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Rain==>Winter==>Snow==>Ice==>Struggling to place an ice screw

Finally, some real RAIN!

I prefer Schlits Meat-Swill with ULTRA high protein. Could be meat, could be beer...looks like...MEAT BEER!!

"I have examined Man's wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. The peasant I tempt today eats and drinks what was eaten and drunk by the peasants of ten thousand years ago; and the house he lives in has not altered as much in a thousand centuries as the fashion of a lady's bonnet in a score of weeks. But when he goes out to slay, he carries a marvel of mechanism that lets loose at the touch of his finger all the hidden molecular energies, and leaves the javelin, the arrow, the blowpipe of his fathers far behind. In the arts of peace Man is a bungler. I have seen his cotton factories and the like, with machinery that a greedy dog could have invented if it had wanted money instead of food. I know his clumsy typewriters and bungling locomotives and tedious bicycles: they are toys compared to the Maxim gun, the submarine torpedo boat. There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons." -The Devil speaking in Don Juan in Hell , Act III of Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw, 1902.

I think that the difference comes from motivation. A partner that is motivated to climb is a good partner. A partner that is motivated to parade their mediocre climbing accomplishments in front of their cubicle-bound colleagues on Monday morning, so that they can be seen as "XTREME", is not a good partner.

PM, preferably cragging, Squish?, Index?

I will never climb with a Suit & Tie Guy again.

I tried not to lose it on the kid, but I don't think he's near the top of the list any more for partners. Is this a common thing for suit & tie guys to do, puff out there chests, then bail at the last second? Maybe I shouldn't climb with anyone that has an office.

pends on whatcha mean by 'sick'. What about spontaneous generation? Isn't that where maggots come from? One time, when I went to NY Shitty, I saw this guy standing there, admist the chaos of sprawling humanity out for a Sunday walk, with his lace-less boots hanging open, totally disheveled, reeking, stained. He'd fished the fat rind trimmed from a raw steak out of the trash, and he's whacking himself in the face with it, and sucking out it, and whacking himself in the face with it, and shouting "I'm crazy! I'm crazy!" "Fuck yeah, you are." I said.

Had trip planned, sure the weather was looking marginal, but who cares? You can't strike out if you don't step up to bat, right? The kid's supposed to call me on Saturday night, we were going to leave on Sunday at 3am to go car to car. I end up calling him at 7pm, to find out his deal, and he's like "Dude...I'm so friggin tired...let's go to Mount Erie instead" FTN! I went to the gym instead. What would you do?

I was envisioning the man's suicide projected onto the band as they played. Picure: dark club, loud death-metal music, crowd beating each other, while the image of some guy killing himself is laid over the top of everything. Pretty intense. Neo-barbarian, if you will. I do think that the law has no place in this, especially since the guy committing suicide isn't getting paid.

Ah...LSD...the double-edged sword. I advise extreme caution, young hallucenagen-quaffing Jedi. For the darkness you may yet see could be your own.

This comes along to prove you a fool.

Where are the "I'm a TR whore" T-Shirts in the Gaper Gear catalog?

Do you want to have the fistulated cow at your next picnic?YesNoA picnic just isn't the same without the fistulated cow!!Think of the kids!Does it feel hot on your arm?I am about to barf.

We'll miss you, fistulated cow!!

i'm learnding!!

Ruminal fistula anyone??

The answer you seek.

Find small consolation here. I got a kick out of the Key, especially the "Inspires Hatred" icon.

Nice job! Let's see the pics

I bought a pair of La Sportiva "Exum Ridge" TR shoes. They started to fall apart on day 3. But great for TR, so I bought a second pair at MEC on clearance, knowing they would blow out, and I could get my money back on warranty.

Prepare to have your whole life change forever. For the strong at heart: click here

And you'd know this how??????? From the mink farm down the road? Maybe?