ivan

that's the one - the spur wall blocks the wind though, which was a big deal last time i was up there - also it's flat, which is important if you didn't bring The Nitro(!) to blast out a platform why didn't ya'll do the n face chris? or the elliot headwall for that matter!

depends - is a war on? i think a lot of the via ferrata was put in to get heavily laden troops up to commanding positions broughtons - gateway fortress of pdx!!!

did you see that sweet bivy space by one of the upper ice flows?

sounds like someone was up there this weekend - watcha find?

Sucks for you, having to work all of 183 days a year. yeah, but they're all during the winter!

Star Wars maybe...on Hoth...get in a jam, cut it open crawl inside to say warm...??? never leave the shield wall w/o 'em!

been my project for a few winters now - the good weather never seems to match up w/ breaks

so.....?

bummer ken - didn't know you had been laid up - gotta get you on the new aid line off lolp when the summer comes - killed me not to be out there, but my folks were in town for the first time in a year so i couldn't have done it w/o risking disinheritance how'd you hurt yourself w/ dave?

i was thinking a fine sauce w/ plenty of tabasco and some good home-made buns would serve

and i thought I was making a lot of bbq today...

all the more reason TO NOT FORGET YOUR TAUN-TAUN!

uh, you haven't seen what i eat when i climb surely! hey kev, ain't it fun to feel like an oppressed minority sometimes? we can't be honkies all the time, right?

holy fuck, ex-walla-walla-ken in the motherfucking joint! what was the occasion for him to make the pilgramage? oh wait... hey kev, when's jim doing the beacon-closing party again?

crushing fuel cannisters in the field is probably joshk's favorite activity - stricken by images of hauling his burnt corpse out on my back, i usually cower behind boulders and smoke as he gleefully wails on them w/ his big rocks

When we will be able to prove that the birds are not endangered anymore? when jets taking off at pdx start sucking them into their engines, making dramatic splash-landings near bonneville

i've met far more poo-faires then beer-fairies come to think of it, i'm more met more plain-fairies than any other by far

i might also be remiss to point out the openness of the n side is pretty much a boon-doogle unless the process for getting bolts put in is stream-lined as it extrmely compact and smooth over there, not to mention wilderness covered! still, looking forward to playing on siege tactics and the route left of it in betwixt ozone and farside ramblings this spring - gonna have to wander up to index for yosemite practice though i reckon...

joe forgot to tell you though the north side of beacon is open year round though, and that there are in fact several fun lines there, including hte old, old skewl original ascent line, complete w/ funky via ferata fixed iron - one area in particuliar is cool for its large sheltering rooves and there's no scarcity of scary aid that side neither!

can we go back to using dioxins en masse again so the fucking birds will go extinct already?

never thought i'd have such a personal sense of vendetta against a bunch of dumbass birds...

spray-nazi

they make the baby-jesus cry

head-points?

i think its sad that nasa has lost the luster it once had in the apollo-hey-day - there seems to be a lot less money and a lot less focus, though i suppose that was inevitable after apollo 11 - regretably it seems the time for manned space-flight has passed, barring the advent of much faster engines - the robotic probes and telescopes have been crazy badass though and should get a boat-load of money to keep them moving forward