to that effect - don't have the referece cause it was just a book from the library. But in general I just don't think our word "Obscene" has the right connotation to mesachie. Wicked, vile, evil, yes...obscene sounds more like it has to do with peepshows or something... some sort of puritanical value judgement related to sexual acts...I know that the word obscene was not used in quite the same way in the 19th/early 20th century which is where the confusion might stem from.

i though cutting layton's hand off would be the hard part!

I won't spill the beans yet. But since I'm as much a fan of The Lord of the Rings as of the Cascades, I'll suggest a bonus quiz: What is the significance of the names in Tolkien's books? (To be honest, I may have to consult the books again to figure out one of them.) ...just two more months until the 3rd movie comes out... Named after swords and peaks of LOTR. It's in the right I am not saying the names either but it took like 15 seconds to look up.

Actually I quit on Slesse. Now I am planning the first Necronomiconless ascent of Mt. Layton's Girlfriend

I did a XP restore and didn't lose nothin update wise but the otherwise unsolvable problem I had was fixedski and has not bothered me again. It's kinda like saving a computer game and then when you get killed u just go back and start from the point you saved at.

Mesachie does not necessarily mean wicked/obscene. It can also be used to describe the black magical arts (curses, maledictions, evil spells) as practiced by a shaman, as opposed to the curative/transformative type of "good" magic. "Evil" might be closer than "wicked"; certainly "obscene" in the sense we think of obscenity, like pornography or certain curse phrases, seems like a stretch.

but which CRAG at Smiff? Monkey Face? Dihedrals? Picnic Lunch? Christian Bros? Upper Gorge? Rope-de-Dope? Shipwreck?

after they burn-out they sit around in the fallopian tubes playing hacky-sac, listening to Phish and growing out their dreads.

I'm hoping to rent myself out to cougars

will you help me study the effects?

...and love the chain-mail skirts and tops! i think that's silver pleather not chain mail. just going to RPGnet to find this picture made me feel all geeky and dirty

bad news for erik I drink 4 cups a day ladies

what j-b said no wetting is complete without crawling through wet prickle bushes and snow covered slide alders

does that mean I get to brain wash everyone??? real cool propagandists call themselves Minister of Information Dru for Big Brother

Dave for Minister of Horsecock Flippin'

i dont think those boots are steel toe

weren't ya flaming muffy about her spelling just the other day?