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And I owe you a beer for sharing your bud at Smith That's about six pints. I'd like to see you put that much beer down. I got $10 that says Winter can not polish off 6 pints in one night.

Western Australia is dry this time of year.

Thanks Chris. Guess it's just you and I buying eachother drinks. The rest of the pdx posers haven't figured out how to put drinking and climbing ahead of family and personal obligations.

I'm too lazy to read all the threads where? when? why?

Hey Chris, drag Drew's sorry ass out of the gym tonight. He needs to socialize more often. Tell em I said hello.

I got a request for all the PDX Pub Club attendees tonight: - Drink twice as much as normal - Tell twice as many bullshit climbing stories as usual - Tip the waitress twice as much as usual This is to make up for my absence. I checked with my priest and he says that hob knobbing in bars with climbers is definitely out. Have fun all. Perhaps I'll see ya next week.

You guys are so thoughtful and sensitive. It makes me feel all warm inside.

I had my hopes up for tomorrow. I don't think I can wait till next week.

The Lab is....Thursday night!!! Can some of you fools get there early, like right after work? I gotta leave by 8:30, but I'd like to drink and chat with all of you for a while.

When you're following a pair of hot buns in tights it's amazing how much faster a guy can run. I'd draft a hottie, say hello then pass her on the next hill. Then I'd draft the next hottie. Before ya know it you're on the home stretch and having a bowl of chowder. Runner chicks in tights. God bless America.

Vegas for 5 days with a group of non-climbing friends. Booze Strip Bars Gambling Mind alterations The usual Vegas fare.

Yo Iain, I've yet to see you make an apprearance at any of the PDX pub clubs or parties. What gives? Have you not mastered the skills of downclimbing, and as a result, can not descend to our level?

Winter, see what you've started. Now these two fuck heads will banter back and forth, drifting this worthy thread into mindless oblivion.

I gave up drinking beer for lent, so if we meet it needs to be in a bar that serves the hard stuff. I can not deal with you guys unless I'm smashed.

Portland Shamrock 15K run

Sounds like a great event. Wish I could make it, but my Saturday is already booked. Good luck Steve

Rob wrote: "Look at the weather reports, read the avy reports, form your own opinion. If you can't manage that you probably owe it to yourself and SAR to stay off the mountain." I was thinking exactly the fucking thing. Excellent response!!! I'm still laughing.

Excellent TR. Suffering yet succeeding is perhaps the best experience on a mountain. Makes you feel like something more was accomplished than the usual aspects of a climb. Saturday morning while on the summit I was looking down the N an NE faces and saw two big slide debris fields, one on the Coe and the other one on the Elliot.

Only if a tree heard the skier scream

Oregon stores have The Dalmare Cigar Malt on sale. Highland single malt. She's as smooth as a baby's arse. $30

Hey Ryland and Pete, How was the ski down? Ryan and I got in some good turns. All was good until descending into the insidious wind further down. Good luck with the Denali training. Pete

Yup, ther aint no ice down ear in Orrgon.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ivan and I thought that climbing Leutholds in the dark on Thursday night was a great idea. The slope we climbed seemed too steep for Leutholds, but we continued anyway. I topped out on a narrow ridge at 10,400ft. The opposite side of the ridge fell away steeply into an unknown abyss. Short towers guarded the ridgeline on both sides. It is 1am, only the light of the stars to guide our way and we have no idea where we are. What a mess. Ivan donated a glove and an ATC to the mountain god during the 10+ lowers on the descent down rock hard neve to the Reid Gl.. Back at Timberline we were scratching our heads, where the hell did we end up??? Early Sunday morning, Ivan, Shredmaximus and I headed back to Hood;s west side to take a crack at the Reid HW. I was seeking redemption for the screw up the other night. Shortly after cutting up from the Reid Gl. we happened upon the glove Ivan dropped two days before. Hood was returning one of our sacrifices from Thursday night. Checking Oregon High just before entering the first gulley. We did not want to get off course again. Ivan on the airy traverse at 9600ft. I-Rock in the background. Solid neve at 9800ft. An incredible section of ice at 10,700ft Ivan practicing for future magazine photo ops. The west summit rim. Running like a horse for the barn.

PDX climbers: You can all boast about the awesome climbs you got in this past week by meeting at the Moon and Sixpence British Pub on Thursday after work. The pub is not far from Benson HS and gives us a chance to prime the well before the slide show. Directions and details can be found at this URL: http://portland.citysearch.com/profile/8468270/