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good article - a lot more details - damn shame they just didn't stay in the hut - this was a preventable tragedy.

exactly, so why the hell are you doing that intentionally then? it's a fuck-up to avoid, not practice!

smoke?

descended east ridge of forbidden many years ago - i had old school crampons that took 20 minutes to strap on, so i skipped putting them on in favor of being careful - it was short, but steep and icy slope i needed to traverse over the top of - i had my axe ready and my head in the game - the very first fucking step and my boots slid out - i had the pick in instantly - it didn't matter a damn, just slowed my descent as i slowly gathered speed as the slope increased - eventually i slid about 200 feet downhill, bowling into a bunch of rocks like a fucking meteorite, nice n' bloody. arrest sometimes just don't work

i only "help" hot chicks w/ doe-ish eyes

what have i got in my pocket?

is self respect a flavor or a physical substance? sure as hell works for the later conditions...

if i answer correctly do i get to nail my ma?

vaya con dios, amigos. and speaking so of the dead is a vital part of feeling alive - and immortal

nonsense - you don't develop HAPE days AFTER coming back down to sea-level, whihc is what he's talking about in the original post

20 lbs on your back? of beer perhaps? did the bottles survive? guess the rap stations weren't in then or why else would you be downclimbing the route? is that the angle that's had the eye bashed out of it?

on the other hand, this does seem to be a document throughouly in keeping w/ the traditions of alaskans, no? cantekerous fo'sho.

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?