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no abuse, but the time of year for luetholds is pretty much over - there's a pic of it in the hood conditions thread and it looks like an old-lady making a big steaming brown coil - some folks are into that kinda thing though, so if you count yourself one of the "enlightened"... if you haven't done the cooper spur yet, go do that now - it'll probably still be good for a couple of weeks and you can drive up to cloud cap now - it's a fun solo w/ plenty of heady exposure

actually i can't remember a thing about that day - it musta happened during one of my blackouts? the last thing i can remember is comign to in a squalid double-wide covered in ketchup packets and rubber chickens - strangely, my head didn't hurt...

post early, post often if the "butthole pitch" don't do it forya, how about "the judge" 'cuz he looks just like this guy...

Did they let Daniel Pearl go yet? yeah - years ago - in 2 pieces as i recall, no?

wacko arabs must be get'n soft...

rope?

anyone wanna crag at beacon tomorrow morning 'fore it gets a)hot and b) time to get liquered'up'n'pissed'off for the 4th?

christ if that don't sound like advice to get through this whole fawking tedious life...

(good book by the way) good god, how on earth can you feel that way? the only thing that kept me aroudn for the last 800 pages was the feverish desire to see every single character suffer a most excruciating death shortly before the author too was whipped to death by a crowd of mutant jazz-dancers - grudge reading, yeah!

like ants on an ice-cream cone...mmm...people-flavored ice-cream nice shot - i like how it doesn't have your name stamped all over it

actually bill was just kidding - the rocks really still closed - and they unchopped IB so you can go do that instead - and there's poison oak everywhere, especially the south face - the whole south face- and there's flying lawnmowers and wierd shit that like that all endangerign the trail on the way in and stuff... you have been warned

fwiw, that's actually bullshit - they got a "mythbusters" on it and everything - the reaction is from the urshiol (sp?) in the plant, which can be smeared around by rubbing and scratching after you get it on your skin/clothes/gear - but several days later, after you've washed everything, new breakouts on your body are delayed reactions and that systemic thing that was mentioned. washing your shit after getting exposed is a wise idea saw tons of the good shit out at beacon rock today! leaves of 3? fuck! like, every plant in the world has at least 3 leaves on it!

i see my idea of not notifying hte interweb didn't work beautiful day - funny how grey and gloomy it is just 20 miles west - least my garden don't need me 2day...

looks plenty like poison oak to me, w/ the scabs caused no doubt from scratching - for me, in bad cases, 4-5 days after exposure the bubbling will expand to immense proportions (say my entire bicep to wrist), will constantly be sloughing off the outer layer of skin, popping and oozing a yellowish/orange goo that hardens quickly - an obvious scar will remain even 3 weeks later poison oak = an indication that, if god exists, he's most definetly an asshole

mt triumph as described in nelson's book: "alone, aloof, dramatic"

probably put in by this guy...

after the first day of chopping Infinite Bitching...

don't forget to leave your box of doughnuts on the dashboard w/ yer beer either - little debbie, sarah who-ever-dah-fuck, whatever - getting back to the car to discover a baker's fresh dozen iz badazz!

that is not a good idea... i had someone break a riding crop on my ass one time because i was being obstinate and didn't want to safe word out. i broke my partners trust. I allowed him to really damage me when that was not his intention. He can not know where my limits are if i am not communicating those to my him. that was a failure on my part. live and learn damage you? sounds like the whip got the worst end of it (pun intended)!

why do i feel like wayne and i are trying to kill you? remember soloing stuff in the cascades is about a lot more than the technical grade of the hardest pitch hard to have a less than amazing time in the picketts, even if it's just scrambling round and dig'n life...

cascade pass - do eldo, torment-forbidden, sahale, jo'burg bring a big bottle of liquor

somewhere in emyn muil, firsure...

is that frodo?

conditions look perfect for yocums!