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he's (fw) "the Shoveler"

"dig", the Shoveler made a funny. But again, there's nothing funny about what you "defend". Tens of thousands of innocent dead, on both sides. Tens of thousands dead, shoveler. You love to be the "force of Right" here and doubtless elsewhere, but it's all a pile. Diplomacy has been decimated. So has our economy. Slimiest ass leader of all time just won't take accountability, won't stand up and say he was wrong. Won't do anything right. And this is beyond "ideas" now, and "defending freedom". We've dug a big hole. And it's a mass grave too. It's no good. Sure, you'll keep shoveling your bs, maybe pick a quote out and turn a little argument, but we don't really care. We know you're wrong.

"groundbreaking" stuff, Shoveler.

"the Shoveler"

"the Shoveler"

I remember Cheney gloating at the press conference after the "election", when via various unscrupulous methods his company, I mean party, "won" with barely 51% of the vote- "America has spoken. We've earned political capital, and now I intend to spend it." What a joke. Except tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians- fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, and thousands of dead young Americans aren't laughing. We don't need to wait for history to bear things out. What a disaster, what a disgrace. Sinful, to put it fairly.

Scareweather will just keep shoveling it. All life long.

"the Shoveler"

That's awesome. Thanks for the pics and info!

"its reputation worsened, its prestige was broken globally and it was bled dry economically" accurate assessment, unfortunately.

ti otkuda?

south platte rules. Cynical pinnacle!

Was on Easton last 4 days, it rained/snowed every day. Summitted on monday in snow from 8000' and up, there was 1' of new on upper mt. (crater and higher), wind was transporting some of it. Yesterday am looked the same up there from high camp.

that's what it's all about. Thanks for the nice TR and photos!

I was there in May, and scoped out that area; I climbed up Hotlum Bolam ridge and down the Hotlum. Not sure exactly what line you are talking about (hotlum glacier ice headwall). I looked at that right ice variation, in late may it was already blue ice and discontinuous (i.e. rock/scree) for at least 100' above the top of the main glacier to the upper "tongue". Scoped the headwall (rock), as I hadn't been able to find much info on it online; I spied a couple of doable lines, but it was super chossy, more the type of line a local who had done a lot of other routes there and wanted to add that one to his/her list would do. Don't know if this helps. In May they were saying they had had 29% of an average snowpack this winter, so it was pretty meager, and lines/ice that I had scene in pictures from previous years seemed to have deteriorated. Beautiful place though; I'll be back some time.

I went there yesterday for the 1st time. Cool little crag, but I was surprised by the bolting too. Especially the protectable crack on the L w/ bolts every 4-5 feet. We just climbed a couple of short cracks around the corner. Too bad about the bolting; the joke is now it will likely see more action!

sorry, I'm up at the pass and was hoping to climb there today (wed). Anyone have directions and beta? Which exit, where to park, anything else? Thanks!

I'm up at the pas

My intention was to embellish his accomplishment, rather than to take away from it or distract from the thread. And no worries, OW. That's quite amazing Don. Looking forward to learning more! Must have been exciting, to say the least.

My quote, in case it was misconstrued as spray, was actually a compliment/cheers, crafted via a contrast to a recent spray post involving RD.

beach boys that high? wack

Looks great! Is this what you are doing when you're not busy "jankin' up all people's styles"?

"Chuck Norris wasn't born with feet, just boots."

"Chuck Norris delivers more male with one thrust of his pelvis than the U.S. Postal Service and the Pony Express have combined for the last 146 years."

say it ain't so Bill! (and I guess check your email!)