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Coast Mtn Sports in Vancouver has been selling that stuff for over a year now. I think it's just hiking boots, but anyways they look a wee bit crappy to me.

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Dude, that one-upper was nothin'; you shoulda saw the time DFA was blah blah blah ... Seriously, that sounds horrific. Thanks for the warning to sensitive readers; scanning through was more than gnar' enough. Sorry you had to witness that badness. On a similar, non-one-upping note, DFA and friends were on the way back to Bend from a day at Smith, and unfortunately had to see an older Ford Bronco that had gone off the road, through a fence, etc. Vehicle didn't look too bad, but there was a white sheet on the ground next to it with feet sticking out from underneath. Sad business. *seatbelts* I hear they work

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Photos are disgusting Ray Rock looks kinda trashy?

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And the American people say, "civil what?"

TRASHIES!!!! Hey, how'd you get in to Temple. Buddy just came back and was shut out of it. Not cause of bears, but cus of actual fire in Lake Looissee

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I am not, but it looks like fun. Twas it McGee whose did Siberian Xpression?

East face ski: or ?

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Some sucky peaks:

Not in the Cascades, but this one was pretty cool

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You said you sent something to AAJ? No? You mean all that lovely spray is going unrepported to the masses? It's just floating around in the limbo of two brains, undisseminated to the masses. OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Okay back to the topic, doesn't anyone care that the hardman genre of reporting is slipping away and getting pussified? "Back of Beyond" all started when Druid Spractshed told me to go do some stupid horn up the Nahatlatch. Being his bitch, I automatically went. Mike and I were pounding pretty heavy the night before, Pabst, I think, and Drool's horn was a regular piece of shit, but then we saw in our hazy hangovers THE CLIMB TO MAKE "DANGEROUS DUNG BUILDUP" REALLY SORRY HE TAUNTED US! I think I had fruitloops for breakfast and the sky was a wonderful shade of orange in that beautiful time in September. Ah, they call this the magic hour. Morning not quite over, the day not quite begun, and somewhere out there Scott Baio was plowing a woman he didn't love. The dust on the road was stirring meditatively as we trod down the road to meet the hunchback of the man working on the machinery . . . . blah, blah, blah, endless pussified drivel

All your spray belongs here

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[rant] Holy shit, what ever happened to editing? This years issue feels so damn bloated. Granted there is definitely more activity, but whatever happened to the days when the regional reports were like 4 lines: "So and so put up a direct start on Northgraves. . . " which we all know would have been a fuckin epic, but no one felt the need to mention it. Christ, like three pages for a regional climb. Yes, there should be more focus on the regional sections, but I really don't care for five paragraphs elucidating on the breakfast consumed before the climb. One anonymous contributor goes into remarkable detail about the previous recons done for the climb. IT DOESN'T MATTER! Makes us look like a bunch of fuckin pussies is what it does! Demystifaction of the wild and all that bullshit. Like berdinka said to me this year, : "I spent years sussing out the approaches in SW BC and when McLane put out Alpine Selective, all that work was put to waste" and any johnny-come-lately alpine gumblie can walk up with his latte into the Chehalis, which was once the rarified world of those will to take the risk in hardass bushwhacking. I'm gonna be a crank when I'm old! [/rant]