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it ain't gonna rain! in pdx - escape the gloom

my favorite aristocrats punchline: "wow - what a beautiful act! what do you call it?" "the cock-socking mother-fuckers."

how'bout best moment? getting crazy crunked at colchuck after belittling meself on colchuck balanced despite having what felt like a strong early summer - no finer memory than feeling busted up and a bit 'barrased drinking canuck whiskey n' puffing on god knows what looking up backbone, which i'd done in so much better style a few weeks earlier a return to triump and a nice light chronic-themed travail stands out too spring north face solo w/ a well-planned mp3 playlist and a gallon of hot coffee in The Amazing Chrome Artillery-Shell luetholds solo in a howling winter gale - the only hood climb i can recall ever doing without once taking off the puff-jacket, balaclava, gloves or goggles, or even really ceasing moving for that matter, out of fear of becoming a permanent part of the landscape dragging old friends and old fathers along on a silly sunshine-cooper spur linkup in a 100-degree heat wave - wine slushies n' avocadoes in the shade many a fun solo out at beacon - dods (well, the first pitch anyway), Da Corner, YW Aethelwulf Claiborn Linthwaite spending the night screaming at mosquitoes, chain-smoking camels and barely making out the whiskey-drunken snores of layton 6 feet from a roaring waterfall amongst thickets of Hell-Fuck shrubs in the hinterland of extremely strange lutherans shan't be forgetten soon either

funny - back in appalachia i wouldn't give this house a second look - afterall, looks no different then it does the other 364 normal days out of the year the prayer flags instead of stars n' bars totally ruins the illusion though

well, if the road to a person's home was out, they would either be a) stuck in their home w/ nothing else to do but pray they're not next (and spray) or b) sit at a bar and be pissed (and spray)

heretic!!! burn her!!!

"I like the puppet on the left," "I think the puppet on the right is more to my liking," "Hey, wait! There's one guy holding up both puppets!" -Bill Hicks

marcus covered the avy info as well as can be done in general - check out http://www.nwac.noaa.gov/ before you go for specifics

WA crack - big second vote for beacon's freeforall-dods-dastardly combo-meal - best finished by belaying off the railing on a sunday afternoon while macking on every grandma huffing her way up the trail WA sport - last pitch of young warriors - even better if you don't clip any of the bolts - the moves are as good as sex yet require none of the awkward well-that-was-nice-maybe-i-oughta-call-you-again bullshit the morning after Or crack - all the gorge stuff - climbing tuff cracks makes my hands sad OR sport - there's sport climbing in oregon?

the scarey thing about the warming debate is "what's the alternative?" as much of the world that has for long laid in the long shadow of the wealthy US and its greedy over-consumption begins to feel the same diabetes-induced joy, how can they be talked out of it even as we struggle to cut back? seems like a big train-wreck coming at us greek-fate-tragedy style...not an argument against trying to do SOMETHING of course, but how exactly is this thing going to turn out well? the human tendency to just drink one more beer and wish for the best is extreme....and i so hate heat. though i did hear it oughta make the russians happy - something about all those resources in siberia comign onto the market (except if that whole 'day after tomorrow' thing happens)

what he said temp/wind wise - it's usually butt-cold in december near the summit (20 and below) and wind can rage over 40 for a long time - i climbed luethold's in artic conditions last winter w/ very high winds the whole day, but as said, it's nicer when it's calm and not so much crap is falling down aroudn you. hood rocks - enjoy.

i'm thinking a helicopter would be even better...

the gorge is like perfect on a good cold day - especially when it's windy! the only time i've ever climbed 5 gallon buckets was in boots and gloves on a day when it was 30 - felt like good alpine conditioning (minus the bolts perhaps)

so'd anyone see amidst all that blow wether or not the ice was in on the spur? how phat?

nice - the weather looks good and cold - hope the ice has formed up! enjoy the descent down the s side - probably the most technical part!

ummmm - hasn't this same post come 'round like 30 times w/ no climax? i feel like some frustrated desperate-house-beyotch.....

thanks to the good dr, me and my colon are finally on speaking terms again!

"that's okay - i wasn't using my civil liberties anyway"

or better yet, fix all those old tr's whose pictures got annihilated in one of the cycles of evolution the board's been through?

fuck you yankee blue jeans!

never thought that the "Hogg Funeral Home" chain in sw virginia was terribly tasteful, despite it be a family joint in the heart of smoked ham country

"and with that, the mysterious lady in blue knew what with the rest of her life she must do "

badass - plan for monday morning complete!

wierd bill! i was doing 'bout the same shit then i saw yer post! someone post the mp3 here! those lyrics rock and i want to play them for my history of war class and further stress to 30 17-year olds that their ardent dreams for desperate glory are crap n' all....

not a man i like to see in safeway in his flip-flops