billcoe

If I might speak for JH. They are the closest thing to practice heaven this side of Southern Ill. Sandstone. He spotted chalk, and figured if these pups can crank these roofs oh so boldly, he needs to rope these studs into his project in actual substitute heaven this side of So Ill. holler Sandstone, aka Menopause aka Rhythm Method. Once Beacon opens. How did I do? ps, pups, take a glove and pull the sticky stalks out when ya see it!

I find it refreshing, and it's a reminder that those who stoop to name calling don't have much of an argument to have to do that. So thanks for that reminder: I don't think you're a racist prick either, but you are stubborn. Probably be a good wall climber. opps, that's an insult in some circles.

Plaidman delivers

One thing I've observed is that you have a definite lack of name calling abilities. I believe, from viewing the others on this thread and elsewhere, that as soon as you can't make a good point (one that your opponent agrees too or even makes sense) then you are suppose to slander and name call like a little 2nd grade bitch. You have some big time failings there, and did ya notice I avoided the question again? You're welcome there Bill

I have always loved that term. How about Neo-Luddite, Regressive Luddite and Lf*cks? Not so much I'll bet. I recently lost a digital copy of Desmond Decker's "The Israelites". Life sucks. This never use to happen with records. Unless you loaned them out.

It's OK Peter, we learned a lot of things:-) (AND WE STILL SUCK!) sampling:

Not a chance in hell that pear was U babe. I got pics Drew, is that the new "Tub girls grows up vid"? BTW, did I ever thank you for that Tub Girl? No? Well I won't and this makes that almost look normal. Damn.

Well crafted words Lowell! May we all have a run 1/2 as good as Dukes. regards to all Bill

