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Am I the only person here on Facebook? Scratch the word "kill" above and substitute anything anybody just did that they enjoyed...scratch yer ass, walk the dog, go to the store, etc etc etc. Check it out, called "Facebook". You'll be shocked. Pretty common thing it appears as Jayb says upthread. Ya can't make stuff like this up:-)

Nice! Darrels must have been so big he couldn't drag it out of da woods. Bar-B-Q at Darrel's house! Oly brings the beer, I've got the music covered. Whhoo- hoo, we're going to be listening to WHAM! - PS, nice to have the memories recorded from before you eat it as opposed to after you eat it, thus pictures.

The POS webbing was no match for you when you were pissed off and had a pair of vice grips crimped hard on it in yer hand. I would think that with a hammer and chisel, you can force this new system to work just as well.

Love the writing! Thanks for putting it down for us all!

No trip report? No worries. Chairs come and go. My brother said that when I die, he'll cement a real nice bench in down there with a memorial plaque on it something like Danny Wrights out at Smith Rock. Some favorite questionable people sitting in some (formerly) favorite questionable chairs.

Thank you for the heads up.

Click this Kevin: http://mapper.acme.com/ Once that's up, copy this: N 45.07837 W 122.11870 and paste it in the lower right hand corner to the left of the button that says "find". Then click "find". That's the location. On the upper right is a toolbar. I've found that Hybrid and Topo are a great way to perv out on the next weekend or years adventures while at work. The upper left hand corner has a handy zoom in or out feature.

I don't think that way. Of course, I ate half a box of Pillsbury cake mix with a soup spoon yesterday. After dinner. The whole time wishing I could stop and thinking: "how F**ing crazy is this?" Thanks for sharing the Whole 30 thing. I suspect that if (IF!!) I could only just quit sugar, I'd be way ahead. I have nothing derogatory to say about folks making the effort, it's awesome you all are grabbing the gusto: I do appreciate the stoke here. Thanks!

Says his old Harvard Professor. In other interviews he says that we shouldn't reelect him. (Like Romney is any different) The economic issues are explained here. The professor looks to be unhappy that a more progressive agenda wasn't followed. Worth the watch if you can stay awake :-) [video:youtube] The guys does say that the dems and repubs are basically the same. Something I've been feeling for quite some time. Same - same. Regardless of how you feel on the subject, it's pretty interesting spew with some gaps of specifics. As far as the Profs complaint that the stimulus was a bad idea, Bush had worked up that program, walked out the door and handed it off to the incoming dude who, only having one program/solution: expanded and executed it. I suspect jb won't even be calling the guy a "regressive shill. LOL.

Nice! Scotts looking for a partner to finish this route this weekend. Saturday is suppose to be spectacular weather. My shoulders out or I'd be there.

I would have had a "Party in My Pants" even without touching said reptile, and not a little one.

Earlier thread

Wowzer! Flung it? Wow

They were planning on 2 practice warm up laps and going for it Sunday. Han's got the block to Sickle Ledge and was up the 500 some odd feet in 16 min. !!! 16 min. Bill Wright reports that they timed 2:53:32 for their practice run. Unbelievable. Until this go round, the acronym everyone has used to describe this has been NIAD (Nose In A Day), Mark Hudon cracked this joke to better describe this effort: NIAFM (Nose In A Few Minutes) LOL!!!

Rescue happening now according to the radio. Anyone have any info? Hope it's along the lines of a twisted ankle and not something life threatening serious. Inadequate written version. http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Rescue-crews-headed-to-Mount-Hood-after-climber-fall-159030815.html At least it's great weather for a rescue operation today. They can get up there fast and safe.

Fantastic!!! Youse (honest) guys who reported them here instead of grabbing them rule!!!!

