Beck

For all of the east of the mountains brethren out there, I've been going up to the Old Post Office Tavern in Lworth Sundays after six P.M. for FREE POOL and buck-fifty bottles of Oly, so, Hear ye, hear ye, a Sunday Meet of the Cascade Climbers' "We're Drinking Now" Pub Club will convene six PM this Sunday at the Old Post Office Tavern- you know the place- because- "We're Drinking Now!" hope to see some of you there, I'll be the dorky looking guy with long hair and black nerd glasses.

...It wasn't untill I saw Teddy R. slick back his fur with coconut oil at the base of the snow gully on She's Gonna Blow that I knew I would be his climbing bitch forever. "It's for the performance" he said, but it made him look slicker than Rudolph Bearlintino and smell sweeter than a wahine at a Molokai luau. Good thing climbing harnesses make you look like you're sporting a pup tent most of the time anyway! Teddy's up to lead the first pitch. We'll simulclimb the gully in a fast run up it, giving us more time on the rock. Teddy's just standing there, talking to himself, going "Hi! I'm Teddy Ruxpin" and saying it over and over. He's doing this and swinging his paws around , but I chalk it up to some weird preclimb ritual psyche he goes through. Little did I know, it signalled a weakness in Teddy R.'s thick skin that foretold the disaster that was unfolding before us on the Climb of She's Gonna Blow...

We'll have to throw a "Beerhunter" contest at the Fall Megafest for those of us who actually watched SCTV, dudes!

Dude, it's fiction!based on historical fact, kind of like a lot of writing.

I don't know for sure but I'm think any references to the Hansen Brothers and hockey playing is based on the seventies hockey movie, "Slapshot" starring Paul Neuman as a embattled coach of a struggling pro-am hockey team. The owner decides he's going to sell the team and Neuman's character decides to import these wild-n-crazy canadians(in the movie) to spice up the league play. Pretty funny movie and touching, too, but these Hansens were totally Whacked! guys in real life, the pictures of them up in the palestra(ice rink) had them in the dorky black framed glasses WITH TAPE IN THE MIDDLE just like in the movies- any one know their hometown?

"The Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rabelais, or Voltaire's "Candide"- great ribald adventure stories!

I think my post went through, if not I'll have to pick up a thread tommorow, leaving work soon.

Marching up the trail behind us was a grizzled old nondescript man and a clearly whacked skinny guy with unkempt greybeard and frazzled grey locks... seems they were talking about a crazy summer they had spent out as Firewatchers in the North Cascades... "Man, that time I took the LSD that nioght of the big lightning strikes up on Hozomeen, I must of freaked out the forest service, screaming and yelling over the radio like that." says the grey bearded dude. "Well, it sounded like you were sitting on an erupting volcano, the way you were screaming "Oh, the humanity, the humanity' like it was the goddamned Hindenburg! You were always such a freak! I'm suprised they let you keep the post all summer long." counters the more nondescript one. "Man, we're getting old! I wish I was sitting on my mother's couch right now, watching TV and drinking beer." "come on, it's for the good old days, Jack.. it'll keep you young... not like our hitchiking days huh? you were such a desolation angel..." so, we never see these guys for the rest of the climb. I find out later it was Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder. Jack died on his couch, drinking beer and watching TV years before his buddy Gary. [This message has been edited by Beck (edited 08-23-2001).]

No problem ,bro, if you want to plan some drinks next week, mabye we could meet out at the Roanoke Inn out on Mercer Island, meet in the middle? They've got Guiness on tap and it is the coolest(And oldest) business on the rock, it's totally low key and sportsmans clubhouse like. Let's go next week!

Bobbinc do you mean the "Slapshot" Hansen brothers? They were reasl live hockey players in a little league in the upper midwest, they played for the Iron Rangers in real life, actually called the Carlson brothers, and two of them played themselves in the movie. They were from my hometown, their pictures were up in the donors' room of the palestra, and sorry, they weren't even Canooks, just some crazy Yoopers! Who can name the hometown of the real Hansen brothers?

Hey, cavey, where you drinking, bro/ I'm all about tossing back a few pints in about an hour or so if you want to go boozin for a bit tonight- Beck

Teddy Ruxpin- I never thought in all my years that I would be lucky enough to get to climb with a climber of such superstar status. He had a great list of first ascents and had a way of self aggrandizment that really helped assure his rise to climbing superstar. I'd seen Teddy out at the crags and the Rock at the University of Washington for a couple of years before I ever asked him to climb "She's GGGonna Blow" in the North Cascades. He had a reputation to rival the Burgess brothers, and he had a rap as a horrible belayer. Stories about him being a real slack rope handler if the Bettys on the next route over were flashing great cleave or doing wide stems bounced back and forth in the climbing community. Nonetheless, he's got some irristable charm, even though he's not too bright and tends to repeat himself a lot. I just chalked it up to all the time he's spent up in the death zone and not that he doesn't have much to say. It wasn't till I catch him drooling over me one day when i was climbing in drag at the rock that I knew I had a chance with the esteemed ursine alpinist like Teddy Ruxpin. So, I hatch a plan. I'll come on to him at the top of "She's Gonna Blow", a classic climb on Mount Analogue. It's a rugged spire out by the Gamma Creek approach to Glacier Peak. You can see it just below the Chocolate Glacier if you're up on Glacier's Frostbite Ridge. 1600 feet of steep gully,hopefully snow filled, then onto the face for seven pitches of mixed alpine and a treacherous traverse to put climbers in the massed gendarmes of the summit blocks. 80 feet of laybacks and body jams provide a variety of finishes to reach the top of a very satisfying "forgotten" cascade classic. (to be continued...)

