lancegranite

Here is short form: You: bearded,frustrated,dork. Me: having sex with a live woman. Snaffle or not, I'm just funnier than you. Sorry, L. Granite

It was love at first sight... and by the way, that's Mrs. Granite to you. She calls you guys "hopeless dorks"and wonders how you ever manage to score.... I think that she might be right.

I'm here for the lasting friendships that the internet is designed to create. We are pen pals now! Your pal, L. Granite

Mr. Harpell, I can't believe you took the time to cut and paste a vagina on a squirrel... Somehow, I feel better about myself. Here's to you! L. Granite

I like the idea of no numbers. It keeps us honest.

Amen. Now, if you all will open your bibles to psalm 69...

This area sets a standard for what climbing can be. The folks put this out exemplify virtues that we all can learn from. Here it is, come and climb. Enjoy, respect, celebrate the spirit of climbing. From what I saw, they did not even post any grades.

Just wondering... Does this mean you don't want a christmas card? Season's Greetings, L. Granite

Do you see what I mean?

what's the deal with quoting everything that is said by the post before? Some of us do read the rest of the thread... The whole thing seems like a crutch for the humor-impaired. Thoughts?

I look like the Pillsberry dough boy! He He!

You ARE mad! I'm touched..

Sounds like somebody is still a little sensitive about his song. For the record...it was very nice.

Among those who have tails, folks who just have a piece of tail are frowned upon... Stub-tails are the pariahs of the tail world.

Tails are more common than one might suspect. Chances are, somebody who is reading this has (or had) a tail. We know you have one.

Dru, you just beat the rest of us to the punchline!! On a more sinister note, it smells like sabotoge... A radical faction of the Mountaineers took responsibility for the bombing of a bridge east of Seattle today. This is the latest in a series of attacks against the "Mixed" climber crowd... Mixed climbers, a distant relative of snowboarders, represent the latest threat to the 97 year old climbing organization's reign of terror.. A press release from the Mountaineers summarized the violent response to the new climbs: "These climbs are the worst thing to happen to climbing in Washington since Charlie Bell's 1960 solo ascent of the Willis Wall." Sources close to the mixed climbers say the damage is not serious, but that several projects may have to wait until the repairs are made. It is rumored that the mixed group is planning to start "retro mixed sending" many popular summertime rock climbs in retaliation. "Barney's Rubble is first, then if the Violence does not stop, we will be forced to climb Bruce's boulder next"...

...And people think my bigfoot post is bad!

"I would love to go, but my leg beeper will go off if I leave the house... "

Squamish, - July 2000 Forest manager David Mills reported seeing a creature in late June. Squamish police told him there have been several similar reports lately.As a forestry manager with the Squamish Indian tribe, Mills knows his way around the woods. So he's positive that what he saw was a sasquatch, a large, mysterious ape-like creature also known as bigfoot. He was checking out some young trees and kept hearing a noise in the woods. But when he'd turn, he wouldn't see anything. Then the hair on the back of his neck stood up. "I watched this hairy thing on two legs," he said. "It used its left arm to lift up a branch and walked about 50 feet. He turned in my direction and saw I was watching him, and ducked behind a tree." Mills snuck into the tree line and moved closer to the creature. It started screeching and pounding on the back of a tree with what sounded like a rock, he said. He kept trying to get closer, but the sasquatch would make a ruckus every time he took a few steps. Then he heard the woofing and jaw-smacking he recognized as a bear to his left. As he moved, he realized he'd come within six metres of its cub. The mother bear came out of the brush, but she ignored Mills — an odd move for a bear with a stranger between her and her cub. "Her anger wasn't directed at me, it was...to the right, at the noise it(sasquatch) was making behind the tree," he said. With two bears and a sasquatch nearby, Mills decided it was time to leave. "I flew down that hill. Then I just hopped in my truck and locked up the gate and left the area." The creature was nearly three metres tall and had black, shiny fur all over its body, Mills said. The screeching sounds it made matched those he's heard of a sasquatch recorded years ago on the Lummi Indian reservation near Bellingham. It also looked just like the other one he says he saw while working in the Olympics for the National Forest Service in 1995. It was kneeling by a creek when he and another worker came upon it, and it took one look at them and disappeared in two steps. When he reported his June sighting to the police in Suquamish, a village 20 kilometers northwest of Seattle across Puget Sound, an officer said he wasn't the only person to see a sasquatch in the area lately. When Patrick Julian heard Mills' story, he went to see for himself. Julian is a volunteer field investigator with a group called Bigfoot Central. "David was very credible," Julian said. "He sees bears back in the woods, he knows the difference between bears and bigfoot." Plus, there was a partial footprint in a muddy patch where Mills said he saw the creature. The track was 18 centimeters wide, which would make the foot about 40 centimeters long, Julian said. Published © THE PROVINCE Newspaper, British Columbia, Canada - July 14, 2000, article courtesy George Raitt, leeraitt@telus.net

This picture was taken at the mando's event center. We were putting in the ACMA awards. I think the show had about 300 hoists, it was pretty big. Any riggers in the house? What's the scene in seattle like?

Let's just say that access issues in the industry compel me to remain anonymous. The work must be done somehow, but there is no way to protect the worker. Things are kind of open ended from there... We operate in a grey area, a world of shadows.

Climbers have always worked as riggers. People like Bradshears or Wiggins, Kauk and Long. Movie work, rock and roll touring, convention work... You might be suprised who I work with. Some of America's best climbers are riggers.

That guy is me. I work as a high steel rigger for theatre or conventions. If you look closely, you will see that we climb the undersides of the ceiling beams. It's like soloing upside down 5.8/A4. I figured anybody who does this kind of work will know whats going on.

High steel

shhh...