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strangling hoboes?

oddly, my strongest, most nostalgic connections to country music come from living in a little bavarian village that reeked of cowshit (a smell that since has always deeply reminded me of home and good times climbing hills and tramping about through dark woods) i also have a silly mental connection between john denver and the fucking autobahn!

da'llright, this could be fixing to get a whole hell of a lot more interesting...

doesn't matter what gender a person is, they're all pink on the inside!

perhaps, suspecting htat pink would be fulfilling his lifelong ambition to climb el cap on monday, kevbone was wishing him the hb while he'd be able to hear it?

goddamn, i've dug on the highwayman since i was wee'un - always reminded my of that whitman quote "and to die is far different from what anyone ever supposed, and luckier"

Come on KK, he who dares, wins... grow some balls and drive to Vantage like porter is suggesting. I want an alpine summit. It's a 3-day weekend Goddamnit! Enough with the cragging. so go do an alpine summit - maybe you'll get lucky and get above the clouds - maybe the weather will piss off - maybe you'll just end up in your tent telling jokes and getting loaded...it's all good, unless you take a republican for your conversation purposes!

what's wrong w/ cragging in the rain again? been doing it all winter/spring - the harder it rains, the steeper route you gotta look for! our local crags of beacon and ozone both have fine options even in a great goddamn deluge climbing in the muck is what makes you a hardman - any fucking pussy can climb in the sun, no?

come'on mike, i was figuring you'd have luther wright n' the wrongs the wall revamp? was thinking of you 2day boy - did a route at ozone i figured you give at least negative 1 star to! plus another .12 you might even give a reluctant 1/2 star to (the fact that i'd even be able to lead to the top, one way or the other, being the biggest turn-off)

dunno but goign that way this weekend - i'm planning on having to hoof it from the ski area but not concerned - even from there it's just 2 hours or so to tilly jane/cloudcap. you only gain a 1/2 hr to hr if you can get as far up the road as the 2nd gate, which i'd say is damned unlikely watcha planning on doing? wanna plan a moon-tower party at tie-in rock?!?

there are really 3 bivy sites on the ridge - 1 at the base, 1 at the notch and the summit (though there's one at the base of the gendarme too i think, but i'm pretty certain a tent won't fit there?) you can do the i-ten at the first and last in my list for certain, and probably at the notch too, though i'd recommend just a 32 degree bag and some tyvek and that's it. my last time bivy'ing there i had just a bivy sack and down jacket and thought it too cold - a bag and nothign else oughta be fine, good weather permitting.

And he managed to find time to be a US president while doing it Huh? I dont get it.. harding didn't survive his presidency though - he was one of the illustrive 40% of us presidents who either died/was killed in office or survived an assasination attempt

kev - what in the hell is that second pic of jim all about? w/ the traintrack below i assume it's beacon but looks wierd! looks like a goddamn spider shit all over him fun times out at the zone 2night! almost earned my sport-climbers merit badge

what's the deal w/ the huge rockfall looking thign in the middle of the coe?

you shoulda seen him 'fore he went home - he looked like al jolson! ...least, that's what my hazy recollection of the day can summon...

moses - mt sinai FA w/ the old school gear bitches!

bummer. that's gotta hurt. can't imagine why he'd have a problem being in a john-boat in 50 foot seas? so what's his next step then?

"A helicopter with heat-seeking equipment was called in"

now that's starting to sound like the alpinek i remember!

nice - i assume the stuart th road is still closed too?

where do you work?

nice shot of the coe glacier

was i channeling abba or wierd al that day? i can't recall... bill, i know you gotz problems man, but damn - anyone who considers me a hero must have issues...with hair on them!

those climbs rarely get tr's - most folks don't wander onto the n side of the mtn anyhow, that's why it's fun to visit

was thinking of doing the same thing - i'd imagine it'll be great corn and no crevasse issues at all, given the snowpack and the fact that the great heatwave just broke, bringign fresh precip