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My friend and world-class boater Brendan Guth died this way a few years ago in South America. Boating can be cool... but its not for me either.

This speaks to my whole theory of Bush's disturbing political strategy. His team is very very adept at smoke and mirrors. He understands how to use the media to his advantage so well, that he uses it as a proxy for good policy. All spin, no substance.

that's b/c you haven't been wearing your kilt Hypothetically speaking, if I were to wear a kilt climbing, where exactly would my harness go? 'spose I could put it under the whole thing. Though I think I'd laugh too hard putting it on, and if I whipped upside down my partner would probably be laughing too hard to catch me. So I guess a kilt is "way trad" 'cause you just gotta wear a swami belt with it.

Yup.

And I'm sure you know EXACTLY where it is

Truth hurts huh?

Right. Nothing says creative like spending ten hours on a four foot high chalk-covered piece of choss.

Ahem.... You know you're a boulderer when you: go to take a leak, and you can't because you left your tweazers and magnifying glass in the back of the Geo Metro right next to your bouldering guidebook and techno tapes. But wait... the car's only 5 seconds away!! Its all good after all!!

Werd. In general, I don't think water ice in the mountains is too good right now. Not enough freeze / thaw. Somehwere in which there's an independant source of moisture is good.

i prefer syrup! Jelly. Defenitly Jelly.

I read a National Geo article about North Korea. There were some pics of a state park there with AWESOME looking granite cliffs, called Kumdick park or something funny like that. Problem is even if you are a north korean national you have to be like a triple communist with a bad Elvis-style haircut to go there, so probably not gunna help you out.

Your gear was feeling a little neglected. Now it loves you again b/c it got taken somewhere cool and didn't even have to do any work.

Drury Falls, Hubba Bubba looking thin but probably climbable. NO water ice in the Dragontail, Colchuck, Stuart area.

i'd say spray is just about exactly what it always is: a couple of misunderstandings, a few cliches, several insults and trask trying to measure someone's shlong And he probably isn't even using the proper scientificly approved device.

the underlying motivation to "have sex with death" can't ever be ego.

Good luck. You can try Second Ascent in Seattle.

Isn't there a school of philosophy that says this same shit called existentialism. You know, like Kierkagaard, Nietschze, Twight...

at a ski store in portland.

I think i'll let this thread die a nice quiet death, without adding to Dru's normative hypothesis. Though now, I am pretty well convinced that whatever Dru was doing with his glo-in-the-dark Ton-Ton, it wasn't wholesome.

there's a sex toy store called Toys In Babeland... I bet the ton-ton battery powered stimulator comes in glow in the dark! dru, i'm pretty sure that specialed knew there was a sex toy store called Babes in Toyland. we probably don't want to know why he knew that... Whenever I go by that place they've got all these brightly colored blown-glass dildos in the window. I know that Dale Chihully is big in the northwest, but I never imagined he'd have his own signature but plug.

I think I saw one of those for sale at Babes in Toyland down on Pine.

Why am I not suprised Dru knows the answer to this.

Cool. Thanks bro

Can anyone who's done that first chimney/offwidth pitch tell me what gear you used? Did you need a #5 Costalot?

Gib wall is defenitly not the best waterfall ice route. Not that there actually is a "best"