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there's still plums to be picked in the arena of doom where the original dodd's jam exits (ya'll can have it! ) and the area around riverside n' the new village route too - the w side is so overgrown now of course that any ascent over there qualifies as a fa in my book!

yes, it is completly fine to have mixed routes at beacon - some of the best routes there have bolts/fixed pins - blownout, pipeline headwall, s'wulf, shit, even the corner!

body belay!!!

cool drill - nice n' light - can actually wear this one on my harness and not feel like my pants are about to fall off

i've done that - 5.9ish - skerry belay at top as there's essentially no gear to belay from - made my partners improptu decision to prusik the pitch shortly after falling repeatedly at the starting crux exciting!

he done moved off! (admmitedly after doing damn near everything there was to do in the area already though )

Don't. Unless you want me to stop climbing with you. Yes you did. That was the most idiotic thing I've ever seen you do. You'll end up like your "hero" Chris McCandless if you keep doing things like this. It WAS retarded. Amazingly retarded. I don't know why you see it in such a good light, people were fearing for your life. Nobody knew where you were or why, I told your mom to call SAR. You shouldn't take pride in this trip. I consider it one of your biggest failures. People will tell you "Nice TR!" and "Good job Josh!" but don't let it affect you. They weren't there, standing around the phone receiver, waiting nervously for days while wondering where the hell you were and if you were dead or alive. Don't burn your bridges. -Mark well put! getting killed anywhere outside yer bed gives the whole world the right to kick you (posthumosly) in the nards i do plenty of shit solo and am plenty renowned as an ass-munch, but i do at least give my family a basic idea of where i'm goign and when i oughta be back the problem w/ mcandless' (n' laurence of arabia's for that matter) philsophies are that their dead dead people are intensely boring - never do a goddamn thing n' smell like shit

i woulda liked to have seen how that fucker got back down

i did narrow overhang this past summer - can't recall it fir'shit, but apparently i did it w/ just cam hooks n' hand-placed beaks i do remember the anchor i built at the bottom though http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=893851

*fraked up interwebs*

off the hook? dude w/ 3rd most trs?

speaking of not wearing a helmet...

it's all fun n' games n' 80 lbs n' wasting away in a moldy-smelling bus there are many annapurnas in the life of man

dunno, but my lawnmower sure did wreck a holocaust upon them today

You need to give me a lap tour before I leave on the 21st. How about later this week? would like a partner for sometime this week to finish the last pitch - wanna etch yer name into the history of the mighty b? as for a lap, that'll take most of a day as its iii/iv'ish, so would have to be saturday/sunday - watcha think?

you're doing a fine job ow - kenny's just spending a few months angry for therapautic reasons

zero climbers cars other than the red devil at bacon - 30 knot winds n' clouds probably helped make up their coward-hearted constitutions!

say what you want about the farside but goddamn - walking through last night looking for jim after finishing up w/ beacon, wild purple flowers in bloom all along the base, really nicely cleaned up/level trail, and exits on both ends now - a nice addition for certain - easier to accomodate big ozone like crowds but much less likely to get thronged like that - not bad, even if the climbs are all 20 feet tall!

it's newer n' about the same as everythign else at ozone in terms of difficulty

seems like i ain't seen too many others souls climbing at beacon lately, for all the talk about beacon climbers don't know what the weather was like in l-worth today but holy shit it was nuking from the east!

great analogy, if the usa is said blonde - what blonde chick in a bar can't be paid off to do the most insane things?

i was told this thread would be catered?

kenny's pain meds appear to have done wore off

they cut off but one of its many thousands of hydra heads more like