Dru

yes. no

lawrence whelk

"who's your daddy?"

muslim bin Laden anthrax al Qaeda Iraq Afghanistan Saudi Arabia Indonesia 9/11 trask jihad etc!!!!!

"One of these Days I'm Gonna Cut You Into Little Pieces"

Adamson sent ME a death threat one time cause he thought some other bozo spraying on him on nwhikers.net or something was actually my avatar. I'm in the Club now I guess even though just barely!!!

just wait for the revisions incorporating the latest research on hermesis "toxins can be good for you!"

in a case like that best solution for an anchor is ta whip out your hilti and sink a couple of 1/2" bolts and add chains and/or rap hangers.

but the photo of the young Phyl Munday reveals she was a hot babe!

The Sunshine Coast is NOT closed Powell River - Eldred Valley time

"tent pole grade aluminum" just don't sound as strong or "2mm shoe lace" instead of "parachute cord" or even instead of squirrel

and lives in a Hobbit Hole?

This thread should be renamed TUFF LOVE

Lost on Mantle Glacier A VW bug powered by a wood burning stove. 60 miles per cord! If found send to AlpineK.

I forgot to mention that due to rain showers I found time to finish a 900 page Charles Dickens book, another 200 page book about a guy making a painting, and AlpineK's funny travel book about Patagonia. It's amazing how much you can read when you don't have cc.com to distract you!!!

What is the gossip? Did Ray drop a brown coil on anyone? Did catbirdseat and marylou consummate their affair? Did erik's bulimia get diagnosed? Is trask still single and blueballed? Or did the neighbour put the herd out to pasture again? Please PM me with fresh juicy details.

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Re: Stefan's comment - Turtlehead Mountain is even less of a hardman mountain name than Princess Mountain. I will name the next unnamed peaks I climb Bunny FooFoo and HelloKitty for this very reason.

So Kurt and I went up to the Queen Bess area accompanied by Fern's curse calling for rain every day. It hadn't rained for 2 months in the area more or less but somehow we got precip on 4 of the 8 days we were in the area Saturday 23: drive up. Drink beer with some ppl we know who have just come out from 2.5 weeks of hiking thru the Northern Pantheons. Sounds like a good place to meet grizzly bears up close and personal. Sunday 24: fly in to campsite SE of Armada Mountain. Make pancakes & eat bacon. Clouds over Wadd lower until storm begins 2 hrs after we arrive. Spend rest of day in tents. 2" of new snow then changes to heavy rain and freshiez melt. Mon 25: flat spot tents pitched on becomes lake/4" deep puddle. Lie in waterbed all day reading Charles Dickens. Spend 5 minute spells between rain storms looking for dry boulder cave big enough to use as sheltered shitter. Bit of bouldering here and there on wet rock. Tue 26: move tents to dry rock knoll during 15 minute dry spell. Bit more bouldering during clear breaks of up to 0.5 hour long. Kurt and I send a super cool 15 foot incipient seam on Crack N Ups, zero cams, RPs and hand placed beak. A5 bouldering Wed 27: dawns clear and sunny. Up before sunrise with big packs and off to try QB SE buttress. Get to Armada- 8400 col 1/2 hr above camp and see QB is white withj new snow. Bag easy pks 8400, 8600 and Mantle as consolation. Back to camp. Thurs 28: Off with new plans to try 5.5 north ridge of QB. Cross glacier. Avoid bergschrund with long traverse. Climb couloir to ridge crest c. 9600'. Ridge engulfed in blowing cloud, ice feathers. 5.5 ridge is covered with fresh snow and is horribly loose. Decide to retreat like scared kittens. Back to glacier. See other couloir we could have taken direct to summit icecap by passing loose ridge in favor of mixed rock bands of unknown difficulty. Live and learn. Friday 29: more pancakes and ham and bacon for breakfast. With late start for rest day we climb S ridge of Armada Mountain above camp. 4-5 pitches of 5th to 5.6, lots of class 3-4. Great fun. Narrow exposed sections. Get to summit and find ridge was not FA as we were secretly hoping but had been bagged in 1999 by Renz, Schurr, Martin. Saturday 30. Up earlier and off to climb Silver Swan 9400'. Big glacier hike then a short rock ridge (one pitch class 4-5 at bottom then scrambling) to cool summit with views of everything. See large lenticular clouds forming over Wadd, etc. Back to camp. Rain begins 2 hrs later lasts until late evening. Sun 31: Mike picks us up in chopper at 7:30 AM. Pay bills. Shower. Drive home drinking beer. Discover in Cache Creek that all backcountry travel in SW BC is banned. Figure we should have stayed on the glacier another week or so. fun trip. ate 15 horsecocks in 7 days Atkins Diet obviously worked, lost some weight I would like to go back to this area a little bit earlier in the year next time. Late August was to late for high elevation rock due to snow, and a bit too early for fall ice climbing. From helicopter could see "Phil's Couloir" on Kontlan was totally melted out this year due to hot summer Pictures in a week or two

what about the lap dance island game show huh?

If Kurt doesnt get here in 15 minutes or less there aint gonna be any beer left

HAVE FUN AT SCHOOL FERN!!! WE WILL THINK OF YOU WHILE WE ARE SENDING THE ALPINE GRANITE SWEETNESS!!!!

hey sisu a guy i work with just got back from the queen charlottes.... with a 25 lb. chinook he caught in 10 minutes while waiting for the flight out bbq time

because it is there thank you george mallory

fur all democratic like