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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.

You won't be saying that when the Karposi's start to bloom all over you. Umm, I assume you're talking to me, but I haven't gotten any PM's, unless maybe you mean in that other restroom??

Colonel! Good to see ya. Word on the street is that you've been a bike racing fool. Actually, I think the crag on my property is in the running for #1 least natural, I think it started out as a dirt hill with a few tiny outcrops. There is also the sandstone quarry in Wilkinson and there's gotta be a couple other quarries in the state. back then now We've trundled a couple large loose things with a 6' prybar and some muscle. They were pretty low down though and not as spectacular as they might have been. One of them did form the best stone bench at the crag.

Since you're there you ought to go up valley and tick the S. Face of Charlotte Dome. I've seen pics of wild climbs above the Gorge of Despair, but that's the middle fork of the Kings and you're on the south fork, and it's a bit of a grunt over to to there.

When I engage in that diversion, I think of myself as an agent of Entropy.

Nope, another Dead Milkmen tune. Right on Feckles, good to hear you're back on wheels.

Friend of mine was getting married and had an interview with the ceremony pastor dude. Ralph explained that he worked for Seattle City Water and that he was a naturalist. The pastor paused, took a deeo breath, and said, "Well, I've never done that before, but if you really want to get married in the nude I suppose I could do that." Yeah, he got the job.

You mean after his wife finds out he's been hitting on the single women?

It's funny that these two phrases are not mutually exclusive when discussing approaches in the Cascades. Gene, I hazily recall that TR, would you recommend the route? Seems like I've heard the rock is significantly better than that on the NE Buttress.

does pitchin' a stiffie count when a hottie walks by??? Dude, that's "stiffy" unless you meant to use the feminine form of the noun.

I thought it was rotation around the side to side axis, you know, like 90 degrees to yaw... In terms of climbing, well that all depends, don't ya think? Sometimes the pitch consists of 10' up from the ledge, then 10' back down, and that's it for that pitch.

Does anyone make a cordless angle grinder?