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I'm looking to go tomorrow afternoon(Thursday) with a few folks that are (maybees) if anyone else is game. I'm thinking 32 or 38. Anyone else game? Can I join any crew?

I'm serious.

I still stand by my oringinal comment. I've rock climbed in every western state except CO.

Since I relocated to Ballard I have to find a new auto mechaninc. Finding a good, cheap, and honest car mechanic is hard to do. Anybody know anybody real honest that works on American Cars? I'm also thinking cheap. I'm in ballard but would also be interested in crown hill, freemont, greenwood, or wallingford. Please Help. I'll buy you a beer if it pans out for me!

Or how to look like a badass: Get as skinny as you can. Wear lycra pants and a HUGE down jacket and running shoes. Talk with a french accent and go tanning until your face looks like leather.

What about swimming in the crooked river? I've seen it done but have been told it is unwise. What about swimming and keeping your head dry?

Anyone want to back me up that Static Point is perhaps the finest low angle slab climbing in North America outside of Yosemite? It's easily better than squamish's slabs. Perhaps veteran Colorado climbers could speak for their stuff? Or perhaps a secret area in the high sierra? It's amazing the place goes begging for climbers. It's so white you need sunglasses. It's rock solid and up 9 or so pitches high with difficulty up to 5.11+.

I saw a picture of the new Simond caribiners in a magazine. The design looks awesome and way different than anything else out there. Anybody use em'? It's to bad that Simond gear is so hard to get around here. All in all they probably have a better line of gear than say black diamond.

I'll catch some heat for this and I don't mean to offend anyone but I have not seen a single situation in which you or any climber should join the mountaineers in my 20 years of climbing a shitload. -flame away

*Getting a hefty beer buzz and then soloing multi-pitch rock routes.

Anybody come across any cirques, basins, or glacial bowls that have a sweet echo? I'm a wannabe yodeler and am sometimes amazed how yodeling can carry in some spots in the alpine. Stuart's ice clif glacier cirque is pretty good. Any other yodelers or wannabes like myself?

Anyone in the Seattle area looking to sell any of their wild country forged friends for 17 bucks or less? You know you want beer money!

I'm looking to replace my pair of multi-day shoes, you know the kind that you have sized so big that you wear em' for 15 hour days for several days in a row. I've always worn insanely stiff board lasted shoes for such a purpose but I'm tired of em'. Would the mythos be way to soft? I've never tried em on. I'm thinking for long alpine and mostly free walls. Will I blow out the toes in a week? Stiff board lasted high top shoes have and will always suck. How tough are the mythos shoes?

Any routes come to mind that have gotten way easier or way harder? rock, ice, or alpine? Holds that have broken, water tables that have changed, lichen that has worn away, key holds that have gotten polished, gear that is now fixed,or crevasse patterns that have changed? Any rock routes jump two number grades up or down ever around here? --------------------------- It's raining right now and I'm glad I stayed home today.

Anyone?

A guy broke his thigh bone. My partner and I were next to him climbing cocaine crack. We got him down. It was nice having 3 ropes (including a 70m). Thanks to all those that assisted from the trail to the car.

A life motto for ropes that my mentor taught me in the 80's: "buy cheap and buy often" _______________________ also steer clear of blue water cords- They blow

Watch for bees. We've been attacked in April!

I know there was a thread showing declining numbers of climbers in the national parks but it seems like it is happening just about everywhere around here also. I'd be curious to see some numbers. I'm seeing fewer cars at almost every area I go to in the last year, that includes sport, trad, ice, and mountain areas. Many of my older weekend warrior buddies seem to get out only quarterly these days- and that trend seems universal? I'd guess climbing around here peaked in around 2002? The X gamers from the late 90's aren't getting out much? And the latest teenagers are content to chill with their I-pods. __ And I'll bet anyone a beer that the cliff that sees the most climber visits in a calendar year is the practice cliff above the trestle at 38.

hey- neon is making a comeback on the slopes. Thursday- Climbed a 11worth with my bro (11worth rocks) Friday-climbed at Vantage Crux of weekend: trying to pull over on the freeway home when a tick was climbing on the steering wheel and goin' for me.

Anybody going to Leavenworth Thursday, Friday, or Saturday? Or any combination of two of the days (Thurs-Fri. etc.)? Anyone climbing and camping? If it rains, in the canyons head to peshastin or even the V word area- (vaaannntaage). I have a torn pulley tendon but am looking for casual very easy climbing on some nice domes.

Please post photos. We love mountie photos.

Any one that has a bent gate (if it is on the rope end of a draw).

K and K is cool. See you all there!

I've only done it once and I thought it sucked bad. ___ The hike up from castle is a grunt, but it is worth it for Washington's best trad climbing destination.