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too close to yankee country up there didn't wander further north than the limits of shenendoah park, west to seneca was fantastic - south to boone area was also nice, but nothing but a fart in a stiff breeze compared to these parts - i ain't ever going back!

the james is decidedly less hard-core the greatest danger there is of being so wasted you get your lighter or smokes soaked - you don't go UP rapids so much as across them, the river is almost a mile wide there on the w side of richmond, but it's all suddenly dropping a couple hundred feet over a few miles creating great broad rapids - in the summer the water gets so warm its like an old man taking a leak on you and river level drops like 20 damn feet and you can almost stay dry crossing hte whole thing if you had to - mostly its leisurely swimming/wading from one eddy system to another, to scrambling/walking on rocky/sandy islands infested with herons and swans and their filth w/ the occasional lawn hose or couch detritus thrown in for comedy's sake), then getting to a main current and having to swim as hard as possible across without getting swept too far downstream into the nastier rapids (a real danger with 20 lbs of bright green bottles of rolling rocks in your pack and a mean-spirit to not forsake'm) - it does pass for adventure in those parts though

i've never gone skulking, but i love swimming rapids. what are the biggest rapids people skulk? i used to do this in the james river back in virginia - had no idea it had a name - just thought it was something you did on a lazy sunday after drinking your weight in watery beer, attempting to escape the miserable agony of 100 degree weather by wallowing in 70 degree water - i remember following a 3 foot long catfish for awhile until sunddenly he led me to a whole army of his enormous followers - kinda freaked me out to realize i was sharing hte river w/ such monsters - richmond was a great place for such tomfoolery - tons of ancient debris from the civil war and beyond collecting seaweed on the bottom

thread killing hugeness!

aliens, unless they kill you

grendels fatal departure was regretted by no-one who witnessed his trail the ignominimous marks of his flight where he'd SKULKED away, exhausted in spirit and beaten in battle, bloodying the path, hauling his doom to the demons mere. the bloodshot water wallowed and surged there were loathsome upthrows and overturnings of waves and gore and wound-slurry. with his death upon him, he had dived deep into his marsh-den, drowned out his life and his heathen soul: hell claimed him there!

colour/color tea/coffee newcastle/natural ice culture club/insync football/football amy winehouse/brittany spears bullocks/bullshit irish/negroes

went there today - guy behidn the register "what's this?" referring to a #5 camelot - "uh, a camelot - #5" "hmmm (looking at computer)" "was that .5" "yes" smile.

don't think josh's posting up 'round here too much nomore - hoping to see him this weekend though so i'll pass on the query

i looked and confirmed that i am, in fact, a unique and beautiful snowflake

i remember an rei guy trying to convince me i needed a 6'6" bag too, but that was probably b/c i'm 6'7" - i like the shortbag though, more incentive to snuggle my fetchign tent-mate

The phone book puts ages in it now??? this one does http://www.whitepages.com/

it was, as dru said, in the phone book, just a google click away...

wolfgang is also a tight middle name, though i prefer my son's name for the more germanic "wulf"

i like how his age is given in the phonebook as "65+"

isn't this him?

great day for giving a test to high-schoolers

all paths lead to mecca

great title for a boring thread...

nice - i learned that joke from you and have passed it on a good few hundred times - my wife would like to thank you too...and my parents entire t-giving guest list from a few years ago... my favorite recent joke learned from the climbing jokes thread: what does sport climbing have in common with getting yer cock sucked by a guy?

you tell so many it's hard to remember - not the one about the child molestor and the boy in the alley was it?

damn. i thought i invented that joke. anyhow, i give it more flavor by adding an "eh?" at the end of the answer...

tried ascending a 8 mm'ish rope w/ my 6 mm'ish prusiks in the dark near the top of the snow creek wall (yummy pressure chamber!) - this produced extreme terror as they didn't grab b/c of my phat ass - they did work if i just increased the # of wraps, but that makes them very difficult to tend to.

what he said, plus add family

give a man a fish...