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funny - i'd already picked out the same night for hood climb this week! who else is on board?

snowy

8.)"You're a climber? Boy, I've always wanted to climb Mt. Rainier." better, more inexplicable question, invariably encountered when walking down the trail from the top of beacon, having soloed up w/ nothing more than a pair of shoes 9) "have you been rappelling?"

any movie involving k2 i saw a wonderfully terrible climbing scene in the next to last season of "enterprise" as well - 2 climbers climbing technical rock in the dead of summer w/ denali-sized packs - they're roped, climbing side-by-side, no pro - rope dangling down 20 m below each other - guess it made filming the dialoug easier.. my style!

"its the PNW, it's white everywhere all the time!" especially at the fancy mall!

reid headwall on hood - most sexcellent on hood for the short approach and eerie ice-world-gone-mad-goodness. a wild fun solo.

To (poorly) paraphrase one of the classic scenes from Fear & Loathing in LV: "Back door beauty?" "I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" "What? Relax, it's the name of a horse!" "the question mark was emphasized" "i gotta take a lotta shit in here but i don't have to take it from some spic pimp" "well anyone who knows anything knows that"

sorry 'for you loss there, johnny - on the other hand, pictures of myself make myself feel all funny!

ozone is plainly visible from the oregon side of the river - so no one can really get pissy when you show up and start climbing. my understanding is that it is on private land though, so it seems smart to try to minimize the crowds there. still, no one can justifiably get territorial over it (well, except the actual owner i reckon). i had fun the one time i went there, but it definetly isn't as cool as beacon. there are several enjoyable mixed sport/gear climbs to be sure, but like beacon, most everything is .10ish. a good spot for those spring days 'fore beacon opens...pm me an exciting shot of your girlfriend and i'll give you all the spray you want

dt classic crack!!! fuck i hate that thing!

weather looks like its sucking anyhow... when you gonna be there?

hmmm, let's see, of the 6 posts you list, 2 regard beacon, which as the argument goes, more properly belogns in the oregon section. so that leaves 4, all about st helens, 2 of those celebrating it's fiery destruction, none of which involve climbing. at any rate, with 1200'ish posts, those 4 posts represent less than 0.3% of my historical sprayage. speaking of sprayage, i shall now retire to the closest bathroom w/ my favorite magazine...

i don't mind dting in the rain but je-sus - it's coming down out there 2day w/ more of the same apparently for the rest of the week...yum, slimey rocky butte, yum!

beta-decay, dear sky? is this the phenonoma i've experienced where the useless crap people screech at me while thruching upward gradually fades into the background noise of wind/trains/heavy breathing and blood-curdling yelps?

for my dead hommies

does taking a leak on it count? i drink lots of stout beforehand to make "old sappy" smile...

jesus, given my tyranical derangement at the time, that was by far the closest i came to killing meself this summer!!! the view of the drug-deal going well in the middle of the forest on the way in and the tubby cannon-balling chicanas cliffside were priceless too...

the bluecollar trifecta w/ nothing but top-notch goofy-fawks for partners, plus a solo false start on jo'burg. a most excellent summer while it lasted...

relocate hombre - i moved out here from the shitty east coast 4 years ago and i ain't never looked back...the folks here are generally bland as tofu, but the hills fawking rawk - just import the soul!

he'd probably be a better sponsor for camels n' pbr n' cowboy boots though...

who the fuck are you people??? what kind of sick nihilistic thrill junkies are you? i feel vaguely ashamed to even piss on your graves...

damn! looks good enough to me as is! why?!? why must i work?

fawked up me neck something fierce at smith y-day - don't think i'll be dt'ing w/ the crew 2morrow

golden - like the showers i dream of in the evening! wait, wtf?