Anna

The drunker I get the cuter you will look... I'll probably be the fat lazy slob that puts there significant other on the back burner....POLISH MY HEELS HONEY, I'M GOIN OUT TONIGHT!

since she is from eugine the question is: are your legs shaved? do you feel lucky, now do you punk I am shaved in places you don't even want to know about, well maybe you do. O.K. I stepped into an odd little zone just then...

Let me open up my little black book...hmmm...the few I have all live over 100M away..SHIT, time for a road trip! Why do all the dudes in Eugene have girlfriends???? Really, I am trying to figure this out...I never saw so many folks shacked up with others when I lived in MT like I do here. There were fine, single ones all over the place there!

they're called stoners. Hey! I resemble that remark Well, I used to anyway...

LOVE STINX! Being single is about the most stress free life I have ever known. All my money,time,energy,thoughts go into what I WANT and it is great...but that's my bag..maybe not yours. I AM EXTREMELY SELFISH! What is more important to YOU? Family? Love? Climbing? It seems that it is extremely rare to have your cake and eat it too (unless you are very lucky, and it seems as if some of you are), so sacrifices will probably need to be made to get what you really want out of life. it's give and take, I know first hand...feelings maybe be hurt or desires supressed in the process... That is the part that sucks ! If someone comes along that you can hang with even if it is only for a little while, cool, enjoy the moment, if not, SO WHAT? Relationships are highly overrated unless you are of the clingy variety. this is the best advice yet: Good point. Stay single till your around 35. Live your life and all the rest of that shit will follow...eventually...(I am hoping!) OF course I am only 26, I might have a different outlook on this 10 years from now..more desperate perhaps? I can't believe someone would want to change the very person that they fell in love with..unless they changed, of course, and God knows people change ALL THE TIME...sounds not of love but a "sense of control" issue to me!

Interesting running when the trail is mud and you are trying to scrapoe your way up it Was up there yesterday and what a mess! Was very fun tromping around in the mud...you should see my shoes! maybe i just know what it feels like to have 80 grit sand paper run over my face and have tons of stitches in my lip and chin and eye lid and top of the head and ears You one crazy dude!

You guys crack me up! Those butes where so close, so loud, so fast, so powerful....I got goosebumps! I could see the dudes in the cockpit, they were so close.....

If you are near the airport, I don't know how you could have missed them. They did three passes in formation about 150ft above the runway them broke out toward the north in sync...what a site!

That is my downhill bike route Kidding...right?

Nothing to do with climbing but....there are two F-15's doing low passes over the Eugene runway right now....BEAUTIFUL! What I wouldn't do for a ride in one of those!

Bummer....I like hiking Pisgah for free Try hiking the steep side of Spencer's....great exercise!

Hardly Ryland...you FINE! I also saw some funny pics of you as a punk kid while in MT, compliments of LP....

Headin to P-town in a few hours...where ya goin?

I'll help ya pull weeds Muffy...I love that shit! Nothing like playing in the wet dirt How are ya by the way? Moved and got a new phone num. I'll PM ya.

Is that you Paul Klenke? HOW ARE YOU? Remember me, Anna the heli-rappeller, and the hike to Vinegar Hill in the Malheur NF last summer? Got the photos, I think I talked to you after I got them though and said thanks. How was the rest of your summer travels????

Wind shear is definitly something I do not want to experience on landing or taking off when the airplane is traveling slightly above minimum stall speed! There are some ways to predict it and yes, there are aviation charts that can predict them to some degree. The most common (and most dangerous in my opinion) wind shear is generally associated with a frontal system, especially one which includes a thunderstorm. Downdrafts, microbursts, there is just alot of crazy shit goin on in and around thunderstorms...scary! Wind shear can be encountered when flying through a temperature inversion layer or "valley wind shear" too. This involves adiabaitic (sp?) heating of air as it moves over the mountain and then down towards the valley floor where cooler air resides (at least in this example)The shallow air mass in the valley causes the warmer air flowing down the mountain slope to flow over the top of it, resulting in a temperature inversion then our lovely horizontal wind shear. Kind of hard to explain unless I can draw it for you..... Another way that mountains can create wind shear is by turbulence. As the wind blows up one side of a mountain and reaches the top, it can begin to mix turbulently. This turbulence on the lee side of the mountain is a form of wind shear. this is probably what you experienced. Prediction is hard but surface analysis charts along with a winds aloft printouts will aid in figuring it out. Although you are talking about climbing, some airplanes have computer systems that will scream out "wind shear, wind shear!" before and eminent wind shear is about to occur..... Hope this helps, takin a meteorology course right now and it is very interesting!

Kalispell is wonderful for skiing! Whitefish is a ski bum town just north of Kalispell and a very cool place to visit. Lots or hardman climbing south of Kalispell in the Mission Mountain Range. A burly hike with class IV scrambles (ie. a rock face with built in ropes and dripping water from a spring!) is the hike to Lucifer Lake. Very magical but you need a pass from the REZ to hike around anywhere there. As far as peak ascents in the Missions, I have done Warren Peak, it was a blast. Long approach (at least the year that I did it) but very intense. Some very hard, beautiful, technical peaks that I have never attempted but some have and lost there lives! Just go there and ask the locals, lots of climbing in and around Missoula too-the Bitterroots come to mind!

