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Oh, don't get me started on that cannibal cult. Body of Christ, bleccch!

I've done the rap version and it's not all that charming. Oh, the rappel is fine, and the pitch out of the gully offers some entertainment, but the upper park is loose and gravelly, only go that way if it's getting dark and you aren't going to summit. There's a swell two person bivy just after the hand traverse, about a pitch before the Gendarme. It's a good alternative to a notch bivy on the first day if you've got some day left. Approach shoes might be fine late season, but boots would be better early. When I took my son up there for his first alpine climb, it was the traverse out of Goat Pass and the snow descent from the false summit shoulder that worried me on the climb. We had poor runouts and his cheesy goodwill boots were sloppy as hell, and there just wasn't much help I could provide aside from kicking steps. If you really only lead 5.8 you might be happier bringing rock shoes rather than just climbing in your Trango's, you'll move faster and feel more secure on the ridge proper. It's a fine outing, you'll have a great time.

What, you've never wanted to give Troutdale a good shelling?

Next time you come out to Tenino I'll see if I can slow you down with some of these...

I think that's pretty much the story Dru. There's another one in the parking area of the quarry just south of Tenino on the way out to the freeway. They found it in the alluvial gravel quarry, took their two largest loaders to move it. It's perhaps 12' tall, has maybe a dozen problems on it? I haven't tried climbing on it since that quarry changed hands. Jimmy, dollars to donuts says that's out by Fossil...

Prosecute everyone who was in charge and approved of torture.

I always had a soft spot for The Cramps, now Lux has gone and checked out. Sad, but you can't say he didn't live the life he wanted. Obit w/tons of video [video:youtube]

You guys routinely put on some great shows, I wish I didn't live so far away.

You're a different Sisu from the other Sisu that used to hang around here, aren't you?

I hear peanut butter is still banned in Canada too, eh?

I hope you did a nice patch job to complete the work.

Kevbone made a funny!

It's certainly been subject to the equivalent of the Jim Crow laws.

Damn Right!!! Ehh, I don't really follow basketball, but whatever turns your crank.

I keep trying to figure out which one is the analog for that guy Chirp who used to post around here...

Wolfgang, pretty much all the threads here are for talking to others. I'll unlock your thread, but content matters more than numbers, and you'd do well to find a conversation you can bring something to.

Step two is a little thing called flood control...

Wolfie, act your age. 12 year olds obsess over their postcount.

Heh, I just listened to that old Colourbox tune "Just Give 'Em Whiskey" that quotes that bit of Prisoner dialog, along with a lot of Westworld stuff.

E-rock is not in WA, OR, or CA They may have already run credit checks on employees since they have your social security number and I don't know that you have to give specific permission.

Hmmm, when I read it in the original thread I had assumed you guys had climbed Rainier together and were buddies, it sounded like a buddy buddy kind of thing. You two have never met? Well, then that's a little creepy, but I wouldn't take it literally.

Heh, saw this one in the elementary school auditorium

Huh, here I thought you had cracked, what with the snow, flood, and your road getting closed, and maybe you were moving to Flagstaff

Yeah, I hadn't figured Bug for a fan, thought he was more of a Creedence kind of guy...