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"8 year olds, dude!" and oh-my-fucking-christ, if you can't nail this one (and even if you can) check it out: http://slacklalane.blogspot.com/2006/07/eight-year-olds-dude.html

"37!?!"

think i almost had an anuerysm laughing at this! GODDAMN YOU VISCIOUS HAIRY FUR-FUCK-BALLS!!!

man - looks a helluva lot simpler to walk around it now!

all routes on hood are day climbs, even the technical ones, though bivying at the bases might accentuate your expereince - check the trip report database on the site here - the fun, technical routes that have reports here are the reid headwall, yocum ridge, sandy headwall, north face, black spider and illumination rock - several of those being truly difficult and dangerous and probably not real friendly to a person on the mountain for just the first time. my recommendatino to you is the reid headwall - for the money and effort, its the most enjoyable and coolest route on the mountain, assuming you have confidence and a 2nd tool

if you're unfamiiar w/ hood and volcano's in general, do the south side slog route up from timberline lodge - if it's a nice day you'll have a hundred new friends around too - it's an easy route (and apparently a fun ski/board descent), but be aware that weather and being stupid can still easily get you killed up there

whaaa? jesus, dude, i mean, i'm like, tryiiiiiing to like you "the only thing that really worried me was the ether. there is nothing more hopeless, senseless and depraved then a man in the depths of an ether binge, and i knew we'd get into that rotten stuff soon..."

wow. sorry to all. it never really occured to me how dangerous that trail could be.

now do you see what happens when you fuck a complete stranger in the ass?

john, are you wearing a kevlar vest in case some insurgent decides to pop a cap in yer ass while getting yer pump on?

enjoy - teaching yourself to climb, if you really commit to it, brings an excellent feeling of self-sufficiency - don't be one of these wankers that climbs 1 mountain a year and goes around telling everyone "i'm a climber" - it's a life-long pursuit -hood's an excellent mountain to start w/ (assuming you do the south side first) - buy "freedom of the hills" and study/practice w/ it like its da bible - get yourself scared - make mistakes and learn from them - make friends on this site and elsewhere that climb and apprentice yourself - then climb w/ other newbies and share the knowledge

came down the trail y-day - it'll be another week i'd imagine? several huge boulders smashed a bunch of stuff out but they're obviously hard at work fixing it up - i'm curious to see what becomes of the big rocks that are now fixed in the middle of the path

funny, that's what i was doing y-day as i watched kev gear up

the '70s version of the film w/ john-boy from the waltons did a better job of doing just those things i recall - somehow putting it in color made the lack of reality of the battle scenes worse - the black and white's more artsy, plus in the original they really did just blow the living shit out of several acres of hollywood great find on the picture pat - that's exactly it, and you can't be for any war and not have to wear those fucking glasses at least a little bit

ether is the perfect drug for las vegas

i teach a "history of war" class to a bunch of teenage boys who adore war - i think of that movie often and try to kick that round-glass wearing teacher-dude from the film in the balls daily w/ my mad routine the best parts are the first 10 minutes and the section that traces the "cursed boots"

Yer not the only one. Now I have a cute little "moodie", but no avatar. me too! whah!

thanks for the work by the way

mike's always reminded me more of kevin bacon...maybe it's his tendency to break into ecstatic dance when in one of his "fevers"

they definitely freak me out - like i can't read every other line

your last name is hoover

19. You can't climb as well as me or climb so well you make me look bad

holy shit - we have a head-bang'n emoticon now?!? :rocken:

niiiiice! adventure!

ah, but could it then crawl all the way back up the hill and throw itself right back down again? and all while spouting an untranslatable slurry of stoneresque ski-slang?