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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?

If you keep your blood sugar up -Gu is great- you will fare much better. If you get pulled over on the way home, resist the temptation to tell the officer, "It's OK. I've been doing Gu."

A pile of snow could slow that down a bit. Like what they are getting right now. 3" in Mt Vernon.

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam....shit, whatever. Wind River range is where all the smart bugs go. Endless clean granite, skiing year round, booty, coeds, or solitude if you want. Everyone knows about the highly concentrated areas but the range is 70 miles long and granite from stem to stern. The Sierras would be great if you didn't have to sleep with the Rainbow family every night. Maybe I've just had bad luck but those assholes think that everything is communal property. Hey Trask, why don't you take a vacation down there. I'll buy you a few rounds.

It would be interesting to compare what Bob Marshall and some of his contempoaries did to some of these races. Bob has a wilderness area named after him in Montana but he also did a lot of exploring in Alaska. On one trip he put in back to back 30 mile days with one 60 mile day at the end. All with a pack full of wool, cast iron, and bacon. No hip belt. He died in his fifties from an overdose of bacon.

Hump on up to Bridge Creek wall and take your pick. When it warms up, take water and a snake stick too. It's been ten years since I was up there but I remember doing three different hand cracks in one afternoon. I don't know if any of them are named. They were all in the 10+ range. Thin to OW. There are a few nice lines up there worth the hike.

For anyone who likes Moonstone stuff, the North Bend outlet mall has a Ski Liquidation store that has good prices on factory seconds.

"My first trip up there was in early April on the Muldrow- we got trapped on the Harper in a three day storm, during which time the mercury read -60 at night/-40 during the day for three days, a bunch of our shit blew away, including me flying ten feet airborne in a gust (i'm not exaggerating) that had to have been 125 mph+ while I was outside trying to resecure our tent guylines. I lost 17 pounds in 20 days while on a 6000 calorie a day diet. My facts on the snow temperature are off because I think my brain got frostbite on that trip. which explains everything else about me." Dude! Great story. Hope you 're not typing with one finger. If that's not funny, slap me. Er... poke me. Closed cell definately belongs closest to your body if it gets cold enough to wonder about it.

OK Trask. I,m coming out. My real name is Mr. Bug. Some of you can still call me bug, but only if you aren't a facist right wing closet porno site frequenting whining sock sucking idiot who uses broad generalities to pigeon hole people you don't even know. Boy am I glad I got that off my shell! Oh, if you are female,.........oops, never mind. Got u a bug full meal deal going here. I'm gonna bring in my kids so they can see what daddy really does on the internet. "Why yes honey. That icon is sodomizing that other icon............... I don't know honey. Go ask your mother." I always keep a spreadsheet window exposed so I can full screen it with a click. I also clear my internet history file a few times a day. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me. I visited a prono site with my wife present so she could see why she might want to check up on her teenage son occaisionally. Here she comes gotta go.

Actually, the snow is colder anywhere the temperature is colder. Snow will not be 32 F if the temperature is -70 F. If it drops below what your padding will insulate you from, you will get cold from below.... Denali can be frigin bug freezing cold too. Still, it is a good idea to pack as light as possible without shorting yourself on the essentials. Lizard brain probably has it right. I do the same basic thing. I also take a thermarest for base camp but mostly because I have an old shoulder injury that acts up if I sleep on it on hard ground. Lots of people go up there in May-June and never see the really cold weather that can and does happen accaisionally. Don't underestimate what Denali can throw at you. There are a few frozen people up there who guessed wrong.

I was attracted to this site by the smell. I reprocess stuff to see how far it will be tolerated. Seems like the locker room rules apply here. So far. It would be a shame to lose the only lively female contributers. Bug will behave. But I still eat shit.

Looks like weather. Guess I'll go climbin.

If you hit high water you might try going up to where the McKinely bar comes out of the Muldrow. I did that once and it worked out fine. It's a lot of extra miles but it's better than sittin in the rain and then going home. You still have to cross a tributary that can be full too but as I remember, it was braided upstream about a mile or so. We followed huge fresh bear tracks up the stream. He ate me and that's how I became a dung beetle.

For anyone whose delicate sensibilities were affronted by my carefully thought out spray: "bugger" was the term used by ancient mariners for sodomizers. They were often thrown overboard and certainly not given any respect. Allison has proven herself as a ruffian as far as I am concerned. I respect her enough to not treat her with kid gloves (anymore). Besides, I'm an avatar. If you take me seriously you will go insane.