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Manifesto!

seneca rocks - 100 degrees in the shade - freaked n' greased n' fell at least 10 feet (HUGE!!!) - was using some awfully junky hb-kinda cams at the time as i was poor(er) then - musta been 1-2 inch size - held fine - the iranian who was belaying me, scared to death of the american snake buzzing around his ledge, haranguaged and giggled at me in persian

if'n i'm gonna take a "practice fall" i'm sure as fuck not going to do it on a blue alien! my wild coutnry #6 on the other hand...

it's just all the 'boarders n' dirt-bag oregon climbers polluting the air w/ their excessive byproducts

pretty common occurence - and might help to remind folks these WEREN'T climbers, but day hikers

not too long after school - hope to be there by 330

it's nice to have an excuse for stopping the pain when you're a decrepit bastard and yer ass is already kicked from the epic ski-slope-slog

the hogsback is the kaaba of the gumby faith

i'll be at broughtons that day w/ my friend mike if you're can't find anyone else to tie in w/ - might have a 3rd coming too

washed mine w/ just a garden hose in my drive last weekend and dried it on my truck - seemed to work just fine

ah nice - a menu of anchors! kinda like the upper anchors of jensen's ridge!

reckon it'll be nice to have something that looks new, but was the old one bad? i kinda liked how it looked/felt like a damn ship anchor!

i'm curious, what was wrong w/ the bolts on gandalf's grip? the anchor certainly was old, but the two bolts on the traverse seemed totally fine - how did you go about determining the need to replace them?

if anyone makes coulior change his goddamn avatars i'm quitting!

every minute birdie squats on big ledge he gets stronger, and every minute i clip bolts at ozone i get weaker...birdie don't get much r'n'r - he's nesting too deep or flying too fast - his idea of r'n'r is a bowl of pigeon or maybe a little cold swallow meat - he has only two ways home: death or victory!

THAT was fuckin funny. thanks tvash - i too thought this item from the zenith of my wit went woefully unnoticed in favor of banal-buttafuco-fair - and man, are you catching up on your spray reading in a hurry after a month off the grid!

how ya figure? b/c of the all the semi-retard french-types who settled out here and needed to merge the solstice w/ bastille day?

hate to be an occultist, but summer don't start for 2 more weeks still, jefe.

did today for my first time - recommend you ask billcoe here - he done got plenty of practice

reading this thread is like watching a bunch of hoboes taking turns fucking a doorknob so why can't i stop? what's wrong w/ hbo? if ya gotta watch tv, it's the best fucking channel on the motherfucker!

wow - i don't remember this story - i imagine this guy will pay in time, but it does illustrate the nasty nature of the world, of the legal system and of mental illness. remember the nice guy everyone loved in "a beautiful mind?" he could have just as easily ended up like this fucktard, as he also apparently was wont to go off on huge anti-semetic rants during his schizo-episodes.

meow! there's a few billion down the drain, eh? interesting to note the moment when the pilots said "fuck this, i'm definetly getting out of this shit!"

too rainy to even climb the hard shit at ozone y-day - settled for a waltz up dog mtn w/ special rules/training conditions - must stop to pound a 16 oz pbr every 500 vertical feet - full on scottish condition up high - crazy beautiful w/ the mist roaring strait up the hillside and rifling the 5 billion wildflowers

hate to split hairs w/ you, but homeboy has been there, if only for a few days

interesting in that he stills does not define victory nor indicate what more could be done to attain it he seems to assume iran couldn't be more of a problem than it is currently either if we can't be out by the end of the next presidents term, then we never will be able to - i think we've thrown a big, thick blanket on top of the brush fire - maybe it will have been enough to smother it, but then again it might just roar right back up after winter sets upon us and we need the blanket back to warm ourselves again