slothrop

Yeah, I was gonna go samples the pleasures of Lillooet for the first time this weekend, but between work and now this, I am just getting I hope Fromage and Gary_Yngve find something to do... they headed up at 6 this morning.

Sounds like fun. That snow plume coming off Colchuck is quite a sight! Did your partner belay you as you tried to set off the slab? Your TR could benefit from a few paragraph breaks, but it's a good read.

MtnGoat only stopped posting because he realized that it is not in his self-interest to argue, since he's always right. Better to spend his priceless time stealing from the Untermenschen or something.

Looks much thinner than it did at New Year's. Nice job gettin' some on the weekday.

How come they're not speaking to each other anymore?

So true. I'd like to see Mudede and Joe Simpson "discuss" the film. Dustin, all I mean to say is that you've got your logic turned around. You can reasonably state things about groups of people, like "there aren't many black climbers", but it doesn't make any sense to say "he doesn't like to climb because he's black" about an individual. I might as well say, "you are a big fan of Dubya because you're white", an equally dumb statement disguised by sarcasm in my previous post. I don't think Mudede gets it, either -- he likes looking through the lens of race too much. South Africa population stats

I bet there is a connection between this reviewer's view of climbing (admits he doesn't climb and doesn't know why people do) and his ethnicity (African-American). I'm not racist by or anything but I don't think he is South-African either. We've had this discussion before (climbing versus ethnicity) and this jives with the general consensus. PS - if you click on the link of the author's name at the top of the linked article you will see where I'm getting my assumptions. I think the reviewer's view of the film comes from the fact that he's not a climber and is, rather, an urban intellectual with a very specific notion of what film as an art form should be. His ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Forrest's right about how climbing stories bore the hell out of non-climbers (we had a whole thread about this a while back). There were plenty of questions from people in the audience on Tuesday who had no idea what climbing was about. These people were all white, AFAIK. By "South-African" did you mean "white"? Stop pussyfooting around and just say it already. There are plenty of black South Africans -- in fact, the great majority of inhabitants of the nation of South Africa are black. I bet that one of the reasons you're named Dustin and like George W. Bush so much is that you're white. I'm not racist or anything, by the way.

Trader Joes, probably Whole Foods, too. Or your nearest Jewish deli.

Isn't planning for a super-secret private party something that could be done over PM, email, or you know, the phone? Or do you all just like to spray about how you're cool and everyone who's not invited isn't?

Aid @ Index and XC skiing, most likely.

Gary, Mike Adamson is going to send his trained army to kill you now.

Yeah, I didn't think you could beat your chest and suck corporate dick at the same time, but kayak guy proved me wrong.

That is definitely true. A one-flusher in the US can turn into a four-flusher over there.

I got a free book, some delicious salted cured meats, and a nice comb from the Rainier Club bathroom!

If I ate an entire "bar" of halva, I'm pretty sure I'd puke. I usually only eat a small wad of the stuff at a time. I've got a half-pound block, about the size of two packs of playing cards, that contains 1,120 calories (480 from fat). $1.95 at Trader Joe's -- that's as much as two of your usual energy bars, if you get 'em on sale, and 3 times the calories.

Snickers are tasty and cheap, but they are another one of those bars that will break your teeth in the cold. Dru, almond butter is the shizzle (AB&J!), but you're right about the halva being made of sesame. MREs come with squeeze packs of peanut butter. Convenient like Gu, but... it's peanut butter. Mmm.

Yeah, Balance Bars are the most edible and don't turn into jawbreakers in the cold. Halva is also a calorie-packed, lightweight food that's pretty damn tasty and has some fat as well as sugar (it's basically almond paste and sugar, I think). Twight mentions halva in one of his books, if I remember correctly.

My Ice Flow gloves took almost two days hanging in my house to dry out after I soaked them through on Saturday. Hands stayed warm, though, and seams are intact. *shrug*

Steak and Guinness pie, left over from last night. Mmm... beef and beer, baked together in harmony.

Yeah, don't let them pay you for eating free food and having free drinks. Beer goggles or not, a Buick SUV will never ever be a good idea.

She looks like a greyhound caught in the headlights. What are you talking about?

Damn, it's really pretty out there. Thanks for the photos.

eric8 and I climbed the first pitch of this route yesterday after spending most of the day at Alpental. It was getting dark, so we skipped the second pitch and exited left into dirt instead of going up the obvious central curtain. The rootball of the fallen tree gave excellent tool placements. Fun little route with a minimal approach! Here's how it looked. Too bad you can't see the running water... And here's Eric leading:

Get an ISP that doesn't block traffic for those programs.

And you'll definitely need a BD Ice Clipper to rack your screws!