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I found Dog at cascadeclimbers.com

How 'bout Spray or Die cascadeclimbers.com we could have it all hologramed to make it look like the animation. Yeah right!!!

If you were a 2 person team, I guess you're hoping that your partner can prussik up the rope. Otherwise, would a C-Pulley use any less rope?

What have I got to do with this? I'm a mild mannered corporate citizen with nothing but a wandering willy and pennies in my pocket to keep me going.

I worked "asswipe" and had a flat downtown with my other student amigos. You know, that thing where you go earn money in exchange for some menial and often demeaning tasks like selling newspapers, hardware, burgers, womens shoes, and luncheon meat

If you're from any of the former USSR countries, you head to the South of Russia or Georgia or the Ukraine or Finland for vacation. If you're from Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania or Czech you head to one of the other countries on that list cos the costs are comparable. If you're loaded, you head to Deutchland maybe or you go to Ibiza to take in the the techno club scene. If you're from any of the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) you head anywhere in the world but most likely IBIZA or the aforementioned standard med island spots. If you're from the UK you head to the party spots in the Med. If you're from France, depending on where you're from, you'll head to either Deauville, Honfleur, anywhere on the Normandy or Brittany coast, or down Soouth. That's it. I know it all cos I'm Euro and woe betide anybody that deviates from my master summer migratory plans.

Leeds sux bigtime. I'd consider Leeds, Sheffield, Grimsby and all those other northern shitey industrial towns to be on a par with some nasty Eastern Euro backwater towns. Btw, I recall that 11 years ago when I went to Ibiza, we paid less than $400 for a 2 week package holiday...flights & accomodation. Saved the pennies from working in a hardware store on Sundays when I shoulda been at church. Not that expensive amigo.

Look FS, let's get one thing clear...you lived in EASTERN EUROPE where most people consider a trip to the adjacent EASTERN EUROPEAN country an exotic location. We WESTERN EUROS head to either the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, or the Greek Islands for our shits and giggles. You've now spent a semester in Eastern Euroland and are now telling me what most Euro kids do and don't do. Maybe before the next time I head home to Scotland I'll ask you for beta on fun shit to do there

No shame in lovin' techno: trance is cool. d&B gets a bit boring after a while. Gotta go to Ibiza for the full-fledged experience. Most Eurotrash kids go when they finish high-school. I went when I was 18 with 8 buddies. Had the fricking time of our lives! I agree that some trance can be cheesy but there's no better music for working out to or getting psyched up before a game, except maybe Ramstein!!!

Thanks Kitten. Well, I did Cowboy on Saturday, Whitehorse on Sunday and The Tooth yesterday. I felt a little sluggish yesterday on the trail but once there I felt cool. I have to admit that it was pretty easy. The hardest part was hauling all the gear in the pack up the bloody rock. One thing I'm beginning to realize is the trade off between the amount of gear one takes and the result in compromised safety. For example, what to leave / keep in your First Aid kit?, bringing how much extra clothing?, The size of the rack?, etc. There's tons of gear questions to consider and I think that I'm willing to accept a greater amount of risk than some in favor of a lighter pack. I guess it'll take an "incident" of some sort to make me reconsider that. cheers, /j

Fuck, you bastards know what buttons to push eh?

There was indeed some comedy up there. Pretty funny stuff. Yeah, we found the shovel handle. It's got a phone number on it. My buddy (the ponytailed dude) is gonna call her. His name's Ken. After wailing on the nut for about 10 miutes, we finally got the sucker loose. That crack was ripe for a cam. I don't know how he even got that stopper in there. Quite a feat. As for shit talking...nope. All was cool. We were last but what do you expect. His rack was weighing him down. Ha Ha!!! One of those hexes was so big it could have plugged Pineapple pass.

Awesome idea dude. Are you gonna get some for distribution at the pub clubs? Now, next time I see Jim stickering SUVs, I'm gonna sticker his ass with these.

This Irish thing is getting old you wanker! You know I'm 100% Scottish. I'd try to do a similar jook but calling you Canadian or Mexican just wouldn't be funny Highest point in Scotland is Ben Nevis. I think it's about 4,200ft or thereabouts.

Yeah I know. I would have taken her but for one, I'm sure she wouldn't have wanted to be with Der Mountie Patrol and in any case, the Mounties is an elite band of uber-Alpinists and we only let in the creme de la creme. Hee hee. Nah, like I said, there was just us and Scot'teryx with his partner. Nobody else. Just as well really cos we were taking up the whole rock with enough stoppers, cams, and runners to scale El Cap Actually, I gotta give my partner credit...he was on the sharp end after all which is definitely a different story than following.

Great day yesterday. I was with my Mounties group (6 of us) and went up the Tooth. Awesome weather. The approach wasn't too bad since the snow was pretty firm. The rock was totally clear of snow except towards the end of the 3rd pitch where there was a little snow to walk through. My partner was doing his first lead on trad. Some sketchy placements and pretty slow going but otherwise pretty safe...I mean, how dangerous can it be on dry rock on a 5.3 pitch? In true Mounties fashion, I followed with my full-on hiking boots (no rock shoes allowed, WTF???), back pack stuffed full of enough shit to last two people 3 weeks atop the Tooth and an ice-ax attached to the pack that kept getting caught up in another group's rope. Ha! Saw Scott-teryx there with his little Alpina chica swinging leads and doing it in about 1/4 of the time it took us. Rapped down no probs and then rapped down Pineapple Pass which is still full of snow. Once we got down far enough, we were able to glissade all the way down to where it flattened out. The slog back was a pain cos the snow had melted and we had to pretty much posthole all the way back to the parking lot. Anyway, all in all a great day out. Da Toof is in great shape just now and definitely recommended. I'm gonna get a lot more trad climbs under my belt this year and hopefully feel competent enough to start leading next season.

Did Whitehorse yesterday.

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I am indeed genuine. The Y-fronts went with the ark though, so Fred meyers has good deals on boxers usually. Ok, I'm calling for an unofficial unverified PUB CLUB at 2pm at Nickerson St Saloon.

I agree RobBob and I am as best as one honest Euro shocked to the very core of his skiddy Y-fronts can.

I'm going to the Nickerson Street Saloon now.

Time to drink. I figure nobody else is gonna get fired today so I may as well leave early. The best they can do is watch me leave and plan my downfall for next Friday. That's 7 days of drinking between now and then. Anybody wanna join me?

well, i found out that "otsosi" is suck my dick in russian. i also found out that "pizda" means cunt and "Perestan' mne jabat' mozgi svojimi voprosami" means stop fucking my brain with your questions and "Zacroy svoy peesavati roat, sooka" means shut your fucking mouth bitch. i think i can live without "pizdec" hee hee.

Do you know what "pizda" means? Is it along those lines?

Doesn't pizdec mean "suck my dick"? I don't know Russian but I do know Polish and it's kind of similar...