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Jason and I agreed a long time ago that the route names in our guidebook(s) would remain named as the first ascentionists chose. I'm a closet Vulgarian myself, and like spicy, witty, or downright vulgar route names. Things like "Wetter than Your Wife" and "Harder than Your Husband" are certainly more interesting reading than "The Smith/Doe Route". Mountaineers Books has graciously left the original names as is in our book too. Alex Yes it is unfortunate that Wetter Than Your Wife was changed to Green Gully by Bill March. As for peak names changed: several features officially named Chinaman or ...men were changed by the federal government. Supposedly they changed all the things named Squaw too but i see Two Squaws Mountain is still officially listed as Two Squaws on the website Dildo, Newfoundland is still named Dildo though.

We gotz freshiez down to 1400m on the local mountains here in Chilliwack, winter capital of BC

It's NEVER time for a snowshoe slog... snowshoes SUCK! i managed to beat serl and fishstick to nepopekum falls a few years back - me on sno-shoes, fishstick on skis and serl postholing - its all about conditions and sometimes shoes are best means for conditions

since you seem to not understand the semantics, "niggardly" is an adjectival form of "niggard" which is derived from the Middle English, ultimately from Old Norse or thereabouts. variants include nitheling, nidderhead, etc. a cheap, mean, worthless person. nothing to do with skin color as opposed to various epithets derived from the latin negro, black, as in Gato Negro, route on Silver Star. the fact that the word niggard sounds like another word you are geting all worked up about, is a coincidence, nothing more. the fact your upset is so misplaced is what is funny and what makes you look foolish. perhaps some properly directed angst would be less amusing than your current earnest but misplaced angst. if you like I can also research and discuss how the phrase "chink" meaning crack or narrow opening, has nothing to do with a racial epithet spelled in the same manner and applied to chinese persons.

poor jason

Spire, Peak... horsecock, salami... did he tell ya about the 25 year old Whistler girl he's going to Kalymnos for the winter with

i have a fond affectation for the white scrubbed streaks i have created over the years but the reality is as time passes they generally seem to fade back to gray then again you have like the west face of NEWS with the infamously referred to "rabbit trail" which i don't believe was ever wirebrushed but then again maybe it was? alpine lichens grow slower, anyhow

As Caveman said, those of us who feel some sense of responsibility will not use this kind of language. And those of us who have a reputation to uphold will not use this language either. I truly do find this type of hate language offensive. And the reality is that those people who use this language around the generally liberal climbing community will find themselves ostracized. The result is that a responsible guidebook author will not write this type of language in his or her book and will certainly not put in some sort of appendix with the original names. You just won' t find this in mainstream american guidebooks... And I am thankful for this. Jason jason - maybe you should look it up in a dictionary before you label the word "niggardly" as "hate speech" smart guy i believe you are in for a surprise

we all know about your copulating deficiency all talk = no action

Stalin was demonstrably counterrevolutionary. Witness how he offed all the real revolutionaries.

buy some used pulsars

this guy only needs 2 bolts and look how strong he is

how loud did you ask him?

there are old bolts (CHOPPED) all the way up classic crack. ethical precedent?

are mental patients allowed to vote in the US?

pope consistently gets mattp riled up

WTF??? Cougar should destroy car at Cougar Hot Springs. Black bear should destroy car in the Black Bear Diner parking lot! Bunny should destroy car on bunny slope?

Cause those were not the names applied by the first ascent party. Brachydactylus was made up by guudebook author Smaill, and Grand Wazoo was named by Beckham believing he had made FFA of Left Side not knowing it had had FFA by Nic Taylor in 1975.

lets start an extremo petition to rename the GiGi the JibJib

On the Weeping Wall, Joe-Joe changed Mark Twight's route original name "Ice Motherfucking T Bitch" to just plain old Ice T for the guidebook.

In the Whistler guidebook, "Sewer Rat Might Taste Like Pumpkin Pie But I'd Never Know Cause I'd Never Eat the Filthy Motherfucker" had its name truncated, and "A * In Every Rice Bowl" was renamed Rice Bowl by editorial whim. Both names are phrases taken verbatim from pulp fiction

a biologist told me you guys are out to lunch, the lynx does not come south of the boreal forest in general, you are seeing big bobcats i did see a lynx myself once but it was up near Dawson Creek. damn thing was nearly the size of the deer it was chasing.

how much money have you made helping nigerians?