small turnout this year - the crazy bongo thang was way bigger for sure - i drank for 10 and had a blast hanging out w/ pete, tyler, drew, dan, mike, ica, jens, kevin, timmay and quite a few others whose names i've learned many times and never succesfully remembered
factors that made it small?
a - good weather in the alpine
b - all the cool kids are in washington and don't feel like driving so damn far
c - no beer/centralized scene friday night
d - wa rope up next week
e - crowds ruin climbing (tuff-land was packed saturday but the gorge was sublime and sparsely populated sunday)
fav route of the week - the mines of moria, what a fawking weird-o anomaly! in creaky dank darkness i got trapped under an immense, thin flake just below the chains that rocketed down the chimney when i tried to crawl under it narrowly missing decapitating layton and severing the rope - orc attack!