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you started the thread, polly-anna - ain't ya stoked it's got more views than yer sister's nuddy-pics?

appropriate, really - most mayors are pussies.

15 years as mayor? jesus, have these people never heard of term-limits?

9/4 - #32 - 2 more corner laps, 9/30 so far - elks bugling from the big beyond - grey and gloomy, wind off n' on - cluster-fuck kenny, a goddamn pater-familias now we find, n' denali-dave on round 2 - tiger woods by the banks of the mighty columbia - beers n' butts n' bullshitting as the day waned

9/3 - #31 - back 2 skewl - strange days and tales of human transformers - dashed out for a lap afterwards - kenny n' tim n' hijinx up on grassy - 7/30 corner laps for the season

dayyum. hope i can muster the same strength at that age...

looks perfectly solid to me

gandalf's as popular as ever - the oak's just a problem if you choose not to rap

wise sir do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end let he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be his best and only bulwark

i've done the original dod's finish several times - it's scary and pretty gross - first you have to stand in the peregrine's nest to belay, covered in shit n' fur n' feathers n' fins n' what not - at the end of that pitch you end up climbing up through a crack that's draining another such nest (maybe a vulture's though?). at this point you're on your own for anchors, and the path of least resistance winds aroudn such that the drag ends up being nasty. eventually you wind up below a big old fixed bong, where there's a 1-move wonder of 5.9 that is hard, hard. you can french through it though. now you have just a few meters of wandering through poison oak before arriving atop the norseman's head, where there's a bit more oak to contend with worth doing once, i suppose - be careful up there, there's lots of big blocks covered in moss to send rainign down on climbers at the base - oleg once kicked off a 200 lb chunk when he fell at the crux - was certain he'd killed opdyck and was sick w/ fear until we got back down there to look for the greasy spot

i'd agree more whole-heartedly if i could reliably climb 5.9 still, that thing is fucking hard-hard, and w/ a crack that makes the gear kinda sketch in places...

go ahead n' start holding yer breath then, for ole'boy took the irascible joshk back for another go and should be back soon w/ the scores n' highlights sometime soon - it IS possible though that they just ended up, too high to fly, at an IHOP along the way and spent the whole 2 weeks indulging in silver-dollars smothered in syrup, sucking down fucking fruity-smoothies

9/2/13 - day #30 - labor day, day before the bidness begins - up at 730 to practice awaking for honest employment - out to beacon by the time it was already hot - 2 laps on the corner, now 6/30 for the season - wasps still untouched on the 2nd pitch - plaid laying photo-siege to the crux 2 on p2 - met up w/ teacher-matt afterwards w/ enough time for him to rope-gun me up wind-surfer (muchas gracias!) - dumped larry off at the no-bo-trifecta for some beerz n' laffs w/ dave, then followed ranger karl back to beacon only to encounter the kewlest car-wreck i've ever seen there - a big-ass bus-sized rv, complete w/ towed-jeep, totally in the ditch across from the b-room in the main-lot, rangers n' cops everywhere w/ 10-foot hard-ons for their sudden importantness of purpose

reckon that was me - you just jugged upt he line for a look-see? sounds like kyle n' adam went up the rope the day before and also banged their way up grunge book. excalibur, right above the anchor, i've done and is something like C1 (easy clean aid, just clipping the fixed pins and bolts plus some good gear - i recall using a stick clip somewhere along the way though) - grunge book is listed in the book as a3, which really isn't right now that it has 4 bolts on it - it definitely is still an iron-monger's aid route for them that ain't crushing 5.13 (and even matt pre-placed his pro i believe), but it's probably more like A1/A1+ - pretty easy, just most of the pro is knive-blades tiny cams, and rattly small brassy nuts, which is a bit of an (easily) acquired tasted for them that ain't done it yet several good places to bivy out there, though The Man seems rather insistent on getting his 10$ overnight parking fee these days, so keep that in mind - big ledge is cool if you have a portaledge, you can rap in from the trail or haul up any of the routes that go to big ledge (stephenwulf probably the coolest, if you're aiding) - haven't done it, but i imagine hauling on the first pitch would suck. same story for bivying on grassy ledges - shitty to haul on practically any route going there (though the dutchman would be fine i bet - a grand big-wall aid pitch too), easy to rap in from the trail - the mushroom ledge at the base of riverside or the land of the little people are the two good ledges there if you're looking for good c1 starter aid routs at beacon, check out pipeline, free for some, the flying dutchman/psychic wound or wrong gull

'zalright, some of my best friends are skiers

it's a phat 11 mm static - once was white, now kinda a narsty dish-water gray if you would, note that it's running through 2 directionals and re-clip them as you go up/down - otherwise you end up jugging through bushels of poison oak i'll be out there in the mornign and might wander by to see if you're about - the last day of summer 'fore school starts tuesday, might as well get some laps in to clear me head...

watch for falling boulders and exactly at 4:20 no less?!?

the fixed line just gets you to the base of grunge book/wild turkeys/excalibur - you gotta make the magic happen from there

seems like he's on to smooth dancer next, but i've already done that one and i'd hate to steal the joy of cleaning it up - took me damn near 3 years to get all the shit outta my eyes from the last time i did it

8/31 - #29 - 10 days dry-humping the bacon-wand this aestival august - the last one to be spent w/ geoff - we split the grunge book in half, resplendent in the scorching sun its 4 shiny new bolts - geoff had the first bit, the 4 bolts, most interspersed w/ some thin nailing and fine brassies - i did the bunch above the last bolt, pumping in pins like a pre-teen caffeine-free baboon, all bitch-scared n' whatnot - amazing that matt feller freed it all beers n' bottles n' bull-shitting down at the boat ramp afterwards - crusty beacon politics n' gut-busting nautical ventures comprehended - cop talk - a big old wind-born craft cast upon the piers, moribund n' motor-fucked, pleasing to see the pigs w/ someone else to fuck with left the fixed line up to the beacon-towers should anyone care to make use of it in the next week - figuring on the full wild turkeys next weekend - beacon's 2 most recently freed aid-lines returned to the fold! dod's n' grudge-book (adam's pic)

8/30 - #28 - 2 more corner laps for 4/30 total for the season - solo-aided wild turkey, p1 - left it fixed for tomorrow w/ geoff - what's up w/ these hard men stealing our aid lines, we gotta go take'em back, i say! christ, that second pitch of wild turkeys looks like sparse gear, at least grunge book has them nice shiny new bolts and helpful chalk hints found a #7 bd nut, should its owner's wish for its speedy return - too many lying around my garage already, plus i have sympathy - got a tcu so stuck on wild turkey i had to bring out the hammer to reason it out old larry lounging solo-style out there tonight w/ not a beer nor a bottle on him

his translation of a classic passage: "wise sir, do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end let he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be his best and only bulwark" http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/uk-heaney-death-idUKBRE97T0CT20130830

blast, heading out there now to solo-aid somethang in the damp now and was hoping...

federal law applies on national park land, but i don't know if that's true in national forests - was the FS ranger fucking w/ you after 502 passed last november? it's been fun enjoying the new liberties at beacon rock and wa pass and leavenworth and darrington and etc, etc, etc it's the beginning of the end anyway...20 years from now muir will have it's own permanently mounted bong