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i've got to work this morning and i have a dentist appt. at lunch but i get to climb after that mondays are fine with me

don't any of my fellow liberals feel the least bit of concern of howard dean's position on homeland security?

i heard that some tree in a park fell on an SUV last week

OMFD!!!!!!!

damn, phone just rang right before i read that. other plans made. thanks though! gotta love this board

unexpectedly have the day free. anybody want to go?

if any of you know the fat cell phone talking bitch with this license on her ...you guessed it... Acura SUV ran me off the road on I90 the party supplies could've been damaged! i don't care if she's your mother, she needs to be bitch slapped bad. have a fun w/e kids!

fyi instead of parking at the ski club you can drive up alpental road a bit further, take a right into the neighborhood and find a parking area where the road takes a sharp bend. this avoids all the bushwhacking on the approach. More time in the boulders but less time in the brush.

back in the day when i was riding a lot, the daughter of one of the other women at my barn (insert minx/livestock joke here) used to come to the barn with her mom on sat/sun. i overheard this little girl telling the mother that a friend couldn't come play with the horses that sunday morning b/c she had to go sit inside at church. then she said "mom, methodist is a boring religion, i'm glad we're equestrian" yep...some hobbies/sports can be a religious experience.

Jon you've been a tad cranky lately! But I do agree with you. i started riding mine for part of my commute on occasion. don't get me wrong, i'm not a daily cyclist but enough to appreciate your position. there have been situations when i was pretty convinced certain drivers went out of there way to make it difficult for me. we should foster a friendlier attitude overall towards cycling.

does that mean muffy has?

pretty much ditto for all of that. my dad didn't have a boy to drag on his outdoor adventures with him and mom hated it so it was up to me. for most of my life i was involved in another sport competitively. eventually i realized how stupid and expensive this was and came back to climbing on a more regular basis

9/1-9/10 or there abouts

why do you prefer rigid friends v. tech friends?

set the bottle of vermouth near the bottle of gin. shake 2-4 oz of gin and pour. don't ruin good gin with vermouth

yep i realize it was in reference to the intermediate course. what i had in mind to convey was that he had taken the basic course a couple of years ago and had climbed a lot since then with other mountaineers. i would think in that time he would've gained some more self reliance. it seems he was unable to adjust his thinking beyond what a course taught him. you do raise a good point though, maybe it's just the way he is. regardless, we had fun and that's what matters.

I just got back from a four-day Mountaineers trip to Washington Pass that fulfilled the Intermediate Rock climbs that I needed to graduate. We (four of us on two days, three of us on the other two -- the fourth was feeling sick) climbed a bunch of stupid stuff: Liberty Bell: Barberpole, Overexposure Concord: Cave Route NEWS: NW Corner SEWS: East Buttress Direct, SW Rib (with steep fingercrack variation) Cutthroat: South Buttress Like I said, we climbed a bunch of stupid stuff. We also climbed slowly and inefficiently as well, for example doing Cutthroat car-to-car in 6.5 hours, including spending half an hour on the summit and another twenty minutes lounging around by a stream on the way down. So if you want to climb stupid stuff and travel at a snail's pace, the Mountaineers are for you! there are some pros and cons to the mounties courses and learning strictly from the mounties. if learning this way works for a person....great! i'm all for it. my partner last w/e was an active member of the mounties. he had completed the basic course a couple of years ago and continued to climb with mostly partners from the mountaineers. what i found was that he was very safe and technically accurate with most things. h/e he was slow and inefficient and not able to adapt to a changing situation. in other words when things came up that were out of his realm of past experience it was completely up to me to deal with it. he was a fun and safe partner but not really independent or very self reliant. it would be nice to see the mounties focus on helping their students to become more self reliant mountaineers.

the hinge side of a heavy gym door

i guess trask can't read

HEE! E-rock

Distel, that's the second time i've been there in the last couple years. previous time was after i wrecked my car. got expedient service that time in the middle of the day. this time was a friday evening/night and they were really busy.

wow DFA that blows! we were there 3 hours including all the admitting BS. kiddo had his hand numbed, xrayed, 4 big cuts cleaned, 8 stitches and 3 fingernails attached. the DR and nurses were with us for at least 2 of the 3 hours. it probably makes a difference what time and which hospital you go to.

say that you're having trouble breathing and they'll get you right in

had a trip to the ER friday night with my son. we were in and out of there in less than 3 hours. that wasn't 3 hours of waiting that was 3 hours of DRs and Nurses solving the problem and fixing my kiddo. to Valley Medical

beautiful weather, night under the stars, good climb, back to car in one piece