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PART 2 Day 1 started at the gate with having to register for the climb. Standard Tanzania protocol filling out a book with name, country of orgin, passport number, age, sex, blah blah blah. I usually end up making up all the information because I have seen what happens to records like these. Most of the time the books will end up in a cardboard box shoved in corner somewhere never to opened again. Basically it is residual record keeping from when the British ruled and things have not changed since. After registering we went and found our group of porters, 7 in total for 2 of us, guide, assistant guide, cook, assistant cook and 3 extra guy to hump our shit up the mountain. At a minimum to climb the mountain you will need 1 guide and 1 porter for the guide and you carry all your stuff and do your own cooking, the cost comes out to around $750, and is a little harder to arrange but can be done, you will also need to figure in your transport to and from the mountain gates. Our trip was $1100, which was for all the guys, transport, hotel room before and after the trip. The gate is a crazy scene with hundreds of porters trying to get work and then weigh in for the climb. Each porter can carry up to 18kg not including their personal gear. Some of the guys I talked to had an average of about 15kg of personal gear, so the guys were carrying approximately 33kg (70lbs) of stuff up the mountain. Lining up for the weigh in The weigh in station After the weigh in we were able to start hiking, about hour after arriving at the gate. The first part of the trek is through the rain forest and is quite scenic, though very busy, there was about 400-500 people including tourist, porters and guides traveling the route to the Machame hut camp. Mike and our faithful companion Aloyce It was pretty easy going to Machame camp. We arrived in about 4 hours. Camp was on the border of moorlands and rain forest, needless to say it was quite crowded. I decided to continue up the trail to get away from the chaos, where I could smoke some weed, listen to some music and observe the chaos from a distance. Looking down at Machame camp Flowers in the moorlands Evening views of the mountain, the wall up above is the Breach Wall, no ice, last year the pillars were touching down, not this year The next day was started with tea, porrige, eggs, nasty sausage, some veggies and toast. Later in the trip we would have a hard time stomaching it all mainly because it was the same thing we had been eating every day. After breakfast the trek was on. I like the moorland a lot, I spent all day hiking ahead and going of the trail to get away from the crowds. As long I looked off in the distance (to avoid views of garbage hidden over cliff and behind bushes) and disregarded all the noise from people talking and the radios that the porters carried, I felt like I was in the mountains. Mike with our ever present faithful companion The constant stream of people A little cave stream where I got some water, I never treated the water while on the mountain and never got sick, lucky I guess. Some cave snot near where I got my water Eventually we made it to our 2nd camp of the trip, on the edge of the Shira Plateau. This camp was worse than the last one, because all the tents and people were visible, I felt bad for the mountain. The nice thing was I was able to find some boulders and short wall to play on. So I spent the afternoon drag Mike along outcrop to outcrop. I wasn't able to much at altitude and gave up after a short while. That night our faithful companion was able to score me some more weed and I slept quite well. The next came and we were greated by our assistant cook, "porrige", which meant breakfast was ready. 1/2 hour later we were hitting the trail. It was quite scenic out on the edge of the plateau, I really was tempted to take off to Shira peak and go check out the caves and shrines that are supposedly out there, but I figure it would be better to save my energy. Instead later that day I on our way to the lava tower, I decided to do some bushwhacking. The porter trail takes a lower trail, so I followed it for a bit and scrambled up to the trail that goes to the Lava Tower. Mike said Alyoce was on the constant look out for me and was worried that I would get lost. I found really funny. It was nice to get away from the crowds and feel like I was on a mountain. Looking off towards Shira Views of the Shira Plateau, if you are rich you can get driven up to the Plateau to start your Kili climb. On our way to the Lava Tower, high point for the day The Lava Tower was in the clouds so I didn't get any pictures, but there are some rock route up it, but they are off limits, too dangerous for Tanzanian standards. Some smaller lava tower stacks just below. Looking towards high cap for the Arrow Glacier, again off limits because people have died there. Eventually we reached camp 3, Barranco hut camp, below the Barranco wall. It was a really scenic place to camp if you block out all of the noise, people, latrine smells and garbage. Looking up at the Barranco wall in the evening. Pete you can see the water streaks, but no ice, in the morning it was a little more filled in but once the sun hit it you could here it coming down. Again off limits. The moon that night To be cont.........

