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Did someone call the Waaaahmbulance? I climbed all day Sunday near Leavenworth and the only Mounties I saw were in the parking lot.

Bwhahhahhahha!

If you clip two loops with the same biner, you're screwed. You can clip two loops with separate biners, no problem.

Nice job, guys! I remember seeing that face from across the valley a couple years ago and wondering whether anyone had climbed it: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/plab/showphoto.php?photo=2116&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1 I won't believe you any more, Dave, when I ask what you're doing this weekend and you say "Oh, probably just skiing"...

Falling on slab is not that bad, actually. Just try to slide down and use the friction of your feet and hands to keep from picking up speed.

Start off on Under the Bored Walk (1p 5.7, well-protected fun knobs) and then go and do Silent Running. You can rap off at any time and the first five pitches are great! You can always come back to do the sixth (so-so) and the super-cool bonus pitch (a bit harder than the rest at 10b).

Your feet sweat cat piss? You bought the SmartWool CatAss socks by mistake? You need to put steaksauce on your feet before you wear the socks? I have the very same socks, too, and they smell rather nice after a long day of slogging. Better than my feet, in fact.

If you sold your Camalots, you'd could more friends. I'll be your friend for $10 each.

But does he sell steaksauce to go with that steak?

Must've been the big secret shipment of steaksauce France sent to Osama that won him over!

BD ice axes, too! Maybe the BD rep gave him a good deal. People are definitely familiar with BD stuff, so he should have no problem selling it. Some of the other products and brands he carries are more obscure (but well-selected, to be sure), so maybe carrying the most-well-known brand will increase sales.

I'm self-employed and I owe The Man big-time this year (several $K). I didn't do quarterly estimated tax payments last year (I know, I know), but thankfully didn't get penalized because I had a refund last year.

Riiiiight. I'm not going all the way to Everett just so I can breath [sic] cleaner air for 2 hours and break my ankle on their foam pads. This thread reminds me of why the UW rock is the best training ground around: well-ventilated, cheap, challenging, and always open. And the rain washes off the chalk!

I thought it was pretty funny when my partner chalked up climbing slab last weekend. Totally psychological. I get sick from the gym dust, too. After a couple hours in Stone Gardens, I blow my nose and the tissue is black... and that's just the stuff that stuck to my mucous membranes. I betcha the lungs of today's gym rats will look like pack-a-day smokers' in 30 years.

This is a great thread! DFA and billcoe make excellent points about people who climb hard. I've noticed, as I inch upward ever so slowly in ability, that what used to strike me as bragging or spray is often just enthusiasm. At times, I've felt put off by it, but in hindsight I think that's just because I just didn't understand what it was like to climb harder routes (like, you know, Godzilla ) or because I felt inferior. It's easy to feel sprayed-upon if you don't understand the conversation. A lot of people around here have said that European climbers are far superior in ability (in general) than Americans. Does the European emphasis on climbing as a competition sport account for this difference?

Aha. It wasn't clear from your post that you would be willing to do such a thing.

Sold!

Looks a lot like my list, though a bit more ambitious: Serpentine Arete & Backbone Ridge on Dragontail Infinite Bliss S Face of Prusik Temple Ridge routes Outer Space NEB Slesse more aid Voodoo Wall stuff at WA Pass trip to Skaha exploring something new in the mountains

Climb: Static Point-Fuddhat/Total Fudd/Kill da Wabbit Date of Climb: 4/10/2004 Trip Report: colt45 and I climbed at Static Point while everyone else was off skiing or on Rainier, so we had the place to ourselves. We did the route listed as Fuddhat in Nelson's Vol. II, though Sky Valley Rock gives three different names to the various pitches we climbed. Fun slabs and some crazy face climbing near the end. Great views of some interesting objectives across the valley, too. I can't feel my right big toe today from all the smearing on tiny features. Long TR and photos here. Gear Notes: used a few cams to #2 Camalot, two large nuts, left new rap cord & ring on 3-bolt anchor below Total Fudd roof Approach Notes: road blocked by trees half-mile from boulders described in Nelson, cushy trail in the forest

You can call them. I did, and there's not much left.

You can recycle those at REPC (near Safeco Field) if you get no takers.

I found a picture of the summit of Da Toof on that site:

Alpine rock or runout slab. Decisions, decisions...