Peter_Puget

Not sure what you mean by this. If I feel like it I lower off. Generally don't TR from chain. A proper anchor set-up should be easily upgradeable. Too many anchors have fucked up washer set-ups or even worse cold shuts. These I usually rap off.

Mariners are starting to kick some a&$!

Darn Safeco is awesome today!

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Castle Rock is a good location.

Are you really serious Bill? I use to walk to the local High School pool with neighborhood kids all the time w/o parents....That said I spent lots of time with my parents....as a kid almost every weekend skiing with my family. Summers in the mountains at least for a month...... your example is just not reasonable. And why do you say it was about the process? It seems their explicit cometition with another teeneager implies that even more important than the process was being first.

Doesn't sound too bad either.....as reality but I doubt she's thinking about that if she has a Twilight poster...

and thinking about her first year at university......

Well we disagree on that but it is not that hey "let her go" do her thing. There must have been a great deal of parental enabling/pushing/prodding going on. If she's dead, she died for nothing.......

sad tale When I first heard about this girl I thought she must have fucked up parents.....

New government program to ease unemployment announced...... Spend a week sailing in the Mediterranean this summer! I want you to join in an effort to bring humanitarian aid to the “oppressed people of Turkish Kurdistan” and to members of the “Turkish Armenian minority.” Sign up or he'll start kickin' ass!

Hey Jim - You never esponded to this post of mine: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/956595/Re_Spill_Baby_Spill#Post956595

On patrol for ass to kick!

I think that the cc.com post was made before Perry posted his message. Cleaning activities have been posted for a while on the Squamish site.

Doesn't ST share an anchor with a better protected route right next to it? Isn't the anchor one of the easiest to get to(for setting a TR) in the park?

You'd better re-read what I wrote.......

Help me Mr Math! How long will the current spill need to flow to create that kind of damage......? 25,000 barrels day X 40 days = 1 million barrels. So 8 times as long to get the same volume. But you said "create the same damage". In dollar terms, Iraqi marshes are cheap and US marshes are expensive. So the 1 million barrels already spilled have likely surpassed the 8 million barrels in Iraq in terms of financial cost of damage caused You are Mr Math but not Mr reading. What I wrote was "How long will the current spill need to flow to create that kind of damage......?" I guess I wanted Mr Know-it-all! aka J_B!

NYT Linky - Help me Mr Math! How long will the current spill need to flow to create that kind of damage......?

linky linky Go Aquasox!

You midwest types had a different standard....my first rope was a goldline (droped it asap) and it was 150' In CA I never climbed with anyone who had a 120 for rock climbing. By the late 70s I moved on to 165' after a bad experience in the meadows. By the way instead of the "gym" I learned how to climb from the old Sierra Club Ski Mountaineering Manual and then Freedom of the hills. Straight from reading in my bedroom reading to the cliffs.

120' ropes in the mid 70s?

Come on J_B let's just hug...I am sure it will help you feel better. my arms are open wide.......

One thing we all can agree on is that the "perp's" biggest crime is not cleaning off the ledge! Certainly after jacking off a stupenduo :ous trundle they could have at least brushed off the ledge!

1) Royal Arches – Pass 2) Nutcracker – short route that you can do at the end/beginning of the day. 3) E. Butt El Cap – never climbed but it’s true it might be wet. 4) CPF of Middle Cath good but while your in the area add an apron route like Quicksilver. I’d pass on the East Butt. Braille Book rocks. 5) Lost Arrow Tip haven’t done it but I’d pass with so many other gems around. Serenity Crack – I’d pass if it was me. GoodBook might still have rockfall issues. DO the West face of El Cap – Much better than the Half Dome route you did. Silent Line/Gold Wall 10 Reeds Direct (3 pitches 10a) and then go to Stonegroove and Lunatic Nabisco Wall (3 pitches 11a or harder depending on pitches)then walk over and do Outer Limts Gripper 10, New D 11a but a couple of great 10 pitches and an easily aided 11 section. Most routes at Arch rock. Hot Line (might be tough to cross river) but throw in a few points of aid (like most ascents) and its still rocks! If you want to do mostly sub-5.10 climbs Id say take some time and go to Lovers Leap much better routes at that level. Sentinel has some nice moderate routes too....

Maybe they are less honorable than you. Offer them a six pack to out the perp!