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Ah yes, I can see the route totally: 70-75 degrees of water ice or alpine ice or rock? Could Abercrombie be done in winter too? I'd want to pick that up too while I was over there, if I could.

Ah, you know you like the way the splashing water tickles your choad (your perineum ).

Nice. You were right there, so why didn't you climb up Gypsy Peak while you were there? The town of Metaline Falls I thought was quite quaint. Hmmm, can't lead that WI5 Pewee Falls route unless the lake is frozen over? How 'bout starting in a canoe (or, , a rubber dingy)?

So, how would you go about bolting this route... This is the tightest crawl I ever did in a cave. It is in Skeleton Cave--one of the lava tubes near Bend, OR. Doctorb: velvet_roadhog is an avatar on this site (Pope perhaps?). He made a big splash by having no spine on his first few posts wherein I was immediately making fun of him.

Thanks for the laugh, KMM.

While you were riding, I was admiring the mountain scenery of Middle Earth. Very pretty that Middle Earth...I mean New Zealand...I mean Middle Zealand...I mean...ah you know what I mean.

I can answer that, Gary: expanding waistlines. The higher percentage of obese among us need that extra room to get around. While in college, I once looked at an apartment in the U. District up by Metro Cinemas. Well, the bedroom had normal 8-ft ceilings. But the bathroom, which was accessed from the bedroom, was up three steps through a smallish door and into a narrow room with only a skylight for the natural light. Having gone up three steps to get in there, my head was now pretty close to the ceiling . If you were taller, you'd have to put your head up in the skylight while doing your business. Needless to say, I didn't take the apartment.

Okay, Josh the Dreamer and Barry the Oneiric one, this time I'm going to say it can't be done. Prove me wrong. Come on, I dare ya! You couldn't do Maude, Seven Fingered Jack, Fernow, and Copper in a day and return to the same "camp" or starting point. It may be possible if you go out a different way (like out to Holden). The terrain from Fernow to Copper is very rugged (there are deep notches along the ridge). I've done all four of these and if you were to compare the easiest routes of each, Copper is definitely the most difficult of the four. See the following pictures: Fernow Group from Greenwood Fernow Group from Genius Fernow Group from Fortress Fernow Group from South Spectacle Fernow Group from Saska Fernow Group from Bigelow Finally, here is a picture of Copper from Fernow itself: THIS IS SO COOL, MY POST WAS ENTERED AT 4:20. TIME TO LIGHT UP. OH WAIT, I DON'T DO THAT STUFF. SHOOT!

This is great stuff and I'm not even done yet! Good link, Lummox.

Alpinfox said, "my 2 button my keyboard is broken, so..." What an idiot! Just cut and paste a '2' or an "@" symbol from somewhere else. No excuses. Lummox's notation is the correct form. "Meters per second...per second" or (m/s) x (1/s)

Mr. Roper informed me a couple months back that Dick Kegel, who finished the Bulger Top 100 in Oct. 2, 1988, holds the record of most in a year: 41. This is simply amazing though I can see how it could be done. But since I have less than this number to do, I won't be able to approach it unless I repeat a peak. But what's the point of that? I have done three in a day three times: Saska, Emerald, and Cardinal in August 2001 Star, Courtney, and Oval in July 2002 Rahm, Custer, and Spickard in August 2003 I've done two in a day 10 other times. I'm pretty sure JoshK last summer did Fernow, Seven Fignered Jack, and Maude in a day (after I told him it couldn't be done ). I once hatched a plan to do Colchuck, Dragontail, Little Annapurna, and Enchantment in a day from the Stuart Lake Trailhead. But since I picked up the first two of these as alpine ice climbs last April, there was no longer a need to do those four in a day. I think that foursome could definitely be done in a day. If you were feeling especially speedy, you could even go over to Cannon from Enchantment and return to the SL T.H. via Cannon's NW slope. That would be five in a day! If you could manage to go in one way and out another (say in via SL T.H. and out via Snow Lake T.H. or Ingalls Creek T.H.) then you could do Cchuck, Dtail, LittleA, and McPk in a day. Other three-in-day possibilities: A. Eldorado Peak, Dorado Needle, and Klawatti Peak B. Klawatti, Austera, and Primus C. Mesahchie, Katsuk, and Kimtah (and maybe Cosho) D. Sahale, Boston, and Buckner (incl. perhaps that antagonistic Horseshoe Peak) E. Osceola, Carru, and Lago (and maybe even Blackcap too) F. Lost, Ptarmigan, and Lago G. Blackcap, Monument, and Lake (and maybe Lost too) H. Switchback (Cooney), Martin, and Bigelow I. Hoodoo, Raven Ridge (Libby), and Bigelow (two trailheads?) J. Fernow, Seven Fingered Jack, and Maude From a camp at Shellrock Pass and a very early start, you could even do five in a big loop: Blackcap --> Monument --> Lake --> Lost --> Lago (but you'd have to be really quick). There are obviously variations of the above themes. LeatherBob: 12 in a day would be impossible unless you had a helicopter or something.

On the right in this photo is the East Face of the North Peak.

Reminder: next week (Jan. 14) is Mr. Beckey's birthday.

This just happened in Spain Sunday. They showed a slowed down video of the meteorite on the evening news.

You could try Body Results (Courtenay on this site). They're good people but I don't know if they're what you're looking for. Trainers vs. Therapists?

I climbed up the steep Queen Anne Blvd Couloir in Seattle today. I never did use my ice tools though it was slippery at times. The couloir is lined by vertical cliffs of varying height. There are many intrusions of glass amidst the brickwork rock. It looks a lot like natural fenestration. Also there are many breaks in the cliffs allowing an escape if you should have to bail before the steepest section of the couloir about two-thirds up. I was not alone in the couloir though as I had to constantly pass people on the way up and dodge snowboarders, skiers, innertubers, sledders, and excited dogs coming down. It was the busiest couloir in the state on this Tuesday, January, 6, 2004. Probably about 300 people there. Even the news reporters were Johnny on the spot. Pictures at 5 and 11. If you want to partake in the couloir before the rain comes, hurry hurry hurry.

A classic. Why can't we have more comedies like that? Maybe a sequel of sorts?

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Yo mama so ugly, God slaps Himself in shame.

This website is a carcinogen.

Yo mama so fat, she pulls comets right outta the Oort Cloud.

Thats pretty good!! You are free to use it anytime. It's shareware.

yo mama so fat, if you go near her, you go into orbit around her.

Yeah, the build up of arsenic (if possible) would be sort of akin to antivenin for snake bites. The antivenin is made of venom or created from the venom itself. A tolerance build up. Or maybe I'm all wet on this matter. I just had an ear coning done today and I think the apothecary melted some of my brains too. Yes, I read Harry Major's Monte Cristo book recently. His book makes no mention of this telluride but then the book did come out in '77.