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FLOWMOTION Enjoy this fine local music... anybody seen these guys?

Flowmotion The best band between Sehome and Nisqually. Your kids will be impressed you listened to these guys before they were big...Enjoy.

Apples work better than spuds. Better tasting too

I fumbled my headlamp on the headwall of Moonlight Buttress. Mcquade was cleaning the pitch and reached out and the thing just tipped off his fingers...sometimes, it's a lonnng way down.

Word. the Centerfold/Davis Holland link up is the shizzle.. How about the Outer space/Davis Holland in a day?

I have a special tool fabricated for cam removal. The thing looks like a nut tool built out of 1/2'' rod stock. It's about 24" long with a 4" hook at one end. The idea is, if you can't tap the lobes forward to retract them, you can bash the thing out! Great for trade routes!

We got a kitty. meow.

A plague upon your land.. next up: insurance telemarketers!

Model Worker- Just another footnote in the history of leaving weird stuff on belays. The Rock Nazis of Red Rocks were fond of German toy soldiers and Hot Wheels. I discovered a "Homie" glued to the 3rd pitch of Tunnel Vision just the other day.

As a climbing high steel rigger,nothing can replace the bowline on the job site. A person does not make friends with his ground man by giving him knots that suck to untie.

Pig fixing! My god, I thought it was just a legend! That's why they called it "Model worker"... Orwell, you bastard!

Index so many fine crags, lower town wall, the blues, the country. It's suprising that one of index's most prominent features still is totally unclimbed.. You can see it every time you cross the bridge, plain as day. A modern NW classic, up for grabs. Any ideas?

Sorry! must have dozed off there.. oh yeah, I think that sportclimbing is the basis of traditional climbing. on a side note,I also believe Bigfoot is real. Thoughts?

Yes, why do you ask?

excellent! A real gain might be one that enriches our life.. a unreal one may be a mechanism that we use to judge ourselves.. "If I could send ..." "when I finally.." "I can't do.." I am guilty.. We all are trying to evolve at the same time, our speeds are just different. We take turns.. Evolution does not always happen slowly, sometimes it is thrust upon us. other times, it seeps up around us like fog,we never noitce,until our vision is obscured.. Maybe our reaction to change is what is inportant in the end..

Now,what were we talking about? oh yes, We are afraid to pursue our true potental. falling is failure,sending is success. real gains come only to those who are willing to lose.

1.It's my day off. 2.thank you. 3.sorry, I'm taken. we pictured you as having velvet on your walls...

1.It's my day off. 2. thank you. 3.I aim to please. Minx, tell us.. what do you have on your wall?

my framed autographed 8x11'' photo of Robbie Cappell dropping 90 feet off Tye Stick rock at Stevens Pass hangs over my desk. .

no problem! we understand how you soloists are... do you ever talk to that picture of Dean? it's ok to feel lonley..we understand.

In the spirit of learning,I pose one more question: Why does it always have to be about anger? we dont say nice things when we're angry. lets all just be friends...A big climbing clan! big wall pen pals.. crack compatriots.. bouldering buddies.. soloing soul mates.. climbing partners. let's all pause for a moment and give thanks.

This guy went to preschool with Dean Potter! it really is a small world!

You mean...bouldering? Of course! Brilliant! it all starts on the smallest of stones..

following tonight's logic.. top roping is really the highest form of the sport. the hardest moves will be done on TR.. the mind, free of the constraints of expectations,reaches new levels of understanding.. so, Top roping is the gateway to true understanding.. and true understanding only comes from letting go, then.. Enlightenment comes from letting go on top rope!

1.trad is like... 2.bouldering is like.. 3.sport is like... 4.alpine is like...