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And I'd be more likely to play the Residents than Phish, anyway. Don't get me wrong, Phish are cool and all, but I never quite bonded with them. The Residents are WAY COOL! One of my favorite crag time recordings lately has come from Frank Zappa: My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Momma. [ 10-08-2002, 04:53 PM: Message edited by: mattp ]

quote: Originally posted by thelawgoddess:

Ropes and harnesses might come in handy at The Cuff.

Just so you know, we all wear carabiners on our belts.

Is Mrs. Smokeout going to have to return the insurance money?

At first glance, I thought you were talking about "Mount Temple" -- which is near Lake Louise in Banff National Park and you can't miss it. Maybe rename this threat "The Temple?"

What the hell is this, you guys? Dwayner tries to start a discussion of the personality of this site and after somebody points out that he has contributed to the banter and to the insults on this site it degenerates into three days of name-calling and sniping. "You're the asshole .. no YOU'RE the asshole .... I am not .. are too..."

It was "Golden Week" in the Enchantments. This is the name Peg and Bill Stark gave to their annual pilgramage every first week of October for over thirty years. They didn't give up this tradition until they reached about age eighty -- or did they? Were there some old folks camped on a rock above the N. shore of Lake Viviane? Thanks for the pictures...

I'm with you, AA. It was kind of the precursor for rock and roll elevator music.

Nirvana, Hendrix and Charlie Parker top my list but within earshot of Seattle it's usually KEXP.

Yes, the "stickclip" was called the "cheater's stick" back in the old days. My first one was fashioned from a vw antenna.

Yes, it is on lower angled slabs in Darrington that I have seen the effects of this. And the famous Darrington knobs are most pronounced on steeper walls, with greater development on south-facing steeper walls.

Erik - Aren't you, too, willing to shake it?

Are you denying that you have a nice ass?

quote: Originally posted by Lambone:

Actually, pubclub has been alive and well. We're just sick of people who don't show up and why the hell did you put the boat away? See you at the rope up. [ 10-07-2002, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: mattp ]

Newsflash: Caveman = Fence Sitter.

Good point, Dru. But it just seems kind of odd to see people say somebody is a asshole because they called somebody else an asshole.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Nisqually is the shortest approach. Cant be it. Maybe it COULD be. You don't know the guy's skill and condtioning level. I once took four days to climb and descend the Kautz. It was a great trip!

If you want to claim your prize, you'd have to show up again some time.

I don't know any "N..." glaciers on the N. side of Rainer. There are the Emmons, Interglacier, Carbon, Russell, and the Mowitch Glacier (really on the W. side). But I suspect that any route on the mountain could be done in a day by someone who was qualified and fit and set it upon theirselves to do so. And hell, if somebody can run in and out of Olympus in - wasn't it like 14 hours or something - and if they can climb the Nose in just a couple of hours, or run up and down Mount Foraker by lunch time, there is probably little in Washington that some madman could not do in one day.

Mount Cook is an awesome mountain, standing ten thousand feet above the Tasman Glacier next to it. If you don't take the plane flight, the easiest route on Cook is like stacking two moderately big North Cascade climbs on top of each other - picture climbing the Fischer Chimneys and then, when you get to the summit pyramid you are transported to the start of the Price Glacier. If these guys are good guides, I bet that would be a reasonable price and I don't think it would be a mistake to allow a week because the weather down there sux.

Ok, you're right. The jokes, jive and flame have become more prevalent than the climbing content and in many ways they choke this site. But the potential remains obvious. I probably should have said it would be too bad if we let them cause the site to be "hopelessly mired in bullshit."

Ok, you're right. The jokes, jive and flame have become more prevalent than the climbing content and in many ways they choke this site. But the potential remains obvious. I probably should have said it would be too bad if we let them cause the site to be "hopelessly mired in bullshit."

Actually, you did (on the Dwayner thread). Your comments are right on, Jon. Like Jay sai: people who want this site to be more informative and serve more as a vehical for meeting climbers and unifying the climbing community should feel free to add things that will steer it in that direction. Unless you change the board so the posts are screened before they are displayed, there will always be those who are more interested in entertaining theirselves or insulting others than contributing something more helpful -- but this site has and I hope will continue to be a great resource for a lot of Northwest climbers. I'm not identifying Dwayner or anybody else as being "responsible" for this situation, but it would be unfortunate if we let the antics of a few, or even the pervasive culture of banter, cause the site to be mired in the realm of bullshit.