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i thought it was "the real america?"

if i had a dollar for everytime i took a dumbass fall like this...

holy shit, was that a rational, coherent statement that just appeared in spray?

ye standarde outer space the smallish ledge just below this place wasn't half as pimp'n though - it'd be best just to have a 70 m rope so you can finish off - simulclimbing would be fine too if you don't do the hard start to the last pitch

as noted in another thread, there is more than sufficient evidence of brain damage among climbers in the postings found on this website... hey! but i did use a LOCKING biner for my first clove hitch, right? doesn't look like i locked it though

one of the other threads in the oregon forum here said it would stay closed through to till next summer b/c of downed trees - it said the tj trail would also be closed, though obviously that would be a lot easier to ignore. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/840818/Mt_Hood_In_Nov#Post840818 would be nice if someone coudl confirm that the sky's not falling

I have never quite seen the Eliot like that... Usually, I am snowboarding down from snowdome... That sure looks like a tasty adventure.... Perhaps next year I can convince someone to trip out in that mess ... dude, you can't go climbing in there - that's like, where the skull n' cross-bones are on the topo in the "climbing the cascades volcanoes" book n' stuff!

and one of the rare times, when belaying a second from above, that i didn't top-rope my boy through the anchor!

ah, an overdue pic from 2 weekends ago - a somewhat unorthodox, not quite-ready for john long chickenhead anchor just below snow creek wall's top

geoff in da bidness on the money pitch of outer space what do you mean a 60 meter rope don't finish off outer space from library ledge?!? chickenhead anchor (take that fucking john long!) just a couple feet below the top of the snow creek wall

i'm asking 'cuz i'm not certain if it's appropriate for me to have a hard-on right now, see?

...and by self-described "liberals" in every instance. dude, ice cube personally gave me the right to drop the n-bomb he also handed me a gat to shoot him with

true or false? - the north side is currently a pain in the ass to access w/ a closed road and trail due to recent fire? coulior - is that a pregnant ass hoe you're currently sporting!?!

not in any conventinal sense of the word on lead i hung from my fifi several times and frenched a couple of the pieces that had taken away the nice finger pockets - did manage to free it on tr afterwards, but still didn't do it perfect - i embrace the suck and become stronger despite it! again, if i stuck only to the shit at beacon that i can free in good form, i'd only be doing a handful of routes, and it's too cool a place to go ignoring so many funktacular routes, no?

there are several shown in the olson book, many w/ ___________'s for route-names that make me interested - a very cool area for sure as the rock is much kewler up above grassy ledges as it's coarser and much more textured, as i discovered after removing most of the flesh from my right hand and bleeding like a pig all over riverside the pod features are wacky - i feel very, very sore today from the workout of full on, half-assed body jams

beautiful underworld - where? my fav of the weekend

wonder if that takes into account our importing of columbian coke?

i disagree - hostilities between the n and s after secession would have been inevitable (how to divide up the west? return of usa property? navigation on the mississippi?), so the south's most natural industrial ally would have been britian, which already relied heavily on the south for cotton and would have been happy to have developed texas oil-fields too also, it's unlikely the south would have stayed in its borders - there was a very strong desire in the csa to conquer mexico and further south, but the war precluded this - undoubtedly they would have taken mexico (and even more oil - maybe venezuela too?) if they hadn't have had to fight w/ the north how woudl ww1 have turned out again? the usa would NOT have ridden to the rescue in 1917 and trench warfare would have happend in north america (hell, the end of civil war was pretty much already like 1915 france!) would blacks in the south have turned to communism to acquire their freedom?

um - texas and the shit-ton of oil in the gulf of mexico? - america bankrolled the allies for oil during ww2 - also, the north and south likely would have warred w/ each other as a result of the cascading violence associated w/ the alliance system in europe - trenchlines in maryland beyotches!

awesome - now if only there was a vial of anthrax you had to crawl through in there too! maybe coat the whole thing in vaseline? put a guillotine at the exit?

660,000 troops killed in an unnecessary war--along with an unknown number of southern civilians. Cities burned to the ground by a marauding general. Habeas Corpus suspended. Newspapers closed at gunpoint. Editors arrested. Slavery abolished? Yea right--in all but 4 northern states. Federal troops massacring civilians by the hundreds on the streets of New York. And even through all of this...still time for his troops to annihilate native Americans out west. but he did wear a very cool hat and the beard! seriously, is it possible to have a sweet beard like lincoln's and still be an asshole? i like the historical what-if game that goes along w/ allowing the south to suceed - how do ww1 and 2 go, w/ the south likely allied w/ britian and the north w/ germany? how does the whole shit-storm of the 20th century get shittier. isn't it strange that, by doing the hypothetically right thing, the whole world could end up worse off?

nice! explains your absence from beacon this weekend that there is a big old heap of driving for 3 pitches of ice, eh?

pink - have you done any of the routes between riverside and the party ledge?

Trip: Beacon Rawk - Riverside (or why I :heart: Pink) Date: 10/19/2008 Trip Report: the norseman riverside bitches! funktacular beginnings awkward "where in the hell?" surely i brought a pair of balls w/ me? starting into the most entertaining traverse thanx to crackman for taking all the shots, and to geoff as always for the patient belays and pink, it was well worth my time to finally get over to this history lesson: the comfy, mossy ledge at the base of this gem was called the "mushroom ledge" by opdycke for their fungal proclivities back in the 80s, apparently prior to the establishment of the land of the little people anchor situation - an old 1/4 head bolt w/ decent hanger and a large, sturdy pin - junk webbing at the moment, plus a new bit of cord and bail biner - there's room for a bomber nut to back it all up w/ too - looks pretty easy to top out from here, but i shudder whenever i think of re-entering the fuck-awful amphitheater of remorse cold this morning!!! Gear Notes: Approach Notes: little wing => fear of flying => jill's thrill => riverside

i also liked how mccain assured his one supporter at a rally recently who said "obama's an arab" by saying "no, no - he's a good-guy" - as if the 2 were mutually exclusive, or that he IS an arab, so don't vote for him, but don't hate him either?