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we'd be fools to miss out....

my bro's about 1k from the border, in a crappy bradley fighting vehicle, as the lead scout officer for the whole damn division hmmmm...i think that mean's he'll be the first white boy into indian country on the ground why are we trying to kill him again? i know he's enjoying the hell out of it right now though

dickwad! kchortu!

my god, i think i love everyone so why do i still wanna call someone a dickwad too?

also, for what it's worth, 2 parties car-to-carred it on saturday, leaving at midnight and 3 a.m. respectively...the wesnatchians who left at midnight didn't sleep after work, and as we were crawling into our blessedly warm tent and bags and boiling up dinner, i think i detected the early stages of insanity setting in on them "i can't move...i think i'm dying" "shut up you fucking pussy, suck it up!" "kill me" "dude, we make it back to my buddy's house and he's got a bong!" "really? okay, let's go" and off they disappeared into the darkness sometime around when they woulda been hitting their car, i was complaining about getting hot in my sleeping bag whilst dreaming of screwing the entire swedish bikini team in a hotel that looked damned similiar to the one in "the shining" ah, life...anyone else totally fucking disinterested in dealing w/ real people today?

you gonna brave the snowy road of doom once more? i think i hear henry v in the background "...or fill the tracks up w/ our climbing dead..."

shit, i just take one on each climb and cache it, that way i never have to climb w/ the weight again can't wait to make it back to colchuck

there's angels in heaven guarding their asses even as we speak

deeply enrobed in down at 230 a.m., listening to ya'll thrash around amidst your preprations, i found myself the very opposite of envious...i usually feel pretty crappy about changing plans at the last minute, but i bet josh and i ended up having just as much fun climbing up to yellowjacket tower, w/ about half the pain of shlepping up to colchuck just to come on back home (sleeping in till the sun came up was most nice) josh, ain't you gonna tell the story of how the audi car company is perhaps the finest on the planet? shall i tell how the l-worth coppers are perhaps the most annoying?

if yer 6'7" and using the shorter pickets, you can clip 'em to your harness w/o 'em getting in the way packs w/ gear loops are sweet too

so i got the whole damn week off, starting today...course the weather finally decided to turn crappy. i got the weekends covered, but i'm looking to find some trouble on the weekdays. anybody feel like doing something something fun? if the weather's shitty, we could do something in the leavenworth area (dragontail, colchuck balanced, cragging, etc.), otherwise i'm interested in gib ledges or sandy glacier headwall. pm me or call 360 882 6589

heard the same story i think fromthe same iranian dude (my friend aarash) he and his friend were the first all-iranian team to climb denali and were quite impressed w/ said lady-pilot

much props to the photo-meister, shredmaximus...if it was up to my lazy ass all i'd ever have to show for my climbs would be memories...i am definetly happy to have turned too early for luets, as both experiences on the reid wall were great fun. nice write-up, pete.

post 55556, so there... don't you microsoft types like have a job or something?

i got shit on by a bird as a child...kinda had a hard time getting over it , ya know?

i used to think closing the rock just to protect a bunch of stupid birds was dumb...but then just a few days ago i realized how much i like seeing the hawks and other raptors hunting along the interstate, hanging out on signposts, etc. and decided it's worth a few sacrifices...sorry about the ticket, hopefully you can slide out of it...if i'd been busted hopping the fence a month ago they probably would have shot me, as i was with a maddened iranian at the time and was itching to piss somebody official off

i was thinking about killing a homeless guy to obtain blood to wash the sacred altar to jim morrison in my new home shit, this one ain't gonna stay is it?

evil fuckers...why pull the bridges? repairs? or they just trying to turn car to car climbs of dragontail into baatan death marches?

does jerking off count? another benefit of the quick on/off alpine bod harness, eh?

i like how the "russia girl" link is directly beside the "russia box" link ah, those wily ruski...dobri dyen!

well, the mazamas are full up this winter...cpr obviously i can take through a bunch of folks, but how about the wilderness end? anybody else near portland? do the mounties do any classes closer to down here?

i'd like to take a basic class in first aid that would cover aspects of mountaineering. not looking to spend a fortune or drive forever (live in portland area). any suggestions?

watcha got?

have the recent movie's deviations from the book been properly flamed already?

one of the reasons i like climbing so much is b/c climbers are largely an apolitical lot...the joy of climbing is international, and all climbers part of an international brotherhood (well, i guess the ladies can join too....)...my favorite person to climb w/ is a guy named aarash, from iran (and how wierd is it to meet a hardcore iranian climber at some shitty crag in virginia?) a nicer, more jovial, totally uncocky despite great talent kinda guy you could never meet. i may onlyunderstand ever other word he says (and he maybe 1 word out of 10 i say (a good thing for him)), but for some reason climbing w/ him makes me feel like a kid again, the peaks higher and the wilderness more friendly. now what can we do for the great pakistani nation? feel like trading k2 for mt. rainier? maybe we could throw baker in to sweeten the deal?