Roger

got booze and speed hot sex and greed everything I need got marijuana, lola falana hell city, hell...

Portland mexi-fans, if you haven't checked out Ole Ole on east burnside around 21st, vayase pronto! Better tacos than El Grillo (but no naked women next door)... I agree that the La Cruda chow is pretty bland, but I still go there - good tunes in the bar.

thanks for keeping us on topic and me from being deleted...

uh... skisports, where do you live exactly? It was sixty-fucking-two degrees in portland yesterday.

damn, 18 out of 20 right. Only missed 3 and 9. I wonder if this is a marketable skill? Maybe I can quit my day job....

Tim - mine were gone too and I only had about five saved. I don't need them back, just fyi.

if you're at .8, you've probably been dead for a while. which might either help or hurt your star ratings, depending on who you ask...

hey, don't knock the single star club. we're below average, so we try harder.

sure, different applications... obviously you can't take skis up (and down) everything. But living in the pnw, if you ever find yourself climbing any one of these volcanoes, being able to ski off is pretty cool.

but it's really not so much about the approach... it's about the descent. why walk down when you can ski??

damn, I almost bought that binding... but fortunately, picked up some G3s instead. BD sure has not had much luck in its experiments with tele bindings.

fleb is onto something... 500 years from now, this thread will be analyzed by some compu-archaeologists attempting to determine what the pacific NW climbing community was like before it was obliterated by the Rainier eruption of 2042. We'll be remembered for our bizarre fascination with horsecock, squirrels, and beer.

do you suppose there were any "pictures of Lilly?" It's been a bad year for aging rock heroes. Here's one for joe strummer

it's only teenage wasteland....

good example of why it's better to wait for the actual facts to roll in. the news reports made it sound like the party just got off route on the way down after climbing the south side... not a word about spending the night in a snow cave on the summit. nice work iain.

Just a compass alone would probably have done it... it sounds like they made the standard follow-the-fall-line-in-a-whiteout mistake, and ended up too far west. Of course, we don't know any details yet...

Actually, it was more likely a Mt. Hood specific device known as the "mountain locator unit," or MLU. It's just a radio transmitter that can be rented at local climbing shops - local SAR just follows the signal to the lost party if a rescue is needed. I think these may have been developed after that OES disaster in the 80s.

freaky frozen-in-time thread... My take: If you're looking for attitude from some 21-yr-old dumbshit, go to OMC. If you're an alpine skier, go to us outdoor. Don't miss the posters in the men's room. If you're a tele or AT skier, go to the mtn. shop Retail prices for climbing gear are always the same, so don't pay retail, or go wherever the employees piss you off the least. Never ever bother visiting the knuckleheads at REI unless you happen to be northbound on I-5 on a trip Washington and forgot something.

looks like you found 'em...

DFA, it sounds like you're hangin' with the wrong crowd of telemarkers.

maybe, but it seems like 8 times out of 10 it's a band of boarders on their asses, in a straight line across the slope. But I think the issue is mostly age, not snowboarding itself - most of the annoying boarders tend to be teenagers who are clueless about their actions simply because they're clueless teenagers. Some of my best friends are 30+ year-old boarders, and they don't piss people off on the hill.

Round River? something like 3 pitches, first two are low-angle and mostly bolted, if memory serves...

because tahoe is too far to drive for the weekend... or is there actually snow in the bachelor weekend forecast?

whoa. the board is actually rendered speechless. I'm not in favor of this new development - just imagine how boring it could be around here if DFA became a trad climber.... DFA: "hey, do you guys prefer camalots or friends for flaring off-widths" Cap'n Caveman: "dude, for serious off-widths there's nothing like a #5 camalot, let me know if you need to borrow mine." DFA: "gee, thanks, cavey. See you at pub club!"

this is probably not much of a revelation for you DFA, but the handjob is a good call, lest you get something toxic on your peanut from her five gallon bucket.