billcoe

Are you just f*ing with us ignorant yokels agin? Really?

I suspect that 6" is dependant on how you measure it Ivan. It's been so long since I've done it I don't even remember. Besides - 5" is the new 6"

I've seen him in a convertable T-bird and a convertable 'Vette. Not a dirtbag car, and he was getting attractive women into those vehicals too, also not a normal dirtbag activity.

And don't even get me started about sleeping on heating grates on the street down town in the winter... As the rain is slowly soaking your blanket...

You do need the right woman eh? _____________________________________________________________ BTW, Beckey has already won 2 lifetime achievement awards in this catagory, Tex grew up, it's time for some new nominations. And it aint me baby, cause I was hitchhiking to Yosemite right as my daughter was born. Just getting there had sucked and that doesn't include the 25 hours stuck in Yreka, until I finally got off the on ramp and hit the main freeway, right in front of the CHP shoppe there or the big gay logger guy who picked me up in his pickup truck next and offered to felate me and would give me a ride to Yos. if I said yes. He had plenty of good straight porn scattered around the truck and tried to get me interested in it undoubetedly so that I would get as aroused as he was obviously was ... Mayhaps I should have reconsidered as it was at least 4 or 5 more cars and 2 more days to get there, including one fella so drunk that he couldn't see the road, but at that point I was getting almost desparate enough to start hoping that the gay logger would reappear with the offer and wasn't giving up on the drunk till he got me down the highway.....anyway. I slept in a field just outside of Sacramento. The ants I'd rolled out on the night before woke before me, and unlike our gentle fun loving Pac NW ants, which are kind and peaceful, these MFers are agressive like most Califonians and love to bite you on the neck, which is not condusive to good sleeping, and then have the termidity to stink like formic acid and leave pincers in your skin when you swat them. So it went like this: Bite swat...start to sleep....bit swat....start to drift off.....bite sleep....The SOB that finally woke me right up from my exaustive unproductive sleep, bit my left testical harder than I can describe, and in my not awake condition I smacked it hard, which both doubled me up and woke me up straight away in agony. Within 30 min of the ants, the bulldozers and earthmovers which had been parked quietly like good neighbors the previous evening started into turning this field into what it was to become - a strip mall. Turns out in Calif: money talks and bullshit walks. As I'm walking I START TO GET PISSED, I MEAN REAL PISSED, DEEP DWOWN INSIDE DON'T HAND ME A GUN RIGHT NOW PISSED: and said to myself: I wish I had $20,000 to walk into any car lot I see and just buy a MF GD CAR! Well, it didn't take long: I can pretty much do that with most cars anywhere in the world where I might spy one or need one now, and the moral is: dirtbagging sucks. Money talks - bullshit walks. My truism for the day. No extra charge.

Still raining.....sigh.

Nah, this guys like a real man. He'd just most likely kick my ass and call me a pussy again. Read James Michners great book: "The Drifters". Think: the Tech Rep character.

"Brohams = a close buddy, compadre, smoking and/drinking buddy. a term of endearment between men to reaffirm heterosexuality" ahhhh, Ok, consider this a re-affirmation.

Yeahhhh: straighten up and get yer ass to work ya lazy slacker. Here's an idea to implement: link the TR's to the route database, so that any jackass like Moi can hit it as a quick link when they are pulling up a route. Furthermore, better than listing TR's as most recent: let your customers rate them with stars or a scale from 1-10, and put the best TR's on top with the ones that suck on the bottom. Your TR's will get better as a result as well. There is of course, no charge for this information as usual Porter. Have a nice day!

JON....TIMMMMAY...got yer ears on?

I was climbing with the last surviving First Ascentionist in Yos a couple of months ago. (Dean Fry, the other FA, died in a car accident in like 73 or 74) . Damn, I could have asked for permission. (Borat voice:) NOOOOOT!

I was there last Sept. /Oct for my lil Bros 50th birthday. He wanted to be standing ON the North side of Everest ON his birthday and by God there we were under an almost full moon on that date. PS, Older bros. 40th was the hike up above Namche to Basecamp on the other side.

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Thank you Sir, I accept your kind offer for beer! This particular story may take up to 3 beers to finish. Those of course would be for you so you can anesticise yourself as I drone on and on, although I can put most to sleep via voice only, without the beer! May I add that anyone kind enough to buy me beer is regarded much like the tribemen of the forests would regard a person who dropped down into the jungle in a helicopter. With awe, high regard (and a touch of suspicion) Especially if the beer is Black Butter Porter or similar! May I also add, that I do not believe any of us though MR would check out so soon. Like Reardon, since none of us gets out of here alive, some sooner, some later, I think it's a good opprotunity for each of us to reflect on whats important: to us: and to also treat our brothers with a touch more humility, respect and kindness. As trite and as corny as that may sound. There but for the grace of God go I..... Thanks again Eric: now I think I'm off to the Infinite Bliss slugfest thread.

