ivan

the words "rime" and "safe" don't seem right to put in the same sentence

the whole lot, sans article, is on ng's site: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/yosemite-climbing/chin-photography

i read the article today - great pix of course, for krisakes its national geographic, but this epitomizes everything that i think sucks about the present and summarizes what was So Fawking Kewl about the Hallowed Past: "Climbing in the 70s was about adventure much as about athletics. Today its evolved into vertical gymnastics....Consider the 30 or so climbers who show up a party at Potters cabin. In the old days such a gathering would be a rager, roaring till dawn. No longer. Nobody smokes, hardly anybody drinks...one and all are in bed before midnight..." hanging out in the valley sans smokes n sangria?!?

i knew your weren't critical, just thought it odd that you wouldn't understand why others would be - you know well that politics in general, especially those of the climbing world, are very, very silly - for many, climbing everest, and especially writing about climbing everest, automatically makes you a lame-ass poser

you don't need to win me over - i actually liked into thin air and the devils thumb essay is sweeeet - i would think you of all posters would politics though

climb everest?

i'd be more excited if the likely winner was likely to do a fucking thing w/ his rousing mandate anyone notice who he took on as his new chief of staff a few weeks back? i'm not real sure how the obama-llama is head and shoulders beyond dubya

i'm too lazy to follow links, so if you want me to read a bit of anything, might as well post it here

the middle class has been thoroughly unnecessary since the robotic uprising on the mid 1990s [video:youtube]

tc's the only place i've ever been where NOT taping was NOT an option

3 cups is my downstairs bathroom book - i like to fight the natural inclination to take 10 year shits - in that respect 3 cups is perfect - in 4 months i think i'm on page 40 anytime a man refers to himself in the third person (let alone chapter after chapter) you gotta wander what the fuck is going on

god in heaven, even ben stein thinks taxes should be raised! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/17/sunday/main20054719.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13

french mtns's

i like it when people bring dogs or children to that there location

at 6'6", enough for me to throw in my harness

You sure talk about this kind of stuff a lot Ivan. Just saying wish i could take the credit for that wonderful bit of dark poetry

sounds like somethign a feller would do to another feller in the morning w/o the goddamn human courtesy of providing a reach around

wtf is brown carrot? all the google wants to give me is fucking recipes?

"marginal European graph of herring catches per fortnight ratios" clearly, pat, you were schooled in the english school of debate which puts as prime an emphasis on insult as explanation.

certainly the best TR from the perspective of the video content: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=986704

nice - genius quote in there: "to be truly the best of tr's, you must first master the fine art of balancing blatant crassness w/ hyperbolic horseshit either that or take some decent fucking pictures shots of chicks doing handstands on the summit is another certain path to sucess"

Did Layton put on a few pounds and bleach his hair? christ, you're fucking dead-on!

i neither throw my hands up nor pick the simplest course of action in a moment - i don't mind and frequently do discuss details ad nasuem, and just point out eventually its time to stfu and DO somethign other than bitch back and forth - my sense of "tax the rich" is a broad one, and really, not divorcing myself from the group to pitch in - fuck, as a public employee, for years now i've acquiesced w/o excessive complaint to no small amount of sacrifice for the Greater Good - end exemptions, increase marginal rates, thresholds, whatever, just bring more cash in and jesus-fuck, quit spending inordinately on dipshit stuff like the maintainence of a global empire

as if the choices are that "simple". of course they're not, but in the end the relentless discussion of detail does miss the simple point: what, in your gut, is just? off for a good long run in the rain - get this thing fixed and get back to me, eh?

good thing you took up aid-climbing BEFORE life went and beat the shit out of you!