Did it at the base of Three Amigos in Mulkey Gulch just East of Missoula, MT before my boyfriend (at the time) lead it, I followed. WHOOWZA!

GOOD LUCK ERDEN, what an adventure! You really know how to live. I will definitely be tracking your progress... Sorry I didn't make it to the benefit in Nov, tis a long drive indeed, thanx for the invite anyway.... Here's to you

Well Dru, I guess I will ignore this thread from here on out...I've said all I need to say so if ya'll wanna fan the flames by making assumptions go right on ahead....

God, I hope this is the last time I have to defend myself. I am not reckless...really stupid when it comes to climbing, but not reckless by any means. I have fought wildland fire for eight seasons and have been a sawyer and a squadboss on a shot crew, even incident commander of several smaller fires....safety has always been first and foremost. I was trained and trained and trained again, I was asked to practice in the field and was tested constantly of what I should do in this situation or that. I rappelled out of helicopters for crying out loud..if that isn't risky and has a need for extreme vigilence! In my climbing world, it was a sport not a passion, something I didn't do very often and took lightly (obviously the wrong approach, and for the 100th time, I have learned my lesson) I am beginning to fly planes, yes just a beginner (for you trask), again a very risky endeavor...but I am going through the proper training to learn how to fly properly and safely and how to handle it correctly in case of even the slightest of irregularities. I wasn't asking for sympathy, just to get it off my chest, i absorbed everyone's feedback...good and bad. I lost a friend out this whole thing but I think I am a better person now cuz I realize what an idiot I really was. Oh and selbracher, I'm not a quitter, this feeling of giving climbing a rest has been coming on for a while now...maybe that explains the complacency? Thanks Norman for your input. I just saw it as I was ready to post this one. I am glad I put this topic up though cuz then SK/JK never would have told me how they felt to my face. Everyone quit posting now eh?

I have learned my lesson...this is simply not my bag, baby. I realized what I have done wrong, I will try, always try, to practice more situational awareness and vigilence in everything I do. Yes, the lesson has been learned....and I want to make clear that I have never blown someone off who offers to teach me something new. JK told me how to set and anchor way back when and I TOOK IT IN, 4 months went by because of my heavy commitment to the FS, and when the time called for me to put that knowledge to the test, I couldn't perform. I did not choose to stop climbing because of the posts created on this thread but from my own deductions on how important climbing is or will be to me, these posts did give me some light on the situation though. I may climb someday again but I have other passions that I want to put my energy into right now. Sorry all for being rude back there, I guess it is pretty hard to take "I just blew him off..or..knowing her "character", she is an accident waiting to happen so I'm gonna walk away" Climb on....

YOU BLEW HIM OFF LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL. BUT if you want to learn you have to let people teach you. What are you talking about? I was the one feeling unsafe at L-worth! I asked to climb with you and Greg and company from the getgo! I didn't lead Givler's nor did I want to...but at the end of the first day when we met up witcha all, Greg thought that I should give Saber a try. We didn't do it cuz of time constraints and yes, I was still interested in giving it a go on Sun. It's my stupid fault for attempting it. Give it a rest already... What Jason said in his posts about my "character" is what broke my heart hey, kick me while I down would ya? I won't climb again but I'm still sorting out what went wrong with my setup...and guess what? I've been referencing Long's Anchor book that I bought one his suggestion after that day at Smith-go figure...now leave me alone.

when you went with shred and mntranger I told you I didn't want to go you said you wanted to lead, I said i did not because I did not feel safe. I was there that was what I said

.....the ill-trained novices that climb without having a clue, and say things like "I should read more books" when they touch death without knowing it and walk away." I did not walk away that easy...this will haunt me the rest of my life. I'm done climbing. After reading these posts, not to mention the near disaster that I walked away from, I just feel like my heart isn't in it anymore. When I lived in Montana, I TRed or followed all of the time and I loved it. It wasn't till I moved out here that I wanted to try my hand at leading. Everyone was always so encouraging so I figured that I could learn to do it. I guess I will have to say it again to drive it home-I'm NOT properly trained, I AM an idiot when it comes to setting anchors, and it doesn't really look like I am ever going to have the chance to learn what with the time I can invest into it and climbing with partners who turn the other cheek or won't be honest to my face(I'm not talking about you shred). I hardly know anything about trad and I am a beginner at it, I have expressed that to everyone that I have climbed with, I don't know what the hell SK is talking about, and I don't think I want to learn anymore...I just don't want that responsibility no matter how good I could have gotten. I DID NOT put anyone else's life in danger...that is exactly why I decided to back the fuck off. Thanks JK for breaking my heart...I will remember it always.