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Porter, best wishes for a swift and complete recovery. P.S. Can I borrow your ropegun while you are laid up? I'll return him in the same condition that I find him.

I wonder if his nose grows longer when he tells lies?

Age and trickery taking the place of youth and braun.

Your pictures! All I have is butt shots and banana slugs in cracks:-( And don't even have those for today climbing, although I have hopes! Don't you just hate it when a banana slug takes that perfect finger lock spot that you need to get off the ground?

Nah. Just repeating what he said in the TR. Perhaps he meant south, which would make sense given the comment about having to climb back up to the packs. I've wanted to do a route on Chair but couldn't make much sense out of the approach info I've found so this is good stuff. That scree field above Source Lake "looks" like a straight shot up to the base. Now to prod one of my climbing partners into having some fun Our party of four climbed the route today in about 9 hours car to car. We enjoyed it. From the end of the Source Lake Overlook trail climb up a talus slope to the left of a stream bed. The talus gives way to a dry stream bed which you climb steeply until you emerge into yet another talus slope. You will reach cliffs that block your path. Bear right and find a faint bootpath heading up heather slope and into trees. The route trends right until it emerges in the basin below the Thumb Tack. Watch out for bees and enjoy the huckleberries. We decided to do the same "winter rap route" because I wanted to show my buddy Larry so he'd be familiar with it in case he wanted to do the North Face this winter. There is no anchor at the top of the chimney and you can't reach the one with the three pitons. We downclimbed to a chockstone anchor with a cave and did a single double rope rap followed by more down climbing. Having done both descents, I can say that rapping the route is to be preferred. Here I circled the anchors which we didn't use. We belayed from a small tree below and to the right of the bolts and had to do about 10 m of simulclimbing to reach the tree.

Park at Snow Creek Parking Lot and go across the street. I think the trail trends left as it climbs. Poison Ivy Crack is a left facing corner crack with a roof finish. Planet of the eights can be top roped but it's a bit risky walking down to the anchors. A belay might be in order. The three routes there all can be led safely and take small gear.

Well it's a small world. I was with Builder206 that day. You gals impressed us with the story of your climb that day.

Hey!

Last I heard the search was still on. Mt. Bullen is rugged country to be sure.

If the latter half of the video is being played backwards, then why is the man walking forwards? They'd have had to plan it all in advance and have him walk backwards at the time of filming to make it look right.

Free Association: if the government is paying for it you can't exclude Private Organizations: you can't exclude people on the basis of sex, color, or religion unless it is a religious organization. Religious Expression: the government can't pay to support it. Sounds about right to me.

I found one, on Prime Rib, pocketed it. It fell out of the pocket and was lost again. It was missing the batteries and cover. This was in June I think.

Dood! That's not water. That's SAND!

How about Ruth? But that's glaciated. What about Big Snow?

That's what the ACLU has done for 30 years and you guys love it. Right, KK, and white is black and black is white.

Everybody is worried about what will happen when "they take your rights away", as though it's all going to happen at once and you'll take up arms on "that day". There isn't going to be A DAY. Your rights will be nibbled away at little by little so that you'll hardly notice what you are losing. We'll be like the fabled frog in the stew pot who doesn't notice he's being cooked. A few people will keep crying out, "we're losing our rights!". But the vast majority won't notice.

That reminds me of a Yogi Berra quote. "We may be lost, but we're making great time!"

I think the chimney is on the south side.

I've been up there before and never could find the anchor that's supposedly there. We soloed that section anyway. If you have two ropes it's probably faster to go down the NE buttress because then you can do it in two raps.

They ate meat from the whale they took in 1999. I don't think PCB levels are so high in gray whales that a feast once every five years or so is going to hurt anyone.

Gray Whales feed at the bottom of the food chain and as a result have blubber that is much lower in PCBs than the killer whales. It's a shame that this whale was allowed to sink in 400 ft of water. Now it's shark food.

Stupid as in making double posts?

What gear do you have? You have a harness and shoes, don't you? That's enough.

What's wrong with 1 pm on the South Route of Hood?

We all created Walmart. China is able to deliver lower cost goods because it doesn't have the same costs we do. It doesn't spend as much to protect the environment and to ensure worker safety. It doesn't spend money on consumer protection. I'm all for free trade, but let's insist that our trading partners uphold decent standards. At least the goods they export should meet standards, if not they way they treat their workers. Perhaps there should be tariffs that reflect the amount of money they save by not protecting their workers and their environment. We could create a charity with the tariff money for Chinese workers. Maybe that would shame the Chinese into doing better.