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don't make me start doing more beacon tr's goddammit! the glacier remnant pic is sweet - now sprain an ankle or something, i gotta go hangout w/ my fam's in colorado for a week and can't climb shit, got it?

but the thing is, you are a lunatic - it's kinda hard to defend the crazy, no? my example, should you actually care to read this, is the exact quote of mine you took above - "grave robber" - the post you took that from literally said your profession was not in question, that i and others in fact actually understand and respect the profession of archaeology (an anecdote i omitted in that thread, but now add - my favorite arch professor was a guy named Jim Deetz - his shit about the meaning of house shapes in the se usa was a bit beyond me, but man he was captivating to listen to - my favorite trick of his, one i've longed to reproduce as a teacher but am sadly restricted from was this; he'd often do an entire lecture w/ a cig in his mouth, talking non-stop, w/ a match in his hand - often he'd light the match and threaten the smoke, but never once did he light it - it was fucking mesmerizing and he was a lively and personable and fascinating archeologist and teacher and i can't see an iota of him in you so quit hiding behind him, you phd-wannabe-troglodyte!)

guys like this are why my parents have to STFU about me climbing - thanks for that, crusty ancient alpine climbing monster!

i doubt any of you would post this kind of sheit if'n you had a kid suffering from developmental disabilities. that might be true, but that doesn't make it any less funny - if you can't laugh about the worst shit in life, how on earth are you going to keep from drinking the koolaid?

dawg, are you sure your mangina isn't acting up? while this particular post IS a personal attack, my previous one, which despite rewording KK's joke conceded yours could well be the best view of bolting, was hardly a "personal attack on your profession" - such an attack would have more along the lines of "archaeologists are cock-sucking grave robbers, and you are clearly the big-bull-cock-sucker of them all" - i thought i was being all considerate and what not, but maybe my wife is right? at any rate, seeing that i majored in history, teach social studies, took a number of archeology and anthropology classes at uva (founded by the man who was america's first archeologist no less)and have been to practically every damn natural history museum in the western world 'cuz i'm a geek and actually interested in that shit, i think i have at least an inkling of "a clue" - mind you, i'm not saying i could tell the difference from hieratic or hieroglyphic writing or pontificate widely on egyptian history before and after the hyksos invasions, but i do know slightly more about egypt and archeology than what i saw in "stargate" and "raiders"

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not that kev needs defenders, but have you done his "methrage" route out there joe? an interesting trad counterpoint to the bolts... Ivan. Bryan and I completed the first pitch to Methrage a couple of month ago. FA's still going up at the zone. JH. No bolts were added. Its all gear. Now you can to it in one pitch. Its starts in the corner to the right of the first pitch of route 66. is it still a quasi-choss suicide route?

it's only horrible if you're not huffing raw ether and amyl nitrates while adding yer own inanity to the spray-stream Is that from one of the synoptic Gospels? Maybe, Acts? one of the vedas i think - i forget the original sanskrit wording

not that kev needs defenders, but have you done his "methrage" route out there joe? an interesting trad counterpoint to the bolts...

I dunno... this thread might give the "climbers for Christ" thread a run for its money. That in itself may be a reason to continue. . there seem to be far more "cunts for christ" do you think the 200+ children i saw dressed in fatigues, organized into platoons, marching up the beacon rock hiking trail shouting bizarre jesus shit the other day were climbers for jc?

holy shit! a 1200 ft fixed line rap

Constructing elaborate tombs for self-professed "Gods" to guarantee passage into an afterlife is indeed nothing more than human vanity at its worst. not that often that i agree w/ kkk, but i do see the humor he's getting at - being rabidly anti-rock desecration while devoting your life to the study of an ancient people who are the most well remembered by the general public for their giant works of machined stone IS ironic - it don't mean you're an asshole though (r even wrong), dig?

uh, john-boy frieh - he was dabbling in the spray-fuck today, quite unlike a wise-man of his stripe, so figured he need some intreweb-lov'n

it's only horrible if you're not huffing raw ether and amyl nitrates while adding yer own inanity to the spray-stream

naw, as it's 2 feet above and below fixed pins i mostly just look at it and smile, but when the pins fall out i'll be set! and anyhow, joe's intimately familiar w/ the hilarity that is my rawk-star-style (christ, i actually had to use a sling for a stirrup at the top of blownout today - all this aid climbing has made me Da Suck!)

somewhere just a little bit below where you're supposed to head off skiers left as bug says above - there's a big old tree w/ an established rap setup - from there i seem to recall you bear left and pick up a trail that still requires you to climb back up 100 feet or so to the base of the wall

john's done some work to forestall bolting at beacon - saw yer fixed green alien while climbing blownout today dood, it's still in great shape, and hella better than that rusted bullshit on the second pitch!

but my comments are cheeky and funny - its others who have to be cruel and tragic

i've never been able to do that walkoff in the dark and not have to rap once, where you're supposed to scramble back onto the face where it's exposed as hell

did ya'll do the death slab approach kyle? man, the view of it from the shoulder is intimidating!

if you don't have a hobby, you're likely to get into no-telling what kinda wierd shit

so, what, yer gonna figure out the answer to a rydberg formula whilst climbing W/O having to write nothing down?!? sport vs trad is like fake tits vs regular tits - does it really matter that much so long as yer balls deep in the whore?

i sure wish i could

A liter of tequila, 20 miligrams of mescaline, some crayola crayons, duct tape, and 40 yards of bailing twine. a tape-recorder and a shotgun mike are also useful, or so i hear

so, i understand why they broke into the interior of my car and stole everythign, including my third wedding ring - i even understand why they'd want to steal my gas too - but isn't the easiest way to get gas out just siphoning it strait out the fuel port w/ a tube? why did they find it necessary to take a hacksaw and sever the fuel hose? i'll add that this was a fun discovery to make at the gas station, when i looked at the car while cleaning the window only to notice a giant pool of gasoline was forming under my car