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Placing gear at the gunks is wierd becuz of the horizontal breaks - it's not the only placements, but a a lot of them. Stoppers, especially, are funky, and tricams and flex friends are de rigeur. There are many fixed pins of unknown origin on the harder (.10 was all I did) climbs, and the routes often traverse, adding excitement to the horizontal placements. The rock is granite, but it is muggy often, so it feels slippery much of the time. Overhanging, often traversing trad with horizontal placements is just plain scary, and the headiness add a mental element you must experience to understand.

Go with the avatar - man-boobs are SO VERY unattractive

I saw yesterday that now Nike is trying to get out of the $45 Million contract with him, citing "morality" issues. The expenses of this mistake are mind-boggling.

Someone told me recently Bob is a Really good Ass Climber !?! WTF?

Man, I thought that guy was going to live forever! Pretty impressive career! , Bob!

...not to mention the interior decorating The men's basketball team will be scoring swishes...

...you aren't getting out enough, and will kick yourself for it in December. Seriously, Index has tons of stuff for the 5.9-5.12 climbers for a day, from 1-4 pitches, and a lot more bang for the buck if you are coming from Seattle. Why spend 6 hours in a car (round trip to Squamish), when 2 will suffice for a fine day of granite? If you have more than a day - definitely Squamish. Either place, your batted eyelashes and southern accent will be appreciated...

I'm gonna guess the oil is to keep you from getting the pipes clogged? I am partial to the freeze-dried meals, especially the beef stroganoff, with a splash of the Bag-in-a-box red (sans box). Finish the bag, inflate, and, voila! your pillow to comfortably sleep off way too much wine!

Hey, that makes me wonder about GlacierDog. Hope he's o.k....

Great. Another zombie thread...

Who needs water when you got wine?

Customer: Hello, I would like to buy a fish license, please. Shopkeeper: A what? Customer: A license for my pet fish, Eric. Shopkeeper: How did you know my name was Eric? Customer: No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. Shopkeeper: What? Customer: He is...an...halibut. Shopkeeper: You've got a pet halibut? Customer: Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat. Shopkeeper: You must be a looney. Customer: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn't call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside! Shopkeeper: Alright, alright, alright. A license. Customer: Yes. Shopkeeper: For a fish. Customer: Yes. Shopkeeper: You are a looney. Customer: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog Eric, and I've got a license for me pet cat Eric... Shopkeeper: You don't need a license for your cat. Customer: I bleeding well do and I got one. He can't be called Eric without it-- Shopkeeper: There's no such thing as a bloody cat license. Customer: Yes there is! Shopkeeper: Isn't! Customer: Is! Shopkeeper: Isn't! Customer: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then? Shopkeeper: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in in crayon. Customer: The man didn't have the right form. Shopkeeper: What man? Customer: The man from the cat detector van. Shopkeeper: The looney detector van, you mean. Customer: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest. Shopkeeper: What cat detector van? Customer: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge. Shopkeeper: Housinge? Customer: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant!. I never seen so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could pinpoint a purr at four hundred yards! And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake. Shopkeeper: How much did you pay for this? Customer: Sixty quid, and eight for the fruit-bat. Shopkeeper: What fruit-bat? Customer: Eric the fruit-bat. Shopkeeper: Are all your pets called Eric? Customer: There's nothing so odd about that: Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul! Shopkeeper: No he didn't! Customer: Did! Shopkeeper: Didn't! Customer: Did, did, did, did, did and did! Shopkeeper: Oh, all right. Customer: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a fish license? Shopkeeper: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one. Customer: In that case, give me a bee license. Shopkeeper: A license for your pet bee? Customer: Yes. Shopkeeper: Called Eric? Eric the Bee? Customer: No. Shopkeeper: No? Customer: No, Eric the Half-Bee. He had an accident. Shopkeeper: You're off your chump. Customer: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquiallism to imply that my sanity is not up to scratch, or indeed to deny the semi-existence of my little chum Eric the Half-Bee, I shall have to ask you to listen to this! Take it away, Eric the orchestra leader!.......

We had our neighbor for dinner just the other night...

Maybe he should try the wrenches in his toolbox on his own nuts

Did you find any goodies like in Yosemite?

This from SmithRock.com bulletin board: "I just got into climbing and bought a new set of gear at REI. $1200, what a great deal! Now I need to learn how to use them. A few questions I have. How do you screw the nuts on my gear set to those bolts you see hanging all over the place. They all seem to be the same size so why do I need so many sizes on my gear set? I can't find any threads on the nuts and most of the wrenches in my tool box won't fit the funny angles.? Thanks for any help. Steve"

Nice job, Dru & Fern! Glad the second pin held!

Every time I look at the .10d enduro corner of The Good Book in Yosemite, I am struck with THE FEAR , even though I have onsighted .10d trad a few times, and even in Yos.

From the BBC: Lance Armstrong wins his record-equalling fifth consecutive Tour de France title. He beats closest rival Jan Ullrich by 76 seconds. Lance

Hey RuMR! How about those Viscious Fishes!?!

Japanese Gardens, Freeway, Full Heinous

I can't believe no-one has mentioned off-set Aliens yet... They

wirlwind'll be there