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i am a beautiful snow-flake

my favs from 2008

it's probably worth noting that retards are retards, no matter how sober they are

lionel terray (?), on remembering where the last piton he desperately needed was on some climb in south america: "guido! the sardine can!"

ah yes, the magnus opus on the subject!

as a general rule, i don't trust climbers who don't use drugs - by far the most fucked up shit that's happened to me in the mountains has happened in the company of the narrow and straight

actually, if you read the article, it just says you can't go to jail for boffing your 18 year old students - you still lose your job and your license, so you better make your one shot count

indeed - seems like it's gonna be damn warm for the fun routes on hood - i'm reckoning on going up to the n side anyhow but figuring i might have to settle for doing the spur if shit's rattling 'round the n.f. gullies

longshanks mighta been tough, but this now dead guy was tougher!

awesome duuuude

awesome dude - thanx

that was no water moccasion - part of josh's problem was the massive case he was suffering of what we politely refer to as "the trots" down south it's funny - that pic makes the creek look tame - holy shit it wasn't though! i think it was more mid-thighish...

the red wine keg we rigged up for an easter party at my fraternity a few years back - betcha can't figure what we used for the papermache skin

now that the winter's set in, has anyone been up there? i know they'd closed the trail after the fire, but w/ snow on the ground i can't see there being too much issue going up to the n side that way now - any tracks/blazes to follow? is the warming shelter open?

great pix

sounds like it, though i never saw a shrub there - this pic might help - chekc out the larger version in my gallery - it follows that left trending fault in the blank, overhanging-ness above the lolp ledge - note in this picture the massive block by my right foot - that ended up smashing a tree at the base and stopping 2 feet shy of the tracks, where it made a most pleasing and distinctive ringing sound on metal - kyle and bill were down there to prevent the zombie apocalypse though the indian side in the mist

funny - joshk did essentially the same dumbass thing this summer crossing the n fork of bridge creek to get to goode - the main difference being that i was calling him a dumbass for doing it through the entire throwing process a careful eye in the background will show the 1 trango of josh's that actually managed to cover the distance

does kinda look like doc finkelstein from nighmare b4 xmas though, no?

does this mean i might see some more product for my ducats?

after this weekend the route's finally ready for a complete FA - the old fixed pin i had reached was the end of the pioneers attempt back in the age of the dinosaurs, based on the jungle i chopped out and the mega-boulders i cast down like the soddomites of old - a fine anchor is found just past the former death-blocks, past the old fixed pin w/ my bail sling on it (the old-skewl biner i've left hanging on it is quite the relic too ) - you'll have to bring the second up at the anchor, then you have a wild, overhanging final 15 feet to gain walk-off (albeit crazy moss-encrusted) ground on over to "uprising" thinking the final name oughta be "it takes a village" given the contribution of the nameless first folks many decades ago who started the line, then larry and geoff who repeated it, plus bill n' kyle who provided their own important contributions saturday land of the little people, properly viewed portrait of the artist as a young man plenty of blood on my pants after becomign massive hand-wound harry

another cause of decline - posting huge fucking pictures!

holy shit, i bet that was it! guess it don't pay to fight littering? :lmao:

or the intro to the climbing appendix for "lord of the flies"

wtf? seems like they were a day late on the real bombs being dropped a bomb would probably be the only thing that could get that place clean - maybe when they rebuild it they can fix the fucking sink in the men's room?