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nice - we'll i'd mangled it welll over a bunch of years so your right to booty it causes me no great sadness - glad it wasn't raining death and debris down on you while you were there i can't recall but a handfull of times in my live that i've left gear behind before but holy shit it was an instantenous no-brainer on that occasion! was our bollard of death still obvious above the 'schrund?

heal up john, and for fuck sakes make sacrifices to buddha or allah or whoever the fuck to turn your luck around, eh? on another note, if you take an aid fall and break your leg, does that immediately get an A3 or above grade?

i understand it's all just yammering in the breeze, but the falcons get along fine w/ climbers i have no doubt, so long as we don't climb through their nests - so, um, okay, that means big ledge is out. of course i go plenty of other places when the rock is closed, but it's still the best place close in to portland, and i guess i'm just a hopped up goof-ball, but i don't get nearly the same feeling anywhere else (plus, and i hate always whining about money, i can't really afford to regularly be driving to smith or even hood) - for chrissakes, maybe the salmon-negroes had something right? beacon's a pretty magical/religous/praise-gaia-n'-piss-on-her-prom-dress-kinda place, and being able to go down to the main face anytime of year, even just to chill w/ my toddlers around the tunnels, shouldn't require rationalization. blech.

did you do the right gully? if so, happen to spot my bail picket atop the first crux?

ummmm.....ummmm....and do you guys know folks that bill, in fact does NOT do drugs?!?

i had a much higher opinion of the rangers until i got bitch-fucked by them, and you used the word "victim" joe, not me - they may love the park, but as pointed out, closing the trail to prevent poaching is like closing the highways to prevent bankrobberies or speeding and it comes across as needless and petty i have not been uninvolved in making a relationship w/ the rangers joe, nor do i endlessly shit-talk about them - i said above i can grudingly accept a closure - and being angry & bitching about it is therapeutic if nothing else don't you think you, at some level at least, enjoy the maelstrom joe? you post these notices every year and can't have helped but deduce that they're chum to sharks - folks don't really need this website to spread the word about the closure - all the guide-books have it front and center and, as the picture above shows, the park has made it pretty obvious when you pull in (they could put a friendly sign pointing towards the n side as the alternate to soften the "achtung-juden!" feel of the current setup and give folks a semi-realistic option other than poaching or driving back home all pissed off - directions posted at the same place to the ozone could also be a positive) i don't like being angry - i'm not a fool or an idiot - its rational to be vexed though when something you love is taken from you, whatever the reason

shoulda used my patented call-your-8-month-pregnant-wife-to-come-give-me-a-ride-right-goddamn-now-woman! technique but sounds like you didn't have to go recover snowshoes? or is that a project for another day?

jesus. fucking. christ. how are these fuckers not the enemy again? where's the good faith? the only goddamn reason they want to close the trails is so they don't have to hike their fucking asses down there to see if anyone's ACTUALLY climbing - resource protection? what a giant crock of shit - the peregines don't give a flying fuck if you're walking around at the base of rock or taking your little kids exploring into the tunnels, both of which are legitimate, enjoyable and non-threatening to the birds i understand and can grudgingly accept the argument for closing the south side to climbing to protect the bird- closing the trail is just mean though, and makes me want to be really mean in return

Kevbone kevbone = passive or active pro?

Yeah, the GOOD part. I plan to hit the west/north side routes again soon though. funny, i was planning on putting a giant bolt ladder in

nice - car shuttle sans snow-shoes?

...the one having the least amount of fun?

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?