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  1. I'm sure there'd be time for a quick 'poof and puff' at the hut.
  2. real climbers don't have 9-5 jobs and don't climb popular routes on the weekends.
  3. I think I'd reject the charge on the credit card and wait for them to contact me.
  4. It wasn't spray....
  5. don't forget about the rattlesnakes!
  6. SWEET! Annabelle's been telling me how much she wants to meet you. Maybe she'll stick around for a little post-climb hot tubbing at the lodge with us.
  7. Looking for a climbing partner for the June 9 Rainier Climb. I need a stalwart partner who's not camera shy or afraid of getting trashed online by multiple psychotic personalities after the event. We'll be speed slogging, but I want to be roped up...and your harness HAS to have a belay loop, and your boots CAN'T be those wimpy designer boots. A big plus if you've got a couple of St. Bernards that can tow us up when nobody is watching. Bigger plus if you really know how to use a GPS so we can triple verify to the nth degree our route and make pretty charts when we're done. Annabelle said she'd stop by my tent the night before to give me some 'encouragement'. I'll be willing to share if you promise to be the crevasse poodle the next day and promise to steel wool the rust off my crampons during the ride home. I'm willing to share the prize money with you if we win, too. How's a 80/20 split sound? PS--I have a super-secret strategy for winning this thing...PM me for details if you're seriously interested.
  8. You should tell Trask to put on the Satin sheets instead of the flannel sheets before you go over. That 'extra slick' factor might just be easier on your toenails.
  9. A 5/19/05 news article: web page Scottsdale climber has been missing since Christmas By Irene Hsiao, Tribune The Christmas cards remain on the mantle in the living room. The Christmas tree is still in front of the fireplace. All of 48-year-old John Rosholt’s belongings — including his climbing gear, computer and bicycle — are inside his Scottsdale home. Jane Rosholt Watkins last spoke to her younger brother, who is well-known in the rock-climbing community, when he called to thank her for a Christmas present about 8 p.m. Dec. 27 before he left for Las Vegas. At 9:42 p.m., he e-mailed his other sister, Jill Rosholt, telling her he had recently gone to a Phoenix Suns game and he hadn’t received her present yet. He said that was OK because it would be Christmas all over again when he did get it. And that was it. John Rosholt has been missing ever since. "John’s a conservative, responsible guy. There’s no way he would just walk away," said Darin Holt, a fellow rock climber and former roommate of John Rosholt’s. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police found his Toyota 4Runner in late April in the parking lot of the Silverton Casino. The department began handling the case last week, said Las Vegas police Sgt. Chris Jones. Police do not know if he walked away or if there was foul play, Jones said. Watkins reported her brother missing in late February to Scottsdale police after she didn’t hear from him when she called about her daughter’s wedding, she said. He had planned to attend. Although John Rosholt would frequently be gone for a few months at time, it was unlike him not to respond, Watkins said. Scottsdale police said his financial records were not tampered with and foul play was not suspected in his disappearance at the time, said Scottsdale detective Sam Bailey. John Rosholt rock climbed regularly. He played poker and invested in the stock market to support himself, Watkins said. A message displayed at www.rockclimbing.com says: "Has anyone seen John Rosholt (gambler) recently?" Holt said John Rosholt, who had an eclectic group of friends, never contacted any of his rock-climbing buddies in the Las Vegas area. He might have gone hiking in the area instead because of some minor injuries he had suffered, Holt said. Anyone who has information is asked to call Las Vegas police at (702) 229-5678.
  10. How'd this one get by all you Seattle folks? (or am I just blind?) Ed Viesturs Announces Retirement web page After Summiting Annapurna, Climber Quits Big Mountains by OutdoorNewsWire.com May 18th, 2005 After summiting all of the world's 14 8,000+ meter peaks last week and becoming the first American to do so, Ed Viesturs announced Monday that he will be retiring from high-altitude climbing. "I'm done with 8,000-meter peaks, but I'll climb smaller and easier peaks, I'm sure," Viesturs told Lindsay Yaw of MSN.com. "Since 1987, I have been over in the Himalaya climbing every spring, so now I'll get to know what spring looks like at my home in Seattle."
  11. OK, I know it's just 'Hollywood', but this disturbs me.... http://utahrockclimbing.com/ (a work-safe flash animation)
  12. The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters. The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.
  13. Al, this http://www.billandcori.com/blackhills/bh_climb.htm is another website with some of the maps from Piana's "Touch the Sky" guidebook. It's out of print, but I saw one or two copies at Marmot in Hellvue last year. Check out the Rushmore Needles for some good sprot climbing ...and some stellar trad if you hike a bit more. I got on a route called Desert Storm there while it was still a project or brand new (don't recall exactly after this long). I realized while passers by stopped to watch once I got to the 3rd bolt...I was in WAY over my head. There was a free campsite at Breezy Point a mile or two from the Rushmore Needles...it may still be there. The Conn Traverse near Lake Sylvan is fun. The lodge there used to sell guidebooks...prolly still do. Check out the Falling Rock area just outside Rapid City (a good place to stop between the Black Hills and DT). http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/listArea.php?AreaID=2021 It's rare limestone in a sea of "granite". The climbing shop in Rapid used to have Xeroxed topos of the routes there. DT: Soler rocks! 2 good trad pitches to the Meadows with bolted belays. Watch out for Custer County cops. I still have a bad taste in my mouth after all these years. "Drifting towards the center line", my ASS! Oh, I thought you wanted to look in the cab of my truck for empty beer bottles (after seeing 2 empties way in the back of my pickup we'd decided to take with us instead of littering the crag at the end of the day.) Why are you looking in the ash tray and under my floor mat? Al, give me a call or shoot me an email if you want more detailed beta or scans of some pages out of my guidebooks.
  14. I herd students in that other class lactose now because they wore designer 'brand' hikers on the glacier.
  15. ...or at least more irreverent. If you're required to subscribe to the herd mentality on occasion, why not do it in style?
  16. Oh, I don't believe in __________. (god, christmas, relativity, gravity, Amber, fucking on the first date, love at first sight, etc....)
  17. Thinker