It's all about the money. Past examples of moves: Utah Jazz (formerly New Orleans- they ain't no jazz in Utah!) Los Angles Lakers (named for the state of 10,000 lakes, they ain't no lakes in So cal.) Before they were the Minneapolis Lakers they were the Detroit Gems. From Wiki: 1951: Tri-Cities Blackhawks (the "Tri Cities" area is now generally referred to as the "Quad Cities") moved to Milwaukee and became the Milwaukee Hawks. 1955: Milwaukee Hawks moved to St. Louis. 1957: Fort Wayne Pistons moved to Detroit. 1957: Rochester Royals moved to Cincinnati. 1960: Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles. 1962: Philadelphia Warriors moved to San Francisco. 1963: Chicago Zephyrs became the Baltimore Bullets. 1963: Syracuse Nationals moved to Philadelphia and became the Philadelphia 76ers. 1968: St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta. 1971: San Diego Rockets moved to Houston. 1972: Cincinnati Royals moved to a new primary home in Kansas City and a secondary home in Omaha, and became the Kansas City-Omaha Kings. The team ceased Omaha operations in 1975 and became the Kansas City Kings. 1973: Dallas Chaparrals moved to San Antonio and became the San Antonio Spurs. 1977: One year after the ABA-NBA merger, the New York Nets became the New Jersey Nets. Although the Nets moved within the New York metropolitan area, they dramatically changed their primary market within the area. When representing New York, they played in Nassau County on Long Island; their primary fanbase then shifted to New Jersey. 1978: Buffalo Braves moved to San Diego and became the San Diego Clippers. 1979: New Orleans Jazz moved to Salt Lake City. 1984: San Diego Clippers moved to Los Angeles. 1985: Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento, California. 2001: Vancouver Grizzlies moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Further information: Vancouver Grizzlies relocation to Memphis 2002: Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans. and of course, your beloved SuperSonics.

Can't say on that. Sent the link to Scott and Mikel. No way someone bought 4 new reds from Totem and didn't use them I'd bet. Bill

Sweet! http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/Mt_Adams_escape_map.jpg (Made linkable)

I saw that video of your start of the ground up first ascent of your new route on the North Face. Damned proud and bold stuff Scotty! The video sucked except for the parts of it where you are in the frame actually climbing, and that was the shit right there. You climb right through a little water fall at the start dancing on the knobs with yer rope running behind you ...I'm sitting watching it shivering...fear? Cold? Both perhaps. I tried to send the vid down to Adam and he couldn't see it, but I described it and he said pretty much what I just said above. We argued over the length of the route once you guys finish it. He's pretty sure it's going to be 400 feet of knobjobaliciouness, I'm thinking 250-300', but I'm sure you'll let me know once you finish it. Miker photo below of the 2 half crazed warrior clansmen, the Mcdonald and the Peterson clans united. Rick McDonald (left) Scott Peterson (right). It's cool that you named it after your late buddy and climbing mentor as well. "Brother Mike".

Like. And agree on that last part too. Lil kids these dayz are amazing. Yours is certainly at the top of that group, but lots of lil kids are "rocking the walls". We won't have to wait 10 years to see a lot of new crazy stuff get climbed I'd bet. ps - if you packaged and marketed the monkey brains, gibbon sinew, etc, you'd get rich for sure, the stuff seems to work.

John Long stopped suggesting using them in 1995 or so. Even beating your old Will Gadd post that dated from 1996 Drew. I suspect he's tossed that by now as well and is advocating just using the rope you are tied into. That is all he use to climb with when he was climbing. Pretty good thread here: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=729138&tn=0&mr=0 Rgold = Richard Goldstone. Largo = John Long

^^^THIS!^^^ Mugsy nails it, much faster and stronger than any cordelette. Not needed for belaying the 2nd on a long aid line. Fix and jug. Cordelettes can be real useful on long aid climbs where things get clustered up, but lots of real good aid climbers don't use them and don't want them. Mark Hudon, for instance, was recently pointing out that he has no use for them on hard El Cap routes and was showing pics of his clean looking anchors on Supertopo with just the rope and some butterfly knots. So what you are left with is that clusterfuckolettes really excel when you have multiple climbers, say, you and too many noobs. Then it's sweeter than ABS and safety belts together. IMO. Metolius makes one of the damned sweetest ones out there, as it packs down into a tiny pack you clip off to your harness for deployment, and is a badassed strong piece of webbing. Ya might choke on the price but it's real solid and worth the scratch, but if you re-read Blakes link upthread, you're back to trying to keep it simple. No clusterfuckolettes for me. Not one, and especially not 2. It's a personal choice for me. Folks can and will do what they wish of course. Good stuff.

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Great story(s) Bob, thanks for sharing it!