ivan

"crass exaggerations?" that muther-fucker had to be at least 3500 fucking feet and shaped like a bent-whale-pope dick

fun conditions currently - hordes present on saturday - the great and terrible iain was spotted - many thanks to brent from sisters who took the bitch spot on the rope but took many cool pictures of me n' oleg to piss off our wives - currently getting up into the middle icefall below the north face is cool - man, it's really melted out and changed in there in the past 4 years!

comparing fred to reagan - now who's shitting on this thread!?!

liberty - good idea mike - i fucking hate "liberty" anyway. fred peak sounds kinda lame though - mt. beckey's better? seems like one'a'ya boys who knows him can think of a more endearing moniker for his Holy Hill

Das Toof?

best to inquire as to conditions a week or so 'fore you come out as it can vary widely year to year. past few years driving to cloud cap was out by early december going up the n side and down the s is fun - about 1 hr or less from t-line p-lot back to the n side. doing the whole thing as a day climb is simplest, 'specially if descending the s side. tie in rock is not a great camp for doing the n face as it might be difficult to get down to the base of the route, especially in the dark. if you got the time, instead of doing a bunch of camping try to do a few more hood classics - linking up the n face w/ the reid or sandy headwalls would make the long trip more rewarding - if you can roll w/ light bivy gear climbing the n side, then bivying at illumination sadle, then doing the reid or sandy and descending back to camp/t-line would be cool.

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sounds like it would be perfect for you jens! and no i haven't...

i'm jealous - i want to be hated this much too! as it is, i can only inspire 150 teenagers a year to loath me...

how'd you do the gendarme in one pitch w/ one rope w/o getting godawful rope drag? seems like you have to go way sidewise on top of the perch - a delightfully long pitch for sure

i'll believe it when i see it - the status quo of me not paying and usually not getting ticketed has been bearable, but it'd be nice to see parks getting the funding they need from my taxes instead of the fawk'n sand-people

i can't imagine the elliot hw would be even remotely climbable yet - there's been no precip in forever and the mountain looks grossly melted out - some snow in the forecast for the next few days though might get things starting - reckon it'll be at least another month though for the elliot

but not the eagles?

abraham lincoln actually - and no doubt he coulda pulled 5.10 in his mother-fuck'n stove-hat too, man-clogs n' all - civil war woulda gone all kafluey thataways

i don't know that i want to hang out in the flesh or in the 0's n' 1's w/ folks whose skin is too thin for the most holy and reverent fuck-word and all the glorious jives that follow in it's spirit. basically this board's just like a damn locker room and that's all good - otherwise i'd check out climbingmormons.com

you oughta be paying idaho taxes john-o - you be spending 'nuff time there!

the pan shot looks kinda like god's waking up to find you've broken all his shit and man is he pissed

i liked bivy'n at the base of the route - i don't sleep well unless i have a 50% chance of rolling off to my death mid-nap great climb for practicing endless rappels on

hard to have much negative environmental impact on a massive flat boulder in the midst of a gi-normous talus field, 'specially when there's a shitter just a few minutes walk away...

ranger told me last year you can bivi on the rocks below d-tail by lake colchuck sans permit - done that many times w/ no troubles

jim told me last month that fear of flying ends at that belay station jill's thrill runs through

searching for useful info in spray is like looking for entertainment ring-side at a gallagher show - it's highly unlikely you'll find anything you want, and quite certain you'll get shit on you

or maybe how such virulent bacteria have spread to the colchuck area? i did in fact see a cute-little-itti-witti-bunny on the hike out...

got a call from the county health department today asking me kindly not to have sex w/ any of the local lifestock if it wouldn't be too inconvenient doc on the phone said it's usually spread through eating bird flesh w/ peak infections round x-mas and t-giving WHO website says the bacteria also lives in the gut of mammals too, so all the marmots, goats and chipmonks can well be helping out 'round colchuck course, this has all really been a cover for my sick, sick fetish of eating raw poultry n' snorting dried bird-shit

i want more dogs fetching hacked off deer legs too so we can build another stinky fire (or perhaps they should be used for the winning pair of ladies to accesorize w/?)