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Lembert

Over on Supertopo, someone who lives on that island in Ireland where this happened says that the only way people survive getting washed off those cliffs is to swim out away from the rocks and wait for the lifeboat. After he was washed off a shelf at the base of the cliffs, it sounds like Reardon got sucked out by the current very rapidly, but when the boat got there (I think I'd heard it took about 15 minutes) he was nowhere to be seen. If you want more info, go check out the Reardon MIA thread on Supertopo, posters include Irish locals and at least one of the friends who was there with him, along with a stack of people who knew him personally. What a very sad thing.

If you click on the "gallery" up at the top, you can upload your pictures to this site. Try to keep the images at 800x600 so they fit on most screens. Then, in your TR thread, just click on the little camera icon you'll see when writing a reply, and it will give you thumbnails of pictures from your photos in the gallery, and you just click one to put it in the post. There are several ways to post photos, but that's probably the most simple.

Gonna get the ol' head dimple filled and spackled, eh?

And no Dead Moon either! Rolling Stone's just a bunch a tossers.

can't argue with that summation, you a lawyer or sumpthin?

That's cool, I just wanted to remind folks that while things can get all heated and pissy in some debates, it's best to keep those feelings separate from things like this.

C'mon ya'll, we're not in Spray here. Any alternatives to cable to check this out? I'd love to see it.

If you post about Infinite Bliss, Raindawg will come piss on your thread.

Regarding the NW corner: You can string that crux pitch out to a 60 meter rope stretcher and belay above that last little corner way up there, just a short scramble below the summit. I also think someone should take a knife up and cut all that tat off the block at the base of the offwidth. I think the block is a little dodgy, there's great gear for a belay, and it's the only "fixed" anchor on the route. If there's still a bail off sling on the little tree towards the bottom of the flake pitch, someone oughta take that out too. It's a pretty skinny offwidth, and I have biggish hands, I might have done one arm bar, but I think it was really nothing wider than fist. I think I gotta go do that SW rib, looks swell.

Wow, you guys slept way up there. Great route, eh? I edited your post to make the photos show up, hope you don't mind.

In a thread last year Alex mentioned the Bunker-Preiss route on the NW Buttress of Sloan. Anyone have any info about this route?

Drag your feet, the later the better cuz it's pretty damned hot out here. It is Wednesday though, so the crag is open.

What's remarkable is that your earlier troll derail attempt sunk without even a ripple.

And damned loud too, saw Dinosaur Jr a few weeks ago in Olympia and I even had to put an earplug in the mostly deaf ear. Good show.

Especially once the Sherpa stops being a plunge step cakewalk.

That's good to hear, but I'm still dreading having the climber named.

I'd like to remind folks that generally speaking, we don't Spray shit all over people's TR's. Friendly banter, fine, discussions about the protection or line or rock, fine, but if you want to rant about the validity of the route please just provide links to the numerous threads already in existence here about this, the Muir on Saturday of rock routes in Washington. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but TR's are different from Spray.

It's nice to see that not everyone is intent on jogging up to the summit and getting the trip over as fast as possible.

They don't give them away, they sell them. God damn the pusher man.

Or take a serious run at winning the new Weight Gain Competition....

It's cheaper to prescribe a pill than it is to spend all that time talking to people about what troubles them that traditional talk therapy requires. I dunno, I've never been an anti-depressant candidate, but it seems they give it out too freely for reasons that don't involve clinical depression. Sometimes, if you don't feel bad about something, you won't figure out how to change it. Who promised that life would be easy? It's sort of like the psychotherapy version of that kid who calls down from the top of the crag, "Hey Mister, you can just walk up around the back!"

I agree.

Well, maybe a girls room like the combo m/f one at the Sonoita checkpoint in Mexico that had been out of service for months. It never even occurred to me that you could wipe with the toilet paper spindle.