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Thanks Dru, I knew I could count on you to deliver.

It's been awhile, but I think they were DB. Who would we be poking fun at if it was RCC or EM? I must need another cup of coffee.

So, a failure of the marketplace? When people say "culture" they mean an Olive Garden next to a Multiplex theater.

I descended the Sherpa in September years ago, it wasn't fun. We had no crampons, and the gully was an inch of slub over rock hard snow. We rapped the whole thing. There was one set of slings, all red and all with the same initials. Each anchor was totally bogus, but a solid sling anchor was within three feet of each bunk rap sling so we just relocated them. Sometimes it took a little excavation with a nut tool.

Chehalis Range up in BC

We're born naked, after that it's all drag.

Yeah, that way of sorting kicks Little Tahoma from #3 to #64, and puts Stuart towards the top while pushing Bonanza to the middle of the pack.

Well, it would be sort of silly to have the three summits of Rainier take the top three slots and bump something like Tupshin off the list. List construction does involve a degree of arbitrary rule creation, but knocking off any version of that list represents a lot of adventure and days out in the mountains. Paul, thanks for dropping by!

*sigh* Yet another thread that would benefit from Mr. Prominence himself, HRH Paul Klenke.

I'm pretty sure a recent TR asserts that route is in the Olympics.

I should have put one of the jokey faces next to my routefinding comment, as it wasn't serious, but the guidebook description does not remind me of what I climbed on the same formation, and I was left with the feeling that, "hey, I'd do this again." Makes me curious to go back and see if I can figure out what we did. Seems like I've heard someone else's tale of hairy times on the route you did. You are probably right about the Olympics in general being best as a class 3 mountaineering range.

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe you should go back to routefinding school? I must have climbed an entirely different line on this buttress in 1988: no bolt, no scary runouts, no rockfall, solid rock, no rappels, and a happy day in mountain boots as a party of three. Perhaps we started farther right? It must have been an easier line, because we did have a goat follow us up the first couple pitches. Maybe one should just discard the guidebook and look for the reasonable line instead. I recall one bit of slick 5.7 between a couple towers, and using something like a #4 friend more than tiny wireds.

On several occasions I've seen Barfly stickered and shelved with the comedies in the video rental store. You know, they're laughing on the cover, it must be a comedy.

I'm pretty sure that cheating is what the other guy does, not me.

Yup, that's the north ridge.

Dirty Harry said he chopped it, so I think that means it's pretty much just a troll...

Bstach isn't a douchebag, he's just not macking on the babes like the rest of you shallow emotionally unavailable one night stand guys. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

"Tape is aid" is hardly original to this site, we were infected with a meme from elsewhere. I know Dick Cilley spouted this pithy observation well over 20 years ago, long before Al Gore invented the Internet.

Yes, take the way through Adin. It also takes you along the shores of a good lake, and over a neat little pass south of Adin. Adin itself is a cute little burg. Shorter than the Alturas route also. This is definitely my favorite route down to the Sierras.

Actually, this is quite new. Place has kind of gone to hell recently. And I mean recently. Bug is right. Spray belongs in spray. The Newbie forum has usually stayed pretty respectful and sprayfree. Okay, so no one has been paying attention here lately, but none of you happy campers have seen fit to notify any of the mods either. Newbies is supposed to be a Spray free zone. You're right though, that this place is not always really great for the fragile and painfully sincere to ask questions. In this thread it seems that folks are making fun in general, and not slamming the original poster (who, as noted, asked a rhetorical question). There's a real discussion hidden amongst the yucking it up, and since people are only rhetorically outraged at the Spray and not personally insulted or incensed, I'm going to leave this thread here where it may in fact answer a question someone has.

That's as maybe, but you do realize that's Dan Rowan and Dick Martin along with Tiny Tim in a clip from Laugh In, don't you? C'mon, let's go to the party! MHK1HeqjMsg

Well, I did everything except the music Friday night and the work on Monday, but the pleasure of the long weekend was offset by the disappearance of Blackjack, my big black cat.

TR for Safe Sex (adjacent route) from almost a month ago: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/679950/page/2#Post679950