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How do you survive being shot 17 times?

That is good question. Where is Capt. Caveman?

JGowans has swords in his house? That could be dangerous when he gets drunk.

I'm so boring. I usually just give them a straight answer.

From the sounds of it, the perpetrators are probably not climbers at all, but neighbors who think they can get rid of climbers by chopping the anchors. The thing to do is to place the anchors below the top and out of reach. You'd have to lead the pitch to set up a top rope, but I'd bet the anchors wouldn't see a sawzall again.

You know you are really pumped when your fingers don't have the strength to open the gate on your draw to take it off the gear loop. Remember to say, "falling!", on your way down.

Good one!

Don't know what happened to my last post, but anyway, Greg, I'll see you at Pub Club.

Went to the Bombay Grill on Roosevelt. Man, the food is sooooo good there. Everything we ordered was first rate. I walked out stuffed. The services is good too and it isn't too expensive. What more can I say? Oh, yeah, try the Mango Lemondade .

I think that cartoon hits too close to the mark for some people's taste.

I don't care what route you took to get to the top. That "tourist" comment was just plain rude. Boulder Glacier is a nice route and probably the least traveled, except for the Park. The swamp approach does suck, but the Deforest Service is planning on rerouting the trail. I expect the Boulder would see more traffic then.

My wife and I went to see the movie Whale Rider. The Mowris believe they are decended from the Hawaiians. Their war dances are so cool. We both enjoyed the movie a lot . This is a movie that both sexes can enjoy equally, unlike The Hours .

Thanks, Scott, for setting up the whole thing. I had a lot of fun. I didn't see too many people at the Flying Pig: just Paco, Dryad, Fence_Sitter and my friend Lee W. They treated us really well with extra helpings of chilli, gratis. The beer was tasty too .

What the guy needs is a prefrontal lobotomy. That will cure his disorder. An icepick inserted through the eye socket would do the trick, and it wouldn't cost nearly as much as the sex change operation.

It was sitting right by the stump that marks the start of the climb. Someone else must have found it and set it there. I'll give it to you at Pub Club if I can manage to remember to bring it. 'biner is mine. I dropped it cleaning the undercling on Pitch 2. You can booty it or bring it to pub club.

I almost forgot. I found an oval carabiner marked with purple tape next to a half gallon jug of water.

"They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white ... Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently," -- Mariann Simms "Bill shifted uncomfortably on his stool looking at the topless blonde bombshell on the bar, but the first thing that struck him was the pulchritude of the exotic dancer's lips, which glowed like maraschino cherries, that is, pitted cherries macerated in an almond-flavored syrup then heated to boiling in an alum-containing brine full of carcinogenic red dyes," --Albert T. Keyack . "It was almost a dark and stormy night — not dark or stormy enough to be called that but just the kind of sweaty night that makes your shirt stick to your back and make you wish you were still at home with the air conditioning and eating pig skins and watching the Martha Stewart (news - web sites) trial on TV." -- Sarah Harris

I met Mr. Lizard on the route. He was in fine form, but not at home in the can at the time. The can is still on the route although a little further down.

The Gibraltar Ledges route may still be in however.

I'm a bit embarassed about that little excursion. I'll share the blame for it. I am just glad we didn't waste more time than we did and that Toast talked me into going for the climb even though we were starting late.

Toast and I were out there today. We got a late start as a result of navigation errors, but we found the mountain and were roped up by 12:30 pm. We think we free climbed the first pitch or part of it. By virtue of running out a 60 meter rope to its end each pitch we topped out in only 5 belayed pitches. The 5.9 move came in our second pitch which was my lead. There is a good cam placement immediately before the first bolt, so that one is really pretty redundant. The second bolt may need to stay. I don't remember any good pro near it. I do remember the rock was rather dirty in that section, which made it seem harder. When we got to Blueberry Terrace, it was 4 pm and we decided it was too late in the day to push onto the summit so we set about getting down. We walked down to the left but couldn't find anything other than a large tree with two ancient slings on it. After tying on two new ones and a rappel ring we went down and found a series of old two bolt anchors with cold shuts and a third new bolt above. Each one had a single green 9/16" sling hanging from the new bolt. We added slings to take advantage of the unused bolts, even if they were old. The rap route goes straight down the steepest part of the face and avoids all the flakes, trees and loose rocks. Plus it gets you down in only four double rope rappels instead of six or seven. From the "sloping terrace", you do have to do some downclimbing on slabs to get back to the base of the climb, but it was not bad. The granite sidewalk sure is hard on the knees. It might have been better had we just gone slower and taken our time more. I noticed a fair amount of litter up there. I found an empty aluminum can of Guiness Stout on the third pitch and a bottle of Mountain Dew down at the bottom of the Granite Sidewalk. What's up with that?

I have one Rainier climbing permit I'd like to sell. Anyone interested? I'll discount it to $25 from $30. Show up at Everwet PubClub at either Cascade Crags or the Flying Pig on thursday and I'll give it to you.

Just got back from Pub Club. We were having a rocking good time at the Haus. Good beer, good company, great place. Right on, Toast! Minx, had you showed up, I would have given you back your two draws.

The crux is just before the anchors as far as you can get from the last piece of pro. Granted at 5.7 that wouldn't faze a 5.11 climber for a NY minute.