ivan

i am so fortunate as to associate with such wise and sagacious folks....heavy drinking mixed with excessive talk of climbs past (what the hell else is there to do when it's raining?) the obtaining of special flavors of rare herbal remedies...why the hell we waiting for after the holidays again?

there's naked people in oregon???!!! what the hell have i been doing climbing all this damn time? there's only one thing i really need to clamber up onto... i didn't propose a location at first cuz i have no damn idea what's around here...the only time i go into the city is when its raining and i can't climb...and when its raining and i can't climb i'm so grumpy i can't fucking think. guess i picked a good place to move to so next week it is? might have to find a gym to go climb at this weekend, speaking of rain...anyplace good to go/anyone doing any gym climbing this week? josh...why not bring the miss naked washington folk and get on down here?

so why is it that the seattle folk seem to on a more regular basis than us? perhaps we can rectify the situation? anyone feel like going to work friday w/ the mother of all hangovers? heard i left just as things were getting interesting last time...

no doubt...truly fucking fantastic picture...i assume you took this from the west moraine of the elliot? shitload more snow in those couloirs then when i was there last...now if only i could find a way around this work thing without encountering that poverty thing

zappa? oh, yeah! that toilet sitting, catholic-screwing chap w/ the kids w/ the funny-names...yeah, isn't he dead?

dude, every time i take a piss i have a tool in me hand (and yes, baby seals should be afraid...very afraid )

i'm a chap? fuck, i thought we were drinking in portland...now it's in england?

1. fleeing the state of virginia forever and celebrating my arrival to stay by heading up the highpoint of washington's dearest rain forrest 2. NR of stuart w/ what felt like the biggest pack ever dragged up that fucking thing 3. WR of forbidden and bushwhacking through all that avy crap in the surreal dark 4. WR of prusik and running the last 7 miles out to make my date w/ the wife (if you don't bring bivy gear, you won't bivy) 5. cooper spur...alright, not that hard but a whole different ballgame descending it solo in super slush...didn't see another soul the whole day big disappointment: weather crap-out on the boulder glacier of baker (shortly after losing the california fool who thought he was going to the top from there w/ his tennies and a stick) can't wait for the first full summer (school ends june 20 goddamit...anybody feel like taking 2 months off?)

anybody up for looking for some trouble on this here to be fine weekend? rock climb at beacon? something on hood? help a brother out, i'm awful bored and caught myself yesterday thinking today was friday.

hey jarred, let me know/post a tr if you do leuts this weekend...i'd like to give it a go right before t-giving w/ some right coast friends and i was interested in knowing what sorta shape the couloir would be in (they get bitchy when shit ain't perfect, see? and its dangerous when i have a tool in my hand to have to hear it)

holy jeebus, it's a decision on getting drunk, not massivily invasive brain surgery...let's just choose a place (and then one a you nice boy's telling me how to get there as i couldn't find my own ass if it weren't so close to my dick)...sometimes i think i should just give up and go back to drinking bud (note: clear invitation to make a thc-related joke there)

shit jens, shoulda told me you were down here...i'll always skip work/every-other-commitment-i-have to look for trouble...seems we need a critical mass of distracted types down here to make any progress far as those fancy indoor gyms, christ, who can afford them damn things? we po'boys gotta hope shit stays dry outside

fuk'em ...what's he climbed lately? last time i checked i was climbing for fun too...

italy is supposed to have some fantastic via ferrata stuff...during ww1 & 2 they had all these defensive positions high in the alps, and since soldiers don't feel like free soloing w/ machine guns on their backs, they put in all this aid stuff for them, much of which is still there...apparently all you need is a harness and some prusiks and you can have a blast

thanks for the input... i'm not russian but ya gavaru pa russki descending the w. rib to reclimb it...i guess i didn't think of that for good reason...what were you going to climb ade? i do plan on acclimatizing first, probably by making a stash at 14 what rock pro (if any) did you bring for the upper rib?

craig - whenya going? a largish group of my east coast biyatches (6 including meself) are coming out here to try the ledges right after xmas...maybe we can all hold hands on the way up and sing carrols?

i climbed around in the upper elliot icefall on sunday and descended the west moraine...the west moraine trail is pretty straight forward and beat in...basically just stay left until you arrive at the snow dome (all ice now)...as far as approaching via the elliot, the gap we found to snow dome required climbing pretty high up into the icefall, then traversing over...probably would be faster to take the west moraine if the coe was all you cared about...both would be better than bushwhacking uphill from the timberline at the coe's base

anybody been up either of those two recently (can't spend all your time playing around on the elliot, afterall)

and there i was thinking we were all alone in the beautiful weather...think the coolest thing i saw all day was a veritable waterfall of clouds...some wind system moving big streams of clouds directly towards the ground at 90 degrees for several hundred feet before flattening out just overhead...trippy shit

would love to get out saturday but have 2 very nasty, irretractable commitments

i'm definetly interested...more importantly, i'm not above getting rained/snowed on on the reprehensible side though, i've only just begun learning ice-climbing, and lack ice-tools (i do have a standard axe though)...if you have a spare tool, or just want to do climbs where we can share, i'm more than willing to serve as a packmule and get all the crap up there (might even be persuaded to buy a beer in appreciation)

chimey is good, especially the yeast at the bottom, but pound for pound, the most bad ass of all beers must be newcastle...drinks down like coca-cola, clear glass to admire that nice color course that's just my opinion...you could be wrong

need someone to climb with friday and/or sunday...can get out of school at 3 on friday, just 20 minutes from beacon (camas), leaving enough time for several pitches before the demon dark (and if you want to climb by moonlight, then why not?)...sunday i'm free most of the day whazzup?

fukingdoublepost [ 10-24-2002, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: ivan ]

pub club was sweet last night...i especially enjoy the close proximity of produce row to that second hand climbing shop...gave me a chance to be tempted so is the tradition going to last the winter? how long did you foolios remain to drink?