"Gravity, it's not just the rule, it's the LAW" How about a pic of a climber on a cliff and a computer merged together.

hey, who turned the rain on?

Sounds like it. Grapevine: He was on the right side of Free for All - 5.8. Had a cam in and decided to hang on it. Pulled. Wishin him a fast recovery. added: If he wants to do it again, he can run it out, say a prayer and try not to fall like everyone else, or he can borrow my tube chocks or Big Bros. Like Kevin said earlier - he's led the left side maybe 50 times, the right side once. Hope this was not as bad as it sort of is sounding ..

*cough*pussy*cough* Kidding. One of the problems with or sport is the constant reminders of our mortality via the little continual aches and pains. Hey Geoff, sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to Tim couple years back (Crackman) when he was out with me after work doing laps on Toothpick. As a result of that experince I resolved to never tell someone that route is 11a again just because it seems that way to me when the book list it at 11c or whatever they say. I hope I wasn't sandbagging you, cause if I was I apologise, I don't want to do that, even unintentionally. Hope you heal soon. If you can still belay, why not show up tomorrow and hang out @ 5:30pm, you guys make the call on the area. BTW, I went out this weekend with Stan Miller and we climbed until I was whimpering and then he kept at it. I think I sometimes do that with folks. I was telling him it reminded me of a young labrador: get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball, hey get the ball get the ball toss the ball get the ball get the ball throw the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball toss the ball..till ya finally just toss the ball into the neighbors fenced backyard and call it a day. He's like jabbering about hey if I get a few more pitches in thats like 20 for the weekend with you ha ha and I'll be pretty tired and we're gonna be done by noon today aren't we is this really 12a wheres the pro how do you lead this that pin isn't at a natural stance and if you miss the clip you deck and how come theres no chalk up there and all that moss how bout a belay hey Bill where does the route go on the upper part do you use that block I'll TR it and we can see whats up and then we can throw the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball get the ball toss the ball..... Damn he's strong...quiet the inspiration, great guy to boot, perfect belays. Got to hang with Ujahn for a lot of it too. Anyway, I need to try and stay in shape to keep up with those dudes. Tomorrow at 5:30pm, where do we meet? Ooo oo ooo, "The Plum" looks like this: 3 Ujahn pics of the start, middle, near the top: Does my ass look big in that last pic? Oh nevermind, dems just Hexes.

Bumped into Rudy and the lil fella a year ago (I think) at Smith. Lil guy was following Wartleys at 11b.

Stoke stoke stoke! Sweet stuff Bryan. BTW, I trundled something that looked just like that pic there. Slightly smaller. It didn't topple straight out like I anticipated, and almost took out my brand new 70M rope which was on the ground at the next route over.

Got in 2 days of pretty good routes. Nothing big, just fun. Beacon, Ozone, Butte. You? (thought this site needed a climbing pic, this one was by Ujhan, look, no visible bald spot, double chin or beer gut!)

Sad: Damn sad. I would never have expected this - bet Reardon didn't either. I had something like this happen in Hawaii to me. Praise be that the water was warm and not debilitating or I'd still be floating over there as Shark Bait. As it was, clawing my way out of the water onto a cliff was not easy as the waves continued to slam me. The wave action was reminicent of a very violent brawls I've been in. I mean, I've been in some big time fist-fights, you know, where you wake up in the hospital from a coma unable to speak after you had been duking it hard with 5 or 6 assailants, so you gut one with a knife and one of the many asshole friends coldcocks ya from the side with a beer bottle then the rest pounce and kick the shit out of your unconcious body. The one thing that surprised me last Hawaii trip is how close I came to this feeling: like almost literally getting my neck broken and pretty shook up. Signifigantly different than being on sand and riding the gentle waves up and in. This was AFTER being warned twice by locals about this kind of stupidity (ie, swimming off the rocks and picking Opeehie with your back to the ocean kind of thing). Reardon left a big time legacy.....most unfortunate.

I'll take the Trango Cinch for $40. How do we make a deal? I'd like to paypal and give you my shipping address. BTW, I might take the rockcentrics if the price is right, how much do you want for them?

I just went to add something to that database. I had put a couple of earlier routes on it. Wondering what you all think about that site? CC.com doesn't try and do the same thing, ie have a massive database of routes. Obviously they are going to make a buck on the routes we add, but we can also peruse the database for knowledge, and new routes are easy to get beta. Thoughts: Link

Nice call. Any English-speaking Sherpa will reiterate this feeling. They do not understand why we go over there, decrying them damming a river so that a few impoverished people can get 30 amp service and a huge improved quality of life to their homes. Yet these very same assholes telling them to stop daming the Nepalese rivers for electricity will not tolerate less than a 200 amp service and every damn expensive electric gadget known to God and man in their own homes, even if it means killing salmon or a coal fired plant. It's all a bunch of thoughtless big mouth hypocrytes and I'm not any better than the next person except I try and not tell the Nepalese how to do it.