billcoe

All of us view life through strange colored lenses based on our own personal life's experiences. For most of us, we believe that a jury would have looked carefully at all the evidence and come to the correct and final decision. Yet for other citizens, we are left with this to carefully consider: "“We’ve been suffering police brutality for generations,” said Lesley Phillips, a longtime Oakland resident. “We want it to end.” " I'm not justifying idiots breaking innocent shopkeepers windows, I'm just sayin'...

I already have too many biners. Some of these in fact or I'd get some for sure. Talked to Benny BTW, thanks!

http://www.climbmaxmountaineering.com/dealoftheday.html The Climbmax "Deal of the day", jump on it, this is a fantastic deal.

Don't you have better things to do Don? I'll admit that it was nice when you were not running around this site moralizing all the time......PS, congrats on the new book. The last one I read was very well done.

Let Mr. courageous there lead it the first time without any pro.

Clarifying the new Iranian haircut standards: Acceptable, especially if ranting on the Jews. In original format as the 3 stooges, unanacceptable all for 3 as they were: Jews! OMG! In this photo format (Barak/McCain/Hillary): all 3 get stoned anyway for being apostates, Hillary (as Larry)would get stoned twice.....just because. Kevbone, Lash and I. The hair is fine, but as 3 more unbelieving Apostates we get stoned with the stones laying around from the 3 Stooges stonefest. Hope that helps out.

Ditto on the congrats...well, I'm sure it's getting to be a bit bittersweet at your age.. Time to toss the t-shirt I'd imagine: Take care

Loved this comment: Fortunately the Hood climber looks to be fine with a little mending, so jokes like this seem easier to laugh at. For folks unfamiliar with Portland area, Mt Tabor is in the heart of the city (although it is a real volcano) and is a very popular and accessible park.

http://home.pacbell.net/takasper/slcd/valleygiant.html Tom Kasper is still making them...for now. He's talked about stopping. Not reasonable ($175) but new:-) Good luck

LOL, classic, ....but was that you Don?

Damn Larry, nice mini-epic and good on you for getting on it....but it sounds like a....(wait for it....) WARDROBE MALFUNCTION! omg! HBOLY SHIT, i'VE CLIMBED WITH THAT GUY...aDAM...aDAM WHASHISNAME....ERR...aDAM ...YEAH!!! Look! 3 days ago in the Gunks....

Ray Jardine on Separate Reality, 1976, Yosemite. Mark Chapman on Owl Roof, 1973, Yosemite. Dean Potter free soloing Dogs Roof, Yos.

Ground up, but I wouldn't call them either runout or sport lines. I remember climbing Angel Flight Buttress as a lad at Smith, one of Jim Anglins early (ground up hand drill) bolted routes. At that time, there was consensus that there were places, even if you clipped every (of the sparse) bolt, you would hit the ground if you fell at the wrong place from way up high (like the 100 foot range). There was nothing even close to resembleing that down there. Yet power drills are banned in the valley, so bolts, when they are found in most routes, seem to be real necessary and eagerly/greedily clipped when you do find them. ps, thats some wild looking rock formations up there.

Hope you have an awesome time. France is high on my list of great places. The Freedom Fries are not to be missed.

LOL! Classic! I was down there 3 or so years ago, and my buddies hooked up with a longtime local friend (over 30+ years climbing in the valley and had been hired by Royal Robbins to guide for his mountaineering school BITD). We went and did some (some) bolted lines which were not in any guidebooks and some that were and it was surprising, fun and interesting.

Good on you for finally getting to the real meat and potatoes! About time someone did some real climbing. Can you imagine all those many wankers from the 70's, 80's and 90's that were there before you walking right past those cliffs and ignoring them to go boulder! Crazy dudes them.

No, I wish, that's my brother, I'm the other one.

Welcome to CC.Com and back to climbing Doug! Good luck with it all....I'm surprised that these guys are doing guidebooks for an area on private land at all. I guess that maybe the moss will be kept down with more people though....

Oh. You didn't know that rock was glued on there with epoxy?

Way to get after it! Loved the many photos but there were a couple you could have passed on. You're setting the bar high on the amount of pics needed for a trip report and hopefully some of these other guys take note:-) Really loved the pics of the Trillium and the photo of the mountain shadow. Thanks for sharing, looks like you have 2 great climbs.

Interesting...but I can say that if there is no guide to the area, it will probably still sell. In fact, it will eventually become the real facts and the truth more than likely unless folks come out with a real version. On Mountainproject Peter Franzen said: I think that's on the money, and as this is private land, highly and strongly suggest that you guys quietly talk to these folks directly about your concerns. I suspect these guys are not assclowns at all, but probably just good dudes who are super enthused and jazzed on the place. Maybe there shouldn't be a guidebook at all and the Mountainproject posts pulled. You guys really need to talk this over a beer or 3 looking each other in the eyes.... with no name calling too . Good luck!

Looking forward to the pics, good read! ps, 11b is what it is isn't it?

Shite! Missed the Top 20 by one!!! But I'm only ~50 posts behind minx, so I should claw my way into it soon! Can we add Donkey Fellator to the total to help get you over the hump Paul?

Sounds illegal anyway.

Like my sidewalk.