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hard to complain 'bout it not raining...

a solar-powered anything is daft here in the damp-west...

free 4 some has your name all over it! no need for a partner if you have a gri-gri - i'm off for index in the morning or i'd take you up on the offer...

8/22 - 3 week beacon-hiatus - i'm in danger of losing my BRCA membership - been cavorting w/ the fam in colorado and at the oregon coast, coincidentally during the bitter depth of that 100+ pdx heatwave when the beach temps were damn near in the 40s each night - managed a dragontail clamber in thare too the phuzzy made a public-transit trip to rendezvous w/ me in damned washoughal after a wicked reintroduction to work for me at the crack of dawn - climbed young warriors - a baker's half-dozen of wing enabled wave riding wacky-boys out beyond the island - elk herds grazing - good times! closed out the evening w/ little wing to the 1st pitch of right gull and then a sad attempt at tr'ing the off-width on wrong gull that got clubbed-on-the-head at just the right hour

i say yes!

everyday i am training to be greatest 5.11 climber

unkanny similarity between that frog and yerself, big pat

how do you get a girlfriend to take a proposition to camp up the big beaver seriously?

hardly - the internet don't let you actually get piss on your prey

dunno, they appear to be getting a plenty-good thrashing already

after so many weeks, i thought you was never gonna be writing up this t.r. boy-o! congrats on surviving the canuckistani border and scoring an alpine summit worth remembering - what's next?

it's also worth pointing out that there's really only something like a half dozen of regular clibmers out at the fabulous bacon-wand who do anything like real bitching, on the interwebz or otherwise - most of us just find it a convenient spot to get a burn on and generally chuckle our asses off while there, no?

heretic, heretic! if i had a teleporter or a real job i'd sure climb in yosemite n' index more often

further interesting to note, then, that bacon-politics is pretty much the same as regular politics - everyone wants to bitch, but hardly anybody really wants to be directly involved!

interesting to note there is a 10 to 1 views to replies ratio for this thread - wouldn't that indicate that really the only people bothering to view the thread are those who are actually participating? wouldn't that mean it's not really, if truly negative, driving folks away from the overall site? geoff, you bucking to become the moderator for the forum, 'cuz i'm sure off would looooove to wash his hands of it?!

not that i've been participating in the conversation in any fashion north of negative or south of unfunny, but wasn't the whole bacon forum created to contain the inevitable beacon-based carping in an abode that all but the concerned would be eschewing anyhow? the only way to keep most of the beatards posting on this website from bitching or bitching about the bitchers is to put a bullet in'em, which, while undeniably utilitarian, fails several key tests of common morality viva la beacon!

my final hurray before school begins again - i'm free as of noon on wendsday and could do whatever - girth pillar or anything on stuart? infinite bitching? wa pass? picketts? bear mtn?

i'm not convinced the america of the 2010s is churning out fewer decent scientists than the america that won the cold war and put meat-puppets on the moon as there were certainly plenty of bushels of brain-dead bastards then too - the relative decline of our land compared to many other locations seems a logical result of their increasing industrial and modernization as well - that said, the candidates for our perceived decline are numerous: a decline in overall living standards for a broad-swath of the country, an upward spiral of adoration of dipshit reality sideshows by the young, a tendency to reduce complex problem-solving down to simple tests, problems in finding qualified folks willing to teach difficult subjects for far less than they can get in the private field w/ the same skills, etc., etc. - if you can figure it all out, be sure to write a book about it to add to the billions of others already out there on the subject!

indeed! is old girl done turned over a new leaf, or just building up for the mother of all epics?

the rockies are in the cascades? too bad ye ain't local no mo - i got nobody and wendsday-sunday to work with...

i can aid 5.11 pretty reliably i can also out-drink most 5.11 climbers too, which is perhaps more important since they have hotter girlfriends more often than not

you in washington, scott? my school's piloting the new tpep system this year, for both principals and teachers, and i'm one of the guinea pigs in theory at least, both ends of the food chain are to be evaluated annually now, and test scores are (again, in theory) supposedly just a small part of the whole shebang - the whole state will be using it soon hereafter...

you keep climbing w/ yourself so much you gonna go blind, boy!

jesus, how does a man even get a pair of size 16 plastic boots?!?

adventure! slow down now, chick, you're gonna run out of rainier routes to do