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pulling the plug, trask! teddy says he's pitching it the Oldenburg at Universal Studios and to "stop wasting your breath on those hosebags." sorry, trask. I'm about as over it as you are.

come on now, maybe marylou was "working the streets" down in vegas and got the buzz while on the job in "show biz" makes me shudder at the thought

robbob, I concurr. what used to be threads with continuity and thoughtful responses, or a character response, it is all going to the dogs in here... lowest common denominator. it seems the general consensus amoung posters is to: a)insult 95% of the posters except the 3 guys you climbed with last week. b)spray worthless drivel into threads that have worth c)insult anyone who actually takes a strong view on an issue. d) make out like you are a total hardman when in reality, you may have four years of climbing experience, with some of that in the gym (like Cracked. He makes himself out like a total mountain sage when he's really a step above mounties basic graduates.) I always thought this site was entertainment mixed in with a little communication. a few of us rallied for drinking events every week, and that happened, so a little positive has resulted from this site, but the entertainment is nil and anarchy and bullshit is at an all time high in here. A little voice is telling me to pull the plug on this ship of anarchy crewed by fools, and go back to the real world....see you out at the crags or in a blizzard someday, maybe?

marylou, i was speaking at a meeting, over myself because i was doing it for the group. you know, how contributions to a group as a whole tend to displace the self into the nature of the greater good? or maybe you don't. glad to see how a few of us were there!!!! Rodchester, Dkemp, and about a hundred fifty other climbers in the room, thanks for attending...stefan and sobo for going out there aways, good job. on for freedom of the hills and the vertical environment, those that care enough to do something about it!

i didn't say 'dirtbag' in the meeting, dirtbags! i spoke up well on individual climbers rights on the Rainier and attempted to dispel the untruths being stacked like cordwood by the guiding community camp. I also tempered it with an acnowledgement in the integral nature of guides and the park at Rainier- if you weren't there, or didn't go to another one, you have very little to say on this topic...

hehehehe you all are forgetting the artistic (or lack thereof) in this story... it is a serial, like you read a new chapter, oh, every day.... it's dipshits like cracked and minotaur that break up the continuity. this is humor, it is a story, and it is getting a new chapter every day. I don't care what you guys think of my amatuer attempts at smut lit, but you obviously do care... if you don't wat to read it, don't look at the3 post. you dissenters must not think its boring because you have to KEEP LOOKING IN EVERY DAY and post your lame attempts at, what, humor, no, idioticy, that's it... Cracked ,you are now an integral part of the twin towers of doom, boy. internet persona, meet internet sick twisted bear. more tommorrow...

the buzz began back in the Spring of 2003. there was talk between the guides at mountian madness and AAI about a strange fuzzy climbers sending speed ascents with two dark and tall forgeiners. The rumors abounded. Some thought the buzz was about Dan -, others had heard from the european connection, that, yes, Teddy Ruxpin was back and stronger than ever. Teddy was back. He came to the Norhtwest, it was found out, to seek out his climbing partner, Cracked. Teddy left Cracked on the fifth pitch of the North ridge of Stuart when Cracked kept 'checking on my buckle, if it was double backed, then groping me' at least that's what the summit registry had said... his scrawled pseudonym "Todd Ruxpathle" seen in the summit registrys around the Northwest this spring pointed to Teddy R's return to the climbing arena. The question was, where was he going to climb? This was the burning question , it felt like a bad case of the clap after a thailand "climbing" trip...

take a pair of needlenose pliers and squeeze the tracks on each side of the slider that the zipper teeth run thru, if you do it to tight, wedge a knife in a pry open a skosh, it's pretty easy.

