hollyclimber

Why is the Everett Group coming the same day as the SEATTLE MOUNTIES INTERMEDIATE CLIMBING CLASS FIELDTRIP??? Don't you guys check to make sure that the Mountaineers don't have two groups in one area on the same weekend?? I would guess that the Seattle Mountaineers are going to have about 50 students there this weekend. hgb

Thanks! Found. Holly

Hi all- I really need to contact Pauline. I haven't talked or climbed with her since probably about 1999 or so, but I think she may still be around and I need to talk to her about something very important. If Pauline, (or anyone who knows how I could try to find her) is reading this, please send me a pm or you can email me at hollyclimber@aol.com Thanks! Holly Beck

Hi guys- Hope to see you there tomorrow night! Lots of film footage from El Cap to show and its only mostly edited for "general audiences". Beer for sale in the bookshop until right before it starts at 7 pm. Holly

Hi there- I am looking for a two day adventure for Sun/Mon. Would be into cragging at Squamish or maybe some alpine rock adventure, maybe something on Dragontail in a long push to avoid the camping permit thing or something else long on rock. PM or email at hollyclimber@aol.com hgb

If you aren't already set for the Squish trip, I'd be interested. Sat night take-off, climb Sun/Mon. hollyclimber@aol.com

I will be driving to Yosemite this Sunday on the 17th. Could use some company and help with gas money. I'll have wall gear, so there might be limited room for additional gear in my Golf. If interested, please EMAIL me at rodeoswissy@aol.com. I am unlikely to check pms before I leave. I'll be returning sometime on Sunday the 24th early enough to get sleep before work on Monday. Holly

Its pretty telling that whenever someone posts a rant about REI, most responders agree. This rant just has to be a troll, and you can tell because NO ONE AGREES! FF rocks. Everyone I have ever had help me there rocks. Spent 2 hours there the other day with my huge dog who was being a pain part of the time and they were cool to me. Got a special order taken care of that was not easy and COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED ANYWHERE ELSE! Even Yosemite Mountain Shop told me the only place I could get the items I wanted was "from some Euro dude that will bring it over for you". Holly

So, how many people with a user number of 500 or below still live here? Someone posted some bull about me "hating" cc.com and I even had Matt P call me about something important and be "shocked" that I wanted to talk to him. Of course that was totally untrue, but it is true that this site is just way too huge for me to take in at this point. I still love ALL of you now, INCLUDING FOR SURE: trask, RURP, Dwayner and anyone else who has been banned or has been totally mean and rude on this site in the past. After, all that it was this site used to be about when we weren't talking about climbing or drinking beer at the first ever pub club (I admit it took me until #3 to show up). How many people belong now? I saw some member number in the 300K range! Crazy. Anyway, miss all of you and if any of you that are still there from the "old days" want to go climbing this weekend, I am putting something alpine together. Love to all...reports of hatred are misleading Holly

It is frustrating that there are no reps from Washington. But, as a committee issue at this point, I would hope that all the Senators and Representatives on the list will consider all Americans their "constituents". I recently wrote a letter to Feinstein of CA (we are past the letter writing period, please CALL!) and she did reply to me. I didn't get one of those "you don't live in CA responses". However, Feinstein is pro fee demo so I don't know if it helped! Anyway, I have free long distance on my cell phone, and it is pretty easy to call the staffers at these numbers and tell them you oppose fee demo. They will give you time to state a reason. While the reasons are individual to each of us and complex, an easy reason to state briefly is that you would like our national land to receive a BUDGET ALLOCATION rather than have to collect on a PER USE basis. Or, state your own reasons. But try to state a reason when you voice your opinion. Here's seeing what we can do...you never know! Holly

