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nah, couldn't be Trask's family since that's a FRENCH alpine goat on the left.

Minx, I do

And Sisu, clearly you know fuck all about Python; your type really makes me want to puke, you coffee nosed malodorous pervert.

Sorry I didn't leave you the usual five dollar tip bitch, but frankly I like it better when you take your dentures out.

umm, a holy one? Jesus fuck FS, get a grip, it's just an explicitive. (say it out loud, emphasis on the "fuck") My grandmother preferred to say "jesus christ all fishooks" but the world has moved on since her time.

Silly Sisu, the obvious response is "Yes it is" whereupon I reply, "No, it ISN'T" and then after a few further iterations of similar nature we digress into a discussion of what exactly IS an argument. Jesus fuck, what kind of an upbringing did you get?

Hah, on this day in history I mostly agree with Fence Sitter on one little insignificant thing.

No it isn't.

Yeah, it could be another of those "how much do you shave" threads...

Be careful with the mooning, she likes it rough. Sticky it is.

If you want to bring back to the top a thread titled "Touch My Muffy" does that count as chestbeating? And if so, doesn't it hurt when you whack those things?

Well, that all depends on what's on my rack. Since I'm a tightwad who's been climbing awhile, you'll find a lot of forged friends with repaired triggers there. I've never bought or bootied a costalot, so that's not an option. When it's someone else's rack, I've hardly got a clue what fits where and odds are it will devolve to some kind of a whimperfest with a piece or two in my mouth while I frantically paw through the wad of unfamiliar widgetry dangling from the sling. Now that I think of it, I've pretty much been climbing with the same rack for the last 15 years, and have never been able to shake the original numbering system for Black Diamond (Chouinard back then) stoppers, complete with the 1/2 sizes added later. I have successfully integrated my first alien into my gear thought process though, so old dogs can learn new tricks.

I didn't know you were Scottish?

As an alternate opinion, I found the bivy spacious and the views delightful, and would recommend it to anyone. Its more like a pitch and a half up than a single pitch though.

I've always thought that would be a great name for a band. Everyone could wear little strap on mohawks made from ugly carpeting, like burnt orange sculptured shag.

I've approached the Douglas Glacier basin via Easy Pass. Over the pass, down Fischer Creek a mile or two, then cross the creek where the stream flows down from Douglas Glacier. Stay on the left side of the creek through slowly thickening brush. Thread through alder in the basin below the first basin headwall, and head for the area just left of the stream. Follow decent bear trails straight up just left of the stream until you hit the next basin up. The next headwall is tackled via right slanting brush ramp until you're comfortable heading straight up. The further right you go the easier it gets. This puts you up on the bench that will contour around the E. Buttress to the Douglas Glacier. The approach is quite doable in one day, though we enjoyed doing Easy Pass late in the day in the shade and sleeping on the far side of the pass, to complete the approach the next day. Take all info with a grain of salt, it's more than 10 years old. Make lots of noise on the bear trails, we could have kicked one of them in the ass.

It's been awhile, and it doesn't hardly look familiar. I've been up the route twice, going the same way both times, and there was no 4" crack for us. I think perhaps we were far left in the picture, left of the pink arrow, and had a 2" crack with a layback around a bulge, which led into a lower angle corner. Pitch two went up the corner to a ledge, and then around right to the crest. I think it must be the higher of the two scrubby treeish ledges in the picture. I've talked to others who've taken that path too, but clearly there is more than one 5.8/5.9 way onto that route.

he's the big one in the back

A good friend of mine is a convicted felon, it's gotten him turned away at the Canadian border. It seems he shoplifted some cheese in 1977 from the store in Yosemite, and since it's a national park, its a felony offense. I assure you, he's quite rehabilitated.

There's quite a bit more here

I don't know how much she agreed to it, I haven't paid a lot of attention, but I don't think she's been blowing her own horn. The propaganda machine has been doing all the chestbeating, and not giving her a medal is tantamount to admitting it was all spin.

Oooh, scored a hit in the old pride. BONUS! Really, baby, it gets bigger if I'm excited.

Cut you to the quick? Trask, dude, I would bring two gin and tonics (one for me) down to that tiny wooden pad to watch the sun set over the glorious sound on a day like today. You've got a good slice of the pie, good on ya mate!

JayB, I've appreciated your research, but it doesn't change the fact that being black in America is less than being white. While its completely true that many black African doctors (or phd's in other fields) may be better off working as shoeshine boys in NYC, it in no way implies a level playing field across the races in the US today. If you cannot acknowledge that race matters in the US (we're not talking compared to other countries), then you're so fucking obtuse I will have to discard everything you've ever said on any topic as the ravings of an ignorant fool. I'm not suggesting remedies here, frankly I don't have any, but if you can't recognize that your racial heritage (five o'clock shadow be damned) gives you an edge in this country denied to an equally intelligent and erudite black (or any of a number of shades of brown) man, then you are seriously deluded. I'm glad as can be to have the advantages my racial heritage grants me, and I don't think that paying cash to folks of other colors will make up for anything, but don't tell me that we live in a perfect world.

I wanted to reply to JB who transformed the title to "trask is a trolling moron" Well duh, the dude doesn't really care about more than when the next gin and tonic will be served to him on that little bitty deck he won't let his son sit on. If all you middle class white guys wanna take that worm and hook and run like the dickens like a breeding bluegill in the shallows defending it's nest, you go right ahead. You don't need to tell me that reparations are a stupid idea, but it does still suck hind titty to be black in America today. No easy answer's, just an acknowledgement that we're a long road away from a world where race and gender don't matter. I'm impatient, but that doesn't matter more than pissing into the Farewell Creek fire, though I reckon five billion people pissing into that conflagration could put it out.