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Mammut wants permanently placed quickdraws to go.
ivan replied to CoffeeBiner's topic in Rock Climbing Forum
just make'em out of mithril -
holy shit, some one sold out the bacon wand
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[TR] Little Tahoma - West Ridge 1/1/1980
ivan replied to Matt Christensen's topic in Mount Rainier NP
pics or it didn't happen! -
why would i booty a jacket that wouldn't have fit me when i was 12?
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[TR] Cape Horn - Half-Cocked Who-Da-Phuck-Knows-What? 1/5/2013
ivan replied to ivan's topic in Columbia River Gorge
don't think this is in the oregon rock guide's ice section, though it seems to have everything else on cape horn? hard to say, as i don't have a giant magnifying class to sort out them teeny-tiny pictures -
top-rope gorge-wanking in high-winds n' warmish-wedder, just under the 14 at cape horn
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Trip: Cape Horn - Half-Cocked Who-Da-Phuck-Knows-What? Date: 1/5/2013 Trip Report: awake at the half-glow - hung over and horror-struck - is saturday so throughly fucked up already? grey n' gloomy n' not all that cold - stumbled down stairs to pack and pick through the carcass of last nights supper to suss out provisions for the day a quick transit through the cow-fields of fair-camas - miker n' beaconben at the cusp of a crepuscular dawn - crap stowed away n' we cast off w/ a 2nd-case plan, though hardly to washougal n' we realized half the kit was left behind n' we circled back for comfort gear that would never get used through the gorge in the grey - big circles by cape horn as we closed in on the bitch - a hundred yards west before the classic photo-shot, the parking spot just before the "narrow bridge" sign - many minutes of shifting shit n' setting it all out straight - we put a fixed line in to facilitate the way from road to bridge base this spot is sweet - set well under the road - the sole bummer having to lower the climber on 2 ropes tied together n' passing the knot at the proper spot, well out of voice, w/o complaints road pillars are bomber, right? if only i had a kayak, that cunt was going down today... a fine roof of road - we lowered the Old Boy of the Hour down - a shot a few meters below... an Army of Three, there was plenty of time to set up w/ feet-up, ensconced in down n' fleece, sipping down piping hot cider - thank krist there was no tobacco to waste the healthiness of the situation being lowered down for my date w/ bare-assed fate a few hours spent in riotous gallivant - 2 laps a piece undercover of a grand ceiling of grey concrete - holy shit a great place for gorge icemaitiring! flat - calm - room to stack shit - no matter how meager the ice da wedder has to offer! you lower down 100+ meters to get the whole experience - me here just 20 meters below the anchor from the road looking on down great times - grins n' gawdamns - the cops showed up of course, but in the wake of i502 nothing more than big gob-glows to greet them with! no worries, just weak-ass mofo's below worrying about us having too much fun...they'd been hollering up at us for awhile, insensible through the shrieking wind strong recommendation for gorge conditions like this - no need to lead - out of the elements - simple parking n' approach - calm n' cool - call it WI2/2+? HAWTDAMN!!! Gear Notes: a couple long runners for the concrete pillar - a 40 meter rope to set up the fixed line from the rope to the anchor, if you want Approach Notes: 100 meters west of the photo-spot at cape horn - at the pullout just before the "narrow bridge" sign - down to the edge, over the guardrail, than down n'along the way for about 30 meters before getting under cover and where you can set up the anchor on the pillar holding up route 14
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sounds like you started rapping off the railing about 1/2 way up, right where the trail turns back left n' heads towards endless switchbacks?
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good tr'ing had on cape horn ice today
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holy shit i look 20 years younger there ice-climbing in the gorge today girl n' thinking of you - pat over here no less
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yup, no need 4 nothing more than da power of chairman-mao thought there
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2013 we get the ne butt of j'berg, devushka? drag along pat or josh for the Complete Party Xperience?
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yes - me! any day, this time of year, regardless the forecast, assume nuking winds - all that really changes is the temp and the extent of precip cool regardless - what did you rap? south side or north? 3 distinct rap lines off the beatard monolith
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[TR] Mt. Hood - north face right gully 1/2/2013
ivan replied to christophbenells's topic in Oregon Cascades
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You have high standards. musta been all those years in prison
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does it really matter what the girl who's blowing you looks like?
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i almost managed the same standing glissade in strap-less crocs...almost. it was deja vu all over again, john
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is this a "price is right" scenario? closest w/o goign over?
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chavez - 4/20/13 at 4:20 exactly
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mist falls was crashing n' booming in the darkness just now - w/ temps rising over the next few days, thinking this cold-spell's a bust
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the columbia river gorge is NOT in, least the western part crux of me n' the hund's journey just now were slipping down icy slopes in strap-less crocks, big chunks of mist falls trying to smush us in the darkness n' not crashing and burning on an iiiiiiicy 84
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"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"
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but not, i hear, on wine