billcoe

Listen up you dumb motherfucker, show it to your supervisor all day long you can go pissup a rope jackass. The sooner we defund all your obnoxious ass's so that the people can get back to running things - you high handed pricks will learn to Shut the fuck up and leave good people alone and the better off our country will be. You take our hard earned money and toss it in the toilet like you're King George the third and it's your God given right. WELL IT ISN'T! Go get real jobs and work an honest day work for an honest days pay instead of generally just being unproductive leeches sucking our life's blood and just being acrimonious, lazy, bitches. Assholes As it's your first post, maybe we need to give you a pass. You got a name you dickless wonder, or should we trace it through the internet registration?

Funny stuff! Ever hear your buddy Josh go off like Bush? Funniest damn thing ever!

You're my belayer then! Yeahhhhhh! See you at the location of your choosing. Just say it and it's your's. I've got some finger issues, so I'm not pulling real hard....(this is my pre-lap pussy noise wimpering alert)

Over 92400 page views on this thread! I was walkin' on snow yesterday, no ice tools needed though. Some of you folks need to less browsing and more pulling!

What are you folks thinking about some cush lush laps after work Tuesday at the butte? Maybe @5:30 tuesday. Shade, cool, laps, friends.....

I might be in for some after work laps at the butte tomorrow if you don't get anyone interested today Geoff.

and a representation of the tree may be similar to this:

Thank God you were not "bolting" asleep. No bolts. 4 routes no bolts. Left some rap rings, 3 to get down off the one route, then we just rapped off a final tree sans ring for the steep dirt class 3 approach pitch. This is what that might look like if we'd had a camera.

I apologies for injecting climbing into a gay thread. And now, back to our regularly scheduled banalities. BTW, needed the camera for the new backpack pics too. Shit. But this is what the label of that beer looks like.

Pictures or it didn't happen. there was witnesses! 4 FA's at 2 different areas. Hardest was freeing an aid line at 5.11 (OK, I followed and the guy who led it said it was 5.10 -hah! We know 5.10 and that wasn't no 5.10, the 5.9 one WAS 5.10 and I'm not kidding), easiest 5.7 at almost 300 feet of near perfect fucking granite like andesite....hey? We're in spray right? OMG, where is this post? Oh yah, it's in spray ....sprayahhh, yup, whew- I'm good then: OK here ya go, 5.11 blah blah blah and the best MF 5.7 EVER bitches, and a blah blah 300 feet of total cruise with a piece right where ya need it 45 min from town blah blah B..E..S...T.......E...V...A....R...! Named it the SE corner. Fresh springwater at the base and scariest mT Lion in the world prowling the jungles while 4 eagles fly overhead blah blah spray spray those MF banks, kick their asses Scott! I know I didn't dream this cause I bolted awake with a massive thigh cramp that is still sore, and every bone in my body still hurts today.

Did I miss the trial?

Yeah, still better than sitting at home watching paint dry. The road to the trailhead was washed out, so in lieu of hauling a bunch of water in, I dumped all but a smattering out knowing there was a year round spring at the base I could camel up before launch sequence was initiated. We hike the road to the trailhead, then this slow process occurs where we end up sawing, dragging deadfalls and hacking to get all the shit that blew down over the winter off the trail. This added to the time and the tiring effects, coupled with me being an obvious out of shape older gumby, that by the time I'm searching around for the second pitch tossing the moss and choss while trying not to kill my belayer, in full on mid-day heat and strong sunshine, I can feel the familiar twinge of a heat exhaustion headache coming one. I'm silently praying that I can find a route, get some pro, make it to the top and down before Mr. nausea and Mrs. puking arrives pre-incapacitation. As I'm tying a runner and a ring around the first of the 3 or 4 trees we rapped off of to base out, my arms were cramping so bad I could barely hold them up to tie a water knot. But it worked out great as it turned out. My next pee (much much later) was yellower than a legal tablet. Fuck I wish I'd had my camera this weekend, I could have had a pic of some yellow florescent pee for you all.

