minx

yes, and we'd like a little appreciation for our hardwork! sheesh!

oh cracked, i just don't have time to gain 100+ pounds juvenille!

hey cracked, note that i said MAN's work. i'm pretty sure it's going to take a few more birthdays before you qualify. if you call me minxie again you might not see those bdays. hope you make it in your sporty new truck mr. wind. nothing wrong w/a good POS. i'll be stylin in the 93 mazda Minxie!!!! better watch it cracked. it seems there's a fair number of guys here who wouldn't mind holding you down while i show you several painful ways to use an elk steak

bummer! i hope you can make a surprise guest appearance!

hey cracked, note that i said MAN's work. i'm pretty sure it's going to take a few more birthdays before you qualify. if you call me minxie again you might not see those bdays. hope you make it in your sporty new truck mr. wind. nothing wrong w/a good POS. i'll be stylin in the 93 mazda

if mr. wind comes, he can hold my beer.

i'm not cooking that's man's work

DFA if i go will promise to come introduce yourself?

bah! cork or not i'm not hangin w/you conservative elk eating pansies. maybe pandora will kiss me instead of cracked bug, come say hi and we'll talk about rainier

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time. shit like this is why i didn't major in physics just friggin classic!

granite point has it's drawbacks but i'm a big fan of climbing at granite point when visiting wazzu. it's a little early in the year but i highly recommend beer and diving into the snake from the back side when you're done climbing. i miss college

i'm not wearing my birkenstocks. can i still hang w/the liberals and vegetarians?

i'll bring some plates

they do...it's called marriage

spent a surprisingly satisfying day at e38 on saturday. where'd you climb on sunday?

hahaha! so untrue. i think mileage wise i'm closer to l'worth the sg

In that sea of mounties? I just assumed you were one of those clowns. Guess I shoulda known since you were'nt wearin a helmet while walkin thru the parking lot. ...and let's not kid anyone, I wasn't carbo loading, I was lookin to tie-one-on for the schwack up to Tumwater Tower. oh fuck that was a sea of them wasn't it??. i should be offended. honestly we forgot to even bring helmets and given how dirty those routes were i definitely should've. took a few blows to the head. hope you had a tolerable thwack. i think that PBR belonged to some self loathing mountie fuck trying to gain the courage to learn how to rap.

Hmmm, I was enjoyin a breakfast PBR when you and company pulled into the "climber's lot" sunday AM... but I didn't leave any empties layin about. -Sure did notice A LOT of new* missing flakes on the Forest Land Boulders and one mutilated rattler (no need to kill the snakes!) * I say new but I don't boulder much and my last visit was 4-5 years ago. As Ben stated, many of these problems have history, don't pry off good shiite on established routes to make your own silly new variation, now if it pops off while climbing that's a different story... well crap, why didn't you remind me not to lock my keys in the car? no need to kill the snakes and no need to steal the trees! nothing like carbo loading to start the day off right

i didn't find any full beers but i did find a couple of PBR empties this w/e

gotta second this! it as a beautiful day on sunday to be in the icicle. no post holing, no slush

short summary: lots of dead dear, domestic dome-fun moderate climbs, don't steal trees, don't have car trouble in l'worth on a sunday, peshastin has a route w/a hole in it. after failing to make it out of bed in time to go to smiff on saturday, i needed a plan for sunday. we decided that the day called for easy to moderate climbs, little to no approach, cracks preferably in granite. that sounded like index to me. mother nature said l'worth. the drive over should've been a warning of things to come. highway 97 was littered with a about 1/2 dozen does that got that deer in the headlights look. (why is at always female deer that get hit?) apparently there's a lot of cars that need some body work after saturday night. blissfully unaware of the stupidness about to befall us we continued on. as we pull in there is a group about to lay siege to barney's rubble...ah yes, all things are normal in the universe. it's at about this time i don't hear the phrase "hey put the keys in your pack" we gather our gear and head for domestic dome. at which point my partner says "you've got the keys right?" "Keys? what keys?" i say w/the deer in the headlights look setting in. after an exhaustive search of my pack i find them on the floor of the car. in what proves to be the best decision of the day we decide that since it's only about 8 we might as well climb. it seems appropriate to start the day with "BS" (5.6). the crack is great but there's a disgusting slabby section w/a death bolt. (more deer in the headlights look here) i personally consider the decision to climb slab about as good an idea as sending my son to hang w/Michael Jackson. we decide head up a second pitch,an easy 5.4 which is completely fun and perfectly uneventful. (except my partner slipping at the belay and shredding his ankle) we head back to the base of the first route for no apparent reason. only after getting back there do we decide that the 5.7 crack up next to the 5.4 looks fun. that means i've got to climb the stupid slab again which leads to the loss of skin and more carnage. my partner heads up towards the crack, crossing over a slabby section carpeted w/lichen. oh nifty, more friction free slab. the 5.7 definitely needs more than one piece bigger than 3". the 5.7 crack and 5.8 bolted line next to it are fun pitches. we decide to head down and maybe have a look at the 5.9 crack but when we get there it seems like it might be time to take care of the key situation. back at the car we break out random pieced of climbing gear that might proove useful, while we watch a guy a stealing trees from the surrounding area. wtf- dude that's not cool. we quickly discover that while a bottle of beer can be opened w/a nut tool or carabiner, a mazda can't be. i leave the boys at the car and head up icicle road for town so i can get a locksmith. i'd like to thank JENNY who actually stopped and gave me a ride. i'd to say to the old couple who stared vacantly at me and the dude in the mercedes who nearly ran me over. apparently, on sunday in l'worth you can't get a locksmith/tow truck. they're all from chelan, don't work weekends, think l'worth is to far from wenatchee, can't be bothered or are drunk. to upper valley towing who not only helped me out but were fast and friendly too. 2 hours later, upon returning to my car, i find that my son has learned to climb crack but that in reality he has been turned the dark side. it was a crack in a BOULDER and he really liked bouldering. this is what happens when boys are left unsupervised for too long. we head off for home and detour at peshastin. for some reason my partner has become intrigued by routes w/caves or holes in them so we hit the cave route on orchard tower. this prooves to be a fun but spicy 5.6 and a great way to finish the day despite the loss of more skin and more blood. i would like to point out that the route description in the l'worth book really blows for this route. you really have no idea where you're going or where the anchors are after you come out of the hole. a fun day, easy climbing, lots of weirdness the routes we climbed on domestic dome were fun but still pretty dirty. good place to get in a few easy/moderate pitches and the approach was definitely better than last w/e trip to bathtube dome. peshastin...well, it's peshastin. moral of the story: don't trust me w/your keys.

it's a "snugtop"

? snugtop? i think snugtop is the new icegirl

i'm old and bitter. what category does that go under?