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It is an indication of how addicted to climbing some people are. Pinnacles north of SF is conglomerate. Marginal.

Welcome to corporate America. Soon we will own your country also and the guides that are pissed off now will serve french fries.

I tried to teach a man how to rock climb once but he found an ice ax and it was over. Next time I saw him he was giving a slide show after doing K2 light and fast. He had so much potential..............

We did that at teh kids ropeup. Attention spans are short yet. Here are some more tips. Get a really good kid pack. One you can tie a tent and sleeping bag to. Also get a front pack. I hiked hundreds of miles with my kids in front or in back or both. I also got a double jogger that can be used as a bike trailer. I put about a thousand miles on that thing. It is for sale. $55. Comes with rain fly.

My wife assumed I would give up climbing when the kids arrived. Boy was she dissappointed. I cut way back in the first three years (We have 2 girls 5 & 7) and have been building back up since then. The hardest part was getting my wife to accept it. If I went drinking with the boys, she was fine. If I was going climbing it was a problem. I really had to work hard to be consistent at communicating when I was going and how I was going to make sure she got her alone time in also. It is still a problem but she has relaxed over time. The nesting urge is a key time. About two months before the baby arrives, she will want to make everything perfect and have you toeing the line. Don't make any big waves at that time. She will get better.

Dane pulled a Clint Eastwood on us with an AK-47. Said we needed to know what it sounded like. Other than that it was pretty mellow.

Post em here as TR's

What? I take that as a solid ,YES I was up at camp Muir (10K)last May with two newbies and it rained until about 10PM. That is not normal but always possible.

I'll be there at 10. Let's save the macho bullshit for the real assholes. Most people on this board would probably get along fine if they met on the rock.

If the upper bolts are gone on Sidewinder, I retract my recommendation. It has a long potential pendulum off the end of the dike traverse. It wouldn't be all that bad except it would rake your rope across a sharp edge.

I'm in. Let's meet this weekend. Saturday morning in North Bend works best for me but I have set aside the entire day just in case. I talked to Dane. He is real. This is something you can tell your grandkids. Get off your butts and do it for the community. There are a lot of good people out there who do a lot for the community. This is a little wierd and maybe a little dangerous. The more of us there are, the safer it gets. This is the kind of problem that only gets worse with time. I don't want to be talked about the way we talked about Squamish. It is totally obvious that WE are the only ones who will actually do anything. If not us, nobody. If not now, then when? It is time to

I say you are being arrogant and full of yourself. It is not YOUR rock. Smellow out a little boy.

Then it might be possible that one or two would show up to your meeting eh? Just a thought. Make everyone introduce themselves. Anyone with a Russian accent should be held suspect.

I never use any of that stuff and I never have any trouble finding Pub club. Topo maps and a compass are usually sufficient fro me. Add a Suunto that my wife gave me for xmas and it takes all the adventure out of it. Then she bought me a Garmin GPS. What's next, porters? Being lost in the mountains adds a little excitement. Right Greg? But in emergency situations, the aid helps a lot.

Liberty ridge is one of my favorite climbs ever. The only problem we had was on the Carbon glacier getting around/over all the crevasses. In May you should be able to get across the Carbon more easily than us as we did it in late June. The rest of the route will have lots of snow on it too. Avalanche will be your main concern. Watch the chute off the thumb and rock fall from above the chute. The bergschrung at the bottom of the chute will probably be buried.

What about Syjakowski and his trundling habit?

To be honest, it kind of started out as a spray thread. It depends on your perspective.

Finally sort my climbing gear.

Bird on a Wire. Easy 10a. SideWinder 9 Solid Gold 10a

I'm a married bug. I'm a married bug..........

If you chop the bolts on the GNS you will have the WA Historical Society after you. I've been looking at the area where they took most of the blocks and it is starting to look almost stable. I have been thinking about a organized recon/loose rock trundleing party up there. Has anyone brought this up before?

Nice. That overhanging pitch is fun. Can't beat the views.

If you saw one and got irrefutable evidence that it existed, would you report it? If you found a body, would you turn it in? If you did, you would be dooming the entire local population to a massive media blitz. The end of it's anonymity would be devastating.

Hanford cows. You last saw them wandering toward the pit. Congress allocated $13 billion dollars to find them over the next six decades.

I saw a cigar shaped UFO with green lights aroun it and red ones at each end. My father woke me up when I was about 4 (1963) and took me out on the street in Missoula. Most of our neighbors were out there too. It hovered over the valley about 1500 feet up fro about ten minutes and moved west slowly until it was about ten miles west of town. Then it turned south and pointed up and streeked into space like a beem of light. Don't ask me what it was or what it means. I only know what I saw and we (my three older brothers and I) have talked about it many times since. As for bigfoot, the gorrilla was not discovered until a few decades ago. If there were another species out there, it would have been wise to hide from man very carefully. What do you think would happen to it if it came into town? Well, OK, it would fit right in in the Index tavern but I mean a real town. I would have to see one to really believe in it but the concept is not scientifically far fetched.