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on a side note, if the government would like to work on evening out the budget deficit and can't sink to the level of a bake-sale for the cause, i'm quite sure they could waterboard cheney on pay-per-view for $49.99/set and make enough to buy a whole wing of b-2 bombers!

perhaps you could scan them in or give us your condensded version? i imagine it'll be along the lines of: - starting too late/not turning around in time - too large a group - improperly supplied - lack of familiarity w/ descent path - weather

camp at i-rock gap - watch out for frozen poo

too early to say on the oak - i usually don't know how bad it'll be till a day or 2 - i took a shitload of benadyrl last night as i think maybe it helps prevent the cascade of crap that comes w/ a badcase? (and taking steroids makes me an angry camper) - it's hard to say what % of the jungle is oak, but i'd assume at least some of it is - wearing long pants when heading back there is highly recommended (advice whihc i myself failed to take and have the thousand nettle-burns to show for it), as is bringing some sorta tool to beat it all down w/ - the bit of effort just the 2 of us put in significantly improved the last part of the trail, but the wall itself would take an hour or so to get beat down good enough to let you walk along the base in general, the berlin wall and the jungle cliff are very cool places, but requiring a distinct breed to take advantage of (good lord, the berlin wall routes are ragingly overhung and all in .12-3 range i think)

i think my many misspelling are the best way to relate my sweet, 5 year-oldish mentality

so, only 2 placements up i realized the deriviation of this gross dedication to the deviant - after hammering in a big-beak and stretching to a decent, web-shrouded #3, i looked at myself - already i looked like this asshole... grossly spectacular - like a bitch so bigaround a hulu-hoop couldn't encompass her - already we'd endured a hateful hike past the bat wall, where the trail dwindles and dankens - nettles choking the path - my brushbroom more used as a shit-scyth then a staff - we hacked in a stance at the base - the crag is aptly named: jungle cliff - choked w/ stinging nettles, blackberry, poison oak - you can't traverse its base for most of it length - still, a stark and imposing wall, the most intimidating at broughtons by far - multipitch - the upper left of the wall massively overhangs and looms but the wall, especially the far right where muji is, is stupid dirty - scales of powderbrown, in fantastic rime formations i tried to care - maybe it was the extorted promise to be home early and the noonish arrival after warming up on the red wall? - all rigged up and off - after getting to the #3 i cleaned as well i could - already i was deeply gandified - touching the wall, cascades of dust poured off like minature avalanches on a hot day - looking even, i noticed my gaint cam had become invisible, shrouded in skank - above, ripples of mud and all the nailing you could wave a hammer at, but even the overhangs dirty, dirty, dirty - i failed to care - i'm gonna have to want it a lot more than today wayne! holy shit this route is butt nasty! i've never failed on a route b/c of my latent-racism in the face of arabization how's amazon man, it looked a tad cleaner?

the cooper spur has less of a problem of this kinda icefall i think - it involves bivying up high, but this time of year i think it's the cooler easy way to the top - descend the sunshine route for extra points!

if i hear anyone say "ad hominem attack" this cute little girl gets it! on a side note, i recommend against google image searching "cute little girl" w/ the filter turned off

Not everyone is into "big-rock-mountain clambering"... perhaps it was my interest in not getting smushed by decaying volcano slag that compelled me to the deviation? there are many fine moderate, non-volcano (and thus non-rime n' mud clad) mountaineering options to our north as well that folks should consider as alternatives on days like these - forbidden, sahale, stuart, shuksan, etc. i used to sneer at rock-clambering fools too till i went and did the fisher chimenys on shuksan in the depths of summer, and i haven't much looked back - join us! congrats on your climb though - certainly not trying to harsh on it, just reminding one and all that you can have similiar exotic fun this time of year w/ perhaps less risk

winter is the proper season for volcano climbing the good lord made summer for big rock-mountain clambering

there are no ethics on any popular route on any mountain, so don't expect them - assume its the mall at xxxxx feet my fav was taking the aforementioned ragdoll fall down the west crater rim a few years back while solo and the 30 some odd folks in the vicinity not even batting an eye or even asking if i was alive

naw, moof (seann of homemade russian aider fame) - geoff went down w/ my boy mike this past week and did wa column and somesuch...

heresy! okay fine - there are far lighter performance enhancers you might carry for the uphill bit (i should know i almost got run over by a snowcat once indulging in them )

same answer as always - it will likely be fine, but keep your head out of your ass and aware of danger! bring a 6 pack adn stow it on the hogsback and get high, high, high as georgia pine on the way back down

ultimately too, the cause is irrelevant - the indicated treatment would be the same, no? it doesn't matter how you got a fever of a 105, the bottom line is you need to immediately take aspirin, right?

josh, are you telling me you don't have that key ingredient that makes any road-trip, no matter how long, just meeeeeeelllllt away?

damn - leaving wednsday afternoon - my regrets - reckon the awful vista of yosemite valley will have to salve my aggrieved soul

i suprised a herd of probably 50 elk on one of those sandbars at dusk - i nearly shit meself - the light was very dim, and they were within only a few yards of me when we noticed each other - the ground shook as they hauled ass away - there were so many of them it took probably a full minute for them to take turns swimming across the river and crashing up the far bank - insanely cool

josh, i've seen yer girl - watcha worried about how things look OUTSIDE the tent when you know you just gonna be in it the whole time? have you hiked the hoh before dude? it's the only olympic trail i've done - the long flat section to the base where it'd start getting snowy would be multiday and very chill....

looks like a beginner's crag for sure

a rope is entirely unnecessary if doing the south side route, especially if you're going left of the 'schrund - bring a second tool if you want security there's a pic in another thread of the PG - looks icy and more difficult than the old crater route, which will have most of the traffic and thus well-stomped trail

chickenhead anchor!

yesterday's quote was another part of the theme of fucked up conservative sexy-role models: “We need to return to a taxation system similar to the one established by our Founding Fathers. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation.” -Chuck Norris

this was my quote of the day for my senior classes, complete w/ picture: “While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” - Ann Coulter

would you people please stop making sense?