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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

that was inevitable, given the wonder that is federalism - oughta make for some humorous signs at the rainier park entrance though? plenty of cascades out there w/o federal rangers routing around them...

you think mitten's justice department woulda played it this way?

clearly the thunder i heard last night was spray knocking on the door, demanding its return to the land of Raytardia

chemtrails!!! thinkaboutit.

hardly - you gotta walk over there anyhow to do "hidden treats" (which is better w/o a rope anyway) - it's just an exposed sidewalk to the top of GZ and there's a nice rap anchor there you can even grab to lean back over the edge how'd you do on the rest of that pitch steve? leave a rope fixed to do the last one (i reckon it's good n' soaked now)? if so, shiiiit, i might use it to do it, that thing's tits!

8/28 - day #27 - soggy on the trail w/ the recent rains, fall's come quick - steve-o on ground zero, jim n' sal providing sage advice from below - 2 laps on the corner, my first solo climbing of the season - got a goal of 30 such laps before the season ends, so 1/15th of the way now

this is why i place voodoo curses on all my cams shortly after removing the price-tags and slapping some nail-polish on them ::

opb out filming ardnt n' company doing some clambering i believe- heard they even had one of them nefty mini-drones to hover around them while climbing - don't know any of the details, but looking forward to seeing it

on the other hand, i AM deeply afraid that this fire will burn all the shade that's so essential in keeping me from going postal while down there in 1000 degree heat

but doesn't fire help fight global warming?!? like, all them heat-particles go up higher in the sky now, right, not on the ground no longer to bother us terrestrial types, yeah?

8/27 - #26 - warriors w/ good'ole-kenny - jim n' sal, the stewarts rocking a parents day-out, rick n' his long-haired hippie-son - muggy but pleasingly breezy up high - pbr's n' american spirits along the way - tales of august vernal ventures - plans laid for seasons to come - that rat-bastard 'nastia appears to have beat me to the pirate-booty, but all for a good cause - who wouldn't want an autographed copy of a bikini-clad clamberer from our Proud Cascades?

think ole'nastia done snatched it away from me before i could claim the prize

is that sloan from "newsweek!?!"

unicycle race

wow, beacon was just bristl'n w/ bad-asses n' cascadian legends yesterday! that old boy matt, soloing up jills n' then free climbing grudge book probably takes the bell home though...

naw, i was bumming round w/ the powderhound, good n' hung over after a night climb of the corner n' howling at the moon till dawn - think plaid was climbing w/ geoff - i ain't pretty, but at least i look a mort better than them two troglodytes:)