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    "I still don't see what the big deal is. This ain't nothin' compared to a medicine ball!"
  18. Are you sure he didn't blow your pink point?
  19. I used a medium weight pair of leather Zamberlan hikers when I took one of the fabled PacNW climbing classes some time back (I'd never been on a glacier before and figured this midwestern boy should get learned a little.) Anyway, the crampons seemed to trash the welt on the Zams in a few spots and help them leak a little. The other drawback of using a leather hiker, IMHO, is that step kicking tends to crush the toebox unless you are diligent about pushing them back out with shoe trees after each use. just my 2 cents.
  20. Impotent Husband Must Pay Damages link An Italian man who married without telling his bride he was impotent must pay damages for abusing her "right to sexuality", a top court has ruled. The man had failed to fulfil his conjugal duty and deprived his wife of the chance to be a mother, Italy's Supreme Court said. His wife had already had the marriage annulled on the grounds of non-consummation. The amount of damages will now be decided by a lower court in Sicily. The Supreme Court's decision, published in the Italian media on Thursday, follows a lengthy legal battle by the woman, who argued that she deserved compensation for her husband's behaviour. The couple had married without having had sex and their wedding night proved to be a disaster. The woman said her husband should have warned her in advance and described his conduct as "contrary to the principles of loyalty, fairness and good faith". Courts in Palermo, where the couple were married, rejected her argument, saying that the man "was not responsible for his ailment". But the Supreme Court has now overturned the lower courts' rulings, saying the Italian constitution upheld the right to sexuality. The court ruling said Cristina S had suffered "a violation of her fundamental right to fulfilment, in the family and in society, as a woman, a wife and possibly as a mother". The case has now been sent back to the Court of Appeal in Palermo, which will decide how much compensation Stefano B should have to pay.
  21. The Curta was actually quite the revolutionary machine for it's time, deisgned by a man while he was in a Nazi concentration camp. Scientific American had a great article on it about a year ago. This article is pretty good, too.
  22. YIKES! I may need to change my avatar.
  23. Thinker

    Spokane Mayor

    No, I'd bet he rents one by the hour.
  24. Thinker

    Spokane Mayor

    I see Utah is more exciting that Spokane today. I can hardly wait for happy hour....
  25. Yeah, maybe they were looking for that sweet Renton granite and made a wrong turn behind the school and ended up in Granite Falls.
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