Damn Frankenstien is looking pretty lean for this time of year. Cool to see my old stomping grounds though. Thanks.

Trip: Kilimanjaro - up-Machame Route, down-Mweka Date: 1/18/2007 Trip Report: Well I made is about what I can say. It was much harder physically than I expected but I persevered. The trip started out flyinbg from Kigali to meet my friend Mike in Nairobi, I had a while to wait so I made myself comfortable at the airport bar. I had some funny conversations with some Mutatu (mini-bus) drivers and got a good buzz. Eventually Mike arrive and it was off to other friends house, where we ate, drank and smoke some crazy ether made hash/tar like substance. Good times, though after getting to bed a 3:30am, I didn't feel much like moving at 6am like we were suppose to inorder to catch the bus. I managed to not keep our cab driver waiting crawled into the car. Leaving Kigali The bus ride down to Moshi was much longer than I thought it was going to be. Luckily though it was through Massi country and was quite scenic, though I will never do it again unless it is to climb this mountain. Monlundi Mountain(s)???? I believe this is called the Monduli mountains. Very beautiful and the cliffs are gaurded by dificult bushwhacking. The type of adventure I am always up for. Hopefully someday I will get to play in them hills. Well after leaving Nairobi we finally arrived in Moshi 10 hours later. Like I said never again, I will fly next time. The whole drive Kili was in the clouds so we never saw it which I thought would make the ride somewhat worth it. Anyways we checked into our hotel and begun to drink beer and scotch and unwind from the trip. At that time the mountain cleared and we got some good views in. The hill The next day we were up early to do a game drive in Arusha National Park at the base of Mt. Meru. It was a beautiful day and we were both siked to see some critters. We sort of had a getto safari rig that was homemade, but it did the job. In the getto rig Veiws of Mt Meru We saw some game there. Definitely not as good as Nygorogoro Crater or the Serengeti, it is small park with not much traffic though. We saw giraffe, buffulo, hippos, black and white colobus, babboons, warterhogs, and lots of birds. Cape Buffulo Giraffe Views of the lakes The driver we had was quite bad, at one point we were watching some black and white colobus, but they moved. Then I realized that the driver was asleep after I had to ask him several times to move the vehicle. It sort of pissed me off, so I decided I was going to stiff him on a tip. When he dropped us off at the hotel I got out and walked directly to the bar. Shortly afterward the bastard came in, complaining that we didn't say goodbye, well I knew that was bullshit so I just told I was tired. Then he asked about a tip, that is when I laid into him. I sat there for about 10 minutes trying to tell how bad of driver he was and explained that I would have tipped him well if gave two shits about our drive. Then I gave him a small tip for our conversation, which I probably shouldn't, but hopefully I made it clear that he could have made lot more. After a few beers we continued our alpine training with more beer, scotch and smoke. And with mountain views on the side to be cont.......

Nice looking route. I am so bummed I am here when there is such a good PNW ice year happening. It is driving me freaking crazy. I just might have to do sets pull ups on my tools, tonight to work through my frustration.

You guys so suck!!! Fuckin' A I miss snow and mountains and climbing ice....... IT's not fair

Where your damn pictures!!!!! Hobbit's is sweet little climb, now if there was about 500 feet that it would be a stellar out of this world climb. Chia pet or direct or was it just the ramp. Definitely get on Dracula, Pegasus right, Penguin, Standard. Also get to Cathedral get on Repentence and Remission, if you need to get a rope gun because climbs don't get much better than those. Oh yeah if you keep going up on to Washington, do something fun, there has to be ice in up there by now, hell I have climbed as early as October, get on Pinnacle or Pinnacle Ridge.

