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Did he have a mullet? no clue - i've found when people are waving pistols around at me, i don't tend to look at their hairdos much

tell me the story, wayne, puh-leeze! i figured the rurp failing me on the first and only decetn placement i coudl see was sign enough - i had plenty of hooks but didn't see where to use a one no worries about fixed iron joe - there's but one fixed pin, an a angle and solid, and i don't know if it's even technically on the first pitch

i had a hillybilly pull a gun on me in shendoah national park a few years back the only time i ever found the digital compass on my watch truly useful!

superstition's pin has been returned, courtesy of moof - it's the original pin, in the original hole gave "die in the gym" my best - i think the fa'ers must be damn liars! took a long scrub bush, but scrub as i might, the only line above the anchor is an incipient crack that fades into nothing just 4 feet up - the widest part is at the bottom - a rurp was damn near too big - put one in - weighted it - fifi'ed - it blew, dumping me back onto the hanging anchor, giggling like a school girl - tried my shortest kb, it just broke the rock so, so much for the a4+ line, might as well be 5.15 - in fact, it probably is to have fun anyhow, why not practicing penduluming? lowered down to the base of the scoop, at the double pin placement before the rurp-seam, then pendulumed right until i could grab the bolt stud that protected the old version that veered over to dracula - one nut on a stud, a medium kb, then you can start up the dracula bolt - at the pea-pod top, the drag was so aggravating i gave up trying to reach the dracula anchor, and nailed left to the ancient anchors under the giant hanging blackberry bush - put in 2 la's to back up the old bolts and moof did a most interesting traverse job to clean, demonstrating for me how to lower out when cleaning on two occasions (and 2 bright, cheerful orange hero loops now brigten up this neglected aid-gem!) continuing on aid above there would rock - there's a very old, ratty looking kb above the anchor, but you'd have to take a weed wacker to root out the massive blackberry bush - rapping in first to cut it out from the top would be the most sensible - a great line though, and all the pro will be pins through roofs - suprised there aren't more aid-monkeys out there to have monopolized on these lines - there's a number of ancient pin scars on "go back to the gym" but looks like no new traffic in years? how often do you get a chance to justify all those pins n' beaks n' rurps n' ironmongery in yer war chest?!? tyler - i'm calling you out dude - come show me that "die in the gym" can be done! my version of this connects the dots in this pic - left to right, via a big pendulum on the anchor just under the roof in center

aid soloed "go back to the gym" this afternoon - as the book says, A3 seems about right - tried to do the plumb line (the original start?) but it looks like a block has blown - 2 pins up there was nothing to connect to the awesome crack, so i down aided and re-started via the left option we did for "hanging tree" - fell where mike had hung on his ibis hook since i didn't have one and the sling i put around the block slid off - went furthe left and arced back in, planting a spade, then found the blown old hex placement takes a small offset nut fine - from there the fixed pin allowed me to pendulum over into the gym crack - several knife blades, then a funky #2 camalot, then an amazing scallop w/ more kb's, then a soaring crack that takes only rurps and tiny bird beaks - the old fixed head below the anchor is still good - the anchor itself is totally encrusted in horseshit, but essentially still okay - fixed back down to the ground and will return tomorrow w/ moof - the upper, a4+ (die in the gym) section will probably keep me up all night - holy shit, where's the route? the books says "7 consecutive hook placements and baaaaaad pins" - meow! all i see is upside down talculm-powder crunchiness!

that's why i'm ivan lunger, you the one w/ the dad who was the spitting image of lloyd bridges? no shit an awesome party - i was so fucking happy when i woke up that morning and skye was saying "dude, i'm feeling kinda tired - you wanna NOT climb colchuck today?" i seem to recall thinking i was actually going to have a heartattack while swimming out to that little rock island in lake colhuck too - holy fuck its cold, even in august.

t'pol - haaaaawt! ENTERPRISE actress Jolene Blalock was quoted as saying "You can't substitute tits and ass for good storytelling"

speaking of fucking aliens to achieve whirled peas, the short lived enterprise series had the hottest hot-chick ever!

it's not like we want arabic speakers on our side right now anyway, right? "i so totally hate having cocksuckers standing by me when i'm killing kids!"

i'm sure he's a badass, but when i see people like that, i think of andersonville!

whatevuuu - star trek II ed - for some inexplicable reason my folks sent me to see it, alone, in the theater at the tender age of 8 or so - the ear-wig scene alone probably cost them 10,000$ in therapy bills

totally blanking on their avatars, but erik and his buddy (wait! dirtyharry?) i know have done it as i spent a much alpine-adled afternoon bathing in the brillance of lake colchuck w/ them n' skye and they talked about it being thin and kinda run out, but fun to start - i heard it kinda fades into mungy crap though. what a day - smokes n' royal crown n' sun! a week later i developed a groovy case of campylobacter and spent the last week of the summer pissing out of my asshole, w/ a raging malarial fever!

i looked - i'm clearly a sucker for the hooker w/ a heart of gold, b/c how many times have i gone back to the star trek films, knowing the last one was the worst piece of shit ever, only to see, no, in fact, they could do a worse job. star trek V - wtf? how can you start w/ super awesome free-soloing of el capitan and then downshift into absolute, mindboggingly bad horseshit? on a side note, free soloing int he age of star trek will rock - all you need is the cool com-badge insignia and you can beam out of your 500 foot fall b4 death! wtf was the deal w/ spock's rocket-boot save of kirk in the aforementioned shite-flick?

cool - i have a pretty big truck too and can fit a lot of shit into the bed and cab - gonna be gone to the valley for the last week of this month though, so hopefully he'll be moving in the next 2 weeks

ah, the original line was so much better... "i think i love you...i wanna have your abortion"

li'l god's goodness dumbass!

nah, save aid climbing till you realize you can't free climb for shit!

this is the post-obama sprayadise, dontcha know? - does this portend the end of history, as trotsky promised?

nah, you can practice crevasse rescue in deep ass cracks on the nisqually in early summer - i remember training to ascend past sleds on a may trip there back in '03. a short approach from paradise parking lot too.

slides are rare on the SS route, especially if you're up and back down to the hogs back by 9 or so. who needs friends? if they don't wanna go, just solo the route - it's kinda more fun anyway, depending on the friends and your mp3 playlist

i've found benadryl is a wonderful way to make this happen w/ regularity Drugging your kids? Everynight? Ever? nah, but i did start calling my wife "frau goebells" when, frustrated by their eternally staying up till 10 every night, she gave them said medication for 2 nights in a row at 7 so they passed out at 8. for the past week now, they've been asleep round 830 each night, so i'm thinking about changing my name to "herr joseph" course, it does mean they're up and at it a 7 each day, but since i'm usually at school by then anyway...

i've found benadryl is a wonderful way to make this happen w/ regularity

the trail is open - plan on snow to the hut

i like the verb "fagged" most, but maybe that's b/c i'm a fag?

it's the texas 2-stepper - holy fuck - you live! my favorite descent off beacon rock ever was w/ you, hombre - and talking you into soloing luetholds was a highlight of my date-rate techinque too so seriously dude - pictures!