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These are all good stories! Here is the one I am remembering as the most fun at the moment: Second ever REAL road trip of my life we were down is Josh around Christmas and the wind was howling and it was freezing and starting to snow. "What the F@!$%&*! I thought you said it never rains in the desert!" So we looked at a map and decided to go to Red Rocks cause it was dry. Drove in late at night and snuck 6 people into a 2-bed motel room way out in the outskirts of town ended up costing us like $2.50 per night. So the next day we went to the Loop Road (not knowing any better) and climbed some horribly loose, runout, easy, sandy face at 3rd Pullout aka Sandstone Quarry, which is apparently only ever climbed by top roping Mormon church groups After 2 leads on that wall we were all like "This Sux!" and went hiking up into the hills between the loop road and Calico Basin. Found some cool canyons and bouldered on good red rock in the warm sunshine for like 4 hours. Then went into town, found Desert Rock Sports and bought a guidebook. Went back to motel, showered, spiffed up and decided to Make The Scene on the Strip. So we were wandering around for hours drinking beer in public and checking out the weirdness of Vegas. Well eventually we decided When in Rome Do Like The Romans and lets check out a buffet. On the way to the buffet my bro "Ric" won like $75 on a nickel slot so it was drinks on him. At the buffet it was until we were all kinda whoa too much chubbin! So we were sitting around letting the food settle a bit. I had a half a plate of shrimp or something I just couldnt eat but still wanted to get dessert, and I figured if I went back for dessert without eating everything on my plate they would kick me out for not eating all i thought I could eat SO my cunning plan: I waited till a bunch of fat people at the next table got up and left and then took my half full plate o food over to their table and added it to theirs. Then we all went and got dessert. Just got back to our table, and here comes the fat folks back to theirs! They sit down and OH MY GOD SOME ONE BROUGHT US FOOD! one says. We are all sitting there trying to look invisible....Then one woman at the table theorizes " Well, its shrimp and it looks good - maybe the waiter thought we should try some"* So they all dig in and start scarfing down my leftovers . At this point, my friends Ric and Tami just cant keep silent anymore and started laughing and howling. Well the rest of us started laughing too and could'nt stop. We laughed for about 20 minutes non stop. I think Tami lost control and dampened her panties at one point she was laughing so hard - Ric, Doug and I had tears running down our faces constantly from laughing so much, and Carlos laughed so hard he re-injured a strained chest muscle and could barely climb for 2 days afterwards. True full on ROFLMAO The next few days we did better routes and then went back to Josh for a week but surely that was one of the best times Ive ever had climbing. In fact I whipped the slides of that event out and showed em at Tamis wedding last year to embarrass her * Of course these buffets are self serve and there are no waiters!

Phair Creek is OK but the real action this winter will be in LOCATION DELETED BY THE CANADIAN INTERNET BETA POLICE Creek where there are dozens of unclimbed ice routes.

What is the most climbing related fun you ever had? No chestbeating, I want to hear about Fun not how you barely hung on to send a 12c M8 WI6X from a V10 sit start. The latter suspiciously sounds more like Work than Fun.

Except when you need a piece in to quell the shaking REAL QUICK and you dont have a Spectre, cause it only takes ~5 seconds to place a 10cm Express. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrzip!

Sounds like Darryl Hatten

That is good. Tick lists are for losers. I wonder who has done the most of them though? Maybe Jeff Lowe. I bet the Yosemite ones are the only ones in common, maybe and Grand Wall too.

Yup UTC is Greenwich Mean Time I think. = Universal Time Control it sounds like something from Dr Who. I bet Greg W and Fairweather disapprove since it is universal not USA.

You mean no one ever do that traverse Jim Nelson raves about I know the story you mean though. Good one!

? My calendar says Dec 21, 18:some odd hours Mtn Standard time. I would guess 22 is Greenwich Mean Time, it will be tomorrow there by then.

Kia, do you mean Kaia? Our lawgoddess My oh my the things that girl gets up to!

I have placed stubbies more often than 22cms, I only have 1 of those and rarely use it (mostly just for anchors) but i have 1x10 and 3x13cm and place those on pretty much every climb.

I did that dayhike and I gotta say it is more like 6 hours than 2 or 3 days. however as I guess Matt is indicating you can link it up with other treks to circumnavigate the park. It rocks and the hot spring and geyser is cool. However if you want bang for your buck go to South Island it is much cooler. There's a good hike in Mt. Cook Park from east to west over some supposedly scary pass (class 2 scramble and some loose moraine) where the hut you stop at for the night is right next to a huge hot spring too. Mmmmmm. In fact you can climb the 1800m high N ridge of Mt Sefton ( some 5.6 rock and alpine ice arete) from that hut too and return there. I didnt do it (wimpy didnt feel like soloing at that time) but guy I met soloed it and he said it was cool. Look out for rain in the Darrans. Id say go there but in el Ninos it rains like every day for 4 months. It happened to me, I spent 21 days in Homer hut and had rain for 20 of them! Otherwise(were it not for the rain) you could do the N Buttress of Sabre which is a 12 pitch 5.8+ on solid granite and supposedly the best alpine rock route in all of Australasia.

Was Trane ever on Verve anyways? The good albums are all Impulse.

whatever happened to natural population control - predator prey dynamics? Perhaps the only way to increase the threatened population of the Common American Socialist is to carry out a Predator Cull of militia men, rednecks and captains of industry.

sounds like they were both renegades of funk just like the r.a.t.m/afrika bambatta song

FWIW the "Sons of Freedom" were the Kootenay area Doukhobor protest group/terrorist militia that protested by taking their clothes off and burning down buildings of those they disagreed with.

Yeah, dont beat your chest, slap your belly so it makes a wupwupwup sound.

Yeah what do you get for the guy who has everything?

They are selling them off and then not carrying any more? A short screw sunk to the hanger is much more bomber than a tied-off. Plus, short is faster to place so good for a panic piece. If they are getting rid of them for safety reasons wonder how come they still carry Spectre type hooks?

I saw a picture of Ray with 1 sock once.

They have a model hanging in the Royal BC Museum. Yoiks! For a peaceful little squid it sure looks like a bat-winged vampire all right. Whereas the snafflehound, looks harmless and innocent, but..................

Double decaf non fat avacado sprinkle vanilla frou frou Boston chai, extra whip and caramel, comin' right up.

Or you could drink anaerobic seawater like vampyroteuthis infernalis

When were those past days, 1) when some Americans owned others, 2) When Abby Hoffman was beaten for wearing the American flag, 3) when anti-Communist witchhunts forced many Americans to leave their own country and live in Europe, 4) when disco was king and everybody wanted to be Travolta?

Bust out the drill & bolt kit and add a bunch of intermediate anchors. Retrosaurus can remove them later