Gary_Yngve

Here's a followup question. Should a gym deny you lead climb/belay priveleges if you safely French-free the lead-test route rather than free the lead-test route?

We were talking the other day about starting the Puffy Liberation Organization (PLO). It's main goal is to liberate puffies from urbanites so they may experience mountains, glaciers, and the occasional unplanned bivy. At the same time, we were wondering if trashed outdoor gear could fetch an extra price for urban use, much like the hipness of torn bluejeans.

I'm a Mountie and I'm okay. I spray all night. I spray all day. I belay from trees. I eat my lunch. I use snow for TP. On Wednesdays I go to meetings To be taught to climb 5.3. I carry big packs. I hurry and wait. I like to travel in herds large. I don't drink in the mountains But I hang around in bars. I belay from trees, I wear bright shorts over polypropylene tights. I wish I'd been extreme, just like Mark F Twight.

How close are the bolts on Monkey Face? If they're close enough, you can yard on a draw while reaching for the next draw (that works on SEWS EBD), no need to bring jugs.

If a climb leader is present, you can use the North Face of the Mountaineers building.

I thought your jaws locked up on the rope in lead mode...

The standard deduction is far more than any itemized deductions I could make, so I couldn't give a damn about sales tax deductions. Sweet, when Roth IRA contributions are $5000, I'll be able to put 50% of my post-tax post-rent earnings to my retirement.

Oh, you're sorta thinking like the bag becomes a quilt, and the piece you make becomes the bottom half to seal everything in?

Yeah, I've climbed about 45 trad pitches with him. He's following the rules, not making an exception, because that's his job, and I respect him for that. Just if he makes fun of me enough regarding this incident, I'll post the picture of him humping the belay tree.

doesn't a sleeping bag work perfectly fine as a 2-person sleeping system?

The direct way to Cannon up from where the old FS road is washed out has a metric fton of windfall on it. A friend of mine headed up Cannon from branching off the 8-mile-creek trail somewhere near one of the bridges and it sounded like he had much better luck -- mostly timber.

fucking backclipped my first draw (actually, i clipped it properly, but the draw was twisted when i clipped it, so the end-result was a backclip) that's what i get for not leading a sport route since 2002 the sad thing is i didn't want the lead cert to lead-climb in the gym -- I'd rather top-rope the same route in the gym -- i wanted it so I could lead-belay other gapers who felt that they would be more manly when leading a bolt ladder as opposed to TRing

i just failed the lead climbing test at the gym

For a point-n-shoot, it's really nice (I have the older model, the S400). The only complaints I have are basically issues that could only be addressed with an SLR -- extra mechanical control, different lenses, etc. The Lithium batteries work great. On days where the temps are super cold, I store my camera in my jacket until needed.

Sadly, right now, skiis suck major ass too.

The magic question is: How far up the road can you drive? My guess is you won't be able to make it to the trailhead, but I don't know how far you'll be able to get.

Jennifer Jordan will be giving a talk tomorrow, Tues Jan 25, 7:30 PM, in KANE 220 at UW on her new book, Savage Mountain. The book chronicles the lives of the first five women to summit K2, three of whom perished on the descent. The remaining two died several years later on other Himalayan peaks. (The sixth woman summitted K2 in 2004.) The book portrays their strong independent spirits, the turmoil of entering a tradiationally male sport, their insatiable [lethal] desire to climb in the death zone, their struggle to find balance between mountains and family... I just finished reading it and really enjoyed it.

The first two photos were from some WI3 a little further up the road. The cool pillar was right at mile 9 (its sister pillar thirty feet to the left had not yet touched down).

Yeah, it sucks. Even though the brunt of the rain will ease off in the next few days, it looks like we'll have unseasonably warm weather at least the next week.

Dru, you are forgetting that Sandi is both my "boss," in that she controls our budget, but that I'm her "boss", as in whenever she screws up, which is often, I'm the one who has to fix it. Sadly, I can't do the other thing bosses get to do, namely fire people.

Why wasn't he man enough to admit his mistakes during the election campaign?

I have never worked retail before. I didn't have a car in high school or college (and I was one of those mofos on scholarship throughout all of college), so I had no need for a side job other than TAing. I did volunteer a few hundred hours of time for Habitat for Humanity, doing both construction and office work. While I was with HfH, no one treated me the way rude people treat retail workers. While TAing, the system was pretty simple. If one of my students caused a problem, I'd hand him up the chain to my prof (after first warning him that I'd have to do that). That fixed things pretty quickly.

Oh yeah... the lovely threatening title: "Respond immediately or action will be taken" I almost deleted this email without even reading it because I was 99% sure it was spam (i.e. send us your CC number ASAP or your CC card will be frozen). Actually, damn, that's what I should have done. I should have replied back as if the email had automatically bounced from getting tagged as SPAM. I'll have to remember that for next time.

Yeah, you're right. I could have toned down or omitted the last paragraph.