ken4ord

The fad will be over soon. American are good for up to a couple of year on the latest diet fad, this too shall go to the way side.

"Shave Bush" on a pick-up. "Blow Bros. number 1 in the number 2 business" port-a-potty delivery truck. "Satan", you know the lil fish with horns and pitch fork. Just remembered another one I like "Unless you are a hemoroid, get off my ass"

I put 200+ miles on dirt roads looking for potential crags, hot springs and camping spots. Found one that someone has been working on, I think I crossed paths with them on their way out. I think I may have found another good crag, but it was hard to tell in the fading light. Man I'm bored I want to climb.

Catch

What, why would anybody monitor who is climbing with Neutrinos.

I know what you mean Dru, it sux. even with the limited choices that we have, I would much rather have Kerry, Coke, and Bud.

Ken, quit taking those painkillers in such large quantities. You HAVE NEVER seen me fully back Bush on this site. EVER. I'm not happy with things he's done, and have said so on many occassions in discussions here. My point is that Kerry isn't the savior that you socialist/commies think he is. Besides, ALL good political debates on this site start with a blatant flaming insult. So, suck buttgravy, choad huffer! Well The way I see it here is the great land of USA we get two choices, what a wonderful system. Granted I don't really care for Kerry, but because of our great politcal system you either support one or the other. So your ranting makes it sound like you are one of them Bush supporting/war mongering/right wingnut lemming. So I'll pass on the buttgravy, I know it's your favorite so it is all yours.

Greg sometimes your right wing militant-like spray is unbearable. I can't believe you or anyone can fully support Bush and this stupid war were in (btw all wars are stupid, we should be beyond that in this stage development of the human race). If you can't see the guy is a moron, who is only interested in making money for himself and friends at the expense of the general public, then there is no help for you. GregW = fucking idiot = Bush

Useless, though some of those guys do ride there, nobody shares info, and you thought climbers were secretive.

There once was a girl named Snugtop. She lived with her dog, Beautop. She wanted limericks all bawdy, but none were too naughty. Just line after line of slop.

OMG Dood, your too much sometimes

Yo Lucky, I ride that shit at 38. Good gravity riding, if want beta or ride sometime PM me. Note won't be riding for a few more weeks since I have a sprained foot/ankle and wrist. you all that can't handle that there are some of us that prefer just riding downhill. Climbing is ok, but flying at mach ten and launching is where it is at.

I recall AlpineK wrestled one down in Smith in the gorge last year.

Bear Mountain has a climb on it listed in the Nelson Select that looks cool. Little under 20 pitches though. What about those clip up climbs in the Mazama area? Baring NF(?) looks like it would be quite long, I don't know about rock quality, wild roof traverse though up high.

Ah yeah, just got some purply smurply, sticky icky, good ole' chronic gangsta shit otherwise known as............

Yeah I can get PT, but at this point I think it is all about the RICE. I pretty much got my flexibility back now, just got to wait for the swelling, bruises, and dull pain to go away. Bummer about the ankle break, but it sounds like you are still able to get out, which is a good thing.

Check out the PC thread for this week looks like it will involve some climbing, also check with Icegirl looks like they are doing a womens climbing night.

Did you see Tommy Chong on Leno. It was great, funny as hell. Cheech came out on stage as well and they mentioned coming out with a new Cheech and Chong film.

I 'll second that. Tequilla first choice, then whiskey, beer and alpine porn gets me motivated.

This almost sounds like an invite for all the lurker guys out there.

Three of us went out to do the Franconia Ridge traverse in NH during the winter. It only a hike though in the winter up there it is wild. We made it up to the ridge the temps were a balmy -5 degrees with gusts up to 100mph. The guy with the car decided he had enough after 5 minutes above tree line and bailed. My buddy Craig and I discussed for a bit and decided to continue on. After a hour above treeline in those condition we figured better get down below treeline. We ended up doing some overnight hiking down low for a couple of nights. Temps and wind stayed the same. We made it out and made the call to some friends in North Conway several hours away for a ride. We had a 4-5 hour wait out in the cold. Paced back and forth for the whole time trying to stay warm. Another winter traverse in NH, this time the Preidential traverse. We ended up bailing in the dungeon (an emergency shelter on the ridge) around 2 in the afternoon to wait out the weather. The floor is ice, the ceiling is ice, at least there is a couple of bunks and a small 1 foot square window. Everytime we fired up the stove it would melt the ceiling and start raining. It sucked.

Hey SnowByrd77, I didn't get to talk to you at PC, and get your story, I guess here it is. Well getting over your fear is just going to take time and experience. The more you get out the more comfortable you will be. The gym and here on CC is a good place to start for meeting people to climb with. If you are looking for a real safe environment and want to take it slow, I would second seeking out resources such as the Mountaineers and BoAlps, even though I am not really into the organized things like that personally, but for some it is a great place to start. Both have intro classes that progress slow and safe, but I believe they usually start in the spring. If you are not into that and just want to hook up with people, find people that you can trust and only do what you feel comfortable doing. As for gear, starting out all you really need is the basics, shoes, harness, belay device, a couple locking carabiners are handy (at least one for your belay device), chalk bag (optional). There is a lot of choice out there just for that stuff. See what other people are using and ask why they prefer some brands over others. Don't worry about the other stuff for now, you'll want to be climbing with experienced people and if they have experience and are out there climbing a bit they will have all the other items used in climbing. That doesn't mean though that if they have all the gear they are experienced. Welcome back to climbing.

Yeah you gotta watchout for dem beets! You saw that movie, right Attack of the Killer Beets.

Dude you don't have to cross them that far, cross them so the you see two images of the ice axes, them relax your crossing so that they merge (the right side of the left image and left side of the right image), then allow your eyes to focus on that central image and you will see it in 3D.