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For those of you who have already done the triple couloirs and are contemplating this outing, you can finish the upper part of the Gerber-Sink route by following the top of the Hidden Couloir route up along the ledge at the bottom of the fin, across some ribs and and such, then up to the summit, making a completely separate outing rather than following the third couloir. Nice to see this TR, way to seize the moment.

You should hunt down Paul Klenke, nowadays a rare poster here, but a fabulous encyclopedia of peak identification.

Avoiding dying while climbing has always been a pretty high priority, so having kids didn't change much about that for me. It's not like all of a sudden I had a reason to live and needed to stop being a yahoo with a deathwish. Time constraints from the added complexity and responsibility layered onto life, now that's a different story...

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Kurt, Sky Valley is Darryl Cramer, while Leavenworth is Viktor Kramer. David Whitelaw's Rattle and Slime is a pretty comprehensive Darrington guide, available on disc. I do wish the topos were a little higher res though. Banks Lake, while still relatively obscure, curiously requires three guides to cover all the bases: Inland NW Rock by Marty Bland, Rock Climbs of Central Washington Rock by Rick LaBelle, and Whitelaw's Weekend Rock which covers boat accessible climbs overlooked by the other tomes.

Exactly, no offense intended towards my R friends out there. Demonizing with sensational labels is such a tardweb/talk radio cliche. Socialist here, Fascist there, then next thing you know someone's going to trot out the N word.

So what if the Fascists pick Lieberman as a VP? You know, cross the aisle to create a fully prowar pandemic ticket masquerading as "moderate", all-fear-all-the-time. Let's elect some more old guys who helped get us where we are today! Isn't that McCain's new ad campaign, "elect me because I'm old?" Really Woofy, I think it's time the Gay Old Party came out of the closet, don't you?

How do they keep their hair so light and fluffy? Shouldn't it turn into some damp and stringy sweat mop?

I guess that's how Furrys have group sex even when there's only two of them...

We're gonna start it with a positive jam, man sj1lKykVJzo

Who does? Cats bite. As an aside, anyone who's a cat person knows that when you play with cats, sometimes you bleed. It's just the way it goes. I think you're right that being an AF Rep isn't much different.

You know, I'm thinking Bill looks like a pretty good fit for that position...

I've heard the Soviet Route on Bonanza has had a couple repeats, word is it's not all that great or solid, so I moved it off my little list of obsessions. Aside from hassling with the boat and bus up to Holden, it's not all that hard to get to.

Pffft, when I was 15 I onsighted The Nutcracker, I think it's about 5.8c. It's a full five pitches long or so, much longer than those number/letter routes, and hey, that was back when 5.8 meant something. Okay, it didn't actually mean anything back then either. Bravo, I'm already psyched to try harder this year.

It's happened here too, and on other climbing websites as well.

I invented post-its.

dog rescued by search & rescue, happy ending

Between this and the Scurlock show, Skagit Alpine Club is putting on some great shows. I wish it was closer.

Because I'm hardcore. Want to see my fashion designs?

Hey, and you can use all that money you'll save to make a down payment on this bridge I have for sale!

Hmmm, and it's not confined to his board, or even just Supertopo anymore either. That picture's got legs, it could go global.

Here, this is the original recording, but you should turn off your screen so you don't have to watch the silly array of anime stills that someone chose to "illustrate" this classic tune. 5kB4fGELR_Q

What's the use of getting sober (when you're gonna get drunk again) YjFsMLznABM Here you go Kev, you can listen instead of read. This is a faithful copy of the Louis Jordan version of this song. Check out the original for something that really swings.

Today, pick hit has been The Dollyrots, though last night it was definitely The Black Lips that rocked my dome. Oh, just to add content aside from name dropping, The Dollyrots are chirpy female voiced pop punk like The Muffs or L7 (if Donita Sparks sang at least an octave higher), a recent eMusic download. The Black Lips are guitar garage stuff reminiscent of early Stones or very early Beatles before they were anyone, a great energetic band I saw at Neumos last night. Big fun in the pit.