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2 questions: 1st) I saw a postcard recently where you could check a box on what you thought were priorities, and what you did NOT want to see. You could check Gravel Quarry as something you wanted for instance, along with about 7 different activities on both sides, rockclimbing on both sides as well: things you could oppose or support. Is that current? For county residents only? What is up? 2nd) I wrote my support into the record for the last meeting. Should those of us who did that do it again if we can not be at the 24th meeting? Thanks Kellie!

OMG MY CUPHOLDER IZ BROKEN... GOT TO DO SOMPTIN DIFFERENT DERE....

I like competent, smart folks that are not drawn to power like moths to a flame. Powell fills the bill. Condi all but came out for Barak, so I expect she'll be out. Biden would be a great VP, and probably will be anyway...... So I'll go with that guy from Minnesota as the choice.

Never thought about it. I probably just need to do the route. Markd says Erik freed it at like 11d, that was after some 5.13 climbers had looked at it and chosen not to try and free it. I wonder if he might have worked out the moves on toprope first.

Have to disagree with that cute assessment:-) , however Bryan has some in the mail so I'll all set, but thank you Jen. BTW, Jason's picture of you and the area absofrikanloutly rocks on all counts. It even makes the area look better than I think I've ever seen it:-) Huge props to the shutter clicker.

sure! check your PMs.

must be innundated with hits eh?

Hi Ivan, what wuz the start of the 2nd pitch like? Were the ball nutz not working there?

Jim just weighed in and suggested you folks think about posting one of the posters on the Ozone trail...soon if you haven't yet (Laminated or in a plastic bag I suppose).

Got this from the Blazers today: "Kevin Duckworth Celebration of Life The Trail Blazers, along with the Duckworth family, will be holding a memorial service for Kevin this Saturday, August 30, at 11 a.m. The celebration of Kevin's life will be held at the Memorial Coliseum, a place he called home, on the floor where Duck and his teammates left an indelible mark on our hearts and our history. All fans are invited to join Kevin's family, friends, current and former Trail Blazers personnel, as well as several of Duck’s former teammates, to pay their respects." Dude was younger than me. Damn. ______________________________________________________- 44 years old, congestive heart failure. Link

Zippy and the whole Pinhead family have apparently been posting political and unhappy anti-American things in spray for some time now under other avatars as it turns out. So "caught" is an interesting word. How about "Caught posting".

I won't ask how you know this and keep saying things like it, but I have some suspicions.....

It wasn't that long ago they caught some terrorists coming in who were planning on blowing up a major landmark like the Space Needle or alternatively the LA Airport. I realize that many folks can have a hard time keeping some of this inside their heads due to lack of space, but lets try a little harder next time OK? Anyone else besides me reading the recent Algerian news? Reference link. Because things have been taken care of by brave men and women who often do not sleep nights so that our liberty can be defended, some of you have no thought of any other thing ever occurring except for you continuing to live an existence like a rich mans cat. Yet if you were to think of it, the disasters that others could bring on to us could far outweigh what you could conceive in our worst nightmares.

Ya think? I have concerns about my brothers and sisters. They mean well, I know....sigh.

Flurpy is out too. read #3

Best response EVER! The "TRAD" chalkbag does have a zipper to keep a mini headlamp or some gu packets...or whatever stashed away.

Recently, I read that posing as the character Bruno the gay guy, Sacha Baron Cohen tricked the former head of the Mossad into an interview about the Palestinians that basically went crazy. This next movie coming up should be more of the same hijinks as Borat.

Nice pic PP, they could have used that set from Spinal Tap and saved some $ Damn that was an interesting part of that movie.

Damn that's rough. They outsourced your job to some contractors ....because...?, I can't believe they'd save that much money as fucked up as it's gonna get after you mis-train the new monkeys. We worked with a company which eventually just gave up trying to make a product at all in this country and subbed it out to China. When they were Mfg. they hired near non-english speakers, immigrants from other countries, into purchasing jobs as the could pay them @ 10.00 an hour. It cost them much much more than they ever could have imagined or save on the salary and kept the plant in continual turmoil and conflict. What a Fed up situation they created by trying to shave a buck. Good luck.

Beer holder? ding ding ding ding...we have a runner up. Close Angus.

I had my pretty baby blue "Trad" chalkbag on my side. Pricetag still attached. Anyone want to guess why it's a "Trad" chalkbag? Hint: Notice it's still closed, in the wrong location and unused. ps, I proposed a grade of 5.7, however, the debate still rages with 5.8 being proposed as well. We may settle for 5.7+ or 5.7 ++. That should get the blood flowing for some of you.

I did mention that I didnt send.... thats not real chestbeating lol Thanks for sharing the pic Marc! Good on ya for getting on it and going for the send too. ps - kev didn't mean that in anything other than a friendly way.

3.5 feet to the right of 2trad4u. Although the route is 100 percent gear, there are places you could reach left and casually clip a bolt on 2tard. We were laughing as it's an obvious and easy natural gear route which is a squeeze job next to the harder route that got bolted over a year ago. This is an outstanding route Ivan (which I suspect folks will be freesoloing soon). I went out last night after work and brushed down 2tard and Happy Crake as a final cleaning. There is still a real very fine dust which my wisk broom didn't get, but after I broomed it off I solo TR'ed both of them to make sure and they're all do-able and the holds are plenty clean enough to grab and have good feet on. It's all good, I need to relevel the base and they just need to get some traffic, in fact that entire area needs some traffic. I called Jim on the way in last night and told him so. Time to bring the secret gradually into the light, start sharing it with good and appreciative folks like Tim Holsher and John Frieh and that sort. I think Jim still needs a moment or 2 to digest that idea:-) A lot of the fellas who did so much work at Ozone had kids, jobs, moved or something else, so they don't show up any more or they go to Ozone. Some of the routes we cleaned out in spring already have vegetation on them.

Sharing some pics of Kyle Silvermans of me last Thursday when Kyle, Jim and I cut work early and were doing the First Ascent of Happy Crake 5.8 gear (pronounced Crack) at The Far Side. That's a gentle joke of mine as its the way Jimmy spells "crack". We got out there at @ 4:30pm, and it started lightly raining as we were visiting with each other. After @ 10 min of B.S.ing, Jim mentions that the light rain we were seeing must be the early rain which was slated for 7:30pm that night. I was soon speed racking, and we had no sooner all done it in the light rain and were back under the cliff, when the deluge started up. Poured hard all evening and night. We were soaked when we got back to the car. I apologize if the pics are dark, but that's why. It's an all gear climb. You could do it with all nuts. Or all cams to 1". Even a rack of offset Aliens would do the trick. Start of the picture sequence with Jims signature green helmet below. Kyle had rapped down on a separate line and was shooting about mid point. At my feet is my prybar used to pop off some blocks @ 1/2 way up. Notice the blocks I'm on? They are wedged in there, but not attached to the cliff in any obvious manner. The prybar didn't want to pop those out, probably a good thing as 2Tard4U has a critical bolt right behind me in that block that my heel is on. The crux was right above this Alien. How about the clothes? I took off my Ralph Lauren loafers, put on my rock shoes and fired. (Kyle did some pre-cleaning but it remained filthy, I'd already cleaned 3 days so far and you can still see the dirt. I've gotten out twice and cleaned it some more. Damn that's brutal work. My shoulders are trashed form the prybar action alone. Trashed. I can barely sleep it hurts so bad *cough*pussy noises*cough* Hopefully this pulls some of you out of spray to look at a pic or 3.

Happy Birthday Mel!