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Oh, by the way, if you do want to ski, Garts Sports, REI, and King Soopers sell discounted lift tickets in Denver. I think you save around $20.

I can vouch for Lincoln. It is in fat this hear. Plenty of ice from WI3 to WI5. Most of it can be top ropped.

How about "Engineering is 10% know how and 90% beating the shit out of it until it fits."

Defenitely go to www.climbingboulder.com. Print out everything around Vail and Ten Mile Canyon that you might like to climb. You can see most of the climbs from I-70.

JayB, I can't argue the terrain but you can't argue the $320 season pass to five resorts.

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JayB, Made it up to McCurdy Park Tower last fall for a long weekend. Defenitely worth a return trip. Heading for Ellingwood Arete this weekend.

Erik, Had fun climbing. I agree the route is stoute for the grade. Thanks for bringing the extra cams so we could sew it up. More information for the center route and wunsch's can be found here if any one is interested. Center Route Wunsch's

Interesting arcticle Link

I know about Evergreen but I thought I read they opened a new one by Burrito Heaven. As far as going into business with Alpine Experience, I am not quite sure what I think about that. I guess they have proven a large skiing/ climbing store can survive in Olympia. Remember 1/3 of their competition fell down after the Nisqually earthquake and went out of business. Also heard a while back that REI was eyeing Oly as a new store possibility. If they through up one of their big climbing structures, it might impact the rock gyms profits.

I thought there was a new rock gym in Olympia on the West Side?

Yoo Erik. Don't forget those guys that owned the Oly gym made out pretty good when the City of Olympia tore it down. I don't know the specific numbers but I know one owner that came away with more that three times his investment plus a third of the holds. Most of the plywood was salvaged along with all the holds. A rock gym sprung up in Nat's garage for about two years using the salvage material. It wasn't nearly as big as the Oly rock gym but a lot of people climbed there.

Kid Rock and Pam Anderson pulled up next to me on Kid's Harley at a stop light in Evergreen, Colorado. I shit you not. Later found out he was in town for a concert as I did not beleive what I was seeing. They were so close I could have reached out the window and grabbed Pam's ass.

Vail Associates now owns Breck, Keystone, Vail, Beaver Creek and Heavenly in Tahoe.

Ok Billgoat. You got me. The pass was actually $319 this year. ($299 last year). It includes unlimited skiing at Breck, Keystone, & A-Basin (no restrictions); and 10 total days at Vail or Beaver Creek (restricted christmas and president's day). Sorry for the misinormation. Hey next time you are out this way, drop me a line. I will help you work on your snow plow. Remember, hands on your kneess and make your skis look like a piece of pizza.

I have spent the last 3 years skiing in Colorado. I have skied most of the major ski areas. After growing up skiing in Washington, I can say for a fact that the major ski areas in Colorado hardly offer the terrain that a place like Alpental or Chair 6 at Crystal have to offer. If you can go all day at Alpental, you would have no problem with any of the "black diamond" runs in Colorado. Then again, nothing beats skiing 16 inches of new snow in the Vail back bowls on a season pass that costs $299.

I took the avanlanche 1 class here in colorado a couple years ago. They pretty much gave the same statistics on being found alive if you are burried with a beacon. 90% of the class concentrated on avoidance. By the way, my new ski boots have avalanche transceivers in the heels. Don't ask me why. I did not buy the boots for that feature. I guess if some one zeros in on the beacons, they get free ski boots off of a dead guy.

Don't mean to rub it in. I took my $299 season ski pass and spent all weekend skiing powder at Keystone.

Everything from Buffalo Creek North is fine - Sphinx Rock, Bucksnort Slab, Cathedral Sprires, etc. I can not get a straight answer from the forest service on Turkey Rocks. As far as I know, this was ground zero for the Hayman Fire. All the homes in the area were torched. I guess the thing to do is drive back in there and see how far I get before I am stopped.

Tieing one end of rope to car and other end to neighbors christmas lights. Drive off very fast. Stealing bowling ball from local bowling alley. Rolling it down big hill in Olympia. Watching it make big hole in side of house.

Just a note to anyone planning a climbing trip to Colorado this summer. Due to the Hayaman fire the entire South Platte is effectively closed to climbing and it looks like it will be that way for the rest of the summer. There has also been a ban on any recreational use in several of the national forests for an indefinite period of time. There is also talk of limiting use in Rocky Mt. National Park. I think I will head to Wash. to due my climbing this summer.

While at the UofW in the early nineties, I saw a guy climbing at the practice rock with a ring on his finger. He was jambing his fingers in the little crack going over the roof. He fell, his fingered and ring stayed. Look for the blood stain next time you are there.

Your mama is so poor, I saw her walking down the street, kicking a can. I asked her what she was doing and she said, "Moving"

I seem to find a lot of stuff when I linger behind a group of Mountaineers. I have several cams on my rack that were left behind on the Tooth.

Charlie, Also check out the Ridge to River in Wenatchee. I think it is this month sometime. Not a triathalon but close. It is a blast. If you don't want to do it all your self get a team together.