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Sometimes you rap from crap because you have no other choice, but in many of the above descriptions, it sounded like there was a choice. Then it comes down to either carelessness, fatigue, or just plain stupidity.

I feel your pain.

You mean bonsai.

That "sulfur smell" is ozone O3 created by the sparks in the same way lightning does it. There was a 100 lb rock on the summit of Twin Peaks West that was going to be in the way for my follower so I picked it up and threw it over the North face side. It made one hell of a racket going down.

I told Paul to cut to the chase. What can I say?

There have been numerous trip reports for East Wilmans on this site. I would agree that the best time to do this climb is when there is snow in the gully.

Gol' durn it, Paul! I told you not to tell them aboot the boot! It goes without saying that with snow on the ground the approach would be very different to this climb. I just talked to a fellow who climbed Twin Peaks in Spring, and they just took the obvious gully straight up and to the right. At present that gully is full of loose rock. Furthermore, the dihedral with the loose blocks would hold snow and be an easy walk up. I don't suppose that lonesome 5.8 pitch is worth hauling the gear all the way up there, but it was a quality lead, easily protected, and what is more, it's now much cleaner than it was before . If it were a roadside attraction in Icicle Canyon, I'd give it three stars. It would be four stars, but for being only about 50-60 ft long.

I think the couloir has big gaps in it with no ice. It is probably not a great time to do the route.

A friend of mine once worked for the company that first invented the contraceptive sponge. The company needed to know how much of the nonoxynol-9 (or whatever the active ingredient) was left in the sponge after it was used. His job was to extract and analyze used contraceptive sponges.

The take home message: "For defensive purposes, you want a tiny copulatory organ, but you also want to transfer large quantities of sperm".

I just think that the artist could have made the statement better using more subtlety, where some people think it looks like a penis and others don't. Then everyone can then see what they want.

I'm going to test the knee tomorrow. Hope it isn't too soon.

Okay, now we have Fence_Sitter AND Babnik, now that Fence_Sitter is unbanned. So what's the difference?

I was speaking for myself. You don't like my singing? I'm crushed.

Come on, klenke is the only one calling into question the validity of the above statements. Are they true or not? Some of them are stretchers, but I think most of them are true based on what I have read in the papers.

Who asked you? You most likely won't be there, so why do you care? So you'd rather have "canned" music rather than the real thing. By the way, I CAN sing in in tune.

A scramble on the Mtn. Loop w/ klenke and sverdina.

Come back in three months, we're in the middle of the silly season. Who knows, we might have another Muir on Saturday by then?

I find it offensive and I'm not even religious. It was designed specificially to piss off a group of people. That's what passes for art today. It can't be just beautiful or thought provoking. It has to make you angry.

Anyone been up Morning Star Peak? Is it one that is better with snow on it?

I noticed they aren't just hooking. They are sometimes swinging to plant the pick. That's got to have an impact on the "rock", if that is what you want to call it.

Indeed our sprayers don't listen to NPR, or else won't admit to it.

Note the last sceduled meeting is tonight at 6:30 pm at the Mountaineers clubhouse in Seattle, 300 3rd West.

You're not moving. You couldn't use your boat in the winter in Vermont and you know it.

"After running Smith off the road, the driver stopped, chased him down on foot and struck him with a hatchet, sending him into a ditch and over the handlebars of his wrecked bike. Marvin Glenn Manring of Orange County pleaded guilty in July 2001 to assault with a deadly weapon. He promised to enroll in an anger management program." Sounds like he didn't even have to do any prison time. If I were the judge, I would have given him ten years.