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apparently my 3 extra inches ruins everything it wasn't all that, just memorable - i seem to recall on the return part that it interfered unacceptably w/ my smoking

holy shit, now that woulda been cool! the mouth cave pretty much sucks to sit in as is - wtf happened to them?

the 18 some odd quickdraws got bootied by the party immediately before us, 'fore we had a chance at 'em! joe, if you're refering to that slackline setup, it's still seeing plenty of use - rercently watched some total mutants playing on that and the slackline into the west face cave - i was tempted but a wee bit too adled at the time i feared

so that would sound like his decision to solo saved another guy from dying, no?

i find spinach palatable only after frying it in bacon fat

from experience though, its shockingly easy to get the scrip, plus a wealth of other expedition drugs (including morphine!)

at any rate, if'n you wanna escape shitty weather, it usually involves driving a while, eh?

yeah, oughta be shorter if you come in from the us side - the approach wouldn't suck either if you could ski it

curious avatar too - origin?

pat and i came in from b.c. a couple years ago - he has a tr for it in his collection here - the us side is a gaint mule trail in summer, but maybe is still a lot of snow now? either way, it's a full approach day to get back in there - the bivy at the lake by cathedral is astro-fucking-cool

cool - i call that the "west face cave" but neck works too i reckon

cathedral provincial park in B.C. is in that shadow too i think, and you'd dig it josh! a lot of open country wilderness and some really funky, craggy, sweet mountains that hide in the glacier-scoured landscape - i know you'd shit yourself for the standard route on cathedral - veeery cool and w/n your comfort zone.

you obviously weren't a braves fan growing up

you can have my bottle a booze when it slips out of my sweaty, sweaty hands bitch! the last thing i need is more testosterone i try to only when i'm awake

when my brother was 6 he learned how to write his name, right aroudn the time my dad bought a new car dad n' ma went out on a date, but didn't take the new car babysitter was no doubt stuffing her cakehole and watching tv when chris went out to the garage in some reptilian center of his brain he thought, "gee, dad sure would be proud to see how i can write my name - now, where should i write it and with what?" the car seemed the proper answer to the first question, and a steel brush to the second i can't recall if my dad ever exacted $2500 worth of sweet, sweet revenge out of his eldest boy, or if the babysitter ended up in the bottom of a shallow grave somewhere in the vast expanse of ft hood, texas, but i do remember i got off on a technicality - while my name did too appear on the car, scratched in with much tinier letters a 1/4 deep, i was still shitting meself in diapers and was really only guilty of pointing out to big bro that it wasn't fair his name was all of over the ride and i was totally unrepresented congrats on weathering this storm in fine style!

according to the symptoms listed here, i appear to be continously deficient of 5% of my body weight in water

"wise sir, do not grieve. it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning -for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end. let he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be his best and only bulwark"

not certain i know what you mean by "neck cave" bill - you talking 'bout bonn street at the base of the bolt ladder? - can you show me a picture w/ circles n' arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what it is? ...and actually tell your story...the preview was excellent...maybe even make a retro TR of it? dane's been doing such tomfoolery of late! met your turkish friend hidaugh (sp?) while belaying geoff on the west face aid route - seems like a cool dude - i got to work out my feeble knowledge of turkish history on him

tyler, did you mean you rap into the MOUTH cave? on rap from the usual anchors at the nose it didn't look to me that 30 meters would get you back to anything once below the mouth.

now that's fucking funny - and wtf, he had an ice pick? umm, dont' the good folks at BD have a whole array of sweet sharp things to fight back w/?

well, from 300 feet away mostly i'd say he looked like an animated raisin

tr's w/o photos or witty/vulgar dialouge = subpar come on, put yer back into it!

we did the w face variation to the nose cave, then rapped off w/ some good ol'boys, then did the first pitch of the west face aid route - watched a guy solo nw passage above us while belaying geoff - he looked to be having a gay-old time so where does the first 30 meter rap off of the monkey's nose put you when rapping the pioneer route?

...or getting the monkey off? in my eternal quest to make even the mundane magical, i neglected to bring my tagline to smiffistan w/ me y-day - undeterred, geoff and i set out to climb the west variation and the northwest passage of the monkey- we were able to hitch a ride down w/ a couple members of the horde that were gang-fucking the gorilla after we did our token free-route - we didn't end up going above the first pitch of the west face enroute to nw passage though as impending storm and the realization that our 60 meter rope wouldn't get us back down to the ground in 1 rap from there shook our assumptions about bailing out of the west face cave down the west face route. probably for the best as, after a quick run up spiderman, we got poured on during the walk out, which would have lent a certain desperation to a dubious rap session off the monkey. so, long question short: what are the various ways of bailing off the monkey w/ a single 60 m, both from the summit and from the w face cave?

wow - thanks for the link - maybe i'll just take a shitty car and ram it? the advice, once you pass the monument and hit the creek, is just stay on the left side of the creek and have faith - it will totally dissappear at times, and occasionally you'll even have to wander uphill a bit, but it's there - eventually it will end at a giant waterfall, where the trail finding gets kinda simpler don't be like tvash and fuck up early on and walk for 5 miles in the wrong direction on the overgrown forest roads!