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There is no way your piglet, you are too TUFF girl. Who's Pooh?

Piglet: Pope

Very nice! Damn I miss ice climbing.

Alright thanks you guys. I am siked to check out some of this stuff. I sampled the Clap Your..... and decided it didn't appeal to me, Blue Scholars yes, looking forward to that Roots disc, and I guess I will have to check out that Rachid Taha disc I didn't know he had a new one, I just got turned onto Sage Francis definitely cool shit.

I can't believe it took 7 posts before somebody mentioned Renton.

I found it. Can't wait to do this race someday. They changed the destination but it still sounds cool. Plymouth-Banjul

Does anyone know of the unoffical rally to Dakar? This one Brit was telling about it where your only allowed to spend so much on the car, so no tricking it out, no offical check points, and just the first to get there any route they can.

Nice, something interesting on the web. Bummer about her bike, I really like her Chernobyl TR. It is interesting that she says that none of the stuff that last is for sale but then she say that she was hoping to find one of the SS skull rings so she could buy a new one.

Gotta have something to keep your beer in, it is sort of a long drive with boring scenery.

Which 5.6 was it? I climbed my hardest 5.6 in Jtree on the Outback Dome(?), the big dome up on the hillside. I thought it was harder than Gunks 5.6's

Someone want to educate me on what "rock crawling" is? Does it involve 4x4's? "Professional rock crawling?" There are people who get PAID to drive these oversized Broncos off-road? Damn where have you guys been. You live in Washington and you don't know about rock crawling. Yes I agree it is a stupid sport(?).

*Cross over to the heart of darkness (Congo) and climb the active Nyiragongo volcano. link *Climb Killimanjaro, would love to do a technical route up the mountain with the right partner otherwise it will be a walk up. *Climb Visoke, a volcano in Rwanda with a crater lake. *Try to organize a trip up Mikeno which is located in the Congo, there is no trail and they don't normally climb that mountain so there is a good chance they won't allow it. *Build a woodie in my backyard. *More climbing in South Africa *Make it back to Washington for a visit and hopefully get out with some of you and do some climbing.

Hey OlegV, what about those ice flows to the left of the magenta line down low? Are thinner that they look? When I first saw the picture, that is what caught my eye. Also the ones farther up and left too look good.

I agree my goals have changed a bit not much climbing around thiese parts so it is actually been more work oriented goals that I have now. It is definitely not going to help my onsite ability, oh well, hopefully the next country we live in has more climbing so that I can get back into it. My most recent goal is to get a woodie and campus board up in the backyard, so that when I do get around some rock I pull down.

Nice job, fun easy route. It was my first ice climb ever. We had a hell of a time on the route, complete with dropping a screw and breaking of an ice damn and drenching ourselves. We finished off day with 45 minutes of armpit postholing just to cover 100 yards from the base of the Escape Hatch to the cat-track. good times. Now get on some real shit, like the Dike, hell it got climbed in October this year. That is a great climb. Fafnir right next to is also a stellar climb, though I almost crapped myself climbing 100 feet of near vertical detached scewless ice getting to the meat of the climb. Cannon is the place you want to be for alpine ice. Actually for the best NE alpine ice head up to Baxter State Park, unless you got some serious time then you really want to go to Labrorador.

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I thought I didn't have any goals I guess I did. Didn't get on ice in SA, Killi is going on 2006 goal, Mt. Kenya damn right good times were had, Tanzania wouldn't allows us to attempt climbing the wall it was restricted area found some pebble pulling that day to make up for it, good times were had drinking cheap red wine and reaching up for a clip, finishing the year in Uganda instead Morrocco.

Don't be to rough on yourself, that was a 5.8++.

Sorry I couldn't have been there to be another idiot on your list-o-idiots.

DHL blows, here in Rwanda it takes more around two week from here to the states and the same coming here. Also it is damn expensive. I wanted to send a letter and it was $60.

I end up eating goat all the time at least 3 times a week, for some reason unknown to me Rwandans like eating that chewy as beast. I go down to the market and get one for $10 and have them slaughter with a machete it right there for me. Or buy a whole lamb again freshly slaughtered for $5

It looks like he didn't hit the ground with full fource in the pictures where he is hitting, you can see the piece is weighted. That was the only thing I could think of, it still is pretty surprising.

And how is that suppose to help except for making more difficult to pay out slack when your partner is leading?????

No I meant the Italian Pony, he was short dude, but went about like he was a stallion. Sort of like "The Little Train That Could", the story wasn't called "The Locomotive That Could".