WESTERN SLOPE NO-FEE COALITION P. O. Box 403 Norwood, CO 81423 October 18, 2003 Alert!! Fee Demo Extension is Pending. Contact House and Senate Interior Appropriations Conference Committee Members. The House/Senate Interior Conference Committee will be deciding whether to, once again, extend the controversial Fee Demo program in the next week to 10 days. The House Interior Appropriations bill extends Fee Demo for the Forest Service, BLM, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for an additional two years. The Senate version does not include any extension. These two versions must be merged into one at a conference committee of Senators and Congressmen before becoming law. These House and Senate Conference Committee members are meeting right now, and it is imperative that they hear from the public and the users of our public lands. There is much at stake in Washington concerning Fee Demo at this time. ANY extension of the program at this time will be extremely detrimental to our efforts to end this misconceived program. Fortunately, many of the Senate Conferees are sympathetic to our position or are strong no-fee advocates. Unfortunately, most of the House Conferees are adamant about having at least another one-year Fee Demo extension. Please contact ALL of the Senators and Congressmen listed below sometime before Friday if you can. Contact them more than once by phone AND fax. If you have already contacted them please do so again. And again. *indicates “must call” Senate Interior Appropriations Conference Committee members: *Stevens (R-AK) 202-224-7200 202-228-0248 Fax *Burns (R-MT) 202-224-2644 202-228-4532 Fax *Byrd (D-WV) 202-224-7200 202-228-0002 Fax *Dorgan (D-ND) 202-224-2551 202-224-1193 Fax pro-fee *Domenici (R-NM) 202-224-6621 202-228-0900 Fax *Feinstein (D-CA) 202-224-3841 202-228-3954 Fax pro-fee *Leahy (D-VT) 202-224-4242 202-224-3479 Fax pro-fee *Reid (D-NV) 202-224-3542 202-224-7327 Fax Bennett (R-UT) 202-224-5444 202-228-1168 Fax Brownback (R-KS) 202-224-6521 202-228-1265 Fax Campbell (R-CO) 202-224-5852 202-228-4609 Fax Cochran (R-MS) 202-224-5054 202-224-9450 Fax Gregg (R-NH) 202-224-3324 202-224-4952 Fax Hollings (D-SC) 202-224-6121 202-224-4293 Fax Mikulski (D-MD) 202-224-4654 202-228-8858 Fax Note: Sen. Leahy has switched from opposing fees to supporting Fee Demo. Let him know what you think.

Its not like that... some street punks stole this rack. They were selling just the rack, with the cams, nuts, etc spread out all over the sidewalk on Broadway in the Capital Hill neighborhood. If there was other stuff, it was sold a different day because I came upon the scene just as it was starting up. While the seller was doing something in his car, I talked to his friends, who basically admitted to me that it was all stolen (which wasn't necessarily since it was clear). I bought it immediately for the asking price and didn't ask any questions (actually I did, but I got conflicting lies in response and gave up). Sorry can't help you with your stuff. Holly

Climbers- I came across a clearly stolen rack today on Broadway in the Capital Hill Neighborhood of Seattle. I was able to purchase this full free climbing rack from the theives. I would like to find the rightful owner. If you have recently (or who knows really how recently) had a rack stolen, please contact me with a description. The owner will be able to successfully describe their own rack, I am sure of that. Holly Beck rodeoswissy@aol.com

Climbers- I came across a clearly stolen rack today on Broadway in the Capital Hill Neighborhood of Seattle. I was able to purchase this full free climbing rack from the theives. I would like to find the rightful owner. If you have recently (or who knows really how recently) had a rack stolen, please contact me with a description. The owner will be able to successfully describe their own rack, I am sure of that. Holly Beck rodeoswissy@aol.com

