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I love this site! bwahaha!

Bush's cameo in Independence Day when he lands on that aircraft carrier and makes some moving Bruckheimer-esque speech about mission accomplished...I mean that movie's almost, I mean ALMOST as good as ConAir....oh wait!

"Okay, climb on!" "I've f'ing been climbing!"

In Oregon High (a 1990 climbing guide for the oregon cascades) the author mentions he wished he had more space to include all the history he had come across while researching the routes, perhaps in a second book. Jeff Thomas if you are listening I'd love to see that book someday!

in other words, you suck!

girl sitting by testament slab at smith: "hi there" us: "hi, are you waiting for someone?" girl: "oh my friends are over there on wherever I may roam" us: "why aren't you with them?" girl: "well they wanted me to come along too" us: "why didn't you?" girl: "well they're a party of 5" us:

Amazing indeed. Dr. Flash Amazing, that is...

nice edit!

my inuit source could beat up your inuit source!

you don't have your copy yet? all those new lines up the backside of smith rock group are sweet! thanks alan.

say what? someone just asked how much pro we used. I NEVER take you seriously

A screw in each of the steps, and the odd sling on a rock. We simuled. I took along a few nuts, a hex, and pink/red tricams, but I used none of it.

you got the Agent Smith part right

may a herd of flag-flapping jacked-up f350 dualies flatten your unpatriotic hide.

frightful indeed

This stuff is scary! link to scary stuff

oh yeah do as I say not as I do

the south side chutes are solid blue water ice, and I was placing screws on descent. really nice in there, but short. the approach slopes above the bergschrund are a strange, tedious "gravel ice". Never seen anything like it. The slopes below crater rock are almost completely snow-free. Extremely tedious icy boulder/scree hopping in crampons in the dark. Highly not recommended.

hey that shot is from timberline

Thanks for checking for us, it was very much appreciated.

I was still in my halloween SWAT team black outfit as you can see.

I could just see people starting to block each other out to catch the falling rope

strange, I seem to be able to catch the end of the rope routinely in that way. maybe I should start collecting for those beers.

is anyone at Smith THIS weekend? I'm up for some frozen digits. that or a blitz on Cathedral Ridge, maybe a jaunt over to Eliot HW if things look inviting