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all alone w/ a fit, cute girl in a godforsaken wilderness for days of end - musta been puuuuuure hell! ya'll are all set for the ptarmigan traverse, should you be wishing to take your true-thing a bit further north

7/28 - warm n' sunny n' breezy - climbed w/ bob n' the phuzzy, both of whom did piss-poor jobs of Minding the Poisons - majestic snow-white n' toffee-brown owl winging about the arena of doom for a good half-hour - dod's to top-rope windsurfer - pumped stupid after that and the accumulation of yday - then free 4 all via the retard right start - snuff-porn wannabe free solo for 40 fucking feet, foot-stacking in constrictions n' lie-backing to get there, but a good gut-laugh, au-chevel style, at the pillar-top - jim showed late, grumpy to be tobacco-short as he tempts fate to quit - nose-trainers doing fine big-wall machinations, swinging from groudn-zero to flying swallow to practice their pendulums - dave n' crackman n' kyle flitting about - camas days clusterfucking the commute on back home! 7th day at beacon this season

sad conclusion wise sir, do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in morning 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 like bill and would be greatly surprised if'n he ever took liberties w/ a pooch or any other sort of meat-puppet!

nice - that one video would be cool to see too - next time we do this i gotta bring my camera and get some shit of you - the slab pitch would be neat to have a solist w/ a camera above as you come up

royal arches sounds a better fit for this ole'boy, but holy shee-it, the way you describe it, maybe even i could climb the east butt of ze cap-i-tan!

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings." Laurence J. Peter

we're afraid you might hurt somebody we're afraid you might hurt yourself so we decided to get you the help you needed

7/27 - no one bit on the partner offer, so i spent a leisurely mornign w/ the little people - coffee n' bacon n' cats - went out to beacon at 3, uncertain what to do, packed for anything, and decided along the way, in honor of the olympics, to set a goal to climb as many solo laps as possible on the corner before getting back to the house for pizza n' wine w/ the wife in the evening - settled for 4 laps (bacon-flavored half dome day? BFHDD?) - could have done more i reckon, but ran into the company of Known Felons after lap 1 and that took a little bit of the wind out of my sails - did the pleasant last lap w/ denalidave, overladen w/ one beer, me ashamed to have left my gin n' juice in the rig for the celebratory drive home perfect day, weather-wise, compared to yday - overcast, cool, variable winds - stoked to see a 3-some spending a night on ground zero, complete w/ double haul-bags n' ledge(s?) (didn't see room for the 3rd, what horrid price did he have to pay i wonder?) - thought to aid-solo ground zero i had, but they skunked me, and then that bastard timetravel'n'steve took my free 4 sum backup! a pox on all their houses!

have they already contacted the us state department for assistance through their consulate in peru?

no smith/steins pillar/menagerie tr's? beacon? kkkalifornia? i like being able to see them all grouped so easily

uh...nothing? kinda why the bugs are so kewl? colchuck lakes's got a buncha great routes all from one camp, but no glacier - so too (awesome to boot!) does cathedral lake why out in the wayback of the okanagon (that ain't spelled right) - back to l-worth area, get a permit to camp on snow up in the enchantments and there's prusik and many, many other options - there just aren't really that many glaciers near decent rock in this here state, no?

congrats - hoooooooly shit am i glad to be done w/ winston-churchill lookalikes after that brief visit to the doctor!

this could definitely be taken two ways

my domestic services seem unnecessary tomorrow - anyone got time for beacon? takes fist? jensens? ground zero? complete stephenwulf? whatevers.... pm me or scream very loudly here

7/26 - cruise'n to young warriors w/ nastia - bit of a scorcher after noon, specially for the devushka clad all in black - shiiiiiity roadwork delays on 14 my services are not required for domestic work tomorrow - anyone want to climb all day? takes fist? ground zero? jensens ridge? whatever...

X2 - this route is the principal reason i decided, way back in the halcyon days of the 1st W administration, to move out here to the glorious pacific northwest

adams and hood are of course much lower, and much less extensively glaciated, than rainier

at ages 6 n' 8 though, they appear unready to weigh in on the momentous david lee roth v sammy hagar thang - the boy MIGHT like "hot for teacher" more though than anything on 5150

7/23 - 2 corner laps in a little more than an hour and done in time to get kids to the dentist, then a long walk by waterfalls (even introducing the bastardos to "5150" along the way, just for you, kev ) Surprised we missed you. was gone by 11 - ran into the phuzzy n' pcg though - who'dya climb w/?

more pix or it didn't happen! sure, stuie's n ridge is big n' cool, but if ye haven't set your eyes on slesse....

7/23 - 2 corner laps in a little more than an hour and done in time to get kids to the dentist, then a long walk by waterfalls (even introducing the bastardos to "5150" along the way, just for you, kev )

It's been done but it is dodgy. Sertac Olgun was killed there under similar conditions in 2009 when a serac fell over and landed on him. I would recommend caution or waiting until later in the year. or maybe just bring the nitro!?!

gotta love any trip w/a partner who doesn't threaten to consume your share of the booze woulda loved to see pix of the pooch handling the cavern part of the cathedral dog route!