Teddy Ruxpin- the next time he showed up in the climbing scene he was in the Himalaya. Teddy showed up at the everest base camp this spring, for the fiftieth anniversary of hillarys first successful climb and descent of her flanks. He showed up with a big bang and a show, his entourage of climbers and support staff this last april. Who did teddy team with for his insane alpine push into the death zone? Was it Twight, Backes? Gator, Kellog? was it Conrad or Ed? NO, Teddy Rux was climbing as a team with two tall, lanky blonde Swedes by the names Inma and Helda- these two women, sexy, sapphic, and deadly, were what led Teddy Ruxpin the esteemed ursine alpinist, down the path of bad decisions. These two rock dominatrix, ripped and buff examples of femininity and power, were the “Twin Towers of Doom” that, quite literally, brought Teddy to his knees and beg for mercy. to be continued....

Although Teddy Ruxpin never would admit to possessing a valid passport, he was found sending first ascents along with Royal, Salathe and that wild bunch of derilects inhabiting camp 4 . He climbed in India and the shadowy regions of Nepal and Tibet back when Himalayan climbing meant more than buying into a trade route on overrun guided highways for the rich and famous. He disappeared from the scene in the early eighties. He was said to be making a killing in land deals with some friends of his in the local savings and loan. They were trading lands around Telluride that started out dirt cheap and spiraled into multi million dollar plots. Dry plots, too- not a drop of water to be had! When Teddy Ruxpin disappeared from the colorado land swap scandal, he wasn’t heard much of for several years. Rumors of him, living the itinerant life in Chamonix and Oslo, when he wasn’t climbing tough routes in the Alps, or sending FAs on chossy sea rock along the Mediterranean coast. Though there were rumors of scandals involving illegal boarder crossings and chocolate smuggling across the Swiss alps, Teddy was always exonerated fully of any wrongdoing. to be continued

wool manages moisture very well... in colder conditions i layer a powerstretch top in between, but wool, over a long day, will manage your moisture very well, and you are dry at the end of the day, not wet from sweat. and i recommend keeping your shell mostly off as much as possible except when it starts to get pretty snappy out, and then a soft shell for 85% of it including blizzards and 70 mile an hour winds at ten thousand feet. you just need the right soft shells... wool rocks, and its warm when wet. and better wood or wool trous, than woody trousers and a round of ferret trousering.

for high altitude Northwest winter stuff, try the think Scholler WB400, it is a fleecey, softshelled warm fabric with a WB as well. SUPER stretchy fabric, wow. warm enough for sitting on chairlifts, great for 7,000 feet and above mid winter... this is NOT a four season soft shell fabric, more like one and a half to three season...

hey,gearhead, yes wool rocks over any synthetic for long underwear. I've been using filson's forest green merino wool long underwear for three winter seasons and I can attest, after a full day of winter patrol up on Rainier, skiing all day long, i am comfortably dry and warm at the end. I stand in comfort, waiting for the van or the other patrollers, and am usually warm and dry to the skin. I can wear the same clothes around in the cabin when we get back to longmire to the ski house. I've gotten a smart wool top this year that is a bit softer then the Filson, but filsons are a great sneaking around color (sneak, sneak, poach!) I've also taken to wearing wool sweaters underneath a soft shell and report excellent performance this way. usually the sweater is all you need and the ventilation is better if you don't have any shell on... Filson makes great super heavy merino wool sweaters, also dark green (or blue if you want) these are so comfortable..... hold on a sec.... you can wear them next to skin and not itch too much...had to check... corse, gearhead, you are also talking to a guy that's slept in snowbanks during blizzards in a double mackinaw cruiser and a set of good wood trousers by just diving in... I've loved wool for years... I hated the synthetic long underwear days, thats some lame stuff IMO.... same with pile. what a bunch of crap! Wool is GREAT!

"I think you're neat, dryad. Do you want to go out for a chocolate malt?" there's one guy i know... he's not afraid of being a male that WILL knock your socks off, if you'd let me...

thanks, cracked, this story teddy swings on the mainstream side of the fence... its totally new... and quite disgusting once things get heated up... let's just say the twin towers of doom aren't just a pair of spires in the death zone of himalaya, the first story i tried to get teddy to swing on the other side of the fence, remember? and the trip was in the cascades. this new trip is a huge expedition up the alpine environ... more to come tommorrow... being a writer, this stuff flows like water in the days of my life.

