billcoe

damn - son of a bitch...this filthy mouth thing must be contagious! Hola fuckheads!

Last time I was in China, there were less bicyclists than here where I live. Cars baby - cars. They have has some spectacular, as in multiple days, gridlock though. They lead the world in gridlock I'd suppose:-) To all you dicks being rude pricks to FW, hey, if you have to resort to name calling - your point is weak and isn't worth a shit. Jim, I can relate to the dude. Saw a fella endo during the last "bridge pedal". They close all the bridges to cars and 13,000-15,000 bikes all go for a morning cruise over them. Good times for sure for 99.9% of us. See, in this instance they'd replaced ALL of the damn grates but 2 with bike friendly grates, and with wall to wall folks, well, some kids bike tire went in and he went for the ride. He got lucky, probably only a broken scapula and bike which can be replaced. We have responsibility in that. Fairweather, would you trade the 8 mil for a wheel chair? Me either. - there isn't a price on your health when you get right down to it, but lots of kids are risking a lot more for a lot less in Asscrackistan right at this instance. Ain't no million dollar payday when it goes bad for them. But then again, they're not lawyers. Regards to all, even you filthy mouth bastards.

Been there done that old newz...yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/984653/Libertarians_On_The_March#Post984653

On the money.. shame to lose a good one, and I don't mean just climbing ability.

Well, and they were finally able to get rid of the only black male on NPR too...of course, that makes the whole "lets preach diversity thing" much more difficult though.....Hmmm. well, it never stopped most republicans from being hypocrites and preaching morality to the rest of us, they might as well openly join the club.

If you get 2 clear days in a row consider going and putting up a new route up the front face of the Steeple. 250-280' of unrelenting knobiliciousness. Someday there will be 13-20 routes on that thing whereas right now there is but a single, easy one. The rock is noticeably harder and less friable as well. The top: knobiliciousness...route name? hmmmmm.......

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1302372/Joe-Puryear-killed-in-Tibet More info. Take care Graham....

Dane posted that Joe Puryear passed away up in the climbing forum.... http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/984836/Joe_Puryear_RIP#Post984836 Sorry to hear it. Take care Graham.

I must have missed something...why is that funny? I would think it borders more towards horrifying than humorous. Speaking of attention whores: J Edgar Hoover living with a man all of of his life, maybe actually dressing up in women's clothing all the while while blackballing gays in the FBI and blackmailing political figures for lesser sexual offenses: that could be construed as funny. I could get that. Whats the story? Why the funny icon?

Though Prole would need to see this, heading to court as a civil rights violation. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101027/ap_en_mo/us_people_sacha_baron_cohen

yes you do yes you do

Shit, Dr Martin Luther King gets executed by the US Government with CIA and FBI involvement and you think this attention whore getting pushed to the ground is front page news. It's probably cause he's black I bet, and she's white. Nothing to see here, LOOK, an attention whore! Over there, Look! OMG! an attention whore! Hope she's OK! Does she climb? NO? It's OK, shes white, lets all do a drum circle and protest this act of extreme violence. OMG!

We read the posts to that link. Stop it Drew: We see right through this. We may be Americans, but we're not as stupid as you think. _________________________________________________ Ha ha Steve! When your eyeballs start hurting cause the nads are pressing up there it's probably time to re-appraise the direction of your life. That is, they've up gone up into and and past your throat and are then trying to hide in your eyesockets or your brain.... it's bad. I gave that shit up and am looking for solid rock to get my head back. Even Smith seems sooooo solid. LOL! ps, anyone want to see some empty bolt boxes? AKA, how I spent my summer vacation.

NOT!

There's room for bolted routes and X rated routes and everything in between in this game. Diversity is good. Cracks. Face. Knobs. Friction slabs. It's all good. Except for thin chimneys and offwidths for fat people like me. They suck. Bad. And steep sharp painful cracks, those suck too ........... unless you are in shape and then they rule.

No Mikel, but there were a couple of marginal ones where the Totem and an offset Alien held but everything else didn't. Plaidman (Scott Peterson) is still quite enamored with them.

