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and where is erik right now LOL! still 200 posts ahead of me and I post a constant stream of mindless banter LOL! he must be out jibbing and throwing down rodeo 540's at the park. the guy is a MACHINE LOL! watch out chica's! woof woof!

hey I'm always a fan and I don't spray - every post comes from the heart here folks, from the HEART

Sorry I guess you had to actualy be here to get the "Dumb Blonde" impression not really.

pimping? I've heard that isn't very easy.

Devil's Lake - isn't there an accident every 24 hours or so there? North American Accidents just bunches 'em together otherwise it would be 500 pages long

LOL!

LOL time to shred some H20 LOL!

Bring along the Zimas on ice in case Extremo shows.

LOL! makes me want to go rent Hot Dog good jokes and good jibs to boot RIP IT UP

yeah you'd have to be a real idiot to live there

100% pure quality

cool picts!

wuss.

no joke, best get your hep B series before you use his #3 costalot.

the correct spelling is "brah".

thanks, I did a search on rec.climbing for Harlan quarry and came up with this pretty amusing response under the thread "The 5 Worst Crags" (From Kevin Pogue (pogue@whitman.edu)) I tend to agree with Brian in SLC that any day climbing outside anywhere is better than doing most anything else. I find the concept of a "worst crag" a hard thing to nail down. For example. When I was in grad school in Corvallis we were desperate to find some rock to climb close to town. The alternative was to drive 3.5 hours to Smith or head to Eugene and hang out with the posers at Skinners Butte. One day we blundered onto a 100 ft. high quarry wall in the coast range near the small town of Harlan. The rock is a mixture of graywacke, a type of "dirty" sandstone and siltstone, and water seeped out in many places along the bedding planes. The rock is actually quite incompetent and nowhere forms natural cliffs. The water oozing down to the base of the cliff waters a lush growth of poison oak and blackberries with canes up to 2 inches in diameter. The hillside above the quarry wall is very steep so that soil is constantly creeping to the edge of the cliff, promoting a constant rain of dirt and small rocks that quickly cover even the tiniest of ledges. Despite all of these delightful characteristics we resolved to "develop" our newfound "crag". This was about 1987 and no one we knew owned a hammer drill so we rented one and a generator and jugged up fixed lines hauling an extension cord behind us. We managed to bolt about 4 lines. Some of the best holds on our routes consisted of 3 inch diameter drill holes left over from the quarry operation. Every handhold and foothold (and probably bolt for that matter) was suspect and apt to aburptly detach itself from the cliff at any moment. Despite all of this, I spent 6 or 7 days climbing there and really enjoyed it. Of course, it only had to be an improvement over sitting at a desk writing a thesis. Eventually the area even made it into the back of the Portland Area Rock Climbs Guidebook. I'd love to see the look on someone's face after they drove 2.5 hours from Portland to climb there! From other folk's descriptions it sounds like the authors of the "5 worst crags" article were picking on manufactured areas. They should have included Leslie Gulch, a travesty where EVERY single hold is a drilled pocket! Of course, quarries like the one described above are entirely manufactured, so I would like to nominate the Harlan Quarry as my "worst crag" even though climbing there still beats sitting here and typing this! -=> kevin

oh yeah and the Turkey Monster, Menagerie after reading the 40+ pin description in Dodge's book, probably not never

You expect answers to this thread with all the testosterone floating 'round here? There's some routes on Mt. Washington down here in OR that I hesitate to climb, but one day will... nice topic though

Damn right, only way to fly. Seriously, I'm not sure what Tex is saying, but I don't think anyone's saying Hood is some hardcore sickfest (though you can find some spice if you want it). However it IS a superb alpine classroom where you can climb progressively harder and more committing climbs until you have some experience, with limited approach times and relatively easy bailouts. It's all about conditions too. Yocum Ridge has been called a walk in the park on good days, a terrifying nightmare on bad ones. Then there are the poor fools who think the fall is a good time for that one.

how 'bout ANY climbing in general in the Corvallis area. I've been looking for a good quarry to mess around with some highline stuff too.

so start climbing Hood from the Ratskeller in Govy, pussy.

I do all my banking through Nigeria now. Those guys are great! Giving away money constantly because they always seem to have a surplus.

could I bring the office coffee machine with me?

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