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you may have done it before, but if you haven't, just summiting via the s side, solo, in a full-on gale is a pretty stimulating experience

"wise king, do not grieve - for everyone 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" - Beowulf

beautiful day at beacon 2day - rapped down to big ledge w/ joe and pimped out the scrape - wonder if they'll apreciate the 2000 frak'n tons of pea gravel the wildlife guy thought they would? reminded me how i need to always rap w/ big weight off my back - holy fawk! rancho relaxo's fun to climb up to as well plaiddude - tomorrow it'll be plenty dry enough - using the old-skewl original via ferrata appartus alone makes it worthwhile

last time i was in the back of an ambulance i seem to recall calling the tech dude "bartender" and having so much morphine i turned into my mother in law, all sentimental and blubbery!

I disagree. I think that the tea only helps pass the time and perhaps makes the injured feel more comfortable. From a physiological standpoint it isn't going to change the temperature in any noticeable way; it is like adding a cup of hot water to 20 gallons of lukewarm water(no effective temp change). You would be better off carrying handwarmers or a Sam splint whaaaa? i've done climbs on hood where it was so cold and windy the only way i could stop for more than a minute was by sipping boiling hot tea. the psychological effect alone is invaluable, but then you might well be a harder man than me

*double post bitzes*

well duh! that's whacha put your weed in, man!

dude, didn't you get the memo? tvash-ie has no friends - he's too hollow inside we use everyone in the world merely as props - foils to our own goddamnedly undeniable geniuses!

groovy - just make certain you got your estate in order beforehand!

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." — Douglas Adams

their final words (after they SWALLOW the laudanum, i have no dobut): "freeeeeeeeeee-markets!"

this conversation has reminded me how we are all little beautiful snowflakes

aiding on vicious choss? and spectacular solid climbs just short drives away? well, i can live vicariously through your TR! or are you planning aid-bolting it, broughton style?

my favorite bill hicks bit - he rants about a waitress at a diner, who, upon walking up to him to get a order and see's he has a book in front of him, inquires: "what'chu reading for?"

that's not how i read it, but then i am very, very dense i'm not illiterate in the sciences however, so maybe that helps - that said, i can't name the precepts of thermodynamics by #, but i can explain the theory in general and place its development in its historical context, and all for the low, low price of 1$/student/day!!!

i was just trying to revel in my nihilism dude...it's exhausting

it says "18 inches"

funny - whenever i hear anyone talking about anythign i wish they'd STFU and read "the stranger"

danger! we're no longer supposed to use the word "they!"

ditto what's to miss? - a dude some of us know fell and busted himself up good - he doesn't much want attention, which is understandable i reckon - the bottom line is he'll live. getting the man out to ozone or anywhere in the gorge to assist on an accident is unnerving since it probably wouldnt' take much to bring his big black cock of closure out, so let's not talk about it, eh?

ad hominem ad nauseam?

pdxers talk about bolts like 13 yr old boys talk about boobs i dunno - bolts don't make me have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night...

you must not'a seen the classic "my left foot?"

i have a very important opinion on all of you which i will now shut the fuck up about

if the whole world climbed i doubt the s side would be closed - but then, if the whole world climbed, the s side would be like the fucking mall joe is right though in that whining does nothing - feelign powerless does make even rational folks prone to anger and irrational actions though, no?