IMOD is not a cure, it is an immune system booster for those who are on ARV's. It doesn't sound like it works that well, because it seemed to help about 65% out 200 volunteers. If they are on ARV's it might just be the ARV's or just flucuations in CD4 levels. Now nuclear bombs is something we can all use. Go Iran!!!!

Sorry but I think the metric system make way more sense than the "english" system. Ok I agree that it doesn't work so well when you take a 4X8 and try to convert it to metric, but it doesn't make sense for a manufacturer to change there tooling to make a metric sheet of plywood, yeah call it a 4X8 and call it good. English bolts sizes are stupid compared to metric, whole numbers are so much easier than fractions (like you said). Metric volumes are so much easier, than 16 ounces to a cup and 4 cups to quart bullshit. Temperature measurments in metric make way more sense to 0 degrees freezing, 100 degrees boiling, not the stupidity of 32 freezing and 212 boiling. To say the "English" system is better than the metric system is like saying, 'Face it 100 foot Goldlines are a better rope to climb on no matter what'. Wake up and smell your 30ml of coffee.

exactly! there should be more superbowls. One of the best things about the mountains is that they tend to keep dope-smokin', tele-hat sportin', hemp-sandal wearing wieners out of my favorite sportsbar on Superbowl Sunday. Sportsbars are for closet fags. The game is for those who are out. I'll take the mountains and dope smoking any day. I'll pass on the tele-hat (whatever the fuck that may be), hemp-sandal, wieners and sportsbar. Pink, now that is a Superbowl I can relate too.

The only thing the Superbowl is good for, is clearing out the mountains. It has always been a good day to climb. Have fun getting drunk and watching whole bunch of guys 'sacking' each other.

Sounds like something the Rooster would say. Or Foghorn Leghorn. I hope the Rooster wouldn't say that, that image is the equivalent of kiddie porn for the Rooster.

For Busdriver I reccomend Memoirs of the Elephantman some really great twisted songs. Pen Thief by Buck is by far my favorite song, it is on the Giga Single comp, but for full CD check out This Right Here is Buck 65. Hmm, never heard of Krishna Das, guess I gotta check it. Oly I'll send it some time. I don't have it with me and can't remeber it right now.

