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"rap music, not bolts" - John Bachar

This was sent to me as a chain email spam!

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When I went climbing in J Tree I was surprised by the relative # of black climbers there were there because you hardly ever see pictures of blacks cranking in the mags aside from Ed February and Mike Freeman. Oh, and Trevor Messiah from Britain. How come white trash are underrepresented in climbing? I would guess the same reasons namely different socioeconomic background and lack of a group of similar ethnic climbers of older age to act as known mentors? Im not talking about top roping with moms laundry line either.

Maybe you cant but it doesnt mean that anyone cant. You can eyeball the terrain above and check amount of bare ground visible from several points along the road. You can drive up the Shalath road to assess similar conditions on a nearby ridge crest. Loren you are digging yourself a hole and I dont mean a Rutschblock.

I went with a guy who is a pro patroller and he looked up the gully at the huge amount of bare rock and tree sticking out above the gully and pronounced the risk low. in fact the whole thing had slid 5-7 days earlier and snow above was minimal new accumulation. other than bringing your own pro i dont know what method to use except hiring a helicopter and making bombing runs first. however my point was just cause you read on www.avalanche.ca that avvy conditions are high (and i bet they are considerable or ower there right now) or some guy in the bar or online says they are high, does not mean they necessarily are on site. or it could say things are low and a freak storm could have dumped 10 inches of killer pow right above the last belay DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!!!

i drop coils on the lot of you from a great height. off to powell river for big walls and a bit of work.

M11?

People commonly overestimate avvy danger in these gullies re: ice fest last year when everyone and their dog in the bar was convinced Avvy conditions were Extreme on Ni&G, we were the only ones who drove out there, did on site evaluation as Low, climbed it, whole canyon to ourselves. Snow stable the whole day. But if you wanna go somewhere else and leave the routes to me more power to ya.

any route i do is a classic and the rest suck.

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group hug!!!!!!

avvy conditions were fine, in general.... i bet they are worse now... but i would guess the higher n facing stuff in the bridge is in, or coming in and the stuff like old dogs and boulder cr. falls is not. those of you with ice maps can compare elevations of say, rambles and nightngale.

who is/are the local pnw climbers aaj is recruiting to report and are they sprayers or not? is it skoog or perkins or forrest or borbon or who?

i guess its the same way that a 5 pitch route in the fisher towers can be given grade VI....

grivel 2f strap on. better than smc, and more adjustable.

i remember when friday night was the best night to go to the climbing gym, until all the losers with no social life started showing up and packing the place.

the following is from an email sent to me by Kelly Cordes, assistant editor of aaj. so this might reflect on some criticisms and comments aired here earlier? discuss.

i am thinking of writing them a letter and using this to refine my thoughts.

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jk your wife is weirdly turned on by the sound of this doll.

in australia, you can buy a barbie-type doll with tattoos, armpit hair and patchouli smell called feral cheryl.

when domestics go wild they are properly called feral.

Yeah! They could run it across from the Honda Element ad.

I bet you got those "come fuck me" 80's white leather fringed boots dont you iain.