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You're so harsh Mark, like cheap Columbian smoked through a chillum.

Few enough of us will live to 94 with a life so full lived and touching so many other people and such a stamp on a place. Here's to Bill:

Everybody wants to be on a postage stamp, but nobody wants to die.

Aberdeen is in "new seattle"?? I don't think so.

My deepest fear is that rural Thurston County will become Spanaway. The horror!

You could also try to outcompete the assholes, but you might want to borrow some of Donny Baker's brass knuckles.

oooh, no lack of scars on that wall, eh? Nice pics Hoodie, thanks for adding to the story.

Oooh, penile bondage is so cutting edge!

Trask is from Darrington. 'Nuff said, case closed.

Most of the climbers I know in Olympia only lurk, though some occasionally post. I'd guess the percentage is considerably lower than 25% of NW climbers, though one does tend to run into folks from here when out and about.

Next time you should add Donner Summit to your climbing agenda, one of my favorite cragging areas anywhere. Looks like a splendid vacation.

Weather looks good, cool and cloudy, should make for some good friction. Let's put a rope on the route formerly known as The Bolted Flake, maybe some other seldom done things like Never Give A Shit, eh?

Pope wrote a TR?

It's a great route for an epic, plenty of bivy spots, good rock, etc. Everyone's right about the descent though.

Wet sloppy spring snowboarding always gets that song stuck in my head.

Aside from the fact I wouldn't drive to Seattle to go to a climbing gym, my objection is entirely personal. Rich Johnston, the owner, flat out ripped off a friend of mine for $18,000 in non-payment for gym construction. There was no question of quality, work performed, or ability to pay, it was simply because he could get away with it. This was for the gym down by the Fremont Bridge that was only open a little while before some software firm bought the whole complex of buildings for their "campus", giving Rich a huge profit in the process. Vertical World: The Wal-mart of climbing gyms.

I always thought your tone was a little butch.

Yeah, here's another vote for Lifewise, it's what I've got and provide for my entire company. I don't need bells and whistles, just some serious backup for the possibility of an "oh shit" moment, and that high deductible plan is just the ticket. Only $50? Damn, you're younger than I thought you were.

I just assumed he was defensive about his new hobby, or perhaps he has a "Complete Idiots" tome on the subject in the offing.

Great TR and pictures. That shot of Colchuck Lake at the end of the day is beautiful! Nice to see that someone else besides me isn't a car-to-car fiend.

I want to hear more about is the correlation between 9/11, 7/11, and 24/7. That shit really freaks me out.

I can't believe that I looked through four pages of unfiltered Google images from the search term "nordic pole" and didn't get a single hit of porn. Now, that's a loser sport.

Wayne's a good guy, good location too.

Nipples and Clits is a fun little climb, pity the latest Bingham guide omits the name. Replaced the funky anchor last fall with gear supplied by the park, that Brad's a pretty good guy. John, I'll be out there with a rotating horde of friends from all over between 0ct 6th - 19th.