billcoe

Whoa: full value day! Thanks for the look at it too.

Dude! You got a book? Damn, now, you AND Chongo both have books! Who knew? Link to Chongos book list

I think that's pretty good advice for a beginning (1st post no less) advice columnist! Bravo! BTW, I'll be copying and pasting this for Pope later when he gets his panties in a bunch again if that's OK with you.

Agreed. One can't help but notice the irony: GOP post-surge withdrawal timeline = Mission Accomplished. DNC post-surge withdrawal timeline = Admitting Defeat. Sorry dude, but what planet are you from if you think that the Iraqis, who are driving this, are either Republican or Democrat. You should read the artical you linked, it's interesting.

Good news all the way around. Last I saw, it's still their country. They have their own constitution you know. It's difficult to accept good news, but lets not look this gift horse in the mouth hey? Per artical. "What's changed? The sharp reduction in violence in Iraq - to the lowest level in four years - has made the country's leaders increasingly confident and more assertive about its sovereignty, giving rise to demands for a specific plan for American forces to leave." "So far, the United States has handed control of 10 of 18 provinces to Iraqi officials."

Yes it must be the middle part of the sequence. 1) Spray about the secret place on the net. 2) Have it picked up en mass by the pleebes, dicks and asswipes. 3) Either lament the closure, or reminisce about the old days before the government got involved and started dogging everyone and charging for parking. #2 commencing.

I totally agree with your first post David. I think you'll find it even more true as you get older:-) I sure do.

Update: Sorry, couldn't do it. Still a need there, anyone else ?

7/03/08 166 6/27/08 164 6/20/08 167 7/18/08 164

Not weird at all. You ever see Hodads planting trees? BTW, I fully expect this to be the most viewed thread on CC.com if you add a few more pictures.

Ditto, and I was going to tell my own wasp story how Wasps and rappelling don't mix but will lead to over 300 stings: no need now.

Not necessary at all unless you eat Kosher or vegetarian!

Oh!

For Bolt replacement. link

Love that, come along with Eldiente and me sometime then, your racks.

""The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Gore said in a speech during an energy conference in Washington. "The future of human civilization is at stake." Gore, who was Bill Clinton's vice president, called for the kind of concerted national effort that enabled Americans to walk on the moon almost 39 years ago..." You disagree with this?!

BTW, 2 of those are 7.8 Metolius twins. 1 is a 9.1, 1 is a 70m 9.4 and the rest of them are rock climbing lead ropes. Oh, I let out my snow rope to Ujahn so he could do Hood. So add another rope there. I also have a 7mm trail line does that count? I don't buy every rope I post, I put it here so that my brothers can be schwinging on new cord.

I have 3 hanging off a remote cliff. 2 in my car. 4 in my basement and one on order. You got a calculator?

pftt, I'll have my hair oil free by them.

*Leading a new route at Elgin Wall @31-32 years ago, (1976) rattlesnake rattled right in the face as my face cleared a ledge. Dropped down and downclimbed. *New route at Rocky Butte, was top rope soloing up to pull a loose rock I'd missed on rap off, it came off easy enough, and I'd stepped up to a stance and was standing there looking up and around, feeling like the movement was so good of a feeling that I should just finish to the top, when I hear a hissing right to the left of my crotch. A bat had been under that flake and it was ANGRY! I almost pissed on myself. * I had considered doing what appeared to be a perfect line, ground up, couple months back. Instead, I cautiously rapped and tossed rock on the line just to the East of it. After I cleaned and led that one, went up and traversed over to my original route which I'd passed on, and after a short bit of shoveling work, exposed a boulder which my earlier perception from below had caused me to believe was part of the wall, but was in fact a detached boulder about 7 feet across, 6' high and 2-3 feet deep. It came off shockingly easy, swept the route and took out a few trees as it cascaded down the hillside below. It would have killed me had I stepped on it via a ground up ascent. Biggest was the snake. And the guy who had his rope break on rappel, that was a close second.

Bingo, it's all about controlling you, the user, and ensuring that they have these bullshit make work government jobs in the future. We should simply sidestep all this bullshit by firing them now and encouraging them to get real jobs and do real, (as opposed to government make work)work. Thats my thoughts.

From your new post looking for a large one FatTexan, can we assume it's NOT a large?

Came today: stiffest rope EVER. Well, at least since the big wall Chouinards that the were making extra stiff for jugging back in the late 70s-early 80's. My opinion anyway. I'll be out at the Butte tonight if anyone wants to fondle it, it is a pretty blue color. I will most likely only be using it to fix for cleaning new routes at The Far Side, Jimmies, Bill's Wall, Lemolo Point, Granite and Cathedral. Be perfect for it. Lemolo is a Chinook word for Stone. There, ya learned something new.

Schweet, if we ever climb together lets use your rack Nate! Good point there on the price of gas though. If I was broke I'm sure I'd look at it differently. Folks should always offer to replace it in my view, and the partner can be magnanimous if they want based on their attitude, individual finances and gear stock or what the piece was or it's age and condition. Haven't dropped anything that wasn't mine for a long time as I usually use my rack anyway, and I don't stress when someone else drops my stuff cause it happens so rarely. Ujahn led a pitch and way overcammed a brand new #4 4th gen Camalot: stuck solid in one of the Epinephrine chimney spots last time we did it. He was saying several times "I knew I overcammed it, I'll get you a new one" and I was saying each time "Nah, it's OK" as I was working on it for 15-20 min. Finally I gave up, maintaining that it was OK to leave if necessary, assuring him he didn't have to replace anything and lowered him down anyway for a shot and 10 min later -POP! out she finally came. Now my piece looks like it's been used- but isn't beat up, and for that I'm grateful to the man. BTW; the new Metolius 4 cams units, the Mastercams, look like they get stuck easier than any other cam out there. (IMO). Joseph got one stuck solid on a new route, theres one stuck in Cruisemaster, and I almost stuck the blue in Young Warriors last Sunday as well. (Lotta work for my second to get out).

I'll be up to boulder tonight @ 5:30pm and will climb with anyone interested in getting some laps. Let me know. (John: Phylyx?) If no one is in Blueberry area I will spray it at the end of the day, if you don't like that idea, go pull the shit right now with your hands as I'm only hitting Poison Oak that is on the trail and on the crack at the top of Blueberry.