I'm going to sing an off tune rendition of "friggin in the riggen"

cracked, you may not remember the first teddy love fest on this site... ....This recounting of his failed expedition on the Twin towers of Doom serves as a cautionary tale of what can happen when grizzled old schoolers meets climbings’ nouveau garde in the alpine arena. Albeit horrifying in places, this story may serve to inform the reader what happens when you mix high altitude with hijinks. Teddy’s fame as a climber started back in the early days of Camp Four,lost arrows and free love. He was found out on the big walls in Yosemite valley with Harding and Salathe when the concept of ‘free’ climbing was just a dream in some britons minds. He was hammering up overhanging aid pitches in long weeks spent solo out on big walls somewhere in the early days of the valley; his habit of scratching a skull and crossbones at the base of the climb would generally discourage any climbers intent in following Teddy Ruxpin up the rock. to be continued...

"Teddy Ruxpin and the Twin Towers of Doom" The respect for climbers accomplishments in the vertical arena stick to the forefront of mountain legend. Some are long held dear by the climbing community. Some won’t go away even after the free buffet’s ended... Such is the unfortunate fame of esteemed ursine alpinist Teddy Ruxpin. Teddy barreled onto the climbing scene back when the soviet curtain wasn't even heard of. Seemingly Eurotrash in mannerism, Teddy’s origins and ethnicity weren’t clear. Some said He was Russian. Some said black. Others speculated the silver in his fur pointed to the Polar regions. When asked about his family history Teddy’d reply “I’m just a Baa-hstaard bear” in that self effacing way everyone loved.... to be continued...

i didn't see many familiar faces from cc.com at last nights meeting about Mount Rainier guiding plan. this was a chance to tell the park service your opinions about private climbing versus guides, it was a very interesting meeting... gator was there, peter simonson, big lou and peter too, murph was there i think, and a bunch of guides and you know, climbers. i spoke up for us dirtbags on three occasions about preserving private climbers access to rainier and addressed the issues of wilderness and why the park is now going to allow much more guiding in the park but a little less on the upper mountain. and mixing it up a little

i cannot believe how BORING this site has gotten in the last two weeks.... don't make me crank up the Teddy Ruxpin machine on you guys !!! but I think it is already too late! Time to SPICE THINGS UP!

...bringing it back.

damn, dryad, you aren't hanging out with the right men.. but yes, sexual identity, values and politics are seriously messed up... last night i was at my favorite bar and a table of young twenty something "lesbian identified" young women looked like they were having the worst time of any table at the night club... i particularily am worried about gender bending in todays youth society perhaps posioning normal human development.. not that i have a problem with gender bending personally, just if ten year old kids do it that saw it on Buffy the VS...

american rumors about denying intelligence goes back at least as far as the attack on pearl harbor and was probably a tactic used during the war of 1812, as far as i can tell. i'm not saying we knew and ignored it, nor am i saying we let it happen, but the FAILINGS of the us intelligence arms seem a bit sophmoric... "the NSA knew but didn't tell the CIA" "the CIA knew but didn't tell the INS. " "The INS knew but didn't tell anyone" is both emblematic how US gov operates, as well as a indicator of complete inability to act in a forward thinking, prememptive way in order to combat terrorist threats

a two inch tree and a chicken head grouped with an american death triangle where we thought the chicken head and tree ledge would catch sling if tree broke. never rapped so gently....praying the entire rap. plus, anytime my buds set up a rap rope right thru the slings, I HATE that! even though theres never been any problem. two guys i know broke ankles on rap this summer, one of them has given up climbing...

well said, boys. the bush administration is commiting treason against the american people everyday. these are BAD people in the white house administration...