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I have come to realize this bulletin board is actually... aid. I just don't know what for, yet.

Ah, yes, the agony of all the local sprayers over insensitive caricatures is almost too much to bear. Lay off of everybody's favorite hardest climbing Russian avatar! You're just jealous your Pi avatar isn't nearly as entertaining

Well duh, are y'all stone blind now? Dalius is obviously DFA's avatar. Excellent disguise DFA!

I am training everyday to become a below average climber though Milosh, but an above average beer drinker. What is your adult beverage of choice, vodka or aquavit? En av livets smaa glæder Good stuff, but Danish. No laying traps for the strongest Russian climber!

Ach ja, comeback of the strongest russian avatar! Whoo-hoo

Classic - complain about wasting too much time on this board, then use it to ask for help for a crossword puzzle

The military is aid

And don't even get me started on their piece-of-shit record-breakingly useless website. I figure all that uselessness was so expensive that they just have to run the highest prices in the industry.

Heeheehee Is Daisy Allison? I say she should just ban that Jon fellow, whoever that is. He gets all rowdy at times.

Heh, you couldn't restrain yourself could you Dru? Harvey Manning wrote a fun article about the Ptarmigans that you should be able to find in the Mounties library - it's in the '58 annual. Blah, blah blah, yada yada, yada yada, blah There, good deed of the day looking up old roast fowl threads for Daisy

Sloop! Anybody coming from the downtown/Capitol Hill/Eastlake/U District/Montlake area? PM if you can give me a ride. I'm quite friendly, almost all the time.

Perhaps if you offer to buy him a glass of water?

Great weather today. At least I got to enjoy it at the UW rock. Met Charlie and NbyNW, guys. And of course the regulars, Coach and his royal court.

Ooh-lala=freedom-lala?

Can't imagine anyone would be that attentive while watching the X-man

I got a copy too, I think it's cool. More content in one of those than 2-3 R&I issues - I think it's a better value, as in, $ per hour spent reading.

Because it changes the rock, yada. Matt, you're right, Spanker and I didn't quite write what we intended (or at least I didn't - but I'm pretty sure the same goes for Geoff). I think posting about having to nail a clean route because I realized I couldn't get down otherwise, because I misjudged the conditions, is kind of like posting about having to get a helicopter rescue. The tone ought to be more like, here's my mistake (heading up in a storm) and here are the results (nailing a clean route) so don't do what I did. I didn't mean to chew Collins out at all - unfortunately the nature of the medium is to eliminate a lot of the subtle signals that may be all that distinguishes a friendly conversation from a hostile argument. Hey, to you Collins, at least you didn't have to have your frozen ass dragged off the cliff, and you didn't make the evening news either. Brew to you too Matt

ny swdsh chrldrs n jmcn stsh?

I'm an experienced noobie, happy to help bwahahahaha How long are you going to stay for?

I have had the MG 35 for 6 months, pretty much haven't used my other packs since. Works nicely for up to 2 day trips in winter, haven't tried 3. Great climbing pack, slim profile and a good feature set. Go check out the Wild Things Ice Sack at Pro Mountain Sports, I think that's a better pack in the 45 liter range. Haven't used one myself but friends rave about it.

Ya heading up a no-hammer route without thinking about the conditions is ill-conceived. It's not like a couple of pins matter now, but it would if suddenly nailing Index clean routes in a storm were perceived to be cool. Shame on you Collins, not because you did it but because it is a bad precedent. If I had made the same mistake and had to pound a pin to get down I would keep my mouth shut.

Heeheehee, silly boat myths. How long can the British navy go to sea for before sodomy is no longer punishable by hanging?

Larry the Tool and the Concrete Cop definitely belong on the list of Cascade Villains. Who else should be nominated? Spray wildly.

bwhhhhh... :cff-splrtng-grmln:

There is this story of two of the Ptarmigans (as in Ptarmigan Traverse) climbing some peak in the fog, they were well-known for arguing like cats and dogs about most things and apparently in this case they couldn't agree on who would belay and who would get to lead. So somehow both wind up leading at the same time, going up adjacent pinnacles, and wind up on top with the rope hanging in the air between the summits. I read this in a Harvey Manning article about the Ptarmigans, he said something to the effect that if the summits had been more than a ropelength apart this might have resulted in one of the more sad and confusing climbing accidents in PNW climbing history... Just figured I'd share this enlightening example of one ascent of two routes simultaneously Perhaps the Ptarmigans also climbed the Black Spider?