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Yipeee! Freaking out of the hospital. Alright Kurt.

I will second Toketie, bring a fishing rod too.

I am surprised nobody so far has mentioned the ultimate chill out CD ever, Kruder and Dorfmiester-KD Sessions. I also just got done transfering about 10Gb of mainly chill shite from Europe, that is absolutely killa shite. Ez3kiel High Tone Gotan Project David Last Crooklyn Dub International Bourbonese Qualk DJ Olive DJ Wally (on Smoker's Delight) Just a few of what I got all pretty great stuff. Also what everyone mentioned to Aphex Twins cool stuff can be a little dark, but I like that, FSOL on the more trippy eltro psyche, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing is another classic, I am also into DJ Krush like shadow though with hip-hop and japenese influence, Eno is brillant, but it is so damn hard to choose which discs to buy, Bill Laswell has produced and played in a ton of bands, his dub works are great also SXL a project that he was involved in, Oh I just a good one on the Global Underground label Afterhours, chill and little dark, 3 disc 2 music 1 DVD. There is a ton of stuff out there beside Smoker's and Zero7.

Damn AlpineMonkey, that is awesome even though you guys didn't get up the route. Better luck next time on it.

Big Red is still running

So where are these pictures if you have them? The highest one that I have heard on on this continent is Mount Mulange which have a 1700m face on it, I guess most of it is slab.

Whoa-ho-ho-ho well shiver me timbers.....

I do that, but I make it so that it is four loops that are the same length as 2 foot sewn slings, basically around total length 17 feet.

15 days to go.........

Cool. Then there really is a good chance I will see you around. Alright I gotta leave this place and call it a day.

Flying solo, M.. is already there, probably boating in the Puget Sound by now. Soon enough I will be there too. How long are you stay Tim?

Damn, man I am jealous. I still have 17 days to go before I get on the plane. Have fun.

Nice this is one route I want to get on when I am back.

What is going on there Sir Fox some type of Index freak show. Thanks chelle, I was thinking the same thing. Ski's or snowboard, mountain biking, and alpine trad as soon I can I want to start teaching her all these things so she keep me going at late in my life.

Definitely! Seeing those picture of Index with Sir Fox has been making me jones for some crack climbing. I went out this weekend and found a vertical to fist crack that I struggled up realizing that my crack skills are sucking right now. It didn't help that the crack was full of dirt and razor sharp crystals. A far cry from being Index goodness.

Alpine training will have to begin though once she walks, so that she can bring the old man up gnarly alpine routes in the future. That brings me to a question, you know where I can find info on being up high with infants? We are thinking about heading into the Rwenzoris at some point while we are here, maybe her second year. It is a 7 day trek to base camp which is at 14,500. Then we can take turns sitting while the other climbs the third highest on the continent.

T=20 days and counting for plane arrival. T=31 days and counting for little one arrival. T=? when I can get her climbing.

Holy shite 22! Happy b-day. Now that you are 22 you must be able to sport more than a neck beard?

Thanks for the updates ML. I sure hope he is out by the time I arrive back in Seattle, it sounds like he is getting better quite for the type of injury he had. Good luck on your recovery Kurt, hope to see you in the pub instead of the hospital when I show up.

Hey man, why do you have to be so mean? Group hug everybody, after all this cafe sensitivioso.

More cycling stuff. A guy I know is organizing a bike race here in Rwanda in hopes of funding an Olympic mountain bike team. http://www.projectrwanda.org

Well here is an online guide to winter ice routes in South Africa. I really need to get down there and do some ice climbing at some point. Maybe next year. http://www.peakhigh.co.za/winterrouteice.htm#location

I am not taking anything. I figure if I need to I have a laboratory at my disposal to see if I have malaria. Also there is a ton of clinics that can diagnose malaria, some of them it might be the only thing they can do halfway decently.

Well, apparently they still work. Suprisingly Yep still work in fact almost to well, I hoping the trying would last lot longer than one month.

If I was able to leave right now I might be able to show up. I'll look into it.