willstrickland

Metolius Orange TCU to replace one that went missing and bring the rack back to

Chalk up (ah ha ha) another one for INTJs - I'm a f'in Mastermind

My projects: 1. Finish all the stuff that kicked my ass last year (that's alot of stuff and never gonna happen) 2. Stay healthy/injury free 3. The Shield 4. Heaven and Hell (multi pitch trad climb in Tallulah Gorge, GA with 45 degree overhanging hand crack crux pitch and runout vertical face first pitch). Proudest line in the state. 5. Get some photos published 6. Rostrum, South by Southwest, Stoner's Highway, Butterballs, Red Zinger, Biercheff-Williams 7. The best of them all...Astroman 8. Get the hell out of the southeast (although the bouldering rocks)

Not quite the end of the story DFA. The real motivation behind Pope's slip-cover idea? We know Pope once shit in his sleeping bag, but his fecal folly's don't end there. After plastering Dwayner's pad with splatter, and incurring the rage of the good Prof, the idea struck him in a flash of brilliance...poop the pad, no problem...just wash the cover. Right Poop...I mean Pope?

Why the moderators saw fit to remove my previous post, I have no idea.I'm after this pic for a friend who teaches wilderness medicine (WFR, WEMT) classes. So leave this damn post up please. Alright, I ask again: A pic has been posted here several times of a climber with an impaled ice axe through his abdomen. He's laying on a hospital bed, axe still in place. Can anyone point me toward a URL or other source? Thanks in advance.

Hey kids, A photo has been posted several times with a dude that impaled an ice axe through his gut. It shows him on a hospital table with the axe piercing his side. Can anyone point me toward a link or source for that pic? PLease PM, or e-mail me...I'm on the road and can't really follow the board closely. Thanks all, Will

Jim is another breed. Met him in the valley this summer after he finished up some new pitches on the Capt near Mescalito. If you know anything about the routes he put up in the Fishers (e.g. Death of American Democracy) you'd know his rep. He's really a soft-spoken, low key sort of dude, and tends to do most of his serious stuff solo. And this guy's serious stuff is SERIOUS. He was on that route in the valley for over a week if I remember right, and if you go up there for the 2nd ascent, don't plan on cheap-sticking into the fixed heads...the rumour mill has it that he duct-taped the head loops shut to prevent a cheap repeat.

Thought I'd let you folks know, The long out of print Mt. Analogue, by Rene' Daumal will be re-issued Nov 26. Barnes and Noble has pre-order going on now, but I suggest you buy it from somewhere else, BN's cut rate wholesale price (price they pay the publisher) cuts the authors' royalty rates as much as half (although Daumal is dead, so moot maybe in this case). The ISBN number is: 1585673420 if you want another store to oder it or something. Cheers

Yeah, go try Moby Dick Center and Sacherer Cracker, I hear they're the radness you're looking for. Full-on hyper sickness yo. There's this other sport route up in Tuolomne...the Bachar-Yerian...it's a great 5.11 sport route...yeah try that one.

Ahoy ya'll, Greetings from the land of cotton, sweet tea, and BFTs (big fuckin trucks). I'm looking for a little input from you, my cc bretheren, and I know there's plenty of opinion around here, so help me out. Couple of questions: 1. Who do you think have been the primary motivators/players in the NW bouldering scene. Not looking for simply the strongest fingers, but developers, guys and gals putting up stuff since the 70's, the folks out "discovering" new areas,etc. 2. Why that/those person(s)? Yeah, yeah...I know alot of you couldn't give a rip about the small stone, but I love it all so humour me.

And it rains alot too. Had my first foray into the wilds of Index climbing a few days ago. Climbed Rogers Corner? to Breakfast of Champs then the Godzilla to Slow Children with Dr Jay. Fun fun fun. Ran into Alpine K and Bronco too. Crank on ya'll I'm headed to the deep south for a few weeks to visit the fam then be back around the 25th for more NW fun. Georgia in July...what the hell am I thinking?

I need partners beginning mid week this coming week for the next few weeks. E-mail me at willstrickland2@hotmail.com. I'm a dirtbag so I need weekday partners too. Mountain biking too?Any takers?

Talkin about doin the homies proud...Texplorer was on a damn tear down there, knockin off stiff classics in style. Partner was not prepared experientially...did not get his skills in order beforehand. Still got to do some fun classics I'd never done. Anyway, partners...I NEED partners...where are all the slackers/students who have weekdays free??

Hola kiddies, Just passing through PDX to take care of some financial bidness on the way to cooler rock. Washington climbers...Crazy Jamie is doing you proud...did Zenyatta and on the Sea of Dreams right now in fact, and Lambone and crew were on the Trip last I saw them. No walls for me this time, partner did not come prepared and I'm too lazy to solo in the heat. Middle Cathedral area has been seeing crazy rockfall both in the descent gully from the Cat Walk (making Stoners Hwy, DNB, E butt, etc essentially off limits if you're smart), as well as in the area of the DNB. One guy trundled on himself and broke an arm in the fall on the DNB, another guy narrowly got missed on the Central Pillar from spontaneous rockfall, and a party on Lower Cathedral Spire had a flake blow ripping the belay in the process and they somehow did not go to the deck. A rope soloist on Braille Book was climbing with a soloist, didn't tie back-up knots and decked off the first pitch from 70ft. Shattered elbow and hip but stable, guys in the adjacent camp to us were above him on the 2nd pitch and rapped to give him aid then watched him get mangled after spending 5 hours to get him stable and stop the bleeding....until the chopper had a glitch on takeoff and drug the litter through the trees shearing off a 14inch diameter pine and crushing the climber to death. Highlights for me were: 1. One awesome slabby boulder problem (Blue Suede Shoes) 2. One awesome steep boulder problem (Don't make me kick your ass) 3. One relentless crack (Lunatic Fringe) 4. And one funky chimney (Reeds Direct) Took a head-first and backwards screamer off the 3rd pitch of Reed's direct when I pulled onto a face hold, crimped the shit out of it and broke the crystal off in my fingers...this was about half way up the pitch...not even at the crux. There's a good photo of the cam lobe bruises in my back from where I fliped into the wall with the rack pinned between. My belayer looked shocked...I came to rest looking eye to eye with him....then I got to finish the pitch... a mellow .10 OW move. Good times, great oldies...headed to Index and Squish soon...I need partners...drop me a line if you have weekdays free for Index/L-worth and Squish... Hasta, Will