Looks like Pakistan is also rooting out some homegrown Paki Teabaggers.... as you call them. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/04/international/i093845D93.DTL " Pakistan makes arrests over Times Square bomb By ASHRAF KHAN, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, May 4, 2010 (05-04) 11:39 PDT KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani authorities have detained several people in connection with the bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, intelligence officials said Tuesday. One of the men, identified as Tauseef, was a friend of Faisal Shahzad, the American citizen of Pakistani origin who is in custody in the United States over the failed attack, one official said. He was arrested in the southern city of Karachi, said the official, who like all Pakistani spies refused to be named in the media. Another official said several people had been taken into custody in Karachi since the failed attack Saturday. Some media reports described them as relatives of Shahzad. Neither said when the detentions had taken place. They said no charges had been filed. Shahzad was on board a Dubai-bound flight that was taxiing away from the gate at New York's Kennedy Airport late Monday when the plane was stopped and FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives took him into custody, law enforcement officials said. U.S. officials have said the 30-year-old had recently returned from a five-month stay in Pakistan, raising speculation he may have been in contact with al-Qaida or Taliban groups in the South Asian country. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said initial information showed Shahzad and his family came from the Pabbi region of northwest Pakistan, but that Shahzad had a Karachi identity card. "We have to see whether it was an individual act or if it was a collective kind of act," he said. Several Pakistani officials said U.S. authorities had not made a formal request for the country to help in the probe. Two security officials in the northwest said Shahzad and his family came from the village of Mohib Bandar in Pabbi, but moved to the North Nazimabad district of Karachi several years ago. They said he was a graduate of an engineering college and the son of a senior Pakistani air force officer. But a Shahzad family member in the region told a local journalist that the officials were mistaken and that the family had nothing to do with the suspect in the United States. Faisal and Shahzad are very common names in Pakistan. One local television report said Shahzad spent time on his recent trip to Pakistan in Karachi and in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Peshawar is a gateway for foreigners seeking to travel into the nearby tribal regions where militant groups have long had sanctuaries. Shahzad is suspected of driving a bomb-laden vehicle into Times Square last Saturday and parking it on a street lined with restaurants and Broadway theaters. He was expected in court to face charges later Tuesday." _________________________________________________ Lets call him the Unibrow bomber - now arrested. Reuters story "(Reuters) - A Pakistani-American accused of driving a car bomb into New York's Times Square will be charged with an act of terrorism, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday as Pakistan arrested several relatives of the man. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, told authorities he acted alone in Saturday's failed bombing, but skeptical investigators are looking into his recent trip to Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement source said. Shahzad, 30, was arrested late on Monday night after he was taken off an Emirates airline plane that was about to take off for Dubai. Hours later, several relatives and a friend were arrested in Pakistan. "We have picked up a few family members" related to Shahzad, a security official in Karachi said. A friend of Shahzad was also detained. Shahzad is from the disputed Kashmiri region but it is not known if he was affiliated with any militant group, a source familiar with the investigation said. The source asked not to be named because the issue is sensitive. "Which group he may have belonged to and how he became radicalized, we don't know yet," said the source. Although markets shrugged off the New York car bomb attempt as a one-off situation, tensions are high among investors. News that police in London closed a subway station to investigate reports of a suspect package pushed U.S. stock index futures to session lows before the market opened on Tuesday. Shahzad was due to appear in federal court later on Tuesday and would likely be charged with an act of terrorism and the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction among other offenses, Holder said. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, experts said. "He's admitted to buying the truck, putting the devices together, putting them in the truck, leaving the truck there and leaving the scene," the law enforcement source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He's claimed to have acted alone. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Shahzad has provided investigators with useful information, but declined to discuss specifics at a news conference in Washington. "It is clear that this was a terrorist plot aimed at murdering Americans in one of the busiest places in our country," Holder said. "If successful it could have resulted in a lethal terrorist attack, causing death and destruction." New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since September 11, 2001. President Barack Obama said the investigation would seek to determine if the suspect in custody had any connection with foreign extremist groups. The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the plot though several officials voiced scepticism about the claim. If links were found between the failed bombing and Pakistan's Taliban, which claimed responsibility for it, Pakistan could come under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants. Shahzad and two others were arrested on board the plane after it had pulled away from the gate and was recalled, but the other two were cleared and allowed to travel, the Emirates airline said. "Clearly the guy was on the plane and shouldn't have been and we got very lucky," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference. However, Holder said Shahzad was being tracked and there was no danger of losing him. Shahzad, who became a U.S. citizen last year, recently visited Pakistan for about five months, returning to the United States in February, the U.S. law enforcement source said. "Based on our collective experience it's hard to really believe that this is something someone would do on their own. It seems hard to pull off alone. There's a lot we don't know yet," the source said. Shahzad worked for about three years as a junior financial analyst in the Norwalk, Connecticut, office of the Affinion Group, a marketing and consulting business, the company said on Tuesday. Shahzad worked there until June 2009. Shahzad is suspected of buying a 1993 Nissan sport utility vehicle used to carry the crude bomb, made of fuel and fireworks, into Times Square as the theatre and shopping area was packed with people on a warm Saturday evening. Authorities searched Shahzad's home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the FBI said on Tuesday. An FBI spokeswoman did not say what authorities had found. Saturday's failed bombing was the second significant plot in nine months targeting New York City. An Afghan immigrant, Najibullah Zazi, has pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide bombing campaign on Manhattan's subway system last September. U.S. authorities disrupted that plot before Zazi and his accused accomplices were able to carry it out. Another Afghan-born man has pleaded guilty for his role in the plot. Zazi admitted to receiving al Qaeda training in Pakistan."

LOL, is the respect of your peers not enough? How about this? Potential prize Hybrid Aliens

We have a winner! Loser. Don't even talk that way. Bicycle-car accidents are a bad bad thing. _____________________________________________________________ Uhhh, no, thats bullshit. Personal responsibility is the start of the discussion. You think big government should mandate that you turn your f*ing lights off? Why not just walk right over and turn the f*ucker off yourself? etc etc to every argument you have.

Both are true in this case I suspect, and you are as much of a part of the problem as much as the rest of us I'd bet. As Americans, we lead the way on usage, but it sounds like Fairweather is trying to lead the way for us.

Well, we do. So we really have nothing to argue about. Needs more snow in this pic.

I like love Beacon, we all do: but some of the North side routes are so wet and mossy that the banana slugs are fighting over who gets the wet spot....ie, the entire N side.