Maybe real soon FF. Short version. I met Graham after a last min call for a beer Friday night at Bridgeport. He drug a bunch of packs in. Needless to say, I almost had spontaneous emission when I saw the prototype of the new Big Wally. (any name suggestions, click on Cilogears site and post it on Grahams site here: Grahams Cilogear blog with pack updates until then, I'm going with "Crack Sack"). As all of the other packs were stuffed inside of it, so it was easy to spot! First: my bad - did not have my camera. Sorry. (Another reason to have Joseph there). Graham went over it with me detail by detail and I'll describe the parts I remember. The first thing you notice about the Crack Sack is that the materiel is not just a different color, going from Black to a light tanish, but is different texture (and heavier) as well. Ray Olsen, the packs original designer, said that he had chosen that Cordura as it was heavy duty, but carried better on your back than haul bag material. As Ray had designed the early Chouinard Crag sacks that still sell on E-Bay for over $300 before he went to work for Gregory, he knows this stuff like a teenage boy knows his dick - very intimately. This stuff is heavier than the old cordura Gregory utilized, but definitely not haul bag material. This looks, to me, to be the best of both worlds. In an era of use it, toss it and buy new,: this will likely never be worn out in a persons lifetime unless they are hauling it up lots of walls. Thankfully, the size and construction is faithfully reproduced. Anyone who had a Big Wally will instantly recognize the "Crack Sack". The prototype Crack Sack had a big wall style closure on top. I think I liked the old version better and relayed that to Graham. Nat having stuffed it full, his might be "a better way", I can't say for sure. He had given some thought to the attachment of the shoulder staps. The top appeared very similar, it didn't use the velcro overlay stuff on top, and the lower attachment points were significantly beefer to spread the forces out. The proto didn't have it, but the final version will have a small zippered closer inside for your keys, and a waist belt that is Velcro'd on, but should be as easy or easier to yank before you use it to haul. The top is identical, keeping the single buckle of the original, but the inside strap, utilized for strapping down a rope (or another backpack for me once) was lengthened. The old thermoforged plastic which was riveted on, is replaced with a flexible PTFE that slides into a pocket, it will be hydration bladder compatible, and have a place to slide in and then forget your guidebook ( I did this once and learned to my chagrin 2-1/2 days later on the top of 1/2 Dome that we'd been carrying the %$@X entire new hardcover Yellow Meyers book all the way up @%& !). Once of the more significant changes is the addition of an internal strap which will serve to cinch the load closer to your body and which Graham assures me will change the carrying characteristics, making carrying much better. As he's been making high end alpine packs carried by some of the top alpinists in the world, and certainly knows his way around the world of pack design, I believe him. From what I can see, on a point by point basis, he has improved this pack from it's great original design. All that remains is if, when one stuffs too much heavy shit in it, it carry's well. Next time (if there is one) I hope I can hear from Graham early enough to call a pub club and then you all can show up. I really wanted Joseph there, but didn't have any time. Graham called and said " Hi- I'm in town, can you meet?" Bam! I immediately squirreled out of work and we were tossing down pints just that fast. Anyone still awake after all those words is going to get the real interesting news now. Cilogear will be making 3 sizes of rockclimbing packs! A small crag sac, and a 30-40L sac as well. Hopefully, the focus on a mid range size would be to make a size that is exactly the max that will fit on an airplane carryon for those dudes and dudettes jumping on a plane to get a Yos or Red Rocks pump, but want to carry on their gear so it doesn't get lost or ganked by the airlines. I don't think that niche has been exactly addressed yet, and the market is there for sure. Anyway, good morning to all, I was too busy this weekend to get this up on the site, showing up at the house dead tired in the evenings both days. I got some good climbs in!

You been eating those tomatoes again? Puke it up and get it over with. I ate a bunch of raw Buffalo Sat night, and Sunday my guts seemed like they were in pain. Then the wind started to fly and it felt... SO. MUCH. BETTER! For me I mean, not for my climbing partner sharing the belays. I was feeling for him (but still happy at the same time) Every time I'd rip another one, I'd sing out in a musical falsetto voice, "I feel betterrrrrr". .....The hills truly were alive, with the sound of music. Good luck. Get well.

Despite the fact that I subscribe to the Royal Robbins school of thought that it's what is inside of your head that keeps you safe, and not whats on it when you are cragging. For rockfall areas (or beer bottle fall zones like Rocky Butte) , I recently bought 2 Skateboarding helmets for like $14 each. Like em, fit great and are soooo comfortable! As they are designed to take a side or back slam, that's good I think. The shit I was knocking off yesterday would have squished any kind of helmet and killed ya anyway, not having a helmet makes you super-sensitive to that fact, and you consciously do traverses and belay from alcoves and overhands etc etc. Having a helmet can and often does subconsciously make some folks feel that they have that covered -so they are not seeking out natural shelters: when they are so totally fucked anyway if a big rock hits them. Additional- this is the kind of cool knarly schwag which can give you big cred with the kids as you do big airs. This is the 2nd time this am I've used that word. Hmmm. I do have a Petzl Elios too, it's OK, but nothing to write home about.

Ditto on that for sure. PS, my phone sucks: short version, give Kyle a call.

You're up aweful early BTW. I did new knarly awesome route yesterday, woke up with every known, and a few unknown muscles as well, screaming at me this am. Limped downstairs and made coffee, Here I am. Man I ache.

(side note) Man, I saw the title and thought this was about Rubber Boas. Ujahn and I found one in So. Washington last year that looked like it was getting it's fair share of mice. BTW, US Bank had a division called the "New Products" division. Their entire mission was to institute fees on existing services an see if there were any services which they were not doing could be instituted and have fees added too. Banks generally suck donkey balls, until you need them and they need you: then they rule. Good luck with the issue!

Thinking to myself "Say Infinite Bliss".... "Say Infinite Bliss"..... "Say Infinite Bliss"..... "Say Infinite Bliss"..... "Say Infinite Bliss".... "Say Infinite Bliss is on my wish list"......

One of Powderhounds new routes! "A squat flat-top tower neighboring the Whistlepig." LInk Coming soon, "Tauntaun direct"?

"I'm one of the few men in the city that has nothing wrong with him". Uhhh, Ok.

Because this is an interracial dry hump and thats 2 white guys touching each other? .........not that there's anything wrong with it....

Hi JH, Rudy started it for himself quite some time ago but just posted the results in spray a bit ago.(Looks like Wills been doing it for a bit as well). Thought this was a better, more permanent forum.

Date Weight 6/27/08 164 6/20/08 167 Bring yours

Not just typical Liberal self-loathing then...hmmm, congrats.