ivan

snafflehundus rex! ave snafflehundus morituri te salutamus! ave!

now that's a stimulus package

i think mickey of mickey n' mallory said it best: "badasses don't die"

i love it when the 800 lb gorilla cries about the 90-lb-soaking-wet-faggot-boy fucking w/ him

awesome - wish i could have gone. wonder if beckey's eventual cermemony will involve chanting? a great casting of mcdonalds napkins and ketchup-packets into the air? ahhh, saturday - a good day to die!

slacker start!

omfg, do i just spend 5 minutes watching that - hmm 4:52 - yeah...

don't worry bill - it's still early enough you can pass out now and be rage'n'for act 2 in a few hours!

john, you actually gon' be there? would be rad...but surely there must be ice in SOMEWHERE in N America?!?

'dos bitches got nuttin' on charlton heston!

joe, do you have a clif-notes version of the above? i couldn't bring myself to read all of it, but i assume it has the logical statement in there somewhere that bitchign about the birds is like bitching about the weather - i just wish the climbing at the ozone was more similiar to beacon - i didn't feel right at all making the transition last spring...

no such creature exists - this time of year one must suffer in order to get the privilege to suffer more on a route - that said, once bott tracks get put into lake colchuck/stuart area, that approach isn't too bad

how about poverty and an acknowledged lack of training w/ one too?

nice, pitts - you should still look into the tauntaun thang!

More repetitious than a tree full of woodpeckers. dumber than a bag of hammers

"it's raining harder than a horse pissing on a flat rock" "sweating like a fat kid in a candy store" "sweating like a whore in church"

whoa! bill, i thought you didn't go in for such tomfoolery!?! was it a devil that pushed you off the Path of the Prudent?

wallawalla ken aka 112 on da board here not really trying to knock the 2 guys who've gotten so much attention lately - i imagine they weren't real familiar w/ the upper mtn and having no altimeter or gps you're pretty much totally fucked on descent in a whiteout so they did the most logical thing and went down - for ken and i, the ice in the hourglass was probably much harder then than now and a scarey thing to down-climb for a newb, and i figured it would be easiest and most strait-forward to top out and return to camp from there - i'm happy to be on the good side of the comparision, as it's damned rare

you can expect wind-blasted ridge-walking on the last few hundred feet to the summit no matter how deep the snow is down on the elliot - i wouldn't be suprised if it's very deep down there - be safe w/ the avi - there's a lot of slope w/ a lot of snow on it there - a truly beautiful place to be this time of year though - enjoy!

funny, that's exactly where ken and i were, and the same type of weather we encountered, on our trip back in november - having experience on the route and an altimeter (no map or gps - i had a compass and a bearing back to camp but never used it) was sufficient to top out and get back down w/o incident i pretty sure ken would have killed me if we had ended up in a snow cave that night

on pasiano pinnacle, right in front of burgundy (kinda hard to distinguish from that higher summit actually)

dude, the blue route looks siiick!

i think maybe the first actually, but it's an old saw 'rouuuund here for sure - i figured i'd give it another stroke

i'm a definite maybe

if the survial of my hobby is predicated on the mental stablity of my wife when plans get wierd, i am hopelessly fawked