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naw ben, i think our plan is still the earliest good one - course, the impending precip on wendsday will no doubt fuck w/ the roads, but hopefully not too bad? as long as i can sit in the back and suck down 40s and not have to worry 'bout the crux driving though i'm happy

probably not enough initial snow on it to take advantage of all the cold we're getting?

crown jewel today

no, not yet chad and pete think 1-2 more days over in the other thread - sounds good to me - i know practically dick about ice-cragging

where do you pick up the train track?

ha! well...didn't we leave that up there on the ledge? probably half way to china by now if so... the damn near rusted shut tweaked out biner is still proudly sitting on the pin up there though, through my equally old-ass quickdraw

cold and windy today but roads in good shape on the oregon side this was the first time its froze up since i've had kids that i could even wander into the gorge to look for adventure here's crown jewel - i assume there's a way across the water in front of me? there's a road over there but how do you get there?

no school 2day - gonna go have a look-see what this'er cold winds been doing on the wa-side.

Not bad. x3 - nigga's like a motherfaqh'n ninja w/ the duck n' bob n' weave!

go the "trip reports" section up top and put in "mt hood" and go nuts reading!

those pins look real good dude, and i certainly wailed on both of them before trusting them the nice thing 'bout your anchor now larry is that, if you're tall as me, you can totally skip that chamber of death that you had to crawl into - gawd, that place looked hideous! i was able to step way up high though and snag the anchor though - a c4 #5 back it up beautifully too - also looks like having a #6 might take some of the sting out of that lower chamber, if the anchor was gone or you were a dimunitive bastard so did you not see that old fixed pin and 10 year old bail sling larry? definetly looks like one of the old timers had passed through there before you! i wonder what they found around the corner though?

me n' ben are going out wendsday duuuude - you too fucked up to go then?

i figured if its in my photo gallery, then it's mine actually, i REALLY figured that, if we won, we could just tear the book in half and split it?

Trip: Beacon Rawk - Hibernal Hi-Jinx C2 Date: 12/13/2008 Trip Report: man - where was the storm of the century? a novel approach if i had some sorta photo software the colors could be fixed on this to make it sweet an awkward place for 2 in the slick season LLP Pimp-towne improved pimp-towne pimp-shack round 2 for ol'geoff reach for the sky, m*th*rf*ck*r apparently no one felt like fishing 2day? frak'n'tree your friend and humble narrator gets into the game - a good solid giant-hook move and some sketch goes around a corner to good gear and an old pin w/ webbing i was able to pull apart, rei-return-style, w/ me rukers note the pimptacular propane heater bitzes! rapped off into gathering cold and rain - made the Great Getaway - scored yet another free starbucks back in camas! rope fixed to larry's anchor currently - all are welcome to hop on and see what they can manage b4 the closure sets in - looks like another belay will be necessary after going around a blind corner - should just be a 1/4 pitch up to exit from there, but maybe some blocks to deal w/? - left a fixed nut eqaulized to slings around pine tree at the top of the uprising exit Gear Notes: propane heater bum shack material jubale(s)! giant ass sky-hook necessary for section above larrys 2 pin anchor - 20 feet above is an old pin Approach Notes: up then down

equally good, the pogues are good to listen to (and especially watch) any time you're contemplating skipping that annual visit to the dentist total simpsons shit - lisa's "big book of british smiles"

bill savored his blessings and stayed put where he was on the summit ridge - i used the toys'r'us rope to have him belay me through that one vaguely sketchy part, then walked over to the summit - no need for the rope on the way back

no we won't, b/c we won't epicurus was right asshole that he was

my finest moment in jeopary history was guessing: "what is 'das boot?'" 2 minutes before they came back from the commericial break after adverting the category as "foreign film" achtung - juden!

my favorite seasonal tune of the moment "they've got cars big as bars" "happy christmas your ass i pray god its our last!" "the boys in the nypd choir we're singing gallway bay, and the bells we're ringing out on christmas day" [video:youtube]

how longs it been around for kev? i can't recall it, though i hven't been out to the zone since last spring.

holy shit, sounds like blake was at the 'zone! what, you didn't feel like driving a couple extra miles to get to beacon!?! i thought route 66 was the first route left of the humbling/crubmling? it's got a bolt you can clip from the ground?

how are the routes up on Hood looking (esp. Leuthold or Wy'east) luetholds was already good to go, but definitely very icy - sounds like a lot of snow will be dumped on it soon, so it'll probably be a bit easier after this storm clears out - the wy'east will probably be good then too. the first 2000 feet of the moutain above t-line will still probably be pretty gross though, esp getting over to the wy'east

aw stop it man, you're gonna make me bust out cry'n! guys piss themselves too when they get real scared, so... prayer=piss

gonna be a pretty boring friday 'roudn pdx firsizzle