ivan

tvash + fairweather = gay pride parade

so, is that tome worth muddling through? i'm enjoying it capitaly, but then i'm me - i'm also reading a much shortening version that's only 700 some odd pages long, instead of the 3000+ uncut version (maybe i'll do that later) - jayb had a lot of great quotes from it in an old thread, i've found many more i've dug - i think its amazing how readable it is, given that it was written in the 18th century, not so known for its readable prose...

guns are protected for state militias - what's a state militia got ta do in a national park?

any rock mecca 'round here will do... maybe hood if the forecast will improve a bit...

been reading gibbon's "decline n' fall of the roman empire" lately - just came across a good quite to describe this favored punching-bags: (in describing the asshole opponents of pertinax, a new and virtous emperor who followed the monstrous tyrant commodus) "his honest indiscretion united against him the servile crowd, who found their private benefit in the public disorders, and who preferred the favour of a tyrant to the inexorable equality of laws." seem to describe most of the bushII-era crony ass-fucks

they go great w/ the hemp-rope

that's a long ways to cover in a single day assuming you're young, the best advice is to do stupid things w/ a head towards not being so stupid as to get yourself killed - i.e., take chances, think often on the dangers you're exposing yourself to and learn from your mistakes. have fun.

what, no ice bunnies!?!

it's fawked mike - been on the news and everything - but only extra-unlucky folks like you got the shaft - it's been working fine for me and i even just wrote my mama a real purty note

it's only racist if you hate nigras

jeebus n' mohamed

you all healed up now?

what did you have for bivy gear?

wunderbar!

hood s side is an easy day-trip, but do the smart thing and do luetholds or the reid instead...

umm, what does posting in this thread have to do w/ those two most atavistic of needs?

ozone is the best call for sure, though it's kinda like getting blown by a guy... i'm always looking for a partner, though driving down to pdx to pick you up would suck.

the ow on backbone's a joke, and i should know, being the punk grappler i am - especially if you have a big piece (i used a wild coutnry #6) it's titantic fun and very, very easy (the fin pitches up higher i think are much more thought-provoking, espeically as the rock up there is typically crummier) - i seriously considered rapping back down so i could lead the ow again it was so fun - it's not even vertical and the rock's very textured so you can stem on the left side, arm-bar in the crack while shoving the gear up to give yourself the tr, and have your right foot easily out on the face i imagine it'd be a bit funkier in winter...

looking for someone to climb at the o-o-o-o-o-gawd-zone sunday....

nice - i remember you telling me that story 'roudn the time i first met you - met a guy recently who had a big epic on the same wind mtn, though for him it involved a choice between a suicide cliff and crawling through an endlessly huge thicket of poison oak - apparently his entire body was melting off him 2 days later and he had to be hospitalized - pity, it looks like such a fine place...

similiar story for me, but i bet local homeless folks will be wiling to help out for the same deal!

it doesn't mention cursing or swearing at all?

that should definetly been taken back to rei, and if necessary, torn into pieces!

so did you have to buy new underpants or what? being alive = so hot right now!

This is a better description of what I did. I like it a lot but have not done the Backbone so I can't compare. I have done Serpentine and like this one better by a lot. Not as much loose rock and a better line in general. It is a cruise with a few "cruxes" of 5.7. Very straight forward route finding. No 5.9 compared to Backbone. You could opt to do the fin too. If you look in the Becky Book, it is actually a combo of two lines that cross at the base of the fin. in summer do you have to finish up the last coulior or can you stay on rock?