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Dude, it's time to go rock climbing.

I've gotten this an many other variants over the years. Someone must fall for it occasionally, or they wouldn't keep sending them out. Hey we ought to collect as many of the variants right here for a good laugh. Unfortunately, I usually delete them.

Damn, Cavey, it's too bad we are the only ones awake this morning. Time for .

I don't have any evidence. What would motivate the president of Panama to make such a move that would be locally so unpopular? If you smell a dead fish, do you have to actually see the dead fish to know that it is there?

Maybe Dick Bass can loan him the money.

I don't like Castro any more than you do. He is megalomaniacal killer. I would love to see him lying in a pine box with a bullet between his eyes. But there are limits to how far we should go to kill him. I would draw the line at killing possibly dozens of other innocent people along with him, which is what these people would have done had they succeeded. That is the very definition of "terror" where one stops caring whether the ends justify the means.

Let's not call it a "War on Terror" then, because it is hypocritical.

Four Cuban terrorists were pardoned and released on orders of the outgoing Panamanian president and sent to Florida. These men were caught with 33 lbs of high explosive, planning to assassinate Fidel Castrol at a Latin American summit meeting in 2000. The Bush Administration denied that it pressured President Moscoso to make the pardon. These four men are all killers. One of them was involved in a car bombing on US soil that killed South American diplomate. I guess it's okay to pardon these terrorists because they are against someone we don't like. They are OUR terrorists and therefore good terrorists. It should score points with the Cuban expatriates in Miami. Bush could sure use their support. Yahoo News Story

007 = Tom Cruise

Could you do us all a favor? The trailhead is SUPPOSED to be marked by a toothbrush. Some rascal swiped it (he probably had his girlfriend along and had forgotten to brush that morning). Please replace the toothbrush. I think it was a Crest brand. The toothbrush should be lashed to a tree on the left where the trail leaves the logging road.

I'll bet it's a first class ticket to Rope Up.

Your fuckin joking right or you are a joke? Newbies if you can hike you can scramble. No tests none of that shite. You guys crack me up. Of course I didn't mean test in the literal sense. Jees-louise.

Look, up in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's a bus! Eeeeuuuwwww!

The newbies haven't yet been tested on their scrambling skills. Someone ought to take them on something with a fair amount of third class on it to see how they'll do. Beckey Route would be a challenge if they haven't done any scrambling before. I'm sure they will all do fine though.

I enjoyed this unusually detailed trip report.

No, I expect they will repair it as long as it is before Dingford Creek.

Is the washout before or after Hell Hill?

Alpine---->Cragging Trad------>Sport Sport----->Bouldering

So Dru, how did they do it? I assume no portaledge. Do they find ledges to bivy on, or do they just hang for a while to rest?

That sounds very appealing, but I gotta work.

Didn't you listen to your momma when she told you to take your time and chew your food?

I think what Dru is saying is that natural pro is to be preferred, of you can get it, for example, tunnels and horns, etc.

You want each anchor point to be omnidirectional. If you are using nuts, you'd want to set them in opposition, so that they will not shake out from rope movement. Pitons are good for the reason that they are naturally omnidirectional.