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being 6'7", it pisses me off not having an axe on low-angle stuff b/c the tools are just too short - my little kid trekking pole works nice though - you shouldn't fall on easy shit, and if you're worried about having to arrest, you might as well just face into the hill and use both tools so you don't fall in the first place

Conservatives also defended Bill Maher when he was fired for his comments about the American military being "cowardly" in comparison to the 9/11 hijackers - and he's no friend of conservatism. Maher is a progressive liberal ass wipe. I'm not foaming mouth conservative, but I am a former Marine and I found his comments offensive to me and others in the service. he is the kind of liberal you find in Berkeley, CA. And believe me most of those fucks pay lip service to telerance and diversity, but would never want a non-white to marry their daughter. Oh My! you obviously don't know bill maher - that man would never have a daughter to begin with - and i'd bet'ya dollars to donuts he's done the nasty w/ more than a few dark-hued mamas while lounging about The Mansion maher and imus are exactly what we want in america - people who can speak their minds without being shot for it - if folks don't like 'em, feel free to use your powers as consumers to get 'em shut down by pressuring their advertisers, but don't debate their right to say it - but frankly, who gives a shit? if you don't like 'em, don't listen to 'em. i ignore easily 99% of the world. perhaps a little voltaire is in order?

don't matter what color your horse is, they're all pink on the inside! :puke:

anyone quoted monty python yet? what's wrong w/ the world? people aren't wearing enough hats or maybe if we just had more digital watches...

not what you'd think unless you're immersed in it - i was one of a handful of white teachers in a 90% black school for many years in the south - i kinda miss it - i felt like i never really understood what the hell was going on - big puffy avirex jackets and the word "shah" were a big part though

nothing beats boredom like adventure

i feel so proud - poverty is the mother of all invention

You never listen to PE? "Like I guess you Could play some jigaboo Off the plantation What else can a * do? A black woman in this profession Playing a lawyer? Out of the question For what they play Aunt Jemima is the perfect term Even if now she got a perm So lets make out own movies like Spike Lee Cause the roles being offered don't strike me As something that the black man can use to earn- Burn, Hollywood, Burn" i loved how that song predicted the la riots 2 years 'fore they happened such a tough one to pick the best track off that album - pollywannacracker? welcome to the goddamn terror-dome? war at 33 1/3? fear of a black planet? shit - dem was da dayz!

a couple of years ago i faced a similiar situation in anchorage - me and the crew discovered the cheapest thing to do was to rent a u-haul truck - you could sleep in it, it holds a shitload of gear, and if you don't put too many miles on it it's damn cheap

i think it's basically a winter/spring rock route - the original ascent was in april and was mostly on rock - would love to hear from anyone else who's done it as i've never seen a tr on it - we bivied in a cool snow cave formed by a huge flake and guarded by a big tree, just above the lower snow/ice field - climbing a pithc above that the next day to a point a pithc or so below the crux (which is that wide crack/chimney looking thing well left of the ice drip) - my partner didn't have any experience with dry-tooling and wasn't jazzed about the prospect of having to bail higher up if need be, so that was that - just getting back into the hidden coulior and downclimbing the ice there was entertaining though

i didn't think either of the honkey hoes in the team photo were particularily knappy-looking

right next door to tc, pat and i tried dragontail madness last week - fun route, and if you like dry-tooling (having honed yer skillz on the non-existent ice of tc) try moving one coulior over here's the crux (big ass crack left of center - looks like it'll take a #6 though the beckey guide said 'chocks to 2 inches') and pat on the snowfield traversing over to it

word! - appears to work - and for your viewing pleasure, the crux pitches of dragontail madness, circa last week

can you try again? still can't upload anything, even random images i wasn't trying before. tried doing it as you already suggested, through photo icon.

the lake was nice and frozen last week - drank the better part of a bottle of whiskey while strolling across it - almost made the rest of the walk not hurt...almost.

last tuesday

go lay siege to the stuart range dude - do all the spring routes - ice cliff and stuart glacier couliors on stuart (maybe razorback and west ridges too - hell, even the n ridge might be in shape for you), tool on over to lake colchuck and do the couliors on colchuck, then maybe take on triple couliors on dragontail

yo seth - not a bad time for climbing in the stuart range either - this mean you got a car now?

once, on acid, i saw the part of "sniper" where they cut off dude's trigger finger - had to go sit in the "downer" tent for a little while after that...

nope - it's a strait-forward, low-angle route though till summer sets in when it gets slushy n' shitty

you can climb luet's in ski boots - i assume you'll have crampoons

man - raven's roost and seneca - almost makes me miss the Old Dominion....thought i was the only person to have dry-humped raven's while dreaming of real alpine...

tried that - here's what i got: Sorry the file requested can not be found. Perhaps you have lost your way? Maybe you should of brought an MLU or a PLB.

can't even do this from my work computer!

ya! so someone tell me how to fix this so i can post pictures from my spectacular failure on dragontail madness...