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Given that it's still a few months before the actual event, I don't think it's too late for Beck to change his plans, cancel some of the planned events and so on, and take this event back to thew dirtbag event that the poll shows the majority of respondents to date would like to see. It must suck to find out that you are organizing something that the people you are organizing it for, don't apparently want. There seeems to be a moral there about consulting first.

use the frickin shout box already!

"In that Scanners movie, people did this right before their heads exploded."

Goal: climb a lot Solution: climb a lot. When not climbing, spray and read about climbing and look at climbing pictures and so on. More climbing = less training.

got a marker pen? time for some cloits and gloits!

Zodiac Wall on the Chief got a VI on the first ascent, Burton & Sutton agreed it was a VI on 2nd ascent, it's never been repeated since I think...however harder routes either side of it have now been done and are V, so???

The NE ridge of Steinbok is only a V even though its an ED2. Bald Egos on the Chief gets a VI. Funk Soul Brothers and MainWall in Powell River get VIs. The PLI Wall in Princess Louisa will get a VI if it is ever finished I think that's it? de Jong, Zozikyan and Scott Flavelle worked on it at first. Flavelle bailed out. Zozikyan got injured somewhere (in Squamish i think) after they had spent a total of 10 days working it (I believe they were seiging it and fixing from the ground & that 10 day span was not continuous) Max finished it off solo in another 8 days spread out over 3 separate trips. Hence most of the aid I believe. But Max is a strange guy who made a point of nailing up Unfinished Symphony after it had been done clean & free. He mostly quit climbing around 1990 for paragliding. Supposedly according to Shaun who talked to him on the phone he's psyching up to do some climbing again.

Did you mean elephantiasis ?

i wouldn't say RAD. exactly. except it is rAD we survived! i mostly didnt take any pictures of the climbing due to sucky belays and no ability to get into my pack for the camera. but i have better pictures of the face from the base and so on. i measured from the online topo and it really is 600m vertical to the summit (this note inserted for Serl who likes to call people on inaccurately stated base to summit verticals, see also Alpinist #3 letters to the editor )

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is TOTALLY made up hippy BS. The dude doesn't even know fuck all about motorcycles. Ed Abbey wrote a funny review of it pointing out all the mistakes in motorcycle maintenace and suggesting maybe that is why the dude is so fucked up cause he chestbeats so much about fixing a cycle he knows nothing about. The Don Juan books are all made up BS except the first one, but they are still worth reading I got through four before I lost interest. I think there are 7 or 8 altogether?

i have a fetish for squid in general. I am hoping to be reincarnated as a Vampyroteuthis infernalis if I can't come back as a raven.

read all about it here. TOTALLY not about Giant Squid

I did not know brain cells needed to be adapted for human use. Mine seem to work fine as is?

pix to come but this is what it looks like from the col (top third of face) and the face is actually steeper than it looks in this photo?

I was gonna post a pic of you jumping FitzRoy on a windsurfer but it looked silly.

i use a nut tool or an upwards tug to clean gear

duh why else would she move to the Gorge

how did you get your necronomicon avat- ar back from bannedness?

twelfteen!

one time i was trying to lead da zip and i got my hand in the pod and threw in a #2 flexy friend and grabbed the biner to clip, and clipped with the rope over my finger, and yelled Take and my finger got caught between the biner and the rope and i had a fingertip with no feeling for 3 months. hangdog epic

Beat it

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see poll here

christ hung out with prostitutes and criminals and so on so you'd prob. find the modern messiah hanging with boulderers and sport climbers