Bug

Sleeping in grizzly country one night, I heard a set of large lungs approaching the tent. Knowing we had been sloppy, I started reviewing all the tasty foods we had eaten and then wiped on our pants, shirts, or whatever. The lungs got closer. I was hoping it would just take my father who was sleeping beside me but the damn thing came to my side of the tent. It just stood there and taunted me with it's deep breaths. Then I could hear it sniffing at me. I had had enough. By god if that thing was going to eat me it was going to have to fight me! I reached up to the zipper ever so carefully,....... found my knife with my other hand,........screwed up my courage and,.....The rest of this happen in the stretch of 3 or 4 seconds........... ripped the zipper down to the bottom-simultaneously lunging forward and yelling as loudly as I could. I was outside in a flash ready to do mortal combat with the king of all grizzlies but my eyes just weren't picking up much in the moonless darkness. I heard the clatter of hoofs on the rocks beside me and then the sound of my father's fishing reel playing out line like the big one was hooked. Meanwhile, my father, who had been sleeping soundly, woke up, heard the goat and his line and started cussing up a storm. I won the battle but lost the war. I had to sleep outside the rest of the night.

"all you have to do is put up with a ton of crap from adolescent assholes and fellow morons who are also dodging real work...." My kids have teachers. You think they aren't workin? Your ass musta landed on your head!!!!

How strong is it? Anyone have any info?

Go Jim!

Dark side of the moon. You had to be there looking through the window pane.

Give me any crack over any face anytime. Sometimes it is good to practice face climbing. Like if there's this really cute babe with a loose fitting halter top looking for a partner to go sport climbing with. That's OK. Just don't confuse that with what really matters.

There is a prosthetic developement company on North Capitol Hill. They are hot. Don't commit to anything until you have talked to them. I took one guy with a prosthetic up Princely Ambitions for a video shoot. He did great and it was his first attempt at climbing. It was a normal walking prosthetic too. With a specialized climbing setup you will be back out there in fine form. Hang in there!

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: Hello Bug, I see you ass is getting fatter as you visit us every day Nice Troll In my cubicle environment we refer to it as "cubicly enhanced". To say "fat" would incur the wrath of the Mongol hoards. Even though there is enough adipose tissue around here to feed the Mongol hoards for nine successive campaigns. And I do not hang here while my job goes idly by. I multi-task - not be confused with multi-trask which would be an abomination.

Then again, maybe he's just suffered from a long succession of assteins.

My brother did it in a day and he is a weekend warrior who just bought an ice ax the week before. Go for it! Trip report upon return.

Boilerplate interrupted here and there by windslab except where there are rocks.

What I know about union leaders I learned in Chicago. It's Friday. Go climbing.

Custom Boots - Jim Mates will give you as good a fit as you can get from whatever boots you bring in. He started with fitting ski boots and has a lot of local ski patrolers and racers as repeats. He has gotten into fitting hiking boots and other sports as well. I had him work with me on a pair of rock shoes. He didn't resew anything or do anything structural. He added some padded lumps to direct my bones to where they were supposed to go. It helped a lot. I highly recommend this guy.

quote: Originally posted by specialed: LEt me get this straight. Wallsteins bitching because he has to work two days in a company his daddy owns, and he's on his way down to the valley. Asshole. Don't go there dude. It's a dried up trusty ass. You won't get any pleasure.

W ridge of Stuart goes a hundred different ways unroped. North Index with a rope. Chair. Tooth. W ridge of Prussick. w ridge of Baring (airy hike). My next free solo will be the direct route up the west face of Dragontail.

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: Hello Wallstein, I feel your pain brother. I really do. Get me out of here!!!! I tried to spray away the pain. That is only temporary. I tried to drink it away. Does not work. I can only say that my gut is getting bigger and my ass is getting wider. See you out there next time. And you sound like a whiner. Repeat after me:"This is a pile of shit. Even though I choose to burrow into this pile of shit I do not like this pile of shit. I will choose more wisely in the future. Until then I will not whine". This never helps me but it helps people who don't like whining.

Has he learned how to cook yet?

I'm color blind but no matter what color sling is on it, chuck that hex as far away as possible. I used them when they were the only "camming" device available and they even work. But if I have a camalot and a hex and I'm hangin by my wimpy arms, I'm reaching for the camalot.

"with a backpack that weight 30lb " Who carries the rack and rope?

Bivoucs are a good way to lose friends. I sleep lightly and when I wake up I want to smoke. by morning it is all gone. No one wants to bivouac with me anymore. Now I solo but since I do not buy my own stash, I go smokeless. I still enjoy bivouacs but the mystery is gone. Cold, hard rock is what I remember. Am I different too?

I wretch whenever someone says they are a Bush supporter, or a Clinton supporter, or any other presidential supporter. And I eat shit! Anyone who wants the job should be automatically disqualified. It's about power. If they can do something good on the side, that's great but just don't deny them their power. By the time a person has made it to "presidential candidate" for the two polar powers, they have corrupted themselves way beyond common boundaries. As a voter in a democratic society it is your responsibility to oversee what your political representatives are doing and getting away with. They are all getting away with something. We have to decide if it is affecting their ability to run this country. If you think they stand for something, just watch what happens when that stand becomes politically unpopular. I support issues. I have never found a politician I implicitly trust and I have worked with many. I found my self going insane. I actually thought I could make a difference by taking on politicians. It doesn't work any better than supporting politicians. Take on issues that you beleive in regardless of who supports thems. Anything less is resignation to stoogedom.

Realestate dude. The biggest pile of shit wins.

So you run in there every morning, buy up all the good shit, run over to Second Ascent and sell it to them at a profit to supplement your stock options, and look down on the people who have to shop at Second ascent?

If you do not shop at Salvation Army or Value Village you are a facist.

So does this mean that the prisoners don't really have carabiners clipped to their scrotums while they work?