ivan

mp3 with tunes that can transcend time and space and coax the body into accepting the most inhumane horrors - this in combination w/ the aforementioned rasta bivi gear is damn near invincible

so no one of dishere board's been up there in the past month?

anyone got any pictures/reports from this area recently? boston basin/joburg? any idea how far up the road you can drive?

living the dream, baby, living the dream

a popular weekend on the reid - oleg and i insisted on going up there sunday to see if we could do yocums and paid the price by having to haul a lot of extra shit up the reid instead. we saw 2 other parties - there's now a fantastic set of tracks leading up the summit from the west rim topout. will post my own pic of yocums from way above later for everyone's general bemusement

ah, if only i didn't have a day job...

guess that means yocum's is the route de jour then? shit, does this mean i have to carry my snowshoes up n' over?!?

conquistadors of the useless

? all i saw on the kraut site were shovels that come mit handles

funky - not quite as sweet as john's top secret model, but it's hard to argue w/ the concept of free...

the artist formerly known as nolse has this sweet alum shovel head w/ a collar that allows it to fit over any ice tool/axe for a totally sweet alpine shovel. problem is the beyatch always is out climbing so i can't borrow it when i too aspire to be a nuetrino-fetching, wind-shirt thrashing mofo. apparently the shovel ain't made no more though - why i can't imagine as it's uber useful and EXTREME ALPINISM at its finest anyway, if anyone gotz one or some link to the goods, i'd be willing to pay a buck or two

"halfway through the carrot-soup entree, bob began to develop a sneaking suspicion..."

"pssst! your balls are showing!"

can i wear my metal spikes? it's been a long damn time since i tried some non-death defyiing sorta leisure activity...

bill maher has also pointed out the silly nature of this desire when taken from the male point of view - "talk about frustrating...you know, after a couple 3 or 4 virgins in a row, aren't you gonna want a girl who KNOWS what she's doing?"

no photoshop! i demand the penis be reinserted! shit, maybe that doesn't sound like i meant it...

damn, beaten to the trotsky response! well, guess i'll settle for pointing out the subtle irony that the menshivik faction of the communist party, which trotsky led, translates to "little faction" while lenin's bolshevik faction means "big one" - in fact, in the early revolution, trotsky had more adherents and was the more accomplished theoritician...ice-axes solve all kinds of problems!

boys, why not leave this thread for sweet pics and move the shit talking to the "mike layton double-plus ungood" thread? you're seriously threatening your ability to win the chalk ball n' bag! so long as we're getting corporate sponsorship for cc.shit, we oughta do one for hate-spray though. winner gets free anger management therapy for a year, plus a lifetime subscription to "barely legal" and 10 gallons of hand lotion - either/both oughta do the trick.

of those all, hood is by far the easiest to climb in winter (it's best season anyway) - you can drive to the timberline ski lodge and ski area at 6K ft on regularly plowed roads - from there you can access stupid easy "climbs" like the standard s side route or luetholds coulior, or do more interesting stuff like the reid or sandy glacier headwalls. bring skiis, if that's your thing.

we're approaching a critical mass - how many we need total pete?

didn't pete say no spray, bitches? sketch, mike - ya'll thinking about playing 'r not? and for my next homoerotic misinterpretation...

hmmm - shitty freezing fog on hood this weekend or football in the rain n' mud in pdx? hmmm...couldn't we just go to smiff? i might be in - depends on how shit shapes up. i was a big fat turd of a lineman in highschool, but now i feel more like tight-end material...

DPS, how long did you descent of the NE butt take from the snow arete? seems like it'd take the better part of a day? but then you're spared the long traverse over to cj-col of course, and don't really have to worry about avi at all.

a couple of early springs ago, joshk and i were descending from dome peak in warm, scary conditions - just above cub lake we cut the slope using our snowshoes and set off the mother of all spring avalanches, then waltzed down the hill happy as clams - the site of the trees serving as huge breakwaters was amazing. a grenade would'a been cooler.

let me guess, it involves having planks of death strapped to your feet!