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i'm looking forward to this - look for me there - i'll be heavily intoxicated and tall

forbidden oughta be dropped for nooksack tower

the irish are highly skilled in getting themselves killed for noble causes

So is the Ptarmigan your ashtray? dude, a ptarmigan would be a difficult ashtray to use, given that it's all flying around and whatnot we packed our butts out - did you not read up there where i mentioned i was using them in my sleep system?

strange, i woulda thought a "grand tetons" one

my ground-insulation for this trip consisted mostly of empty whiskey bottles and cigarette butts josh, on the other-hand, had jim nelson's specially recommended totally-phat inflatable pad'n'pillow - another day or two and josh would have had a little "accident" no doubt...

fuck camping on snow in the middle of summer - i'll give over my environmental destructions if nature will promise not to give me cancer or rot me in my grave

well, pretty much done w/ the pnw at least...

Alaska and the Yukon Mount Saint Elias Abruzzi Ridge Mount Fairweather Carpe Ridge Mount Hunter West Ridge Mount McKinley Cassin Ridge Moose's Tooth West Ridge Mount Huntington West Face Mount Logan Hummingbird Ridge Middle Triple Peak East Buttress Western Canada Mount Sir Donald Northwest Arete Bugaboo Spire East Ridge South Howser Tower West Buttress Mount Robson Wishbone Arete Mount Edith Cavell North Face Mount Alberta Japanese Route Mount Temple East Ridge Mount Waddington South Face Devil's Thumb East Ridge Lotus Flower Tower The Pacific Northwest Mount Rainier Liberty Ridge Forbidden Peak West Ridge Mount Shuksan Price Glacier Slesse Mountain Northeast Buttress Mount Stuart North Ridge Liberty Bell Mountain Liberty Crack Wyoming Devil's Tower Durrance Route Grand Teton North Ridge Grand Teton Direct Exum Ridge Grand Teton North Face Mount Moran Direct South Buttress Pingora Northeast Face Wolf's Head East Ridge Colorado Crestone Needle Ellingwood Ledges Hallett Peak Northcutt-Carter Route Petit Grepon South Face Longs Peak The Diamond The Southwest Shiprock Castleton Tower Kor-Ingalls Route The Titan California The Royal Arches Lost Arrow Spire Sentinel Rock Steck-Salathe Route Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress Half Dome Northwest Face El Capitan Nose Route El Capitan Salathe Wall Mount Whitney East Face Fairview Dome North Face Clyde Minaret Southeast Face Charlotte Dome South Face Lover's Leap Traveler Buttress

perhaps remind us of the peaks on there? i seem to recall forbidden and stuart are on there, what else in the nw? liberty ridge?

you don't get anything near the gorge minus the oak! that lingering zombie-skin thing simply serves as a pleasant reminder over the weeks to come what is was that was worth so much pus

Yes, the Cascadian Couloir. Aasgard is a joyful walk in the park by comparison. cc don't lead to no pass though, so don't really count eh? what's a climbing conversation doing in spray?!?

thank christ you finally wrote dis pat, so i don't have to do any goddamn work but insert my own inane observations and photo-phucks having probably only a third of the total years of our more esteemed northern team, josh and i of course completed fewer peaks - actually i was the official summiteer for the team, doing what peaks we did while he worked the soul-stealing box - we did spire peak, old guard and la cunt and woulda done formidable if it wasn't for us running out of nearly every-high-powered substance known to civilized man that had been keeping us propped up and away from writing coquetish insanities into our matching pink little pony diaries - when the shit hit the fan, we went from yank-my-yang lakes all the way to seattle on the last day - i chainsmoked broncos, whatever the hell they were, the whole way home i'd like to thank my sponsors for the mega-transect, little debbie and high times magazine, for their substantial contributions to the health and well-being of the "athlete-warrior-poets" involved our highlights were: - the mother-teresa humping snaffle-phuck that ate my trekking pole straps at spire col -pile driving my unhelmeted skull into a rock horn just below the summit of old guard, leaving a half inch of blood, hair and flesh on the stone and sending blood coarsing down my face while finishing the last few feet up (i especially like how, upon reaching civilization a while later, this scaberous wound combined w/ my seared red flesh, stank clothes and gibberous nature to render me indistinguishable from the ubiqitious homo redneckus methaddictus typical in the greater marblemount-me area) - bald eagle flying around the buttress just south of white cock lakes -navy jets roaring through the mountains just off the deck, including 200 feet over our camp near la cunt pass -crushing b52 sized flies and feeding them to the ants -smoking damn near 3 packs by the time we finally escaped downey and bastard creeks -rapping off of red ledges down to kool-aid lakes -frozen lake battleship ball -and finally, olympic women's beach-volleyball, for providing me with plenty of material to keep me feeling "anxious" all trip as good as the bastard creek trail gets - 22 after 4 on just another typical monday impending weather tuesday night at spire col me in the gloaming of tuesday night wind-wracked glacier peak by the penultimate waxing of the moon looking down on josh from near spire pt summit, northern part of the traverse (white-cock) off in the distance so much to shoot, so little time some friendly ants helping my kills crawl into their justly-fresh graves the marmots are fucking evolving out there folks - this one laid bare the basic tenets of national-socialism for me while opening my beer w/ his plenty opposable thumb tvash and don bow down before the alter we consecrated around our final cigarette where they dumped all the 'cid left over after woodstock slog'n'past the south-cascade glacier - note the mp3 which is no doubt playing morphine's "rope on fire" for one of the 733 or so times i listened to it this trip tvash-inspired time-wasting above la cunt - lichen on quartz? downclimbing the margins of the middle cascade glacier the rotten-ass snowslabs of the redledges

joshk went the whole time w/o an axe, despite having one on his back, which made my nervous as phuck on several occasions

jesus vs gandhi?

aww! how cute, you brought yer girlfriend

Pink soloing little wing back in the day! also, from the appearance of his hands'n'hair, his total coke-whore dayz too

there's no permit to do the pt - doing it in nice weather is preferred of course (though storms produce much kewler pix) so ya, august is pretty much a good month to go - josh and i enjoyed going against the flow, s to n, so we got to expereince the whole cross section of ptarmigan-types, from uberlight-johhny-speed-racers to gregory-denali-girlfriend-toting-phat-phucks - we encountered almost 20 folks in 5 days

fuck that traverse

"mount them! and make incisions in their hides that their hot blood might spin in english eyes!"

dude, didn't you, like, learn that in high school and stuff?

i would imagine for a very small number of celerious mutants

exactly what I was thinkin' it's kinda hard to take bad pix on this traverse

naw, weren't my arrows, but those seem to show up every few years anyhow - better than that arrow that got scratched into the rock a few years back (can't remember where it was now though?)

to be truly the best of tr's, you must first master the fine art of balancing blatant crassness w/ hyperbolic horseshit either that or take some decent fucking pictures shots of chicks doing handstands on the summit is another certain path to sucess