When the revolution comes
some of us will catch it on TV
with chicken hanging from our mouths
you'll know it's revolution
because there won't be no commercials
when the revolution comes
Are you going to tell that to the salmon and the black bear and the forests and the rivers and every mother who carries toxins in their breast milk and every victim of rape and the indiginous populations of the world which are left? They should all move so you don't have to question the culture you live in and what you role is in maintaining that culture?
Adult male black bears will kill and eat black bear cubs. Would you prefer that our culture did the same?
Sean Diamond has Crohn's and sends 14c.... I read something he wrote about bouldering with colostomy bag in place, sounds like an extra hazard for the spotter
It was more that I didn't want to lead the 10b because it traverses and I figured it would be extra tuff to second with the pack, and I didn't want to lead the dyke pitch because even when you pull on the draws it's steep. Also I remembered the Echelon finish from when fern and I climbed it a few years ago before UE was fully cleaned or bolted.
Almost. Bottom Line = 3, linked two on OTR to make it 5, Boomstick = 2, then we climbed 9 pitches of UE, then 2 pitches of Echelon to finish.
3+5+2+9+2 = 21.
My friend Chris is a keen new climber who's been doing it for about a year. He was pestering me to take him up some route so I decided on the UE not really realizing that although he lead climbs he'd never done a multipitch.
We left his place in squamish around 9, walked to the Chief, climbed Bottom Line to Over The Rainbow then up Boomstck to the upper Apron trail. Cut into the gully and over to UE. First four pitches of UE are soaking wet. Sun caught up to us here and it got very hot. We started taking ledge breaks after every pitch to rest our sore feet (neither of us was wearing super comfy shoes). At the very top we wimped out of the regular UE finishes and traversed off on the 5.8 dirty last pitch of Echelon. Summitted around 7 PM and were in the pub drinking beer at 8:45.
I think Chris was pretty pleased that his "first multipitch climb" ended up being 21 pitches
We forgot the sunscreen too. First sunburn of the year!