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My understanding is that UHMWPE doesn't have any natural resistance to UV light. Various coatings are applied to protect it.

I'd like to check that out too. Exit 38

Sounds good. Glacier, are you in?

A lot of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases are more common in the absence of parasitic infections. Parasites trigger a cytokine that suppresses another cytokine that is assoicated with inflammation. Growing understanding of this process may eventually lead to treatments that don't involve worms.

That explains why you didn't want to lead the last 5.10b crux pitch. I wouldn't have if I'd just lead 19 pitches.

Wow. Nice full day of climbing. Was your friend maybe a little bit tired?

UE is ten pitches. That means it took eleven pitches to get to the upper apron?

Sheep as billboards

How about the jingling of big hexes?

There are several new routes at Playground Point. They are all in keeping with the flavor of the area, that is they are beginners routes. Here are three that I know of: One of them is a ~5.3 trad route that features a left facing dihedral that my buddy jokingly called the "mini Deidre". It is located to the left of Birthday Boy. There is a bolted route that goes at about 5.6 below and to the left with a top anchor located up the ramp to the left of "mini Deidre". This route is EXACTLY 25 m long. You can walk off or rap. Still further to the left is another new bolted route that we didn't have time to look at closely.

Have you got a story to go with that there picture, son?

You haven't met Toast yet, have you Chris?

This one gets my vote for best caption. Great use of irony and sounds just like the Ugly American.

Ron's a great guy. We did Prusik and High Priest together in 2003. I hope he recovers quickly.

Ron Lavigne. That sounds awfully familiar. I believe that I climbed with him once three years ago.

I had a look at it from the road. There wasn't much snow at all.

Oh, I thought this was about constipation. My bad.

I drove by Icicle Buttress late yesterday afternoon. There was rescue rigging running up the hill in the vicinity of R&D Route. I didn't stick around to find out who was hurt.

I have a Maxim rope with a single pic cover and its abrasion resistence is terrible. Maybe the double pic models are better. I don't know.

I am sure that it is climbable now. I'd want at least a couple days for it to dry out. You might try going up there on Sunday. Be sure to report back. Okay?

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I scanned this morning's PI and couldn't find anything on the supposed shooting. Nothing in the Seattle Times, either.

I remember it having a wide crux near the bottom (where somehow I managed to scrape a shin). It was a bit of a bulge. It was easy after that. It got a little wide again near the top, but again very easy.

My three car pool partners don't like beer much. Can you believe it?

Nice pictures. Your partner is quite photogenic. I noticed sun shining into the Eye. When we did it is was early morning of winter and it was cold and dark.