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Biner brake. Probably too retro for your purposes, but it's a great tool everyone should know (ditto for the hip belay)

That sort of tattoo has many names, but my favorite hails from the northeast: Ass Antlers

Nice. You might want to edit in a distinction between First Ascent and a first ascent for you personally. I did do a double take when it appeared that you had made the first ascent of the dog route on Mt St Helens. The mountaineering genealogy chart doesn't appear either,though that might be a firefox glitch. Oh, more pictures, or some sort of select picture gallery would be great. I've seen all the big alpine TR stuff, but would like to see more of the diverse cragging and wall stuff too. edit: oh, reading other posts, it looks like that chart is hit or miss for various people. missed for me, but maybe I'll try a different browser.

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How 'bout compromising with a ball and chain tattoo around the ankle? If that's one's take on it, you don't need a tattoo, you need a divorce.

Maybe this thread will inspire a Rooster visitation, it always makes my day when that guy puts in an appearance.

John, I run a construction company, but as we pretty much only do remodel work, the crew is in close contact with the clients every day. I don't have a problem with tattoos, and none of my clients have so far either. I did have one guy with a full sleeve, a number of clients thought he was pretty cute. I have a standing offer to pay for my 16 year old daughter's first tattoo, but there is a catch. It has to be the word FUCK tattooed on her forehead. BTW, I was considering a wedding ring tattoo for myself, since I lost mine in some glove removal incident out skiing, and between climbing, power tools, and an aversion to avulsions, a metal band doesn't really suit my lifestyle. Research suggested that it wouldn't be that great a tattoo: hard to get much detail in that location and not really enough tissue to hold the ink, as well as significant wearing away from physical labor.

Yeah, that's it, you're about 5 feet to the north of the actual edge. I'm working (spraying) from the light green roof building just right of the cliff, and my commute is up to the black roof in the upper right corner of the original picture. I try to have one work day a week where I never change out of slippers, but today was not Slipper Day.

I dunno Bill, you can't even see the cliff in this picture from that site, but I assure you there is one...

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Oh yeah, by ordering them separately I got the 20% on each of them, and opted for store delivery in PDX with my son picking them up, knocking off sales tax and shipping. I've got some 60m skinny doubles that I'll drag one along for rapping with the new 60. The other will be my first 70m rope, yee haw.

you'll vote for Hillary? Compared to someone who truly believes the earth is 6000 years old? Yes, I think Jay would.

Powderhound, this quote from the original request: suggests that while the weather might be nice, Indian Creek may be the worst choice in the country for this party. I think PP's lobbying effort for Sugarloaf/Phantom Spires sounds very intriguing. It's always been summer when I'm in the area, and the Spires are too hot then. A one day drive too, good objective for only a week.

Hah, I think I've already seen that ad!

Thanks for that last tip Bill, I couldn't help myself and bought one of each.

By the way, I've never bolted a crack. I suggest you put up your evidence. I love how language can be so ambiguous and misinterpreted. I understood Bill to be using the term "crack" in the context of wisecracks, or rants, rather than an accusation of bolt installation malfeasance on your part.

I've got some new projects in the Cascades, but they've been on the list for awhile, so pre-spray would be inappropriate and likely embarassing. I'd like to spend a week in the Valley in May with my son, doing some of the classic grade IV's like NE Butt Higher, E Butt Middle, E Butt El Cap, Serenity/Sons, and possibly something wacky like Galactic Hitchhiker. I'm also hoping to cobble together a springtime 30th reunion ascent of the Happy Hooker on Trono Blanco. In terms of sure things, I know I'll be climbing most Wednesdays in Tenino, everything else is wishes.

I scrambled the ridge for the view, strictly class 3 on some wierd wind hollowed stuff. The beach was littered with pumice, small stones the waves would leave at the high wave mark sitting on top of the sand, including some fist size stones that also floated. My big climbing coup for the trip, aside from some memory lane sandstone sea cliff bouldering in San Diego, was a 20' 5.8 handcrack in a rocky pass about an hour south of that beach. Delicious wrist locks that made it a reasonable tennis shoe ascent.

Yeah PP, you're a little more of a prog type than guitar hero worshiper, but this might be an interesting show. Where is he playing in Seattle? Kev, you should consider going, he's a seminal guitar guy from back in the day.

Yes Hugh, for the seventeenth year running, my wife and I made good on our tradition of going for a hike somewhere we've never been before on New Years Day. We passed a crew with about 200 motorcycles and a similar tradition, but I think theirs is to go to a bar where they've never drunk before. It wasn't the sunny and balmy 51 degree day the weather yahoos promised last night though.

I'm confused, did the Nazi's eat a lot of bacon? I mean, I know they killed a lot of Jews, gypsys, gays, and a raft of others in a sickeningly methodical fashion, and I know Jewish tradition eschews eating pork, but I don't quite see the connection. The Torah also forbids wearing clothing made of linen and wool woven together, does this mean that Linsey-woolsey is the equivalent of genocide?

Oh, you must have mistaken my hyperbolic statement about slapping No13's head for true intent. No, I didn't. Just to be clear, I wasn't making any inference about you when I said that about violent threats from posters, I was speaking in historical terms. As an old timer, you should get that.

That sort of thing is clearly hyperbole, I find it far more disturbing when posters here advocate violence towards other board members. Fairweather, if you honestly feel that someone here is a sincere threat towards the President, any President, I would urge you to contact the Secret Service immediately.

Family Mexican road trip vacation. Seven straight days of sunshine Christmas Eve in the Vanagon Bahia San Luis Gonzaga

Simple solution: give up that wacky water stuff and stick with things Jim Nelson can advise about. Macson might be onto something though... I