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that letter's in "the proud highway" which you'd dig on too then bill - hunter apparently was a nutso for making carbon-copies of his correspondence - think he released 3 volumns in all? only made it through the 1st though...

i feel insufficiently funny to answer your question

'cuz its all flat on top?

yeah, but rick was leading! so....did he finish it up to the anchor?

woulda been funnier if he'd shit his pants n' hurled in the process

did the upper pitch above riverside yday w/ the mighty justinp - fuck, how did i get WORSE at climbing the first pitch after 2 years? the ratty anchor's still there, still good enough, and still sporting my 2 year old cordalette - good to have a big nut or .5-.75 cam to actually put the load on though we topped out to the norseman's head, my only excuse for doing such a lame job of leading the business pitch of riverside - justin led from the 1st anchor to the pin at the base of the short, steep crack that marks the exit of the arena of dome - funky, funky climbing, but worth it for the adventure - seconding it, i discovered an old abandoned anchor out on the arete, looking down into the chasm - 3 old 1/4 inchers w/ the nuts n' washers rust-welded to the studs and no hangers - clipped all the annoying brush on the last pitch to encourage the masses to enjoy this neglected corner of hell

good time of year for ice cragging on the elliot glacier though, as the pix show

the crime of the century!

one of the few times i didn't i pile-drived my skull into an overhanging chunk of rock, leaving plenty of blood, skin n' hair all over the place

how did this not end up as prop 420?

no fair - moof, like, learned lessons from our climb to make the 2nd trip up the thing way more gangsta! your just not having fun unless your screaming at the haul system! glad to hear no alcohol was abandoned on the summit this time. my fav pic of dr moof-instein from our mideast crisis trip

godfuckingdammit i fucking hate when the only decent comment i have to contribute gets fucking taken before i can fucking cut loose! fucking retard indeed not that i ever met him...

everytime someone posts in this thread, a kitty has to die.

put a blue dmm nut on p3 2night and my boy said it was like, gonna break his nails n' shit to get it out, so there it sits...gonna be out there saturday but would like to not have to reclimb the route - reckon i could slide the better part of a pack of camels to a would-be rescuer suuuure do like my near doulbe set of offset nuts...

"barry" is silent on the issue b/c he's not an idiot - clinton taking the issue on demonstrated the effect it will have on a democratic president- there's enough momentum to fix the injustice w/o him - you don't need DADT to deal w/ adulterers in the army, eh? regardless of this chick being a shitbird, the issue itself is more important. if DADT was dead already, it'd be much easier to deal w/ her, no? an appropriate h.l. mencken quote for the occasion? "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

word - been vainly hoping i'll someday be in good enough shape to take it on - oughta just go aid the fucking thing and scratch it off the list...sigh.

vesper peak - not exactly off the i90 but still close - recent tr's would indicate you can get yerself messed up there if yer not careful though!

my thoughts exactly - holy shit that coulda sucked a lot worse!

beaconben's got a retard-hardon for that route, if'n you want his opinion

how many of your 9 lives have you used up now girl?

holy shit, and here i am all day figuring i ain't doing anythign right... so what's yer enlightened opinion on the issue then, not fully retarded boy?

easy - climb to big ledge via dods or whatever, or just rap in from the trail - traverse at the level of big ledge over to wher ethe anchor is - good chance it's more than 30 meters from the top anchor to the windsurfer anchor squeeze box is the climb that needs to be cleaned of big branches -that oughta be easier and take you to the dastardly anchor above big ledge gonna be out there 2morrow w/ mike and might could be interested in setting it up, if you gonna be around

sure - could clean out the crack too of the trees and use 1/2 inch cams above the current anchor

on a via ferrata route?

You mean JH missed an anchor? Say it an't so. seem to recall it's a beacon hybrid anchor - a bolt and a pin - think i didn't have a knife and couldn't cut out the old mank that was through the pin