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it's never too wet to aid climb!

there are no stupid questions, only stupid people

which 5 perchance? i bet there are more you can do, especially if you're willing to relax your sense of style a bit

to spare my children this spectacle, i ahve decreed the daily bedtime as 930 a.m.

oddly, the lesson battleship was we should build a giant navy of nothing but destroyers

i don't know if its the wine or my wife, but this suceeded in coalescing into a gaint gut laugh

Its a poor choice of sport for us big guys my favorite "caving" expereince was finishing the top of iconoclast/whatever on scw in late october - following he pressure chamber in the dark w/ a pack on - an extreme sense of claustorphobia choking hte life from me - falling out into the darkness, hanging in space - my fat prusiks sliding on the sport rope we were climbing with - ow!

pat - starting next week my wife n' responsiblities are gone for 5 weeks! the next 2 i'm gonna be homebasing out of seattle and have some open plans - josh and i are thinking about several things - ne but j'berg/formidable linkup, the cool n face climb of redoubt, bear, etc. wanna get on board?

i notice that several people here appear to have an opinion about something

exxxxcceeeelent! and for your hard work i award you the highest honor i can bestow:

their side of the rock was super stormy today - completly mist shrouded - climbing on the n side under the giant roof by headspace however was dry n' sweeeet! off a week from today for the mighty summer - last school of today ( !) - the falcons can lick my taint - 5 weeks from now, after squampton, n cascades and the valley, it'll be there, sans all the harsh'n'my'mellow signs for that good season, the fall and its storms, and no crowds!

aye, and a mighty mighty prominence it is! what it lacks in verticality in more than makes up for in adventureness as its 75% covered in poison oak badass day at beacon today ya'll! pouring rain but snugged under the triple rooves of goodness by head space miker and i ed it out - the best was trying to tr the aid route we like w/ no directionals - at the 5.12 bit we inevitably peal and take giiiiiiant swings out into space and lower each other just right so as to drop each other at insane speeds, swinging through the soaked brush!

never underestimate the enthusiasm of a man w/ a drill

There are a couple of boulders at Beacon, off to the left of the trail to the top (in the foresty area), Hwy 14 side. I'm not sure it's worth making an entire trip just for them though... also down the west side talus field there's 1 and li'l beacon rock itself, up by the camping ground

my 1 pant leg/1 short leg zip-off debacle yet triumphant ascent of slesse

maybe he was busy fixing the cable?

for a man who's always in such a hurry, you sure do take a lot of pictures cool pix - they capture the work of the glaciers 'round there quite well.

"old soldiers don't die, they just fade away..."

seems like it'd be hella more dangerous than on a cliff too! i've been reading "salt" lately, a history of that tasty product, and it mentions that over the previous centuries dozens of salt miners from celtic times, 2k+ years ago, have been unearthed in salt mines where caveins trapped them - the salt in the caves generally totalled preserved their corpses and even increased the brightness of their clothes the closest i care to get to caving is climbing "the mines of moria" at smiff

so what is the caving application? trying to cut a hole through a wall so you can keep exploring? why would you want this?

i'm not concerned about us being bs'ed again to support a potential invasion of n korea - unlike iraq, we would stand very little chance of having a great sucess against near impregnable defenses of the dmz - the conclusion of the korean war (well, never really any conclusion, but the final year of intense fighting) was clear: conventional weapons can not yield victory there, at least not w/o ww2 levels of casualities. we'd have to nuke them, and that's way too crazy to happen, imho.

it's not hard to understand why a person who was literate in history would be slow to decry a group a people as worthy of destruction based on their creed (or quick to harsh on jesusanity)

badasses don't die! get well curt, and why not stop pissing off thor while yer at it?

"call me sir goddamit!"

delineating between the stupidest/cruelest/best/worst of faiths when they all involve believing in an invisible man/woman/spaghetti-monster in the sky is an inherently silly enterprise