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gawd-damn dope-fiends n' their long-board gay-cations....

currently building cheater-stick to clip mid-pt anchor from ground - tensions rising - my ego is collapsing - situation excellent, i attack soon!

joshk still's rocking that one for his public shitter?

5/22 - day 20 - strange storms brewing, vexing vapors rise and seethe at the setting sun - a quick run up the well-worn trail and back for politics n' pissing matches before the working-man's day was even done - a mere month till the sweet solstice, then california dreams and soon that southern bitch will be blossomed-up n' street-legal once more?

meh. there must be better things to fight about. i don't know of anybody other than jim n' wayne who's ever even climbed summer daze, though i hope to get aroudn to it someday, and free for sum had a pointless mid-pt anchor long before anyhow. chopping bolts at ozone is like handing out speeding tickets at the indy 500 at any rate.

i am spartacus

lame. don't think i've ever climbed that route w/ a rope but the intent as i recall was to have a good intro leader route - it's not like ozone doesn't have a plethora of bolts everywhere else...

damn, i'm a genius - already doing most of those out here in my humble trailer!

moses mighta wandered though the goddamn desert fir 40 years, but, in the end, he brought the people on home! good jorb there old boy and excellent timing, my last day of work before summer starts - you gotta any sorta idea for a celebration? ain't seen ye in a mort'a years.

interesting blend of hobbies, harder to manage in the flatlands where they're ain't no cliffs to nudge the sheep towards

somebody explain in small words and slowly - seems i've stopped innumerable falls over the years w/ a variety of devices, sometimes sudden falls where i'm paying close attentions, sometimes not, pretty much always in the "palm up" position as whoever mentioned, and all w/o incident - why did the lot of us all avoid death? and gri's must always have a brake hand? i use it for rope-soloing and took dozens of falls w/o incident either.

5/20 - number 19 - after strong storms sunday, all is clear and bright and dryish and balmy - a billion boaters sucking up the salmon on the main channel, no doubt the source of the strong salmon stank in the bathroom - the n side in groovy, groovy conditions - peregrines pirouetting n' screeching piss off despite their confusion on which side exactly they have for their private privations - summer's breathe subsuming all

holy shit, after many years of thinking about it, mayhap st peters dome?

maybe yer just not listening to enough REM? [video:youtube]

if mountains were man, most climbers would be ghey for wanting to mount them

mountains are cold - distant - unloving - best features are their large conical shapes - quick to kill any man who takes them for granted... dunno...too hard to tell

very fun to do as a big loop too, up the sunshine then back down the spur - did it in 100+ conditions in june years ago and recall it was verticalish slush-swimming on the way back down

now that's just showing off

this is why i only do body belays these days

nodder

half the beavers in the bush have tuberculosis, the other half are al queda operatives - only fuck the ones that cough

ding!

5/15-6 - days 17-18 - awful bickering w/ vicious bastards across an itty-bitty table followed by lunar ambulations followed by a day of drooling, dumb-founded by dipshits, done at last with a pleasant stroll up a sunny trail into the soothing sky

i put an ice-axe through my forehead the night before my first life insurance adjuster showed up for the physical to ask about my some-odd fresh stitches the SECOND company didn't have a problem w/ me though

wherever da wedder's good!