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you don't have to have your extra rope on your back - you can have the leader trail it as a haul line, then bring your pack up if need be - sounds like having a lot of weight on while trying to do the free-climbing was making you sad clown...

a brother can't want some small-talk 'long the way? i've done that roundtrip b4 - a long damn hike for just a little climbing - if you can find a partner would def recommend doing 1 of the south face routes instead, or if you want to stick to the dominant hiking theme, then do the circumnav back out through lake colchuck after WR

thought i remember a tr someone mentioned recetnly 'bout a person who lost a shoe up there?

ya'll missed out - sweet day - windy as hell - bootied meself a pink tricam and an angle pin (literally pulled it out of the crack w/ my fingers )

your final milestone will be when you go back to being a cantekerous bastard all the time!

my parter bailed on me would like to do something other than soloing the classics on the lord's day...

i did triumph about this time last year and neither axe nor crampon was needed, and i'm a total pussy - layton's been there more recently though...

When you say Vesper, do you mean you are going to sleep on top? That would be cool. There is plenty of room. did a solo trip and did just that this summer - the cool thing is you can climb the money slab pitch as many times as you want by traversing in from 3rd class ledges from the summit ridge - take more beer than me - i still was thirsty after the first 6....

need to take my hand at the climbing first, that way i justified in drinking all teh beer to hide my shame

my rack DIDN'T have tape on it!

denali 14k one's kinda scarey as you could concievably fall in if you were wasted enough! my money's on the one at lake ann, looking across the chasm at the icefall coming off the upper curtis glacier on shuksan

maybe they called it forgotten for a reason?

"Aaahh! Hey, boy, slow down, you're gonna mess around and come too fast. You'll make me get mad and I'll clench up my butt cheeks and rip your dick off!" Thats funny! What is that from? eddie murphy discussing his nightmare where he goes to hollywood and finds out mr. t is ghey

yes

aww - he took his ball and went home!

you should go do flying circus then and skip all the pins there too! actually, seems like drytooling that lower crack on blownout direct might make it a hair easier, eh?

still fixed as of today - were you trying not to use the fixed pins? thought i saw it in that dihedral that has the 3 pegs...

woooord

the part of the elliot washout i saw a couple of weeks ago from teh west side of the moraine made it look as if clawing your way up the east side of the washout would not be impossible - certainly nerve-wrackign, and best done in daylight most assuredly, but i definetly thought i saw a line - i'm assuming that the trail past there is okay and don't know if there's similiar destruction past that point that i couldn't see

umm - isn't it like, hard or something, to get to pakistan, nepal and patagonia (the kinda tr's you usually see in said magazines) from the usa via a subaru?

exactly! if you have a hankering to do something positive, senor bone, your energy needs to go into finding a candidate in 08 worth supporting now and doing what you can to get them elected - bush is already pretty much a lame-duck-non-entity and currently you're acting like the guy who wanted to stab caeser for the 29th time instead of the guy who should be figuring out how to help the republic - at any rate, attempting to boil down all the ills of a nation into who's occupying a single desk in a single town is silly - a nation of 260 million people isn't undone by a single man

if'n mike was to take up yoga, a rift in the time-space continium might develop as the old mike attempted to leap the inter-temporal chasm and beat the new-mike to a pulp w/ a wiffle-ball bat maybe you should just sit out on your sweet balcony and paint water-colors of sea-gulls'n'stuff, dude!

nothing shows love and appreciation like an economy-sized bag of pre-cooked bacon

just based on the trees around it in the picture, it doesn't look like it could be more than 20 feet in diameter! maybe 150 feet tall?

i agree - i clearly was race-baiting and chicken-baiting w/ my "roots" shot of chicken-george a few pages ago and didn't even get the obligatory reach-around !