$6 at the Mountain shop when they were cleaning out the basement after the last ownership change @ 6 years back. They had a full rack of them too. I'd never seen one till then.

ding ding ding ding ding, WE HAVE A WINNER BOYZ! I thought it was a standard ring angle for rock, but per Jeff Thomas who is twice as smart as me but also the current Mazama historian, say's that he believes it's an antique ice screw. The sharp little flutes/cuts down the sides are for gripping the ice. Bet he remembers when they came out with it, he's almost that old.

nope ...anyone else?

Take Ivan, he says that he flies right over those schrunds when he comes off... Thanks for sharing the adventure!

Scuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrox "Nitrox"... possibly a former Navy Seal? Where as "Nitrogen Narcosis" would aptly describe most of the other posters on most other spray threads......

Brand new - anyone recognize this?

Guess who fell next placement up right after this picture was taken when the classic but sketchy 1950s/1960's Austri Alpin Eurotrash soft iron pin I'd volunteered to be fixed, after looking good for over a min or 2 after full Volkswagon sized weight transfer, just popped under the strain? Still, it didn't suck at all. Sorry to say that I had my hands full of flying Volkswagen and didn't think to record the moment though. I always figured catching a 6'7" guy like Ivan could be an issue. However, although I did get yoinked up @ 2 feet and the rope seemed to stretch a bit more than normal, I was able to lock it off easily (despite being in a bad belay position all scrunched up to the rock in a semi-hanging belay) and it seemed easy and gentle. Fortunately, the rare pin, one of those above, was already clipped off and saved for another day. ...nice pics of Justin up there!

Thank you for the remembrance. Just yesterday, no joke: yesterday, I went to lace up my LaSportiva Focus climbing shoes to do a lap and immediately thought of Jim as the shoes came out of the bag. I spent a couple min of fond remembrance and reflecting on the intransigent nature of life, sadly thinking of Jim and the natural follow up wondering if I am slated to get the chop prematurely as well. As folks who know me are aware - I do some f*ing stupid things on a regular basis, but was thinking that it was not what was seen coming that got Jim, but that which was mundane and invisible. Totally off the radar screen....could that be me as well, but I don't see it? Jim was as least as safe as I perceive myself to be if not more so, and he was certainly vastly more experienced for sure. Jim was one of those guys I wish I spent more time with, I barely knew him till he moved up to White Salmon, although I'd almost killed him with a loose rock at Smith in the early 80's (before helmets:-) Screaming rock rock rock, they heard the echo from a half mile away bounce off Asterik pass and didn't move till the last moment. That was a defining moment for us as once down (We ran down the trail after we topped out, thinking we'd need to help medevac) . We were do relieved they were fine. I apologized profusely and repeatedly, but Jim deflected my apology and said he didn't blame us at all, he (Jim) felt stupid for being right underneath us, he knew that there were loose rocks at Smith back then, and a smart person didn't hang out underneath someone climbing above them....especially without a helmet. Anyway, my ratty Focus shoes were bought when my wife spotted a climbing shop in Paris from the bus one rainy assed day in 1997. We buzzed the bus to stop and we ran back through the rain. What a great thing to do on a rainy day. 60 Euro's! They are on their 5th or 6th resole now, but are not my main pair of shoes, so they don't get out a lot. But they are the same model, brand and color of shoes Jim often climbed with and rare is the day I don't pull them out of my rucksack and think of him as soon as I see them.

More pics Dane?

Tina Feys Palin was much funnier that that skit. I couldn't finish it. The black guy that is the Amalgamated bus union guy was wasted in this bit, he does a freaking unbelievably funny at times imitation of Al Sharpton.

I think that's a long story Fender, one probably left to Steve Byrn and Doug Phillips to tell. However, a quick note to say that in an unusually shocking move: Wired Bliss got their web site up and running apparently flawlessly the very day they said that they would. Click it: http://www.shop.wiredblissusa.com/ Now, for a bit of additional shocking news for those who have read this far, I heard (and saw the cam dude bought) that Climb Max in PDX had #5 Camp Air cams -that's the 5 incher, for $31 or 32 dollars? That is a crazy price for a respectable cam, and would extend your Wired Bliss set up (that goes to #4) into offset crack range for a mere pittance.