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advice you can feel free to say fuck-all to: wait a month or 2 for your first hood climb - this is the shitiest time for a hood climb. you want to wait for some snow or at least some ice to form. you want to come to the smith tuff love fest and drink beer and climb hung-over and spew thought-hate at hot chicks who can climb 5 grades above you. hood is for the winter months. october is for high-octane beer and forgetable-sex amidst cow-skulls and quads.

smoking dope keeps you from forgetting stuff?

thouroughly disliked the kitty litter n' decrepit death blocks just below the fin - heart in throat when i nearly sent a 500 ton boulder down on my partner despite being careful - once on the cracks though it's butter - i dug the traverse - it's wierd putting in gear down by your feet as you walk along.

urine? sucks - i'm crazy allergic to that crap - grape sized blisters - yum, yum!

We didn't bring crampons, and the snow/glacier had the consistency of concrete I'd rather make the two rappels (good anchors/ no rope eating cracks) than carry crampons. word just saw those anchors on my last trip there this summer - definetly the way to fly from now on - from the actual summit you can just about spot the cairn mentioned above - basically by looking off int he direction of aasgard - only 20-30 yards away as i recall

what john said actually when i first moved out here pdx had a pretty active pub club thing happened but over the past two year's it's declined...too much dry-tool'n perhaps? personally i blame my offspring but now i'm always hot for an excuse to flee the scene, so long as the wife doesnt' try to subtract it from my alpine alotment

"fiasco" - in case you were looking for the precise ways in which the iraq war is fawked

from the pdx scene

Are you blind, I think so? It was not the point it went south, here is a reality check. I am a marked man on this BS site. It’s extremely bias. That’s ok, I can take. As long as you can take it. Remember, its only entertainment. kevbone, i knew d*n h*witt - i SAW d*n h*witt - you sir are no d*n-o!

"show me a good loser and i'll show you a loser" - vince lombardi "i am as bad as the worst, but thank god, i'm as good as the best" - walt whitman i doubt those two boys woulda had much to say to each other

climbed w/ miker this weekend - good guy if ya'll are looking for partners as he's currently unemployed - the pony-tail scores as a plus, but he looks kinda like a borg w/ the blue-tooth ear-phone thingey. keep moving to portland folks - done met a half-dozen cool cats in the past 6 months new to the scene

april 2005 - dru goes on holiday

the only solution

if they're very, very, very -intoxicated -spraytastic -aggresively anti-social -demented -blissfully nonchalant about basic safety procedures it's probably a "yup"

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...