the only time I spotted Cavey he was ordering two imperial pints of Guiness at atime and double fisting them, "no, no, make it three...no, four" it went all evening long, brother, can that boy put them back! cavey we missed you at the pub club, were you busy with the lycra clad hottie?

ship stove and empty fuel bottles(and anything else ) book rate in US mail.

Well, the first time teddy Ruxpin and i climbed togther I wound up sitting on my crampons at the base of a snow gully when my leg cramped up as I was sitting down to put them on...that was the first time he got a look at my bare ass, but boy was it embarrasing!!!

yeh, Viktor's got it right, the canyon will stay closed from just past Sleeping Lady for who knows how long...go Peshastin!! Forest Service fire hotline, 509-665-3591

Into the zone is a good one, i agree, for funny adventure, try "The Boat that Wouldn't Float" by Farley Mowat. Say, i thought Richard Dana's story was fictional but based on his real life experiences, i guess i was wrong.. There are a lot of great classic literature that would qualify for nomination Robinson Curusoe ?sp by Daniel Defoe Three Musketeers by Dumas Count of Monte Cristo by ??? Defoe?? the combined leatherstocking tales by James Fenimore Cooper Pilgrim's Progress by Paul Bunyon the Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho I guess I read way too much as a kid...

let there always be snow, to quench the climber's thirsty soul! got to have some, look for the brand new Miox disenfectant pen and throw those heavy slow filters away, coming in 2002 to a gear store near you. It was just featured in a blurb in the latest outside magazine, having field tested it already, i think this thing ROCKS! those snafflehounds piss and shit in our water supply, dirty little f------ stay away from Teddy R!

Dudes, you all rock!! and Ehmmic, too! Chris_w, thanks for the ride home, it kept me from hitting any parked cars on my bike- although I did clip one this morning on my ride to work, two hours late! Another successful "We're drinking now" event- and I like Sean's idea of a downtown Seattle meet in the future, still waiting for one our Bham brethren to call a night up in Fairhaven... Dudes?

I think I already posted this but I guess not. Thor Hyerdahl's books are all great accounts of human perseverance. Some of the best fictional adventures I've read are " Mount Analogue" by Rene Daumal or "Two years before the mast by Richard Dana" True stories that read well, "around the world alone" by Joshua Slocum or "Starlight and Storm" by Antione de Saint Exupery. Mountaineering narratives that ring true to the heart, anything by Gaston Rebauffat, his prose virtually sings! the praises of the mountains in his books!

No pen , I really fell for Teddy on OUR FATEFUL CLIMB of She's Gonna Blow. but it's sick. it's twisted. it may even be stranger than fiction. you know, even if I am a prevert for talking publicly about my love for a big bear of like Teddy R. I hope you would support both of us- we feel it will make us stronger partners, on belay or off!!!

Slack Line!! Slack Line!!! You guys(girls too) are ALL GREAT! I'm thinking about switching this to the Tumwater CG, going over this Sat night/ Sunday to get an KOHO radio update in Lworth, will be letting all know new location ASAP if we need to move the event as it appears we will be.As soon as I know Bridge Creek is no go, I'll switch it and get the new group site paid for- Beck

Come on you guys, Don't you think I'm the only ?true authority on my and Teddy Ruxpin's climbing history? I'll blurt it all out if anyone wants to hear, but I thought you all wouldn't be amused by such vapid tales of ursine perversion!

I'll pick you up if you don't mind jogging behind my bike!!! Naw, take the 16, runs right by the ferry terminal get off at 45th and Wallingford, you can walk down 45th and be at Dante's in about 15 minutes

Thanks, Eric, I couldn't remember the name of the author of "Bone Games" but I HIGHLY recommend it. As to great climbing literature, I don't know the list everyone is referencing, but any story of the Endurance expedition is well worth reading- on a related note to that trial of human courage, Conrad Anker and Reinhold Messner just went to the island Shakleton and his buds had to cross to get to the whaling station and recreated their climb- it was filmed in IMAX and will have some focus on the environmental changes that have occured on the route in the short span of just 100 years, like, there is no way they could have slid down the glacier if they had to do it today! because of global warming. More great mountain lit: "Mount Analogue" by Rene Daumal and "The ascent of the Riffelberg" by Mark Twain.