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ExcretoMtnDude

COLONICa = ExtremoMtnDook

Since GregW thinks hes a cowboy or a western hero remember what happened to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid* in Bolivia. *Sundance Kid? Sunshine Kid? Sunkist Dude? Sunken Ship? I can never remember that guys name anyhow.

Tex, Mary from Carhartt's just sent me a PM complaining about how the company sponsors you but you can't even spell your sponsors name right! They are gonna cut you off. Then all you will be left with is Mercury and SnaffyGu for sponsors. You're gonna look silly pulling up to ther crag and jumping out of your Cougar with nothing but SnaffyGu stickers covering your nether extremities. You also forgot to mention how rad Carhartt's are for mixed climbing. Did you know Ben Firth sent M12 wearing Carhartt's? In fact I heard this send will be prominently mentioned at the Carhartt's booth at the OR show. You can't miss the booth.Its right near the entrance between the SnaffyGu booth (the one with the booth babes in furry suits) and the BAT (Beckey Alpine Technology) "Spooner" 1.5 man Bivi bag test chamber.

when is the white sheep gonna post some punk rock lyrics?

rumney is schist, not granite!

as dwayner would say "miss me, possums? I'm back!"

snaffle hands

on a more serious note the routes in the Bugs are not notably longer or harder than routes in the Coast Mts and Cascades, just in a glaciated area at high altitude. dont make the Bugaboos your first ever alpine climbs. before you go, climb a bunch of local stuff like: East Ridge of Rexford (except the Bugabbos wont have tree climbing pitches) link up of the two Nesakwatch Spires by any routes West Ridge of Matier NW Ridge of Joffre Lillarete on Athelstan west face of Overseer. east ridge of Alpha standard route on Tantalus south face of Viennese or south ridge of Grainger any ridge of Forbidden in WA Then when you go to Bugabbos be prepared for less of the "alpine" mystique like loose rock, long approaches, stinging insects, and more pure rock climbing (with thunderstorms and rockfall and glaciated approaches and snaffles)

sit in a hut for a week while it rains and snows outside, and try to keep your psyche motivated... hook up a car battery to your tongue to prepare for lightning strikes... cover yourself with cheese and hang out down by the grain terminals to prepare for the snaffle attacks - or watch Willard a few times

oh yes, the first pieces you place off the deck are 4.5, 4 and 3 camalot. super hands

it's clouds but i didn't take enough meterorology to tell you for sure. probably a front of moist warm air developing ripples as it is forced through the straight of j de f.

Take the little trail leaving from near the NW corner of the Murrin Park parking lot. About 30 feet into the jungle is a really cool overhanging handcrack boulder. oh yeah: Roof Crack V0+ I remember when i couldn't do it in rock shoes and now i can do it in approach shoes So much easier than Royal Flush!!!!!

about 1km away across the border

no but i heard that the 5.9+ bolted offwidth is much harder than the 10d "crux"

No offense to many of the posters so far but I do not think one can describe things like Rock On to Squamish Buttress or Borderline to Angels Crest as a proper "link up" of multiple routes since they are a start and finish to a complete route. Squamish Buttress or Ult Everything in particular HAVE to be started by something on the Apron to get up there so by your definition every ascent of them would be a link up? Now for some linking quality, all four gully routes (South-South, South, North and North-North) in a day would be good Or Crap Crags to Echelon to Caramba Crags

horse milk latte what's next? whale milk?

...back to goat's leftover scraps

also in that pic note massive amounts of coast mountains and comparatively wimpy amounts of cascades

you are a week late with this so called news

soft and silky

CAMP is pulled. GATES in place and no one in camp to unlock em for ya why don't you call cattermole and post the results here o ex-gimped one given recent fire i cant imagine they too keen to hand it out for a while.

Ramapithecus

I see times are so tough at Smiff Rox you are having to import Canadians to make first ascents (like little Scotty Milquetoast, um, Milton that is) cause the locals are all too busy running one-hang laps on Churning and bolting new loose 5.9s to get fit and strong and send 14's. Can you continue this trend, and bolt a few projects for me to send when I come down in November? feel free to cross post this on smithrock.com