Dru

dirtbag is living as cheaply as possible on the road in order to have more time and resources to devote to climbing ie camping in free camping instead of paying for site with picnic table and campfire ring scarfing leftovers in restaurants doing all the shopping at damaged caselot sales places and living for days on dented cans of polish mystery meat and half-fermented peach cocktail field testing the waterproofness of duct taped rainwear using gear salvaged from dumpster in Canmore or found as booty as your primary equipment preferring free piss beer to quality spendy beer spending 6 hours in washroom drying your ice climbing gear under the handdryer cause you too cheap for motel room with heating and are bivying down by the tracks i miss the good times of dirt bagging dirt bag are the true heroes us working class stiffs can only dream of the life

scientific evidence indicates you are a closet case the more you deny it the deeper you present evidence which proves my point

I guess only if you think the guy would overreact to prove he's a real man? which he prob wouldnt feel the need to do? i dunno. it has a lot to do with the area he's living in like i said earlier. San Fran or Pendleton?

hey trask this sounds like you

30 million to some Iraqi snitch

I am going to go hiking with a big pack on my back

This spot will be a good place to bury your squirrel

I saw this posted by David Parker over on another thread and figured it should get its own thread. I would have to disagree with you DP. I think you have only stated one small portion of the totality of what is chestbeating. You might wish to consult the Golden Tarzan Awards on the alpinelite.com archives for the original definition and some examples featured in the "Chestbeater of the Month". I would define chestbeating as 1) overstating anything about the nature of the climb IE difficulty, classicness, steepness, epicness. "We set off up the Tooth on vertical leads of great difficulty. Only the fact I am a master of this runout style of climbing kept us from dying a horrible death" or 'I finished up another 75 plus degree lead to the top of the Roman Wall on Baker in a howling blizzard and whiteout" 2) talking big about something before you do it in order to psyche yourself up to it aka "chestbeating in advance". "Yeah I am going to go free solo North Norewgian Buttress tomorrow that is gonna be so rad!!! I am such a bad ass." "Me too! I totally want to get up on that sickness!" 3) Just basically overhyping anything. "This new six meter variation to the Overhang on Orchard Rock is without a doubt the most classic route in Washington and possibly one of the top climbs of its grade in North America if not the world" 4) Reporting that you climbed but not what or where in order that no one else can ever possibly attempt to verify your claims "Just got back from My secret cliff where I climbed 30 new pitches of 5.13+ and harder all onsight. Sorry I can't tell you where it is yet you will have to wait for my new guidebook to come out" 5) Like Lowell defined it, bragging and gloating, more the former than the latter. Not "It was pretty good" but "I was super awesome me me me" A lot of some of this stuff is somewhat subjective. When throwing superlatives around it is often useful to compare them to a known standard Eg:" this pitch is harder than Climb X which is a well known climb I have done, but not as hard as climb Y; however the rock is cleaner than on either of them."

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my fake forest pass hanging from my rearview stem makes my car tool proof

all your quibbles are also applying to a heterosexual man raising a child alone eg. after the mother dies in an accident - no mother around, no household with woman in it etc etc anyways what about gay men raising daughter or lesbians raising son? what attitude the kid gets from outside the family is going to be different in different places - say San Fran vs Pendleton OR the kids of gay couples i have seen interviewd in the vancouver papers about such issues say they didnt recieve any such prejudice but that's vancouver for ya.

It oughta take us at least a week to dig this tunnel, but the North Koreans will never suspect a thing!"

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The book is better for Diva....

City Park at Index. Bomber finger locks and good feet the whole way. Why if it was in Indian Creek it would have line ups sending it EVERY DAY

The Mysterions

what you dont think she likes all the wolperdinger and jackalope pictures?

Usual Suspects Something Wild Strange Brew

yo mama got so much yeast infection she an EZ Bake oven!

the only reason the US got oregon and washington was because they settled the Oregon Territory faster than the British could. has nothing to do with L&C vs Dave Thompson or whoever planted the flag & made the claim first.

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner

high school science project finds more bacteria in the average dishcloth in your sink than on a toilet seat.

I rather blindly stumbled across a recent account of Thompson's western explorations ( "Sources of the River" ISBN#1570610061) a few years ago and was overwhelmed, leading me to mention it when the 'reading list' topic came up. I figured the underrepresented nature of his (largely Canadian) history gave me a clean shot at Dru... who nonetheless proved well-armed enough for a cogent response. I initially came across the book as part of my general interest in both early NW exploration and the Columbia River in particular. I suppose there were a few positive aspects of growing up in Astoria... I'll take advantage of the topic to point out that Thompson's history is extremely compelling reading. Many of his maps were used by L&C and the Corps of Discovery. Had Thompson not been beset by the bureaucratic fumblings of the Hudson Bay Company, L&C would very likely have arrived at the mouth of the Columbia to find a British flag. Then we would have been the one with the Wanker problem... -t um, I hate to point this out, the British had already BEEN ON the west coast at the time, including to mouth of columbia, in sailing ships....

And missa chance for some Thursday "fuck the tool, don't commodify my beer dependency" sprayin?

when i hear that "a beam in your eye" bible stuff all i can think of is X men death ray beams from your eyes!!!