ivan

thursday morning - 7 am - soooo tiiiiiiredddd....

it's okay - he girth hitch a back up to his rock-hard manhood

i'm hoping to go do some alpine up norht then, dave anyone down for beacon on sunday - looks vaguely promising...

was their rope stuck in the anchor or caught in a crack? did they not have jumars? headlamps? good to see all that beacon rope-soloing payign off!

ouh! ouh! can i get mine in blond, phu-leeze!?!

see ya'll round 7

yeah, really! christ, between this weekend and today i know somebody got some n-face-hood-nookie!

where?

gotta disagree on that choice! the chicken-fried-steak-n-eggs-n-hasbrowns-all-mixed-tagethe-w/-gravy special blows all the competition out of the water (plus you get to be extra kewl and special order it when it's not currently listed on the big board) - like an orgasm in yer mouth, but not, like, gay or anything...

shoulda walked over a few feet and done the same to moscow...or taken your life in your hands and done the same on paper tiger.

not unless he quits his job 5 hrs from here! actually, ken oughta win the most hardcore-devoted-to-beacon-n'-willing-to-drive-a-gazzilion-miles-regulary-ta-get-there award - he comes down just about every week and has to be doing, what, 3-400 miles roundtrip?

where's the road washed out? how much of hike from there to cascade pass now?

no, jim's MY boyfriend!!! i prefer to call it the "hobo camp"

i'm happy for you (read, w/ subtle under-text - fuck you!!!) watcha'll do?

thought it's been about a year for you now w/ your son, kev? new-ish then... getting good practice in for the alpine - did you do it w/ boots n' a pack while drinking water outta a nalgene w/ chunks of ramen floating in it too? i like linking all the climbs by asterik pass - sky ridge, sky chimney, white velvet/satin(?), wherever i may bolt, phoenix buttress, etc.

how was it ken? fucking beautiful day! luckily i get to double up both the wife and daughter's b-day, but why couldn't it have been pouring to keep my mind indoors!?

1 of the very, very few things i've figured out that i haven't noticed everyone else was already doing regards climbing w/ headlamps n' helmets - most headlamps can actually go UNDER your helmet, instead of around it - wearing it that way prevents such disastrous losses and resulting epics. check it out!

bummer - hope i get the rest of my issues - while i like the mag, and i'm sure the chicks were hard-core, the cover shot of mixed climbing on bolts seems less then, well, alpine...

ah yes, while spinning beacon yarns, we might as well throw out the cool monikers of beacon climbers - chris jensen the tweaker might be the best so far! old larry sketchy todd ...come to mind right off the bat...

another super-neglected route at the moment - the first pitch makes for super-fun A0 climbing and is a sane alternate to get to the top of fly'n swallow

get better soon dude - and fuck the tropics! stick to the arctic ice in the future! polar bears n' eskimoes don't have to worry about this kinda crap!

climbed jensen's ridge this fall, felt like the first person on the route in a long, long time. encountered a totally dead, blackened, shriveled plant in the crack below the "mind-bending off-width" - ripped the whole thing out w/ my bare hands, getting dust n' shit all over my face, only to notice the tiniest sprig of bright green poison oak growing out of its roots, way in the back - spent the next week on the 'roids, feel'n groovy, itch'n on the inside, that special soul-scratch ya can't make

That's funny coming from you, douche. what, he said he'd love you for ever but went off to live w/ some fat-chick in iowa? don't you quit him!

ha! is that old larry in the center in the glasses?!?

hip belays rock at beacon, at least on the low angle corner - makes ya feel like fawk'n clint eastwood, especially if ya do it w/ a smoke dangling off your lower lip while singing bruce springstein songs, wearing a big bright orange brain-bucket! 9 out of 10 folks' eyes get real big when they top out and see what they've been on though i've been burned on it once though - a very large mammal was following me on the last pitch of YW and fell at the crux, making my "eiger sanction" moment more real that i was expecting...