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might explain why so many of my high-schoolers ain't in class this morning...

Well maybe he should stop doing that. and maybe the yappy fucking dog that lives next door to me oughta stop too, but that ain't gonna happen unless i throw a poisoned dog-treat over the fence, and john's too driven to eat snacks outside of regimented meal-times people are who they are, and rare it is that they ever change now seriously, did i hear somethign about pink climbing in california someplace?

wait...pink climbed el cap?

isn't that kinda like members of the pleasant valley family home for adults starting a blog?

No shit, John RULES! Awesome dude. DON'T BE HATIN Rudy, you need to get out with the guy, maybe his enthusiams can come off as chestbeating on paper, but in real life, his real persona with all that enthusiasm totally rules ! JF is #1 in my book, and I haven't been out a lot with him, but been out enough so thats what I know. BTW, 'nother side note to get off topic on all this bashing and hating, but on that El Cap thing and Pink: dude toped out on Zenyatta Mendotta on CHRISTMAS FUC*ING DAY YOU FU*KING PUSSIES. FULL ON CONDITIONS WINTER ASCENT. I get shrinkage thinkin' of it. wait...pink climbed el cap?

shit - take away all the barbells n' whatnot and that easily could be a picture of me on any average tuesday night in college...

john's bit was useful if for no other reason that moving forward the idea of what "moderate" means - so far i like dru's idea the most - moderate should still be, in the largest sense, the median type of climb defined as such - the whole "it's all relative" thing has of course been done to death, and so of course 5.12 is moderate to tommy caldwell, but he and his type are certainly big old outliers on the bell curve, no? today's moderate aint' that different from the moderate of 30 years ago...

well worth the wait

oh shit, well if that's all, that the abruzzi spur on k2 or sumsuchshit if a white boy can get there w/o his head being cut off by an evil-doer

maybe you haven't met john - like more than a few folks 'roudn here, he comes off on the board a lot different than in person - what you shouldn't misunderstand is his enthusiasm and good-naturedness- the kid really, really likes to climb and is guilty of little more than being too zealous - he also takes the training thing crazy serious (but not so much he disdains climbing w/ the smoking/ho-ho eating crowd) which i think leads to a natural desire to have #s and times n' shit, which in lihgt of the whole iconoclastic nature of the enterprise, does look a tad silly. still - i like having john on the board and he earns his keep by actually posting tr's on a pretty regular business, building community by helping organize ice-comps, etc. that said, if he badmouths beacon we might have to kill and eat him - i'm sure w/ all those burpees or whatevadafuck they're called, he'll make for good lean burgers

an exact # for the temp would be silly - expect it to be cold during your start in the darkness (long pants and shirt/shell layer oughta be fine - you'll want a fleece or down jacket for breaks- a balaclava and fleece mitts too). it'll be warm by mid morning and unless its blowing hard, you'll be able to walk down in tshirt. after cruising up the hill in bluebird spring conditions, be sure to come back in a winter storm to see what the mtn feels like when she's being a vindicative little bitch!

i called the helpdesk this mornign after they didnt' respond to any of the emails i sent last week - no answer - troubling message: "please leave your message at the tone. know that we here at the helpdesk never make predictions about anything, especially the future" (which seems kinda of superflous, no? do people make predictions about the past?) anyway, suprisingly, within an hour i'd gotten a call back and an hour after that they came and fixed the problem, so only like 2 hrs total...well, 2 hrs and 7 days. everything i know about dr johnson i learned from watching fear n' loathing i have the "he who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man" quote on the wall behind my desk even as i type

funny, i noticed the exact same thing after getting out here, and adopted the exact same response.

arguing about taste in food and music is of course silly, and in the past i've made fun of some songs only to love them later - the "whack fol the da-d-oh" line just sounds silly in a rock song though, in my humble opinion

i like the blue grass twang to jerry/grisman's version - the "shady grove" album has a fantastic version of the dismal sailor classic "off to sea once more" too

hey, why not add in nooksack tower for the blue collar hardman trifecta? i think jo'burgs probably the coolest of the bunch, though nooksacks the least "moderate" (by the n face at any rate)

i don't think it much matters as there's crap that can rain down from everywhere, not just yokum's - i usually end up doing a fair amount of zig-zagging up luetholds anyway b/c i love all things french so much

by definition, i figure if i have ACTUALLY managed to get up something, it can't be anything more than moderate fisher chimenys on mt shuksan was the climb that convinced me to relocate my state of being to the PNW, much to my wife's woe

fwiw, the conditions often improve on luetholds once you get a few hundred feet above the reid - my last jaunt up luetholds started as a waist deep snowfuckfest but ended on great ice/neve

upload pix to your gallery using the link at the top (god i hope this is a thai whorehouse tr!) right click on your photos to get their address, copy it the formula for showing a pic is make certain they're not so damn big we gotta scroll over to see both boobies

damn you mike! moderate's a state of mind - if properly bent, it's all extreme! and i did enjoy my one Xtreme solo of da toof

wow - never seen that until now - the approach looks a bit intense - how much do you reckon it'll cost you?

go to the appropriate forum (like oregon if you did hood - don't forget pictures of your tauntaun) click "post trip report" pretty difficult, eh? posting in pix is more high-tech...

how could i forget slesse ne buttress?

also, fwiw, i've never stood at the top of that mountain and not felt like i was getting my ass kicked! alwasy felt great once i was on the way down though...X1000 once i'd re-entered the coolness and vitality of the forests below t-line.