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All of a sudden, I'm not horny anymore.

I have seen one ranger in the Sheild lake area. But it is a big area. Why hang in the bottom?

Pattagucci will soon come out with their "Mature and Comfortable With It" line. It will feature licra mumu's and softshell body suits with youwann'em vertical stripes.

do you really want to convince them to switch to the other side, making all those great destinations even more crowded. yeah, moss and slugs. that's all there is in the alpine - stay away! I'm not worried. My pack is bigger than Rudy.

OK. Im a sport climber now. But it won't last long.

That about wraps up a description of the Enchantments, Boston Basin, and Washington pass all in one swoop. Have fun sun-bathing at Smith hard-man. Drill one for the gipper.

That should be Real Climbing™ different sport altogether...I think its trade logo is "Glory Daze!" As in, "Look at my glorious drill! I am stud now. Ewwwwe, it's raining. I'm going home."

No. Rudy just figures that if someone is climbing something hard they must be using bolts. He hasn't been exposed to much real climbing.

Dang the free enterprise system.

Microsoft is a bolt free environment. You wouldn't like it here.

I was in a Relevancy meeting all morning. Still don't get it.

Please warn us working stooges with high starch Pron policies when posting stuff like that.

Nope. That was mine.

Cool pics.

"If you convince a man that you are right, he will likely beleive that he was wrong." Ananda Coomaraswamy

Roof pitch of Modern Home Environment in Blodgett. It was only 5.9 but I was the first ever on it so I didn't know how it would go. I was all geared up for a bunch of wingers 1500 ft off the deck but it went clean. Sweeeeet!

Similar story here. Right on MSR!

I don't know what the temp was but spit cracked before it hit the snow, pee froze in little icicles that fell over and made tinkling sounds (origin of tinkling?), and I took a pot of boiling water off the fire, poured two cups into my cup, put the pot back on the fire, and there was a crust of ice on the cup when I picked it up. Dry Fork Divide, 7000', Bob Marshall/Scapegoat wildreness boundary, Montana, Dec 27, 1976.

We are winding down now.......

1977-1986

you could try...but i'd fill you full of 1/2-ers so fast that even lightening quickdraw reflexes wouldn't save your sorry trad ass... now, go scramble up some vertical, moss choked, slug infested nature hike of a climb... I'm guessing you can't move your feeble pinkies past the range of a keyboard right now. That's all you've been doing for weeks,..or is it months. Don't worry, I'll rope gun you up a mossy 5.7 when you get out.

Or we could hold you down and super-glue a bolt in your anus.

You need a vacation Rudy.

I used a tent with pads up the sides a little bit. Kept the bugs off too and the girls loved peek-a-boo.

Thinking of Hueco Tanks, where rumor was that Skinner got under the skin of some local climbers who called in the rangers for help: whining, crying and complaining to them. Later- everyone got screwed due to this bullshit. And it is exactly that: bullshit. Climbers can be their own worst enemy. Don, you can make a bigger impact by being there and having these discussions mano-y-mano with these pups, teaching them out of love and helping them grow. I see Jimmy O do this all the time, and he has shaped Beacon Rock and it's strong traditional ethics via that method alone. He has no internet access and rejects the computer totally as a way to transmit these kinds of ideas. Spraying some of this crap on the internet is pointless and may in fact actually be counterproductive as people shut off their thinking caps in total rejection. So you are apposed to leaving any vertical wilderness to future generations?