browntoe98

well at least you avoided the spray.

I'm going up with friends on 20, 21 and 22. We'll probably do Marble Mtn Snow Park up to the tree line on the first day, Summit, then return to the sno park on the last day. I'll post a report...

go on, man... just say it. You know you want to. Anyway I can take it, I'm a big boy.

Hey, Now that winter is once again upon us, I realize that I lost my gortex pants on the last climb up Mt. Rainier in June of this year. They would have been in a white, cotton REI stuff sack about the size that you might put a sleeping bag in for storage. Anyone find those? I know it's been some time... anth

This is insane... You want to be able to recork the bottle and you don't want little pieces of cork in your wine. I'd rather slab my wife's butt than a wine bottle's. Just get out the old whisper lite stove, "far it up", as we used to say in Texas, and set that wine bottle on it. No stove? No problem - the block of an internal combustion engine works well too.

is the road to cloud cap still open?

Nick, thinking of doing Mt. St. Helens in December. wanna come?

I try to be as safe as possible too, but: 1. While I do not want to die either, I recognize it as inevitable and hope that I die before I get to the point that I do want to die. 2. I can think of only one thing I'd rather be doing when I die than climbing. 3. Assholes are like opinions. Everyone has at least one.

It's unfortunate that you didn't sop and do some of the quality climbing on your way to the real hole, West Texas. You would find some excellent and varied routes in that fine state. Agre wih the bivvy, though, but it could have been worse, especially if it happened in Texas. Man, no argument there. I spent 8 years in that weeping pustule on the buttocks of the universe (W. Texas). ...but Phoenix runs a close second. Now I live in paradise, TGNW. And I'm only gonna leave feet first (unless I happen to fall into the crevasse head first of course)

You really need to start carrying that Ithaca sawed off pump shot-gun.

My worst road bivy actually happened in a god-forsaken hell hole known as Arizona. I was driving straight through from Oregon to W. Texas and made the mistake of having a beer with dinner. Twenty minutes later I was in danger of nodding over the wheel of my Datsun 210, so I pulled into the Interstate meridian to doze for an hour or two. I laid a sawed off Ithica pump across my lap and reclined the drivers seat at about 1:30 AM. I had the strangest dream that I'd slept all night and the sun was up and the Arizona Highway Patrol was looking in my window. I awoke with a start. Started the engine and, in now broad daylight, backed the car up into the middle of the interstate, past two Highway Patrol cars parked behind me and drove away. Oddly enough they didn't give chase, but that was before that nut Tim McVey pulled his shit. So maybe they weren't quite as sensitive as they are today.

where do i get mine?

I've got a Eureka one person tent. It's not the Zeus, I thnk it's the model previous. Anyway - I felt like I got what I paid for (not much) but I've got a nice bag and the tent keeps the weather off of me. I did immediately replace the pegs - cheap, heavy and steel. All in all I think it beats the pants off a bivy sack and doesn't weigh nearly as much as my Marmot Rapeed. I've gotta say, I'm looking seriously at the BD betamid.

"This debate alone is enough to prove that the word is inciniary and should simply be left out of guidebooks." I think you meant incendiary. In any case the author/editor/publisher of any book should decide what's in it. This is as true for the website "White Power Warehouse" as it is for Thich Nhat Hanh's Miracle of Mindfulness. If you don't want to read the words, don't buy the book. If you buy the book, feel free to cross out all the words and put in your own. BTW, I don't climb rocks. It has nothing to do with the names of the routes. anth

give it back. Of course. Is it your rope? No. Then who's rope is it? You know. Give it back. And while you're at it, give me a break.

I got two extras... anyone want to take them off my hands? $20.00 each and I'll mail them to you. Or you can meet me at the WRCG on Tuesday 6/10. let me know... anth

You know, since I've been cordially invited by Christ herself, I think it's only right that I pass on the good Karma. C'mon by and bring your ex with you.

Climbing Adams this time of year is a pain unless you happen to own a snowmobile or a lot of free time. never said a truer word... I've been up there two years running in the winter. There is one heluvalotta snow up there. Each time I swear I'm coming back with a snowmobile to do the approach. Then I price snowmobiles and decide to just take two weeks and do it on snowshoes...

Can anyone crash this or should I wait for an invite?

I'd be inclined to go with the ball point pen method myself... just can't imagine more than one (legal) use for a spinal needle. So far as illegal goes, well I got this ex-wife... But you really want to know what you're doing to needle a chest - it's not hard but doing it wrong kills people so incredibly quickly. I carry percocet (oxycodone with acetominophen). I never want to be carried out some long approach with a busted tib/fib on ibuprophen and excedrin. Excedrin (BTW) is the ultimate for that altitude headache...

I like the wee little uns.