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hell, i had that very issue w/ a pretty big-name climber on this board, after driving 3 hours north too - w/o a damn word either - luckily i had brought stuff for a solo outing. you only get to do that kinda shit once.

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

ahhh, rainy saturday morning existentialism!

now that's fucking funny! long before i learned it's true name, i was calling it "the dog pound" after that most notable of landmarks

3 can keep a secret...

cool - lets make it happen - or does this mean i have to watch 3000 lbs of moss and carpet flying off into the abyss all day again?

snow shoes are critical to big stupid fools like me that can't ski & are a menace to everything between the heavens and earth on the rare occasions that we do strap them on

just look out for the fucking poison fucking fucking fucking oak!!! feel free to napalm all vegation in the process

hey, it'll only be kinda really damp - oughta be super-fun anyhow though! lap up the se corner? maybe the steep stuff will be vaugely dry? hell, aid climbing if nothing else! sharpen your alpine-adverse-condition-climb'n-skillz to a keen edge!

hmm, it'll have to be more like a counter-counter-counter revolution or somethign - there's more than a few going in all kinda gaddam directions! and on that note - hey, it'll be kinda dry sunday - who wants to run some beacon laps in the damp w/ me?!?

you would too if your fawk'n belly had grown big enough to hold a full term grizzly bear cub interesting contrast in singing abilities there...

used mine for many years, including long exepedition and never had a problem - carries weight as well as having 100 lbs on your back can - don't see how the zippers could fail, as they're beefy as shit they are not, however, fireproof - i incinerated my first one in the great fire of y2k - all that remained of it were the twisted internal frame rods and some scorched biners

holy shit sky, now that's an avatar image! only way to make it better might be if they were "my little ponies!" my daughter'll love it...

if you can't fit into the gregory denali, you sure as hell don't need it! very comfy pack - heavy, but then that's hard to avoid when you're going for a big load anyway - though i used it for a month on denali w/ all smiles, i get far more use out of mine now humping the 80 lbs of supplies it takes to keep my family alive every week along the 4 mile loop to safeway

You shouldn't thank people in advance for a favor they haven't done yet, it's very passive aggressive. Might as well ask for the TPS reports done on saturday. And your welcome, although, I supposed I sprayed. Thanks for not minding this post!!! So how's the dating scene in SEA Mike? "no spray" is like "adult swim time" at the pool when you were a kid...

thanks - i usually just use my cowbell for weather prognostications...

how the fuck did bilbo get mixed up w/ the goddamn decepticons?

my other annoyance w/ skinny ropes, discovered this past weekend - they really don't take prusiks well!

who cares what it counts as? it sounds fun!

dogs fucked the pope! no fault of mine! don't you fuckers know this thing belonged to the world bank? that money goes to italy!

jeebus dude, you didn't get enough after a full week up there this summer already?!? doesn't look that much colder than august, really....

eeeexxxxxceeeeeeelent

man - feels good to have josh back - can you go back to the old mr. burns avatar image now?

dude - that was soooo last week!

not much too it - a long hard route on a fall day - we didn't start until the sun hit the wall - dan voted to cut off onto galaxy when we were an hour and a half from dark but it was my lead and i was obstinate (a long drive from pdx afterall!) - the belay i'd set up made it hard to get in the right side of the pressure chamber and i spent a long time in a supertight squeeze chimney to the left - dan finished his pitch to just below the exit crack/roof as it got dark - the belay was too far left for us to haul the pack w/o a 2nd rope, and i spent a long time feeling pissed and stuck - eventually went to prusik but the rope was too skinny for my cords - went skittering off into the inky blackness at one point, rope rubbing across a sharp edge - ah! - climbing by headlamp is not fast - we probably topped out around 1000 or so - was only my 2nd descent off the wall and it was a bit tricker at night - missed the turnoff for traversing over to orbit and the base of the wall - ended up much lower down and had to hike back up a bunch to get the backs - a fun day, it's good to know you can still do the hard shit when the conditions are less than optimal, no? a great climb - lots of wild places - the step around the edge onto iconoclast - the steep, chossy bit below the belay/cutoff for library ledge - my favorite was leading the double cracks, where i could stem way the hell out on the knife-edge of the dihedral (beacon training in effect!) - the climb def gets harder the higher up you go