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dru I see in the background one of those top-secret anti-gravity oak trees mysteriously growing sideways out of the hill. funny that.

appears you overworked your crankarm and your quick-release skewer is sprung. time to degrease. go pull some headtubes and call it a night

no DFA's more into "rim"ming.

look at DFA just freewheeling along with this pathetic wornout tread.

There are more-qualified individuals on this board to answer these questions, but I'll throw this out. Beacon Rock is known for its multi-pitch trad basalt crack climbing. The rock quality on the popular lines is very good. Popular lines have bolts at the end of each pitch, but usually no chains so webbing is frequently left behind. A good introduction would be the SE corner route which is considerably easier than most others at 5.6-7. I find grades below 5.10 to be pretty stiff for the number, but a 5.10 feels like a 5.10 at other places (figure that out). If you can climb 5.11 crack you will be well-served here. One hazard to note is to be aware of rockfall off the top when you are along the wall facing the river. Tourists can knock stuff down, and climbers pulling ropes after rappels can bring down a lot of loose stuff too. The standard guidebook for the area is "Portland Rock" by Tim Olson. Hope that helps.

did Reinhold Messner say that to you, too!!!? yeah and did you see that Jason Martin just posted on a website I peruse?

I was under the impression karma was a hindu construct...

nothing like an avalanche thread to instigate a quality name-dropping session

and this has anything to do with peace demonstrations? I don't follow...

King's March on Washington in '63. Just imagine the traffic headaches that caused!

powdermag is all about alta alta alta.

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That would be a national security risk, didn't you read his post? He said he "would rather not speculate publicly."

Seeing as it's mandatory for you to have the last post, this one's just to make sure you have to post one more time.

My brother's bike was stolen by a guy who watched him lock his bike to a long horizontal handrail each day. At night he came in and hacksawed the beam way down at the other end and taped over it. Then when my bro locked his bike to it, he just undid the tape and slid my brother's bike off.

Nice pun. I didn't make any argument to begin with. I'm suggesting don't live 25 miles away from a place you have to go every day. Not that I want to bother with this anymore since your badass sig says it all

That's self-righteous. Don't live so far away how's that.

I'll take your comments into consideration when you come join me for that commute. Until then it's full of shit. I don't know what you mean.

waste of time driving downtown anyway. downtown is for bikes.

judging by the amount of bikes that disappear in Eugene I would think that kit was standard issue.

I like those hard candies, they support my ego with positive sayings and fill my tummy with FD&C Yellow #5

The finest piece of automobile Jay Leno's money can buy.

makes you want to buy a new bike, put it in the same spot, and hide in the bushes with a bat. I've been there, sorry you lost your ride.