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Nice twist on the tired "your mom" schtick, but I'm afraid my daughter has better sense than your actual (?) girlfriend, whom you seem happy to diss on the internet. That girl should DTMFA. I mean seriously, any way one interprets your statement, you're a tool: A: you actually have a girlfriend that you like to talk shit about with "the guys." Why would you be with someone you felt that way about, and why would she stick with such a cad? B: you were just being rhetorical, since you don't really have a girlfriend, but you think calling GGK a girl is an insult. Do you have some kind of negative narrative built up about what a girlfriend is and how women think? In that case you're merely a clueless dolt. Hey, people say stupid shit on the internet all the time, but you might consider the notion that's what you actually did when you thought you were being clever.

I think making Bob laugh is at least as important as the impact of our influential debate.

No offense intended to Crazy Polish Bob, but your girlfriend must be pretty ugly.

Just wait....MattP will disclose the name, address and social security number. Standard practice around here. Anyone who cares knows who both of you are, most don't care.

Whatever happened to fence_sitter

Its used for biffouacing

As I recall, you can really sort out the folks at the hut by cooking a pound of bacon. You make some really good new friends, but some people really don't like having the whole hut smell like bacon.

Oh, and here I thought this thread was going to be about Sobo's birthday...

i used to have a Colin Haley rookie card. Too bad I taped it to my bike spokes to make a motor noise. This is my favorite post of the month.

Oh, you thought one of those was female? Which one? Not that I peg you for a pegger...

I haven't been to the base, but is sunny now and I think things are looking good for climbing this evening.

I'm cautiously optimistic, I'll post an update tomorrow. You're welcome to call me too.

Runout is like obscenity: I know it when I see (feel) it. Dru, thanks for the Speedway link, that thing looks beautiful.

I can agree with that. My wife works for a tribe in the South Sound, and any tribal member who wants to go to college gets a free ride. The tribe has maybe 850 enrolled members, from elders to babies, and at this time 58 are in college. Smartest thing that tribe can do with their money if you ask me. The US Govt. should be half as smart, but kids today face far more debt accumulation for the sake of their education than those of us who did college in the 70's and 80's.

That's certainly true for climbing in the Cascades. Back in the 80's it was only with the annual publication of the AAJ that I'd get a chance to see which of my possible projects those danged Skoogs had scooped. Its almost difficult to remember what life was like when I only had the Beckey guides and a few other friends active in the range.

woah, Fred went public?

George Wallace, one of the three great Alabama icons... [video:youtube]

I think its apples and oranges Shapp, at Darrington what is required is confidence, verve will see you though and people do come out of long slab falls without serious injury. The explanation regarding breaking knobs and falling down merely vertical knob studded walls made sense to me.

I just sent Mr. Mitchell a thank you note, I'm looking forward to spending a little time up there this year.

Joe Simpson is kinda like Chuck Norris with crampons, I'd doubt such a bunch of toffee nosed malodorous perverts could get him worked up.

Here's a cc.com tr for the Gmoser route: link I think it looks pretty great, Louis has a reputation for good rock (in a Canadian Rockies kind of way).

Oh, we're only human, I'm sure there there has been uneven handling of situations. Spray mods spray too. edited to add: Hugh

That might be closer to the reasoning than you know, but essentially folks decided that there had been enough beating on the Hobbick drum, and at a certain point it stops being funny and becomes something rather more ugly.

I didn't read those remarks as serious intimations about your guys judgement or sanity, rather as an expression of how far outside most folks comfort zone this adventure looks. II think most are aware that skill and experience can make the apparently improbable a feasible proposition. Great pics and report, I always love Dan's write ups. Is it just me, or are we in the midst of a golden age of North Cascade backcountry skiing? Do John Scurlock's aerial photos have the same impact for skiing that they have had on alpine climbing?