Sphinx

The bottom line: if you don't climb, don't start. If you do, you'll get sucked in, your girl/boyfriend will complain about you being gone, you'll spend all your money on gear and roadtrips, you'll waste your and your employer's time by posting on this board, you will wear fingers in your holes that won't heal, because you haven't sent it yet. Climbing is a cancer, an addiction, a menace to society.

Well, you should. Snow is good.

E, if you realize you made a mistake, why not go back and fix it?

Please...do the world a favor...take your own life immediately. If anyone wants to chop Necro...I'll help. This guy is a blemish to our climbing community! It must be removed.

They plow the pass, of course you can get over it. You can go to Smith all winter. Besides, it's going to get hot and sunny this weekend, it'll all melt off. Now stop being such a killjoy.

NO. Hah!

Isn't Beck's hair darker? I think it's his older brother, right before he appealed to the politicians. He's in jail now.

Do you EVER look in the mirror, Dru? How can you not recognize yourself?

Smoking, tobacco or pot, is stupid.

If there's a crack that's bolted, chop the bolts. It isn't all that complicated. By sitting on your ass and posting on the internet all you do is send the message to the bolters that it's OK. Start chopping and they'll realize they were wrong.

I loathe the idea of being trapped in one state for a long period of time. It might be my age, but I want to see more, not less. The world is big, folks, let's appreciate it.

You're as thick as a lead barrel. You really think that Lummox isn't an avatar? You think that 'Sphinx' is a person who is just as annoying in real life as I am here? Think again, buddy.

I don't have to be crude and insulting. I can be just as nice as Dwayner.

What about when you don't want a crampon on?

Where did you grow up, Dwayner? If you stand on the corner in the Hilltop area and loudly call passeres by "niggers" you are going to get arrested for disturbing the peace or something like that. Since you want to take this to the next level of namecalling, I'll ablige you: go back to Kindergarten if you can't figure out that the first amendment does not completely trump civility. Right back atcha, Dwhiner!

Not you, A-gal, the rest of the posers who have lived their entire life in WA and are too lame to have the guts to cross the border to Oregon.

Track cleats? I don't want to look like Danny.

But you've got to tread the line between keeping positive connections with bureaucrats, and making them aware of climbing, just to have them shut it down. Personally, I don't think Beck is very representative of the climbing community, so I don't want him being my spokesman.

I spew in Spray, which is where it belongs. You, Dwhiner, and your good buddy Poper, spray where it doesn't belong. So STFU.

You ever been to the east coast???

You people are pathetic. Like the jackasses who have been born in one state and never cross the state line in their LIFE! Get your ass out of the PNW, see the world, decide if it's really the best there is. Talk about arrogant stupidity! PNW might be better than ol' Minnesota, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. You gapers sound like you're trying to delude yourself into thinking that you're lucky that you can't move, because where you are is perfect. The opposite of "the grass is greener.....". Sour grapes.

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