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Maybe when a few newbies die on gear routes all the tradheads will get some respect for the danger of trad climbing over bolt clipping.

The Menagerie is a cool place. I hope that it stays out of the guidebook. If your really want to know about it Jim Anglin has a guide made up for the place.

Oh, and although very powerful, the Amazing Inc. Deathsquad is no match for the likes of a Texan. Even stupid ones can cause quite a bit of carnage. Like a sword wielding Mrs. Thurman we will slice our enemies down with great vengence. Luckily, two great powers like Amazing Co. and Snafflehound Inc. are on friendly terms. Let us pray that they never are cross. There would be a great spraying and flying of fur, lcyra, clanging hexes, and stick clip duels. God help us all!!

Sexchoc, Were there two gunmen on the grassy knowl, were there weapons of mass destruction, did fred beckey find a briefcase of money in the mountains? The truth is out there.

Double rack of camalots .75 to 3 with one 3.5 and 4. Double set of aliens down to blue One set of nuts with some extra misc small stuff (offsets etc)

If you missed the Spring Thing then you missed out on the who's who in the NW. Yes, despite the usual dirtbags, Steve House and Brittany Griffith were in attendance. I won't point fingers but you might be able to spot more than just an el cap speedster (tim fairfield) in this pic.

Damn I'm not destined for volunteer work. I dropped a huge stone on my foot and could barely climb all weekend. Nevertheless it always feels good to give back. Hope to see you all next year and more. Did they mention we got free chock, gumbie stickers, and burritos.

I'm going to be climbing on Sat too. I have relatives coming down from tacoma so I hope the spring flingers will be ok with a half day or so from texplorer. I figure its better to give a half day than none at all. Yes, I'll be climbin on Sunday too. Maybe I'll get on crossfire again or sunshine di if I'm feelin endowed in the juevos.

DFA, I don't use hexes. Ian, Shouldn't you be skiing. Micky Layton, at least my shoulder works properly. OH, and see you bolt-clippin homos at the spring thing tomorrow.

You guidebook whores! Throwing away your older, dirty, and scribbled to hell guidebooks. Just because you want to put a little check by the new 10 gallon bucket entry into your "new" guidebook is sad. It was bad enough when you scrounged for that red thing with Lawson crap in it. Oh, and that "Wherever I may roam" is a disgrace to the metallica song. Classic my ass, its a medoicre climb of the gumbic proportions.

I thought Halfdome is a grade V though?

Great TR, I like the non-spray like reporting that was to-the-point and fun to read. Nice job, Sounds like you had a sweet day on the mountain.

Masternate, If you and your partner climb .10 in the valley or at index then you'll do fine on the reg route. It is really alot of 5.9 climbing. Take a regular rack of double cams for the thing from tcu's up to a #3 camalot and you'll be fine. The aiding is straightforward and pretty fast. I think I ended up aiding like 3 pitches and part of 2 more. I didn't place a single nut on the whole thing and french freed even some hard .10 sections. If your fairly fast then you could go pitch by pitch or go even faster by short fixing at least aid pitches. A few other options would to be to camp at the base and fix the first two pitches or so and then jug in the dark the next morning. Good Luck, the Reg Route is one of my favorite climbs of all time!

It's going to be HOT!! I'm possibly heading to the needles then instead. If you guys are looking to do free-climbing I would recommend something up in tuolumne. Another option would be routes that are in the shade all day like Half Dome or the Sentinal.

There are some "newly trashed" computers to the right of the silver bullet wall. That place is a constant stream of juvenile carnage. I don't think it'll ever be clean.

I'll save you the time ketch, No, its not worth it.

Good Luck, I might see you up there this weekend if the weather cooperates.

Retire your cams!!! Send them to : Texplorer's Home for Fallen Cams 420 Red Cougar Drive Portland, OR 97203

I'll show up around 4-4:30 ish and stick around for an hour or two. Look for the red cougar with a novel bumber sticker.

Greeting Fellow Portlanders, I am moving all over the place this summer and hopefully climbing a good bit too. Anyway I plan to be in and out of housing/my car this summer and was wondering if anyone has some garage or basement where I could put my stuff for the summer. I might even pay for it if it's cheaper than those damned storage unit places. Its slightly more than one pickup load but compacts down pretty small. Thanks, TEX

Last Thursday I was at Broughton's and also saw the back side window of a car there had been broken out. Watch out and don't leave stuff in plain sight out there either. I have heard of several other break-ins out there too.

Well, My first outing at Index was a pretty spectacular one. I would liken it to my first day at the cookie in yos but this time I was strong enough to send some of the classics. It was a no falls weekend for me but I pretty much did the "easier" stuff. I got to lead every pitch of zilla to slow children. Damn that last pitch on Slow Children pitch is really sweet. Next we headed over and I did Thin Fingers which I thought was easier than Slow Children. I finished with a TR on Sagitarius. On Sunday we did Davis-Holland to lovin-arms. . .well sort of . I did the chimney of lovin arms and mistakingly missed the traverse right and went through some mossy, loose shit and topped out on moss. Lovin Arms was totally dry though. Next time I will have to suck it up and try jap gardens or maybe iron horse. I will be back!!!

I sent on some fine granite this weekend. Index rocks. A spectacular setting, great weather, and some really fun climbs.

I like Broughtons better too Ivan but noone ever wants to make the 15 min drive to a much better crag. After all it is light until 8:30 nowadays. I'll see if I can make it to the butt this thursday though.

DFA, Get with the program man. I am an NEO-lowercase, lower-class, CARHART-wearing, ANTI-hex-carrying, offwidth-wrestling, hypocritically-bolt-clipping, Bachar wannabe, pseudo-old-school-trad-hardman, never-be-a-Stonemaster, suhhthurn-drawwlin', horsecock-slobbering, NO-TAPIN, primadonnapansynancyboysissywimploserdfamothershagger. Thankfully, at both ends of the climber spectrum there is a sprayer-class so we can all have something in common.