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Hey I heard that. Yeah, the Logan/Stump and BOB are very similar routes in many ways. It will be an amzing feat by an incredibly strong party moving in blitzkrieg style that manages a repeat on BOB! Whew, what a horror show that route is, glad I'll never have to wrestle with those gargoyles again!

Please report back as to which partner killed the other. For full effect you should be sure to camp out for all of the trip and never visit a restaurant. You'll be clawin at each others' throats after two days

Way to get at that one! What's gonna be the perfect conditions for that I wonder, all this melt-freeze should be fattening up everything by now

Not in the Cascades, but this was a very cool one I saw last summer off the Duffey Lk Rd in BC:

Continued reliance on gas hungry vehicles only gives money to terrorist-supporting countries. OR: If we weren't giving them money for gas the terrorists would be poor and easily motivated for hatred against the US. Discuss . . .

The question is why would you go to Lillooet this weekend when the weather is showing 100% chance of ALPINATION

Secret Scarpa sale you missed becuasse of jet lag

I saw him down at the gym last night asking for info about the origins of the "Blue Route" -- looks like it has a messy FA history, either the guy with the beanie, or the guy who always climb w/o a shirt.

Trail is fine w/o misery shoes, summit ridge is two feet of snow with snags and rocks everywhere

This drink is sometimes called a RED EYE. Saw it first in an awesome coffee shop in Tofino.

Hey fuck you punk, in most years its a goddamn snowstroll. Try it right now with 4" of snow and 1" of ice over rock and its another matter

Paul topping out after emerging from the sketchy ice runnel

Ice low down

Climb: Mt. Harvey-Lean Cuisine Date of Climb: 2/13/2005 Trip Report: PaulB and I climbed the N face of Harvey today. Conditions are extremely thin right now, there was about 4" of snow on the boulders at the base. A couple of Swiss guys we passed on the logging road seemed almost insulted that we would even try it in such conditions We hummed and hawed at the base. Wasn't a lot of snow but it really didn't look that steep so we started up and found lottsa bits of snow over rock, but also some nice bits of genuine ICE We busted out the rope for two pitches, the first being a half-pitch of 6" wide runnel of ice about an inch thick over rock. One shitty half-driven screw for pro. Lottsa snow over rock sketchiness Another bit of ice which we simuled, then the endless slog to the summit ridge and a bit more of simuled ice. Trail down was snowshoed up nice. Total rt was 9 hrs. Very nice and likely a lot more challenging than usual right now with the low snow (no more than two feet on the summit. Most years I have been up there there is about 3 meters) Gear Notes: Took 2 pins, 2 screws and 2 pickets. Used it all. 2" stubby screws woulda been nice

Yeah, you all read the same article and it was purely speculative. As far as I am concerned (which 'aint a hell of a lot, to tell you the blunt truth of the matter), the more huts the better. As the sledhead crowd has aptly demonstrated, you hafta stake your turf, cause the dicks in Victoria aint gonna do it for ya. I have a big problem with the Kitsilano Birkenstock crowd wanting to protect wilderness as a complete no-trespassing area as if it were the crystalization of our collective guilt for the Industrial Revolution. If we want to sell BC to its citizens as a pristine wilderness area, we must have the faciltites to ensure they can access it. Fuck, I wanna see huts all over the place. The model whereby we demarcate wilderness as void of humans is the most pathetic ANTI-environmental idea. /Rant out

You know, this is really where an unlined nylon pant comes in handy; no WPB pant is gonna feel much better than another IMO and besides, once the DWR is worn off nothing breathes at all.

DEMOCRATIC >You have two cows. >Your neighbor has none. >You feel guilty for being successful. >You hide your guilt. >Barbara Streisand sings for you and Whoopie Goldberg tells you dirty jokes. >Your party loses the election again. > >REPUBLICANISM >You have two cows. >Your neighbor has none. >So? > >SOCIALIST >You have two cows. >The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. >You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow. > >COMMUNIST >You have two cows. >The government seizes both and provides you with milk. >You wait in line for hours to get it. >It is expensive and sour. > >CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE >You have two cows. >You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows. > >BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE >You have two cows. >Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the >other, and then pours the milk down the drain. > >AMERICAN CORPORATION >You have two cows. >You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. >You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised >when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating >you have downsized and are reducing expenses. >Your stock goes up. > >FRENCH CORPORATION >You have two cows. >You go on strike because you want three cows. >You go to lunch and drink wine. >Life is good. > >JAPANESE CORPORATION >You have two cows. >You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and >produce twenty times the milk. >They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. >Most are at the top of their class at cow school. > >GERMAN CORPORATION >You have two cows. >You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent >quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. >Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year. > >ITALIAN CORPORATION >You have two cows but you don't know where they are. >While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. >You break for lunch. >Life is good. > >RUSSIAN CORPORATION >You have two cows. >You have some vodka. >You count them and learn you have five cows. >You have some more vodka. >You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. >The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have. > >TALIBAN CORPORATION >You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. >You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature' >private parts. >You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to >milk production but use the money to buy weapons. > >IRAQI CORPORATION >You have two cows. >They go into hiding. >They send radio tapes of their mooing. > >POLISH CORPORATION >You have two bulls. >Employees are regularly maimed attempting to milk them. > >BELGIAN CORPORATION >You have one cow. >The cow is schizophrenic. >Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish. >The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow. >The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk. >The cow asks permission to be cut in half. >The cow dies happy. > >FLORIDA CORPORATION >You have a black cow and a brown cow. >Everyone votes for the best looking one. >Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote >for the black one. >Some people vote for both. >Some people vote for neither. >Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. >Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is >the best-looking cow. > >CALIFORNIA CORPORATION >You have millions of cows. >They make real California cheese. >Only five speak English. >Most are illegals. >Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

Shorts over stripey polypro

Too bad about your lungs..... it was indeed sick pow. Runs into Oboe Creek were especially fine. "knock knock . . " "who's there?" "FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!"

Spent two days coughing up brown lung berries while the homies ripped it up in the sick pow on the Musical Mounds. Second w/e in 3 months wasted to the sickness. Gotta stop goin to those fetish parties at the zoo

Hope yer celebratin your 28th with a nice bottle of Mad Dog 20/20

Was out at CosthypercapitalismCo today in fact; it's a poly/lycra deal I think, but there is no waist cord, and the zippers are massive gauge affairs. Nice fabric, but poorly finished

Yeah, but they had each taken *FIVE* NOLS courses

Mount Ling: Upper Nahatlatch: each boulder is about ten feet tall: