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I'd have to agree with Matt. Under normal circumstances, it is a lot faster to just walk off than to rap that gully.

At Exit 38, try Write-Off Rock near the Trestle. At the far side there is also The Gritscone. All of these can allow you to set up a top rope by scrambling to the top. At exit 32 there is a 5.6, and 5.7 you can top rope from the anchors for Mambo Jambo. You can walk around to the top to set it up.

Now you're talking. If we head up to Exit 38 after work this week, we'll give you a yell.

Excellent crop of low bush berries on Stickney. Yum. Good blueberries have a tendency to slow one's progress, significantly.

I don't have any pain or any less flexibility in the affected fingers. I showed it to my Ear Nose and Throat doc who said that if I went to a hand specialist, he'd want to do surgery. He thought that if it didn't hurt and it didn't affect function, to not worry about it.

Sort of true. Cold air is denser (more moles of gas/volume), but it is still 21% oxygen. It's why baseballs carry farther in warm weather.

That sounds Laytonesque.

Larry, that's really low.

We got Dwayner back, too, in the guise of mild mannered (okay not so mild mannered) Merv Griffin. I think the name comes from MIRV for Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle. All we need is trask...where are you buddy?

It was an interesting experience. It really built my confidence to know that one can still manage to climb in the rain. Here's Jim leading the first 5.9 pitch. Here's Toast leading his 5.9 (note the rope-eating flake). Toast and Catbirdseat at the summit

Now that you mention this, Muffy, doing your homework and looking at the topo, or studying the route before you get on it can be just as important to your safety. It get's your head into what you are doing, so to speak.

Vaccinium ovatum = Evergreen Huckleberry (more common in olympics) Vaccinium parvifolium = Red Huckleberry (very commonly seen on stumps) Vaccinium alaskaense = Common cascade blueberry Vaccinium mebranaseum =Black Huckleberry If you want to look them up.

I CANT BLEIVE TAHT SOM3ON3 W3NT 2 TEH TROUBL3 2 CRAAET THIS TRANSLA2R!11! WTF LOL

I think these hostage takers are are sub-human monsters and they shouldn't be allowed to die painless deaths.

Gregs body contains about 2 liters of blood and about 3 liters of vitriol.

What fear? I don't fear falling, I fear hitting something on the way down.

Bravo! This gets my vote. I bet Richard U. Goode pronounced his last name "good" but everybody I know says "goodie". (I usually say "goodie" too, just to be a conformist.) I bet Harry Majors knows the answer. My friend, Roy M., says he knows members of the Goode family who still live in the state and they pronounce their name, "good". By the way, plant growers are among the worst when it comes to misprouncing names. The best example I can think of is Cattleya ("cat-lee-a"), the corsage orchid. Some people pronounce it "cat-a-lay-a". How they get that from the spelling is a mystery to me.

No change to the lump on my right hand, but now a new one has appeared on the left palm between the 4th and 5th fingers. That's it. It is now time to go see the hand specialist.

Cone-shaped helmet/ Electric storm.

This is wonderful news, Erden.

The right to immediate right of Jello Tower is Midway, 5.5 followed by Winter Solstice, 5.7. The latter is a pretty good route. At least I think it deserves more ascents than it gets.

This abasement of science made me think of the following:

I went in June when there was still nice snow all the way up to and through the gully from Glacier Basin. I have no idea what it's like now, but it's almost certain there is snow in the gully. The ledge that Beckey mentioned isn't a problem. There is one move into the wide crack that can be more difficult for shorter people. Bring a Metolius 10 or a Camalot 3.5 for that move.

I have to wonder if they were headed up Damnation Crack? He would have gotten pro, however. My guess is they were on Winter Solstice.