Billygoat

He wasn't wearing the helmet at the time; that pic was taken on our way down. helmets wouldn't have helped for shit. Apparently nothing exciting ever happens when you live on an island; we heard about Billygoat's "near death" experience all fucking night. It was spicy, for sure. Yeah, well at least I didn't have my arms around Vegetablebelay screaming like a little girl...

I hid behind the rock on my right as the rock on my left, along with many others, came crashing down upon us

It was a total freak show! I was thinking of you after it happened. I knew you could appreciate a good trundling and would have wanted to be at ground zero. Hold on. I'll post some photos...

Friday met up with Dave the mason, headed up Cascade River Road to do Forbidden, ran in a couple sketchy looking dudes whom we thought, at first, were cooking up meth in a broken down old winnebago, but as it turned out were just having electrical problems and had been stuck there for two days, passing the time drinking and puffing the hay. We fixed the problem and got the thing started and were celebrating when we managed to terrorize a passing AAI van full of marks and a cute young couple from B'ham in a pick up, who must of thought we were having a full blown meth party. Well, we were rewarded with some soapstone and headed on our way. We woke up to rain and a large bear. It was brown coloured but prolly was a very large black bear, not a griz. GregW and Vegetablebelay showed up around 9:30 and proclaimed the scene too wet so we all headed up to Wa Pass in hopes of some dry alpine. We were rewarded and geared up in the Blue Lakes parking lot. We headed up to SEWS. Along the way, just below the Liberty Bell Southwest gulley, as we were crossing the talus field, we heard an immense rumbling. We froze for awhile and then from around the corner came massivilly massive amounts of boulders and debris! All towards us!!!!! I yelled LOOK OUT and turned and found a large boulder and jumped behind it just as shit started raining down. It was all sulphur and dust as projectiles flew and slammed past my position. As soon as it all settled down, I got out and yelled to locate and determine the condition of my partners. All were ok and when we surveyed the wreckage, trees rocks and boulders were everywhere. A huge one brought down a tree and landed right next to my shelter! We laughed a bit disbelievingly and continued on to climb the south arete. Ran into a Goat. got snowed on and had a blast. Whiskey, beer and steaks for dinner down in Winthrop. Camped up at the pass with hopes to do Black Peak early the next morning but it rained and snowed all night. Headed down to Mazama for coffee and sun. Greg and Vegey headed back to Seattle and Dave and I went and climbed at fun rocks all day in the sun!

Sweet! Nice line guys

I have some sawed off pitons, a pink Jrat chalk bag, and my collection of Backcountry and Couloir magazines I'd be willing to barter with...

I forgot about Greg's irritable bowel syndrom. Good thing he is bringing his own personal bivy sack this weekend. altho it probably has more to do with my inability to remember to bring my tent rather than any consideration that we won't let him into the tent I'll probably forget to bring, methinks...

Yeah it's all kitty litter. Nothing up there worth doing. Absolute choss. You should head to 11worth. Move along now...

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I'll do the Snout with ya. In fact Michael Layton is interested too. I have a picture of it in my gallery. I skied up around there last spring ('03) Looked damn fine to me. Just off the beaten path and too close to Lib/Early/Wine/Cutthroat for the masses to care about. We actually climbed a crag across the valley that was quite superb, has no name and won't get one from me. That whole area is ripe with adventure climbing on good rock IMO

The asseyes are out of the bag!

Right On You Guys! Good Call. BTW Go to the properties of the photo and copy the url or whatever it is. If you just copy it from the top of your window it will not work.

Geez...Earth girls are easy What's everybody gettin' all worked up about?!

Dude, those guys are just plain fun. You mutherz are so frickin' uptight. Smell my glove pissants!

They're back!

Dood, I tried to send some more to make the emoticons reappear but the paypal said I was paid up to 2005 (whatever that means) and wouldn't let me. The little buggers still don't show (but the name will come up if I hover my cursor over them) I think the "stop hotlinking" deal is shutting them down for me. Anyways, let me know how I can send some more $$$$ Cheers to crazy ideas! BG

Thanks for the Beta Wingy. Mr. Chips, thanks for being you...

The front bail will move back and forth as well but that shim does suck! WTF is that nut and screw for anyways!?! When you get done embarrassing yourself Greg, shoot me a PM and spill the beta. Thanks

No Doubt Don't we have enough troops, it's just that they are stationed here in case we are invaded by Cuba or some one else in the axis of evil...

I have tried Sabretooths on my T-3s. they work very well.

Cool. I got the new "concealed-carry" holster attachment for my Petzl harness. It's the ultimate in security. Now I can dispatch a nosy goat at the top of Outer Space, if the need arises. Not if I don't trundle your ass off the wall first MF!

Flip the shim in the back of the throw.(where the recessed nut and bolt are) And then flip me some shit for bailing on next weekend

The leader must not fall

Damn! It won't let me. Says I am all paid up till '05 How the hell can I give more money if I want to! I mean WTF!!!

turning off my firewall did not help. Maybe I'll try donating some money...