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Like bumper cars? Ha ha! I got my money on the cars. However, this seems to me that this may be another one of those things where you get a bunch of self-righteous asswipes together....and ..well... everyone is unhappy. Have to agree with Feck, the thing about the cyclists, you can have 99% minding their own business, and one jackass: and they all, due to the mass, get painted with the same Tarbrush. Big shock there?

My wife bought us all tickets, including my brother and his wife, as a gift. I thought this was pretty cool, I love basketball. You had to buy a packet of 4 games for $100.00 total. You got to watch 1 game of the USA dream team, and then the other 3 were other olympic teams. So Jas and I show up at the first game, and some strangers show up and sit in bros spot. WTF? Hmm, introduced ourselves and after a moment got the story from them. He'd sold 3 or the 4 games. BTW, surprisingly, I though Charles Barkley outplayed everyone else on the floor, and they were certainly arguably the most talented group of players ever assembled.

Wow, nice find dude! Thanks for sharing it too.

Good call. If everyone started writing congressmen and carrying saws, while NOT paying the fee. They would quickly get the message that we do not want nor need permission to walk on in or around the Kings Forest our own f*ing property.

Stainless steel only. Stainless wedge anchors work good. SS ONLY. The Collinox would work but for an existing route, you'd have to close it till the epoxy cured. "Original Routesetter?" What kind of gym inspired bullshit is that weakshit terminology? WTF?!Please, speaking for myself only, do not ever say that about me unless I'm dead and you can't just piss easily on my grave. Greg Barnes has some professional tuning forks for sale cheap. link to link I'd jump on that quick. edited to add a smile, it sounded like yelling up there but wasn't, although I'm serious.

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It seems to me that one possible better option is to just buy a $10 saw and saw the sign down. Don't just leave it laying there. God forbid we walk on our own property with out getting official permission first.

Thats it Jon, thats it! I like the 1-10 rating idea as well, where all of our peers can vote and thus continually sort them out. That way, that old Don Willians piece, despite the fact that he died 15 years ago, still breaths life. It may be a Trip report, but it may just be a great story that he heard about or even made up. I hate to see the time and energy Will and Ivan just spent on their writings just evaporate like dust in the wind. Furthermore, you'll most likely get more dudes like Kelly Cords and other hot young alpinists and climbers showing up and laying it down.

Ivan, I think it's damn funny you intentionally keep putting all the Beacon stuff in the "Oregon Cascades". Toooo funny! ps dudes, if you liked this story, read this: Giving stories like this legs Maybe add what your thoughts on that are to the thread?

Dude, you got some great witticisms! It happens all the time that I read some of your pearls and nuggets you scatter about and just crack up. Thank you

Nice. No new bolt if I get a vote. I don't clip the only one on that pitch as it is. But thats me. Sounds like a good day.

Judging from the way this thread is heading, it's gonna be "WAnker Wednesday" for sure. Now that I'm here, pretty much assured in fact. Sobo, I left the A in WAnker capitalized just for you. Night all:-)

It's not awesome or justice dude. It's damn sad. These folks tried to grab the damn American brass ring and fell off the horse just as they were touching it at least due to timing. Perhaps another era and they'd be multi-millionaires with this strategy. I'm glad I live where I have the freedom to grab that brass ring, but do not rejoice when others fail. Their lives are in a stressful and hellish ruins right now. Edited to add: unless they are a competitor, in which case I will rejoice and then piss on their graves while chanting "May all mine enemies go to hell Noel, Noel, Noel"

Yeah it would. OK, heres one that will elevate this site to the top of the heap, cost you nothing and make you world class. One thing I've noticed is that great writing can will and does just disappear as time continues. Heminfuckingway himself could write up a total classic story and it will eventually drift into the black hole of obscurity. Here's what you do. Like a poll where you can vote, you allow votes, one per person, on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best ever and 1 being it sucks. Then you place them so that any visitor can sort them and read them by author or by stars, still available using the search as well, but putting the good ones easier to find and read- on top. You are f*ing welcome! Ta da!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bone (faint reference and homage to Kevbone) voyage sir. When you return, check this one: Link to ws trip report.

Dude, I can't respond just yet the song is still rockin' "Well we all just wanna be big rockstars And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat" I never appreciated that song till now. Damn you write well Ivan, real real well. Jimmy has a great story about me doing the first pitch (I think that's now called the first 3 pitches in the guidebook but a single rope will reach) I love to hear. He's got another phenomenal story about a new route we did Saturday at a more remote location too. He doesn't like the internet spray though, so I'll let you ask him to recount it. I've had some great adventures with him, I'm so grateful. Come by Friday after work for a beer, burger and a movie. Mike too if he's not doing fatherhood duty. So reading between the lines there, CBR? Did Beacon Ben free that route after you cleaned it? Stout! Phillygoat! - dude, when you get here Friday, remember to pick up your Thighland climbing book. I bought a new one so I wouldn't stick your pages together, thanks for the loan too. Wife is making me go. Says I need to get out of the house, and insists I need to climb at Chang Mai to. Dude, you are a f*ing inspiration. I'll loan you a weapon next time you head out as long as you don't get too crazy.....oh wait, small chance of staying in control! Nevermind! What a classic tale. Did you read Wills story of Steck-Salethe? Holy crap dude, you got competition in the tales of woe and depravity category sir! You 2 nuts should do some climbing together. The write ups and the climbs would be insanely sick I'd bet.

Thats funny! ___________________________________________________________________ After reading what Will says, one can only think this classic saw applies: "good riddance to bad rubbish".

He was in town @ a week ago, nice to meet and get a TR lap in with him and his wife. Great folks. I suspect he's both too busy and too smart to get sucked into this dialog black hole.

Don't buy Petzl ropes either. BTW, wheres Powderhound with the classic "I told you so"? Hola David: looks like someone beat you to this!

Why "Whoops"? I thank you for tagging the link correctly:-). Given the dudes power, they don't usually prosecute a fella like this unless they are Damn Damn sure. So he's more guilty than not to start with. Still, should and will get a day (or month or OJ TERM), IN COURT. If nothing else, earmarks to Alaska and 2 billion dollar taxpayer funded bridges (funded primarily by us, by non-Alaskans) to a nearly uninhabited Alaskan island to get pizza delivery will hopefully slow down a bit. Thats a good thing for the taxpayers in every OTHER damn state of the Union.

It's true I clip most of the ones I encounter! edited to add...%@#^&x@!

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If true, then everyone should be doing it. asswipe link story "Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii, who is the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee and a friend of Mr. Stevens, said that “he is innocent until proven guilty.”" true dat as well.

Don must really have me on ignore! This is his industry and field of expertise.

One way to get some: