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but hopefully she'll already be married, and thus no longer my responsibilty wait - grandkids - dammit!

14, eh? that there is my clieeeee-ntelle. female, too? wow. every word's a lie. every one. 'cept maybe when they rarely fess up to lying i'm hoping my daughter goes strait from 3 to 30

i'd be frightened of any procedure that yields not a single google-hit now, "blow me three ways to sunday" - there's a prize-winner

i've never experienced any sort of big line on yw in the years i've been dig'n on the Big B - while the all-sporto nature of the first pitch encourages some to gum it up by top-roping it, the ass-pucker-effect of the butt-hole pitch seems to keep the minimally-competent away - plus, there's so many other fine routes to do out there that even if yw is gett'n gang'banged, you can find equally pleasant diversions...

i'm already binge-drinking to get my liver up to speed i'm too cool to read this whole thread - has steve the beer god pledged to provide the sweet, sweet heavenly nectar or do i need to import pabst blue piss?

and the last rule: if this is your first time to beacon club, you have to climb young warriors!

just the upper pitches - the awe-inspiring looseness of the butt-hole will probably forever constrain my stupidity

you criiiied at their wedding - dude! i didn't cry at my own wedding until i thought we ran out of newcastle, and then i rememebered the guiness and cheered up...

holy shit - went out to do yw and take photos of every 5 meters of rock for the mother of all panaromics y-day and discovered what slothrop was saying 'bout the new belay - man, a fella can really rest his ass on some sweet spongy moss lining perfect benches at the base now - gonna make there at the end of the day far more leisurely - good to see that all that rock that was trundled down was put to good use

wtf? young warriors is in the olson guide. certainly there's no decent description, but then neither's slothrop's tr (no offense, slothrop )

so much for sarcasm...

it makes everyone happier if you just rap off the tree-ledge tree one more pithc up

just stopping on that ledge requires clairovoyance - there's old pins and bolts all over the place to make you want to go right there. i first climbed that route w/ layton shortly after moving out here and niether of us knew where the hell we were going - to this day i look around and can't figure out where we went go back and do dod's jam/dastardly crack - not quite as long and certainly harder but a similiar uber-classic feeling route leading to the trail

good luck staying on route after pitch 2.5 w/o a guide! a 70 meter is real nice too for the 4th pitch so you can stretch it all the way to the ridge/scramble off - skip everyother bolt and climb high as a kite for the geniune experience

posting this image all over the mutha-fawking inter-web oughta bring osama out of his dark hole real soon - i think in the interests on national security, to extract this cum-sucker, we should paste this picture everywhere - planes, over the statue of liberty, on politicians, on the side of the empire state building, etc. a line in the sand, as it were...

how 'bout monday or tuesday at beacon? gotta take advantage of the after-work special 'fore daylight savings fucks us...

how about this, i have on several occasions had gear come unclipped from my harness while climbing and thus join the Great Cosmic Booty Pool - i suppose this happened b/c i somehow contorted myself into a position that opened the gate and shifted the whole piece enough for everything, gear and biner to fall- i've seen this happent o several other folks too - would this kinda shit not happen if i clipped the other way? (usually have the gate facing out and at the top as it feels most natural thataways)

of all the threads i've read today, this is one of them

being from the south, i'm a fan of mountain names ending w/ "knob" - "beckey's knob" kicks the shit outta "beckey's horn"

this shouldn't be dismissed as a mere joke - my denali trip entirely hinged upon it, especially above 14k - my partner abstained and lost all motivation for life and became a little puss

is that prominent gendarme on beckey still there or has it fallen down forever?

oh yeah, regarding that ow crux - you can skip the crack pretty much entirely by doing a face more or two off to the right and going aroudn it

you need nothing bigger than #2 - take a very, very light rack - coupla nuts, 2-3 cams, a bunch of slings including some long ones no snow/ice gear necessary either - the glacier's dead