I belong to the Western Slopes No-Fee Coalition, the only group I know of dedicated to fighting fee demo. I received this email today. We can bitch about fee demo all we want on this board, but times for a vote in Congress come up rarely, so please, even if you never call or write, etc, DO IT NOW! (I am not 100% sure if this came to a vote last Wednesday, and so it is worth calling in case it is still on the table). Here is the text of the email info I received today ------------- OUR PREZ, ROB FUNKHOUSER IS IN DC WORKING HARD ON THIS! PLEASE SUPPORT HIS EFFORTS IN OUR BEHALF!! MAKE ONE CALL TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEFAZIO/BRADLEY AMENDMENT! ( details below) At 3:PM (EST) today, July 16, the House of Representatives will begin debate on the Fiscal Year 2004 Interior Appropriations Bill . Contained within that legislation is language that would, unless it is removed, extend the Recreation Fee-Demonstration Program for yet another two years. That is not only ridiculous, it is unacceptable. In 1996, Congress authorized Fee-Demo as be a THREE year test. The time has come for this unpopular and ineffective program to be recognized, once and for all, as a failure and for fee-demo to end. Fortunately, a bipartisan effort has come together within the House of Representatives for the purpose of removing the offending language from the Appropriations Bill and to allow Fee-Demo to peacefully terminate next year. Within the next 24 hours, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Jeb Bradley (R-NH) will introduce an amendment to remove the Fee-Demo extension language. Your help is urgently needed to help pass that amendment. HERE'S WHAT TO DO: Please call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asked to be connected with the office of your Representative. When connected, ask to speak with the Public Lands Staffer. If that person is unavailable, then speak directly to the receptionist. Tell him or her that you strenuously oppose the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program and that you encourage your Representative to vote in SUPPORT of the DeFazio / Bradley amendment that will strike the two-year extension of Fee-Demo from the Interior Appropriations Bill. This call is IMPORTANT. Thanks you for your help. Scott ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Scott Silver Wild Wilderness 248 NW Wilmington Ave. Bend, OR 97701 phone: 541-385-5261 e-mail: ssilver@wildwilderness.org Internet: http://www.wildwilderness.org ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think Matt and I agree on the Backbone's qualities. I did the Backbone last year and I thought it was ok, but not at all that great. I thought the N Ridge of Stewart was many times better. I am not always a fan of ridge climbs though, so it has to be a great one for me to really like it. The OW on Backbone was not hard, but it doesn't really protect easily. I can't really imagine doing Serpentine if you are capable of doing Backbone. I am sure Serpentine is nice for just getting a lot of pitches in (would not think it is 20! though) but even Backbone had a lot of 5.0 and a lot of walking and Serpentine is a couple of notches easier, from what I understand. hgb

SpecialEd-I figure you are not serious!! I actually planned my first skydive for last Sunday, but I got weathered out. I am not going to be able to make it the BBQ. Bummer because it sounds like a lot of friends will be there and I would love to show some slides--I have a bunch of trips that feature Erik, TimL, Ray, and EddieE, at least and probably on multiple trips. But, on Wed I have a class to attend/teach and a birthday dinner to go to, so I won't be there. But, if pub club is still happening (sounds like it is?) maybe I will make the next one after May 20. Hope you get good weather for the BBQ Holly

Hey everyone.. I haven't been here in so long, and I have been missing a lot of you from the old days when this site was actually small enough to keep up on what was going on... I've been stuck in the CPA cave since January (although I did make it up to Canmore for one really bad weather weekend that allowed me to climb about 1.5 pitches). But, I am getting excited about spring and all the climbing that will be happening to make it another great season in the cascades... Does any of the original "Cascade Climbers-We are Drinking Now" crowd still show up at the pub club? Beck, Dwayner, AlpineK, MattP, ChrisW, Cavey, Jules, Ehm, Sean and the rest of the faithful few? Send me an email to my new email address rodeoswissy@aol.com if you are one of my long lost cc.com buds and you want to go climbing. Yes ERIK that includes you man (I can't find your email but I bet I can find you on IM). I still need a plan for Memorial Day WE, but it can't be too agro because I have a "slightly" broken toe that might need a little longer before I shove it in a crack. Cheers, Holly

I checked at REI last week (Seattle) and they do not have the current book on hand. Maybe they are sold out. [ 10-17-2002, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: hollyclimber ]

me too...got mine yesterday, which is what made me wonder about the others... Guess I will have to be patient.

Have you received your copies of the AAJ and Accidents? I haven't got mine yet and I know Accidents is out already....

Found [ 08-19-2002, 03:26 PM: Message edited by: hollyclimber ]

Definition by the poster http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=000037 GREAT JOB GEEZERS!!!

got one... pm me? Index next week?

hi rock-ice I know that all the "reserved permits" for the Emmons camps are gone for the Aug 3 weekend. However, there are some on a first come first serve basis. I predict though that I will snag them first...