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West Ridge of Mount Washington, OR

quote by Zenolith up at broken top: "the latest tele boots make you look like Sting or something." so there's that drawback too.

Probably goes w/o saying but skiing in plastic boots randonee w/ pack flat-out sux at first.

nice work churchill. had a grand ol time at yalta

The OMA doesn't do a ton of group trips, but it is a good organization for hooking up with other climbers from beginner to advanced. They usually do an annual casual trip up Three Fingered Jack and Mt. Washington, which would be a good easy intro to Oregon choss with some nice exposure to boot. You'll probably meet up with someone at your stage as well. Hope your class went well.

fakes are easily identified by the lack of cougar repellent odor. knocks down the value significantly.

you guys are out of your cotton-pickin' gourds.

the picture is taken at a weird angle so there is a lot of foreshortening going on. besides you know what dope and booze does to a hound's snaffle.

Just a snafflehound chillin' w/ a drink 'n' stuff. Could be Muir hut?

relax bud, I'm speaking out of boredom. I'll be sure to get all posts approved by you for content from now on. As for Si, I've got your beta right here hardman. I don't even know where it is.

dude, it's not that tough.

He's responding to posts in a different thread about an upcoming guided climb.

I'm sorry, I will never, ever joke about the W. ridge of forbidden again.

quote: Originally posted by MountainMan: There are actually mature adults who are trying to obtain beta on this forum. Please respect that. quote: Originally posted by MountainMan in "North Cascades, 06/05/2002": Do I smell jealousy? No no, thats just fish coming from the pussy between caveman's legs. Dont cry you big chapter 13 homo .. I'm just "sprayin". LOL Pot, kettle, black, buddy. Now enough of your spray in this forum and get serious.

quote: Originally posted by Dennis Harmon: downtown Portland and watched a women parker open her car door right in time for another women cyclist to slam into it. That wasn't funny stuff. That is why the streetcar in NW portland is the nemesis to all bikers. those tracks make you bike about 0.5m off of the parked cars. I've had two brushes with people opening the driver door, and I know I'm going to get clotheslined one of these days. Damn rail! I'm going to fall into that thing one of these days. They were kind enough to put up a dramatic warning sign with a biker making like superman over the bars. Kind!

snafflehound souffle

Climber report says bring a high tolerance of risk. It's in late-season condition and there is serious rockfall hazard.

carry some cake frosting. if you don't use it you can chug it after the climb.

There's a monster trundler balancing up on the east lateral moraine of White River Glacier on Hood. Someone should go up there and sneeze.

quote: Originally posted by jon: decreasing the width of the pedestrian walkway over I-90 by 3 feet so they can add another lane for people to sit in traffic in. The best is when people start complaining about opening up the carpool lanes to single-occupant cars to ease the rush-hour traffic problems.

I spend a lot of time biking to work and I'm all for cyclists' rights, but I get pissed by the guys who screw the rules of the road or who <I>intentionally</I> look for conflict when riding. Case in point, I passed a bike in the bike lane and had to take a right turn. The second I turn on the right blinker, the guy speeds up to make sure if I don't check my blind spot he's gonna wipe into my side door. Of course I saw him since I've been in that spot many times before as a biker (and even waited for his sorry ass to catch back up and pass me) but he still gave the menacing "don't even think about it" stare. decked out in a f'ing mickey mouse lycra jersey, to top it off, and making like he's on the last turn of the Champs-Elysees.

Is there any chance BD will ever make a straight tool again rather than all this modern art curvy bullshit? Whatever happened to the prophets?

I call bullshit on your sooby pic. There's no FREE TIBET on the bumper and a spacecase is not present.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Hey you should check out Andromeda Strain yeah, that's in the scrambles guide. and the cover of Dougherty's book! looks like fun times.

Alan Kane has a good scrambling guide to the rockies (not sure if you were looking for purely roped climbing). His website has some info as well. http://peakbagger.tripod.com/index.html