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loved living near linville...

betelgeuse, betelgeuse, betelgeuse!

sometime early next week - gotta work all the mornings, but have done and enjoyed in the past an evening to early morning climb w/ time left to get back to work by 7 the day after - luethold or s side is easiest...

mixing cheap burgundy and fosters (its australian for budweiser!!!) and a 101+ temp at the moment

fucking crazy talk, that is.

true 'dat - though likely it woulda come w/ even more poison oak scars on yer nutsack i look forward to fucking w/ it in summer - i'd climb other places then beacon more often if'n the good lord helped me win the lottery

the smell of rockfall brings out the pagan in me, and fear compells me then to throw the nearest virgin i can find into the fire

engineers seem to be the most agrro trundlers too

thought that was churchill? 98% of statistics are simply made up.

that's b/c you don't know how to serve them properly... w/ white wine and a fine tangy bbq sauce, preferably also w/ some down-south cole-slaw is a decent start

hate to see to people having fun....

thank god george w's set us a precedent for ignoring such things! clearly the whole world needs to legalize the yerba del diablo - but just as states seem to have to bring the usa around, so i suppose nation-states will have to individually change the global society - forutnately the taliban shouldn't be an obstacle in this case

whooping cough - what a pitching name for a disease shingles, not so much i loved the fudge shingles on my mama's gingerbread houses pertussis doesn't sound like a disease w/ the same degree of shit-consequences as tetanus n' polio

i'll be out there sunday soaking up the promised sunshine - holy shit, 2 days of no rain and maybe reachign 50!?! we might be able to free climb sumthang. need to do the brca meeting on the swiss family ledge the first decent weekend after the closure to capitalize on all those rare emotions! might remind folks there are Other Beacon-wands In the Lives of Men

the nice thing about not giving the chicken pox vaccine is: a) if they get sick you probably already had it so are immune and can laugh as their candy-asses bitch and itch and b) by the time they develop shingles as old people you'll be dead anyway

if you die b/c of a rope failure its a sign dog really didn't like you

i thought robert byrd died last summer?

You want sodden? Try sea kayaking in a light gale. did you end up w/ poison oak all over yer ballz in the end though?

"it's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" 'baggers are probably anti-pot b/c they're the types who, when they do smoke, end up drinking the bong water and running around screaming "i'm a tree, i'm a tree, i'm a HAPPY tree!!!"

yeah, mike and i saw all that shit that had come tumbling down, obliterating a good chunk of the trees in the way - i was glad not to be in the neighborhood i woulda been out there 2day but my shit's still wet nothing stays clean out there unless its done quite regularly - not bitching about it really, explains why aiding's often easiest - i think most of the obscure lines in the book weren't done more than a few times and were just cleaned then enough to get it done - so by that rationale, only free climbs that have the potential to be done a bunch are worth cleaning much - jensen's rectum probably fits the bill - you can downclimb the ridge over the railing, then you'd need just a single rap anchor to do a double rope rap to the pipeline headwall anchor omfg my oozing skin makes me want to hurl

"they don't grow up, ma'am, they just get tubby"

I'm a bit confused here. I thought we were climbers? fuck, i have patches of zombie flesh popping up all over me - poison oak, a poignant reminder that, if god exits, he's a malicious asshhole

to stoke up righeous indignation, can i at least make a credible cause for bolted anchors along this side? the current inability to rap down to any of the rts downridge of big ledge consigns them all to oblvion - i'd like to be able to go from that big switchback in the trail to a pt just about the jensen's nothc, then plumb down from there...

seeing's how it's not out of the realm of possibilities that some other motherfucka done did it in the way'back era, it could actually have another more legitimate name - i was just, ya know, trying to stick w/ a theme, given that these 2 pitches i've done are a species of variation of jensen's ridge (apparently a very old route at beacon too, and wicked proud for those old boys) - jensen's ridge, rimjob, and rectum - the rectum fits too, as a descriptive - it was pouring muddy water y-day, albeit not quite body temp i doctored this photo of joe's i found online to show those rare-climbed lines on the taint-end of the bacon-wand - orange is jensen's ridge, red is jensens rimjob, yellow is jensens rectum (the skull is where a lot of blocks need to get cast off when a belayer's not below) - pink is pipeline is the access to the rectum and green is pipedream, which i need to do again and look at the top out from there...

i'm guessing, based on the pix at least, you didn't do this climb today?