Shite, that sucks but in my hood that don't qualify as a "beat down". You need tazers, plungers, police, 9mm's, a curb stomping or 2 and pit bulls before anyone notices. We've come a long way since the tar and feather days of Colonial times. What's the blond wig thing that just randomly pops in there in the video? What's that about? I don't have any sound, so I'm just looking at the picture.

TIMMM....MMMM....BBBBBBBBB........EEE...RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Last time I was out at Beacon, Jim and I were going to do a corner lap. We stopped and looked at the East Side overhangs mostly to catch our breath I suppose. Jim says: "You got 3 routes here"... I'm like "Really?" "Yup"... "Well I don't remember any"....he kind of chuckles and goes "Remember The Alan Lester Memorial Hiking Trail"? ... I was going to say no, what a dumb name. Then I remembered Gary and Bob letting me lead it (ground up, no bolts although I left a Leeper Z piton fixed on it somewhere) and naming that right after Alan Left the area. Good guy. Nice to see he's still a Mensch. I couldn't get up it today. Unless Alan led and I followed. Funny how his name has come up twice in such a short time. Southern Belle, that's bad assed on a whole nother level.

I'm not sure that consensus was reached even amongst each individual:-) For instance, although I felt that Splitters generally hold poorer than everything else we had in acceptable placements: it was interesting that Scott found a placement where ONLY the Splitter cam would hold on 2 lobes that NOTHING else, I mean nothing as in: Totem, WCZero's, Alien, Metolius Mastercam, Wired Bliss, Metolius offset tcus, Alien and offset aliens would hold. Nothing held but that single Splitter. (It was too large for the c3 to fit, but I feel certain it would not have held either.) Go figure. Overall, as far as the Totems went, certainly taking the smaller Yellow Totem along to fit in those smaller spots on the narrow end of the spectrum where the Purple did compare to the Silver/Red Offset Alien was a good idea as Mikel suggested. Yet in my mind nothing outperformed the offset Aliens....They'd stick in fairly fast and consistently, but if you worked and fiddled we always (except once) got the Totem to stick if the Offset Alien stuck. For stickablity, it often came down to the individual placement. Occasionally one cam would whomp, fit right in, and the next ones wouldn't...then, bam, next placement they would reverse. I might rate the cams best to worst, but I'm not sure how fair that would be because as noted, Splitters would be on the bottom and then there's the instance where the damn Splitter is the only cam that held. The moral of the story is that if you are going to head up say...El Cap: don't take doubles of the same cam, or triples of the same cam. Take 2 (or 3) differing brands so that if the C3 doesn't stick, then the Zero doesn't stick, the Mastercam will, or the other way around. In fact, the Splitters, which I wouldn't want on my rack for freeclimbing, would go higher on the list for aid, especially pin scars. The issue is further complicated in that the largest C3 stops at a fairly small size, while the Totems are more of a full spectrum size range cam. I'm heading down to Red Rocks at the end of the week, taking the Totems of course. Partner coming out from Colorado insisted and I'm not into disappointing buddies. Frankly, Totems are a nice cam with a real good range. I would not expect them to the best seller out there. For myself, Metolus cams rock, when you plug them in they stick and hold your ass. Camalots are sweet too and the price is right for these cams. I'm looking forward to Vegas and need to get on the easier routes. When I can get up it at all, I've been getting my ass handed to me on steeper stuff at Smith and Trout Creek last 2 weekends.

This. As far as the "Oh I'll just mozey off down the road and camp on other BLM land" folks, good luck, if they can make this bullshit stick, I'd expect that "no camping" on BLM land administrative rules and "no parking" signs will be the next thing you see. Seriously. If the issue was truly just this little piss hole, no worries. But it's not.

Let us know what the upshot of the deal is will you? Looks sweet! (Scary too:-)

You need to turn off the fair and balanced channel and turn on the Hope and Change channel. It's just your perception, nothing in reality has changed. Same as it ever was. Same same. That's all.

Woot! Check this out...ballet on a bike. http://wimp.com/bmxtricks/

Lasagna? WTH is that? I couldn't go with it. I think you would have gotten more votes with ..."meh"...