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they make sense for big alpine routes that will require lots of raps and/or are very convulted and/or have significant chance of rockfall to cut your ropes - nooksack tower was a great place for using double ropes for all those reasons - on something like the n ridge of stuart they'd be needlessly excessive and heavy i think they're a bit of a pain for simple trad

jesus - i feel like i don't even work - i've entered into the fawking digital twilight zone - put "far side screw the limit" into google image and it's hit #1 - the old far side cartoon showed 2 yokels fishing with mushroom clouds sprouting in the distance and one cletus to the other ejaculating "ya know what this mean's norm? no size restrictions and screw the limit!" i kinda like the comparision to beaconites - the larger implications of world events mean nothing to us, just our access to a few thousand square feet of moss-wrapped, bird-carnage detritus strewn basalt. additionally, the view the slack-jawed yokels gaze upon is not unlike the view of the south face from the boat launch.

somehow i liked this pic much more than the stone nude ones - if there was a half-drunk 40 of OE on the counter next to a coupla crack rocks and maybe a shredded gideon's bible it'd have more of the motel vida loca i've come to adore

If you posted a picture....why cant I see it? wierd - shows up on my preview, and i can see it now - don't know if it shows now? the original far side cartoon was better than this thing, but i couldn't get it on da interwub linky

not until someone can retrieve that excalibur-esque green alien from blownout direct! Did you place it? no, but a certain playa hating on da beacon in dis thread did - about a foot from a purty-pin just fun'n...

this could be redone to fit the beacon closer...

not until someone can retrieve that excalibur-esque green alien from blownout direct!

spray is a vital antidote for the self-important gravitas staid climbers emit like skunk-stink that said, like any medicine, it can be abused

not so long as they also occasionaly post in nudie-pix of their fiances

last time i did that, my 230-some-odd pounds required me to slink the hell outta dodge 'fore emmanuel the housekeeper could report my wanton destruction of da dry wall! oh, and minx is right - you're doomed luckily she oughta have no small choice of fools for the rebound

exactly! so why miss out on seeing da history 1st hand?!?

i heard a blurb on npr about development of a trail there at cape horn, so i'm certain that's what those stakes are about - seems like a project for super-sport-o man!

indeed - the romans certainly had their ways we beat a nationalist insurgency in near identical terrain in the phillipines just a few decades prior to vietnam (the filipinos not having allies feeding them tons of modern weapons helped)

who says there's never any "missing links?"

fucking awesome - aww...no morning dew!

w/ beacon closing now i'm gonna start going to smith whenever the drive there doesn't look too sketchy for my craptacular car - would like a driving pardner dave and we could meet ken-o-sabe there

wow. sucks. taking the job seems to be the best realistic option, assuming your wife doesn't prefer you stay of course. do the skype thing if you go. being able to talk to my brother in iraq and actually seeing him makes it feel like hanging out w/ him again, and he doesn't seem so far away then...

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word. but what am i, chopped meat?!? you hurt my feelings! there's more to do on hood for sure, though i don't know if the weather will ever improve enough to do it. let's work out on the n side of beacon this winter? on days it's dry enough we can hit up the o-zone too (it's silly fun, and a nice antidote to the intimidating beacon bigwalls)

Not just yet. Lets get another 20 page of religious bullshit then I'll think about it. 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never! and feel free to cite some more tolstoy, but how about "how much land does a man need" this time instead? it's been awhile since i've read that and remember enjoying it thoroughly...

what could you possibly have not liked about this sweeeet bivy site? only 10 feet from the start of the route...

ha - i was brow-beat into walking across that thing - luckily i was so heavily medicated at the time that i was in the spirit world and could convenietly transmut meself across the chasm here's me in full mediation mode

pretty much demands the stealth solo

man - what a crazy place to be! mike and i did that climb a bit different but i'll still never forget it ('cept the hyrocodon laced descent which i can't seem to remember now actually we had 2 ropes and i can recall at least a half-dozen double rope rappels to get off after the sketch of the last bit of the norht face... fuck! that's Man territory up dere!