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Get to the ranger station in Leavenworth by 7:45AM for the lottery and you have a good chance of getting a spot. It is looking pretty good this year. I recommend this style for this spot. Many do it in a day but why not spend some time at a stellar location soaking up the views?

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Spray is what comes out the back end of a cat. You can't smell it here because it is the internet.

I heard Sarah Palin quit so she could stalk FW. My guess is that he's just posting during the afterglow.

Are you volunteering to be his "mentor" Choada?

There are much better things to do with my time Kev. Je ne comprends pas, Motherfucker.

This is humorous but also sad. Sad because you guys leave no room for mistakes and sad because you burn way too much energy flaming Kevbone. I don't really know any of you. Nor do I know Kevbone. I can't tell much difference between your posts and Kevbones. This whole site is dedicated to to the testosterone enhanced inanities of climbing and the commentary that Howard Cosell would have provided. You are more alike than you know. But keep on posting that way if it scratches that itch for you. To stay on topic, please limit the amount of garbage you leave in the wilderness. Especially in heavily used places like Asgard Pass. It does not take much work to pick your way around those cliffs in order to avoid leaving slings. Also bury your shit and pee on big rocks so the goats don't dig it up for the salt and kill a bunch of plants in the process. Flame on.

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Cool. Also, just because it came up once before, don't "test" the system by jumping downhill nor into holes. People can get hurt in a fall. The most common injury is broken ankles right above the boot.

Add sunscreen and put it on before the effects set in.......

Josh, Find the story written by the guy who fell in a crevasse and pulled his buddy in too. The first guy in was slowed down by the second. But the second guy fell far and died quickly. Two on a rope is not all that safe unless you have some training, practice, and luck. Good luck out there.

The return of Jammin? I don't read Tazz as flaming so much as trying to prevent injury. I remember trying to do that with Jamin and one other guy whose name I do not remember. Hang in there Tazz.

Great TR and Climb!!

I'm in Missoula now thru Sat. Ping me to climb Shoshone or something similar.

Email me at olimerkei AT Yahoot I will not have internet access often but will get emails on my phone.

Pretty good. But you really should have got a fish jumping on the lake between those spandex covered legs.

There's still room for more routes across that fin.

Drove up to WA pass and did some scrambling with full gear. A friend is learning how to lead so we did the S Arete of SEWS placing gear as though it mattered. Next, we did the Becky route on LB. It worked out quite well. I recommend the scenario for leader training.

Please do explain how letting the banks and other large financial institutions completely fail, will benefit us. No one liners please.

If McCain had won, we would have spent that much invading Iran by now. Or was it North Korea? Oh hell let's invade em both. Sadly FW, what you do not understand is that the republican party, and democracy as our fathers knew it, ended with the Reagan era. Palin would be a great representative of today's republican party. And I predict that you and Kaska will back her just like you backed GW and Dick-for-brains.

How is camping up there? Any restrictions I should know about?

Your debautchery and hedonism is an inspiration to the U-tube generation but not I. Not I. Smoking kills. Please do not post such wittless examples of misplaced ambitions again. I am referring of course, to the haul line crossing below the last quickdraw.

Somebody take grandpa back to his room.

Obviously photoshopped. There are no ripples. You know I'm kidding right? Great pics and TR.

I second that recommendation for Washington Pass and Darrington.