"spider caught a fly, spider caught a fly" "ten-four Jimbo"

Interesting that they call it "summitting" rather than "climbing" ehh?

Most people think of "da kind" as a mellowing influence, but it acutally raises blood pressure and heart rate. My training method is to wake up, rip tubes, stretch while drinking a triple mocha. By the time I finish stretching, heart rate is cruising along at anaerboic threshold...ahh nature's little helpers. No wonder I'm such a badass

1000! Whooo hoo! Well guy and gals, it's been fun. The northwest has been VERY good to me, and I'll be missing it. This chapter in my life has come to a close and this time tomorrow I'll be sitting in Humboldt County, my first stop en-route to Yosemite. I've secured an offer to author a guidebook, which should hit the shelves in Spring '04. My summer will find me climbing for pleasure in Yosemite, and the NW, and then it's on to the Utah desert for about 8 months of climbing and writing. Once the book wraps, I'll be headed to graduate school again to pursue a doctorate in Recreation and Park Administration at NC State. Summers will probably find me in the valley, but it looks like I'll be an east-coaster for a few years again come late 2003. I've learned alot from the posts on this site, (believe it or not)and hopefully I've contributed something useful on occasion. I'd list off names, but that would take too long and I'd space someone I meant to include. Suffice it to say that I've climbed with some of you,chopped with a couple of ya, drank with more of you, and argued with quite a few of you. It's a cool thing you've got going up here, and hopefully I'll see some of you and catch a Seattle Pub Club around late July. If anyone is headed to the valley, post a note on the camp 4 board if you want to link-up. I'll be down there from this weekend through about mid-July, and then back down there from mid August til about mid-Sept. I'll post some random updates or trip reports at times, but for all intents and purposes, this is my last post Be safe out there everyone, and I'll see you in the hills! Cheers

CHIK.....blurbbleblelbelbelblel.....swooooooooosssshhhhhhhhh....COUGHCOUGHCOUGH....ahhhhhhh!

Get a grip on reality man. Do a little thinking huh!? For one, what in god's name would Colin have to gain by falsifying his account? Seems that everyone who knows him already has an extremely high opinion of him and his abilities, so he doesn't need to imprss them. The naysayers don't know him, and why would he care what they think anyway? Not like he's saying "I am Colin Lastnamehere, and I put up a new mixed route on the N side of Stuart...it's graded V 5.11+ WI7+ M8 but we did it in 4 hours car to car, now bow down to me gapers". What a bunch of ridiculous shit...why would you even give a flying fart about what someone else climbed unless you want beta from them? Geez.

quote: Originally posted by allison: [/qb] Not having a dumbstick is hardly a bad thing, unless of course you are tying to write your name in the snow.[/QB] Tell it to the CEOs of the world

Sorry to be a little off-topic pete, just thought I'd relate this story (keep in mind I just spent last weekend unroped on a glacier and don't intend to lecture here) In July 2000, I was having a good 'ol time in the valley. Walking back from the village store to Camp 4 one day, I spotted a familiar sticker on a vehicle...ORGT (outdoor recreation georgia tech) and then realized that I knew the car as well. It belonged to my friend Trey, a fellow GT student when I was an undergrad, fellow climber, and all around likable guy. Some dude was getting out of the car so I strolled up and asked him about the car. The story he related went like this: This guy was on rescue at Ranier the previous year. He bought the car when a snowboarder turned up missing and his folks came out to recover his things. Of course, the snowboarder was Trey. After Ga Tech, Trey went on to med school at Emory University...a top 25 school. He had just been assigned to residency at a Seattle area hospital and had been in the area for only three weeks. Deciding to hike up to Muir one day for the ride down, Trey was reported seen in the hut and never again. Crevasse lunch, no doubt. Storm rolled in for the next couple of days and his body was never recovered. Here's a clip from the rescue notes: William "Trey" Teitjen, 28, who recently had completed medical school in Georgia and moved to Seattle, was last seen June 20 at Camp Muir preparing to descend the mountain on a snowboard during conditions of blowing snow. We never saw a trace of him again, Krambrink said. The search cost was $30,752. Hate to be a bummer (you can imagine how I felt standing in the camp4 lot listening to the tale of one of my very first climbing buddies getting the chop when I didn't even know he was gone), but it's something to think about anyway...I went out and soloed the arches, sat at the top and cried for a while and wished him well.

Mattp, nobody will stand for your anti-splintering strong arm tactics I will drop steamer coils on your pubclub and make you eat dingleberry salad. You want cheap grub eat this sucka

The David Faustalo book titled "Self-rescue" has decent illustrations of how to construct a 5:1 by adding a "c" to an existing "z" system. Fairly straightforward, particularly if you're well versed in the std "z" system. Good book all in all, I recommend it, although I don't care for his use of the mariner...personal thing more than anything else.

Thanks winter, very well crafted. I'll stick one in the mail.