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tanstaafl

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  1. And once again, if anyone lost a helmet at these climbs, pm me.
  2. Found a helmet today at Mountaineers Creek ice climbs. PM me and tell me brand and type and I'll get it back to you.
  3. Somebody call my name? I jsut find that I tend to accomplish goals of getting out a certain amount; whereas I never meet goals of climbing a certain grade or getting a certain route done.
  4. tanstaafl

    Suck weekend

    Whatever you say man. You guys make it sound about as appealing as a root canal. At a conservative estimate, I got out easily 100 days last year, and no one yelled at me for it either. And when I didn't get it, it was my own damn fault.
  5. tanstaafl

    Suck weekend

    You all are making me supremely happy to be unmarried.
  6. Climbed Guye yesterday; all snow and no ice; fun and cruiser. Snow was a little sugary but steps were fine. The smaller lighter people were able to just walk on top of the crust on the way in but not the bigger people. Saw a bald eagle while having lunch on top. Was on the north side of Kent in the late afternoon; didn't have much time to look around but it looked like there was some fun stuff back there.
  7. They didn't even ask to see our passports last time. Must have been due to rat's aura of respectability.
  8. Dude it took all of three minutes to look at a topo. But you’re right, I should have been planning what to go slay this weekend instead. When I climbed it (Calculus Crack/Memorial Crack start) I thought it was a pleasant enough moderate day out, but meeting Dirty Harry and Cappellini was easily the most entertaining part of that day.
  9. But it was nice and warm at Dante's last night. Where the hell were you?
  10. Actually, if you swing leads, each person leads one 7, one 9, and one 9+ pitch, and the person with the odds get a 6 and an 8 while the person with the evens gets a 7 and a 9A0 or 10b. Pretty lame to consider your partner on a climb that evenly divided as not pulling their weight, regardless of which pitches they get.
  11. And a big thanks to pigsticker for the ride home. It was much appreciated.
  12. Thanks everyone for PMs and suggestions. Found a decent-looking hostel for a price that even I think is good.
  13. Dude, have you *been* to JRat's place? It's the size of a shoebox. Although I am emailing him to ask for recommendations as well. How you been buddy?
  14. I'm heading to SLC for some ice climbing the week between Christmas and New Years, and am looking for cheap hotel recommendations, especially with kitchenette, although just ones where you can get away with using a Coleman stove work too. Anybody? thanks.
  15. This Too Shall Pass was a bit rainy in the middle of the first pitch and pretty thin at the top, but climbable as of Saturday, at least if you have a ropegun along like I did. We climbed the left side of that first little WI3 step on Time Quake and then traversed over.
  16. But would she be the right girl if she wanted to do the DC???
  17. In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief! Maybe this does make logical sense, but you're first statement is not even true. The only "person" who is an ultimate source of morality and truth is God, but if by "judge" you mean reiterate God's morality, then the Bible makes no such prohibition against "judgment;" au contraire, we are commanded to do so. eh? I remember "Judge not lest ye be judged," and "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" but I seem to have forgotten the part where I was commanded to judge.
  18. thanks ...but maybe not as unique as you think. I know many, from yuppie Seattle liberals to a 72-year old rural Baptist minister's wife. they're out there.
  19. minx honey, untrue. You know me. I have deeply held religious beliefs and I'm in favor of...well, technically I'm really in favour of marriage but I'd settle for unions. carry on everyone.
  20. Lover's Leap? Maybe The Line??
  21. I hear about criminals killing people a hell of a lot less often than I hear about a teenager walking into school with an assault rifle and shooting 25 of his classmates, or a father shooting his family and then himself, or a guy showing up to a rave afterparty and slaughtering the partygoers, or a father blowing away his 14-year-old daughter as she crawls in her bedroom window thinking she's an intruder. I wonder if the parents of the Amish schoolgirls murdered last month think we'd be safer if only more law-abiding milkmen had easy access to guns? All these people, right up to the point they started spraying bullets, were your "law-abiding citizens." And no one ever said they were insane either until they killed a bunch of people.
  22. tanstaafl

    James Nakagami

    I was waiting for the truck stop joke. Thanks for not disappointing me.
  23. If you actually notice the weight difference between eight tied slings over your shoulder and eight skinny slings over your shoulder, you're way more sensitive than I am, that's for sure. Not that I'm noted for my sensitivity.
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