allison

Dear Lambone, Shut up. Thank you.

Well, E-doggy, I've now lived in the Big City for longer than I lived in the City of Density and surroundings...I prolly forgot my roots!

You Tacomans are welcome to have a Pub Club whenever you want...just don't expect to get a big turnout!

Um, it's called detuning, and it is not just the province of free-heelers.

I'm going to open up the chatroom for a little bit if anyone wants to chestbeat about their weekend on the boss's time! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/jchat.php

Get an old iron (one with no steam holes) from Goodwill and some wax and a scraper and do your own hand waxes. Get base repair and edge work done at a good shop. This is the maximally easy way, as serious tuning doesn't need to be done all that often and it is super duper easy to learn how to do a nice hot wax.

Well, right now I can't get my feet out of the snow for stopping, so the added component of crampons might help that. With my busted ankles being what they are, if I don't get them off the snow and use other things to stop, there is going to be some consequence. Like if I am lucky, owowowowowiiiee!

Down with YUPPIE fuck fuck FERN BARS! The revolution will not be televised!

The Zoo has no food and the parking can be oh so suck. Plus we just had one there. Hale's is an overpriced yuppy fuck fuck crappy fern bar, which is not the kind of place I want to spend my hard-earned cash. Love the kids, but not gonna work hard to have an all-ages PC all that often. Plus at least one of them is out of town. The Ballard Alehouse sounds pretty okay to me.

We did every position, and with left and right hand, and sure, I feel okay about being able to stop in the conditions I was working in this weekend. Now on ice, well, that's another story altogether. We didn't do anything with a pack on, but honestly, I am a cripple and the extra weight I carry on my back is not that much. Next time though we will be adding packs and crampons to the mix.

No, I didn't sustain any injuries, I'm just (still) rilly sore from throwing myself down the hill and then trying to stop. For me though this time of year represents the low point in my physical conditioning.

So yesterday I spent a full day learning ice axe arrest stuff. Today I feel like if my fingernails and hair follicles could feel pain, they would. It hurt to put my jacket on after dinner. Is this normal? owowowowowow!

Another thumbs-up for MEC Brand stuff fitting the long-armed among us. I have an inch and a half ape index and can get away with a women's M. If you have to get into modifications the REI repair desk can do anything Rainy Pass can do for half the price and all of the quality.

I just want to point out that Distel is posting from vacation. Addict! I can prolly take you-need to see how my werk skedule pans out.

Oh yeah and those guys too.

We got off to a slow start, with Jim N. and I wondering where everyone was. Alphabetkowski joined us later, and Alpine K, Mattp, Icegirl, Toast, and chucK rounded out our motley bunch of non-Tuesday beer drinkers.

How about "Ben"? Has a nice ring to it, now doesn't it!

Adultery. If one more of my friends confides in me that their spouse is having an affair, I'm gonna sca-ream! That and tailgaters, and people who don't use their turn signals.

OMFG

young guys... If you are feeling courageous, perhaps you should attend.... I'll be the drunk man in the corner with the metal pointy things on my feet.

Whatchootalkingbout Amber....uh, I mean Dalius?

Hey! Alpine K makes an excellent climbing partner!

I'm in the process of moving my beer drinking activities there ofr the evening. Look for a guy with a pair of crampons and/or me with a laptop for looking at mountain porn pix at 7:45.