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christ - the closing of beacon depresses me! today was awesome - dryer than it's been for me in months out there it seems - cold and clear and windy - nearly ran over old larry while driving out - did the whole lap in warm trangos - why does my baby have to leave me for 5 long goddamn months!?! guess its ozone time.... plenty of ice on route

uhh, hello? pressure? pot? painkillers? pork? portabello mushrooms?

pressure? pot? painkillers? pork? portabello mushrooms?

da'lright - will be looking for you, at the base or up the route...

i could probably be outta school by 220 - is that too late for you?

saw'em last week - look very stylish - i especially like the assortment of animal skins available...

pok'er? i don't even know'er!

la sportiva trangos

dirtiest man w/ the family-friendly reputation ever? "i hate snaff-porn before lunch!"

whichis springfever? was looking at bluebird direct y-day - looks fun, albeit needing some cleaning...i didn't discover bluebird till this fall - the 2nd time i did it i got the top 3000 lbs of the left pillar to rock a good 2-3 inches when i yarded on it! i thought the top pitch of jensen's was coolest, mostly b/c the leader tops out of that roof 50 feet above and 5 feet behind you, and yet somehow it's only .9+ jensen's is really your fav? flying swallow and flying dutchman seem to have cooler position...

anyone heard from mike lately?

pdx ice aint' easy on beginners - the falls to the left of crown point are pretty mellow though, but i don't think there's too much beyond that...

i remember doing hood last winter in almost identical conditions - i wore my 8000 meter down jacket all the way from car to summit - too wind to stop the whole day, but just went slow and dug it - the top of the queens chair was a fucking vortex to purgatory - what a day!

my boy scout troop lost a kid at the brandenburg gate in communist east berlin while visiting there in 1984 - we didn't even realize until the krauts were doing the head-count at checkpoint charlie

magic 8-ball says..... "ask again later"

hood looked fantastically mean today from pdx - the whole moutain was fuzzy from all the wind raging around it - woulda loved to have been at the summit in a very big puffy jacket

singing while i'm swinging elvis was a hero to most said elvis was a hero to most but he never meant nothing to me fucker was racist strait up and plain motherfuck him and john wayne! ready ta go 'cuz i'm hyped and i'm amped most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

sounds like you had a good time - what more can you want?

oughta be clear, dry and cold as neptune's cock - enjoy!

whoa, der's a fun day done! started murky n' dripping - shut down 15 ft off the ground attemting to get to stepphenwulf - slugged it up the corner to jills instead - quite the herd embracing The Suck today (dan, shawn, ? did lil'wing to fearoffly'n and jim eventually showed to set up a homeless shelter at the base - dave poked his head out momentarily too) the good news - everything dried off today the bad - it's now 33 degress and hOWLing oughta be a great monday for those fools too terpain to be timid

see ya'll out there at 830 - dave, if you show late walk on down to the wall

don't know if anyone read/remembered this story, but it's much kewler! http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1198815908196810.xml&coll=7&thispage=1

mawkish mortal! heresy! dread beacon - dry or dripping! summit or death!

2morrow - the next round - dryness after today's piggly-wiggly-half-hard-snow-storm - ken'll be there as always - who else? think it's a stephenwulf day!

well - so long as you're going to do your first ascent in winter might as well do it by the willis wall! don't forget your snowboard! actually, if you can make it stop snowing for months on end i'll go w/ you...