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Sverdina and I climbed The Castle starting from Narada Falls about 7 weeks ago. At 9 in the morning, there were four cars in the parking lot. By the time we got back at around 4:30PM, there must have been 40 there at least. It was a zoo! Nice weather days bring 'em out of the wood, those touronites. We saw probably 50 snowshoers/snowboarders/skiers on Tatoosh Ridge that day, but we were the only ones climbing The Castle.

Hi Tamara.

In the second picture, I like the way the little piggies are all lined up from shortest to tallest.

I think I'll pass on this one Allison. Another friend invited me to go golfing with him today and I already said yet to that. Ergo, I have to do that job search thing tomorrow 'cause it's the only day I have left for that this week. Other than not having a job, I love not having a job.

I got to admit the bell sounds when you first open the page and the graphics for each stat are pretty fun. Other than that, the information conveys nothing of substance or cannot be taken to mean anything out of context.

A friend of mine invited me over to his place to watch the Opening Night Mariners game. In hindsight I should have gone to pub club instead because the game was lame. But the grilled steaks we had for food were not lame.

I walked into a bar the other day and saw four businessmen sitting with Sarah Michelle Gellar. The waiter came and asked if they wanted drinks. The first man turned out to be the CEO of Coors and he ordered a Coors to drink. The second man was the owner of Budweiser and he ordered a Bud Lite. The third man was the owner of Miller High Life and he ordered a Miller. The waiter came to the fourth man, who happened to be the president of Guinness. He ordered a Sprite. Sarah was surprised and asked the Guinness president why he didn't order a Guinness. He replied, "Well, if nobody else is drinking beer, neither will I."

Making fun of nerds is always good for a lot of laughs.

Yeah, here he is within those cable supports (look midway up the first support left of the stanchion):

This is the guy that once climbed up one of the Golden Gate Bridge's vertical quad-cable deck supports and got stuck halfway up. I can't remember how he got down. Maybe this was elucidated on that TV special. A picture of the deck supports I'm talking about can be seen here (coming down at upper left side of image):

Say, isn't it your hero Gore's birthday today, Allison? Or maybe it was yesterday. 55 years old and still 55 votes short in Florida.

Dru, I agree somewhat, but... I would add that since the group of 8-10 climbers were nearby, had they left some gear at the base then the newcomers would have been polite to ask if the loitering group intended to climb the route (or if that was there gear and could they move it out of the way). I agree that if gear is left there and there is nobody even remotely nearby then the route (and maybe even the gear ) is completely up for grabs. Of course, I'm probably a little more polite than the average sport climber you might find at a place like that. I'd gauge the situation and choose to ask or not ask the nearby group as necessary.

Say, aren't they already inbred? "Elke on de ski slope?" "Yahhh."

I'm on the newcomers' side here too (would that be your team, cowboy?). Let me analogize: A party of two go into a coffee shop and see there's just one table free. They could set something like their backpacks down on the table in order to "claim" it (put dibs on it, as it were), but instead choose not to. They get in line behind another guy and his friend. The guy and friend get their coffees and and then go directly for the aforementioned open table and sit down at it. The first party of two who failed to claim the table with a personal item get mad but they've got no leg to stand on (nor table to sit at) in their argument. My point is this: if you want to claim something for later use, you have to put a dibs item onto it. Your proximity to the object of desire (in this case the table) does not signify a damn thing. However, if you should decide to leave a dibs item at the table, you can't leave the item there too long else someone will get irritated that the table continues to be unused. The climber chick should have laid claim to the route by putting some gear or a rope at its base. She should have then shown that she and her group were at least preparing to use the route. Otherwise, her loss.

Trask being Trask. Ho hum.

"It's coming off soon, though." You've probably been saying that for 20 years, Dwayner.

Do I have to call you out on every one of your posts Catturd? That hairy ornament you can grow above your stiff upper lip can be spelled moustache or mustache. Although, I think the former is the French version, whose language use, as we know, is currently faux pas (oops, faux pas is also faux pas). Damn!

The WSDOT website has been updated as of this morning (3/27): N Cascades Clearing Activity

Ha, a mouse avatar followed by a cat avatar. Catbird, you didn't read the mouse's post properly. The surprise was the penguin part, not the 120,000 more troops part. I saw a blurb on the news earlier this week showing dolphins being used to locate mines. That's pretty cool. I wonder how much the dolphins understand about the war (they're pretty smart as animals go, you know). I also wonder what the highest ranking dolphin soldier is. Corporal Porpoise has a ring to it.

I most likely wouldn't stop climbing. It is a hobby, a pastime of mine. Anyone that really loves you would not want you to stop doing what you love. That's selfish on their part. I could agree, however, to tone down the dangerousness of my endeavors. I would certainly be amenable to reducing the number of outings in order to hang out with her more. All this is coming from an unmarried man, so I don't know for sure if this is how I'd be if I was married. Probably.

When I was a high schooler with a driver's license we used to do mean mean things to shopping carts (and mailboxes with said shopping carts), but we never sat in the carts while we were doing so.

Uh, search and ye shall find in this very forum (see Dragontail - Triple Couloirs thread).

Seems like a good time to resthurect this thread, what with all the war thpraying going on. Thufferin' Thuccatash!

Test post SEWS from Kangaroo Temple (August).