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Yo Porter, you going to tha muthafuckin gathering of the Juggalos? [video:youtube]

Do you think he would accept a box of poop in lieu of a dollar? Just one from every person in my household?

Look Kev, an eagle!

Bear in mind that Jim is talking about a clinic on a Reservation. The issue of babies on the Rez is pretty complicated, there are prime examples of the link between early pregnancy and poverty, as well as folks who came from the boarding school era, a time when the federal government attempted to dismantle the tribes.

That was an entertaining link, another bit of TR's history I was unfamiliar with. Here's a link to the article in Orion magazine about the connection between Eugenics and the conservation movement. It was pretty eye opening to me, TR and Gifford Pinchot as white supremacists... link

Hey Bill, do you mean the same Teddy Roosevelt who was an ardent embracer of eugenics? He'd have happily had you sterilized for miscegenation. Well, maybe just your wife, since she's the one of inferior genetics...

Judging from recent BD Alex Hohnold Mallorca porn videos, it looks like things might have fixed ropes for escaping the water. Long drops to the sea on a bunch of that stuff, and I'll wager its not mostly 5.10 climber friendly...

Maybe Talkeetna has an ice cream shop called Sweettooth? Maybe it's at the top of a hill, errr, well, mound? Sarah wouldn't obfuscate, she's a maverick after all, eh?

That eerie soundtrack has me convinced that it must be UFOs. Unless maybe it was a government conspiracy...

Well, this site will do for Washington. (http://rocky.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/drg/index.html)

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My beach, my wave.

Late season you can do that route in tennies without an axe, but personally I'd take boots and an axe right now. You'll likely have steep snow on that slope after the false summit this time of year, especially given the snowpack this year. You could probably do just fine with an axe and no crampons, but hopefully someone with recent experience will chime in with info rather than speculation. edited to add: check out the current Stuart Range Traverse TR, looks like those folks descended with tennies and a nut tool, though YMMV.

Word is that the descent from the NE Ridge notch to the N Cirque is pretty sketchy. I'm not sure if that means it was just dodgy unroped, or if there was no decent rappel option. You might check with John Frieh, it was a friend of his who had the first hand info (one of the same trio who climbed the N Face when I was in there on the NE Ridge).

That Fischer Creek camp is deer central

Nice to see this thread back in rotation! [video:youtube]

Ever use a leaf blower to clean off the wall post scrubbing? Highly recommended, though dangling with hot two stroke engines is not all that fun.

2 to 1 he hasn't a clue what you're on about Rob...

The Chunkyard is a great crag, you done good Andy.

Oh, and as far as the money aspect of guides go, there are few authors who've ever made better than minimum wage putting out those things, I think they're all labors of love rather than profit centers. Sure, there is ego involved to varying degrees, but a person without ego is pretty damned boring at a party.

Well, see, I like that guide. I especially like that Bingham tells the history of chipping/gluing/artificial holds that doesn't reflect well on himself. Way better than the Phony Tony Calderone guide to the area. CAG volumes are really reference books, one inevitably winds up with xerox copies of certain pages when out in the field. They're encyclopedic, and full of detail, but sometimes glaringly wrong wrong wrong, or often merely vague and fuzzy. Still, that seems entirely appropriate for the range, and the breadth of research involved across history/geography/geology/ is really impressive. I'd have to say that I love those guides too.

Judging from the rime on the upper west ridge in the recent SGC TR, you're probably better off in boots and maybe crampons after the rappel. Doesn't really look like we're into tennies w/crampons and rock shoe season on Stuart yet...

That's kinda funny, reminds me of hip white old guys around here saying "nigga". The punchline is that the crew looks to be mostly Vietnamese, which probably adds some extra dimension to the spin that escapes us white guys...

Damn Tom, you are just killing it this season, another great outing, eh? Thanks for all the inspiring TR's.