Buck 65 - Giga Single - Pen Theif pen thief, i sit with my back to the television, thinking deeply, watching the ink seep into the page. the wars i wage are fought to the finish, with written symbols and nimble fingers. i'm hooked up to poison iv and my pulse is irregular. my body convulses and pain hides behind my eyes. subtle floods of fluid collect on the floor in the form of blood puddles. my lungs are sponges, and this pen is a tunnel for the flesh that i squeeze into the mouth of my funnel. i whisper my reports to the candles in private, and try to protect my property from pirates properly, when and if the plan of attack hatches. parts of my brain are stained by black patches, and i calculate the extent of my sickness by sub-dividing the depths of despair by thickness. my ideas incubate under my tongue for weeks, are born, and take form in my cheeks. when i say when and where, then measily crumbs become banquets easily. blankets wrap themselves around shivering swimmers. a promise sits on the burner and simmers. i stroke the breast of yesterday morning, whirlwinds listening for the early warning system. applying pressure to joints to crack its sockets, and shove the stolen pens into my jacket pockets. four in the morning, biting through pencils, and makeshift writing utensils. because i'm a pen thief, i sit with my back to the television, thinking deeply, watching the ink seep into the page. the wars i wage are fought to the finish, with written symbols and nimble fingers. pen thief, i sit with my back to the television, thinking deeply, watching the ink seep into the page. the wars i wage are fought to the finish, with written symbols and nimble fingers. all i need is a pen to be self-sufficient. watch my language when the hands reach the twelfth position. i rob from the blind when i got no choice, and think to myself in a robot voice. my hard covered rhyme book complete with gold trimming, to write in with pens that i take from old women. even if it means a black eye and a swelled lip, it goes with the territory for a felt tip...pen theif. i sit with my back to the television, thinking deeply, watching the ink seep into the page. the wars i wage are fought to the finish, with written symbols and nimble fingers. because i'm a pen thief, i sit with my back to the television, thinking deeply, watching the ink seep into the page. the wars i wage are fought to the finish, with written symbols and nimble fingers. pen thief. Josh Martinez - Made In China - I've Got Devils I didn't even know where I was I was so confused but despite the lack of light i can't be eradicated a plague in a parks on your first born best educated many minds debated the lines disected and in time perfected the approach indirected a code for all the following native to coach now the words can't be heard aloud in the crowd you're not allowed to dwell in my well and dark clouds i'm a shithead like that still think heaven is a place on Earth? when i purposely perverted the worse clone that i own and let him roam first so God created man to stand alone and now i only trust my angels and even they sleep around when on the ground floor they whore that you shits get away with poor attitude and sure you're mad and wound and curse my name but when the fluid came you washed away and weren't the same shameful, sorry, pitiful fools can do nothing right like the first time a light shined you went blind and killed as many of your fellow kind as i will to let go and still you wind and bitch and moan and switch the bone you pick and i'm getting so very fucking sick of it! i was burned when it came and they played more when they turned their backs and saluted with their ass cracks and walked away from the deluted world facts so bark my little pets hark! i can see those silhouettes go to war and rape the Earth and keep on smoking your cigarettes CHORUS: i've got angels x2 i've got devils x2 So cute to see you smoke And a coffee to go with that? ah... Word up wordie x2 Kiss me, kiss me...muah! See, i've grown up so i just own the cup and drink my vows of sobriety to a deity not immediately known for piety so society is my fix to show we exist and grow like plagues way out of control of their leagues i'm a spiritual man but give the devil its new damn it's not a soul around that throws a party like he do half mexican, part jamaican, fully hebrew i stood on a rock meditating til i was fully see through between me and you i'm sitting in sand sitting in guilt surrounded by the abandoned work frame of the house of guilt and first founded having astounded my neighbours with the bare facts i perceeded to carve my name into his house with care and a fair size axe along the attacks let's bring this baby down Ni-chi to the crib muscled and it can't make a sound and when it starts teething pike in a gag stop his breathing and his face turns red and then even after it's dead and gone i can always say all along that i knew Ni-chi was wrong God's not dead! he's in a sallow full of sand he's passing the time and rise again in the aftermath of man and when you hear the words recited like a fool quote! and tell'em you heard it from Josh on a beat that Niu wrote... CHORUS:.... Sure i dwell in hell but you know it's not all that bad cause i'm surrounded by my friends and so many i know are glad to be a part of the family sad, because we get such bad publicity it's not so black and white in fact we're proud of our ethnicity! Write the first line of thinking tight and light drinking and sure it gets stinking hot but we get a light sprinkling sometimes i remember being spermed in all hell fires forever however times have changed we've now retired that lame devil look my ... couldn't wait to get at the great catch when they saw the car keys and couldn't match the dna with the obadge o-oh death by dyatribe my peoples are incapsulated children put in cells but perhaps thay made a pass and spread after the fact i know i talk too much but can i offer you a seat? are you cold? well let me discretely go and turn up the heat! i've been all around the world and i i i i i can't find enough souls to bind so if you'll let me i'll try to be brief and just speak my mind i wanna be frank with you i know you work hard every day and when i say that life spanks you you know i'm in your corner all the way i've seen your kids pray for the day when they can have it all and not have you talke the fault for you not having the gut to come to me i can make it all better i can make you see through where you can't cause i can be true to my word and grant you everything you want your wife spoke my name last night as she slept a haunted sleep and she weeps but she creeps from the cracks and tries to keep undaunted i understand that you're a man who couldn't be everything you wanted so let me help! i'm only here to steer you through the fear i want nothing but a soul on my control so hear me clearly! i can be your best friend and cast a blessing on your baby cause when hell freezes over i'll be in bed with you lady... sleep tight! CHORUS:.... Sage Francis - Personal Journals - Crackpipes I'd give a twenty one gunshot salute With the toy rifle that you bought me but it won't shoot And all is well because there's been one too many shots The sterile robots want to talk to me about Detox Stop the presses, there's been an update Delivered via 1:30 AM phone call When an only half-informative source talks discretely Meet me-- at the family room at the side of the Intensive Care Unit Immediately, I'll carry a tune The sirens so loud, can't hear my music Keep free-- of negative thoughts, everything'll be fine We all assumed... That it would go back to the way things were That it would go back to normal soon Saw the moon in a way that I never seen it before When I looked up that night into the sky wondering why Lookin' for answers, guess I ain't asked right I'm guessin most of yall out there know exactly what that's like What that's like, now tell me what's that like? It's like a whirlwind of emotions that occurs when moms and dads fight It's like when a girl grins, an emotion of hers That holds your arm, and grabs tight Hurl him into the ocean, one of them cold sweat heat flash types With extreme fluctuations in temperature changes Have been known to crack pipes... ...crack pipes...crack pipes... Meet me-- half way in a goal, extra length just to help your strength Meet me-- at the AA meeting, needing to take more then 12 steps Bring me to your hiding place, so I can face your vice grip I'll chisel every single monkey off your back with this ice pick Come meet up with me on the sidelines when the game is over Just to say hello, then afterwards, backstage To let me know that you enjoyed the show And go to grandma's house for Sunday dinner Sit at the head of the table take away the fatal flaw you made the day before, I seen you bleed Meet me-- on Christmas Eve, we can fight but make up before you leave Make visits with the rest of those that rest in pieces of my dreams Meet me at the fork in the road where lost souls get indecisive Meet me at the crossroads so I can have someone to walk into the light with

Lately it has mainly been pretty twisted hip-hop from: *Busdriver (sounds like a mad lyrical professor on speed) *Sage Francis (good fucked lyrics funny on the dark side) *Buck 65 (Mainly country style hiphop) *Darc Mind (deep vocal and chill) *Da Babylonianz (two white boy gettin' whack) *Josh Martinez (from Vancouver) *Weather (Busdriver, Daedelus, and other can't remember project) *Non-Prophets (Sage) *Aesop Rock (just got an older cd and listening to the latest) And ocassionally been playing *Baby Bunny Classics (of course, for my girl, not necessarly me) So Oly, whatcha listen too?

When I saw the title, I thought you were smoking crack, but you got some good points. Sounds like it is a good year this year too.

Here's what else Jeff says.... WTF!!! What hell is wrong with people. They call drinking therapy, sounds like they need some really therapy.

Dood, that was crazy how all of sudden you were on the underside of horizontal free hanger, sick sick sick. :lmao: Seriously though, nice climb, looks freaking hard. I can't say I have ever pulled off a figure-4.

Yeah until everyone reads the most recent Rock & Ice article. Avi thanks for most excellent TR. :brew:

Well I am back. It was a interesting time, a full report with pictures will go up soon. By the time we showed up the weather had shifted and we had sun almost all day long every day. We both got a little cooked up on the mountain. I went the whole way with sneakers, since what snow there was, was concrete. I am glad my friend kept going cause after puking my guts out high, just before Stellar Point, I was ready to go back, but neither of us said anything, and just kept going and made it to the top. Good times.

Off to climb well walk up Kili tomorrow. Have fun tubing and modifying Cobras. I won't pour one out for my hommies, but will tip back a few. Cheers, :brew:

So let me guess, blood, shit and cum are the glue used in sticking geeks together......

Announcement, the porn has been removed!!!!! Thank gawd, I found it completely irresponsible of cc.com and very disturbing to see pictures of naked dark skinned beautiful women caressing each other. I even think there was a picture of them kissing each other. Well at least we are back to being WS now.

Looks like you got similar result that I got.

What, I thought you were some sort of medical professional. Have you never seen a guinea pig with a case of urine scald? I'm sure you can imagine that it's quite painful. Well I not sure if I would consider myself a medical professional, even so burning pee is not something I deal with directly, we may test the burning pee in the laboratory, but the doctor is the one who treats it.

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