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the server, which is under my desk, caught on fire. i poured a bunch of coffee on it, and mildly electrocuted my self. as i lay twitching and convulsing on the floor, i could see the drive containing the precious spray database of CC.com burst into flames. luckily my cat came down to investigate, and i was able to use her to smother the flames. i then created a clean room and manually extracted sector by sector all of your precious posts. then i had to find a place to put them. i was able to attach a 4 terrabyte drive to a timex sinclair clustered with a trs-80. things seem to be ok now, and these new systems fit nicely under my desk with the coffee pot brewing on top.

LONG LIVE TRASK!

such is the life of a visionary. meanwhile, the turds such as yourself fertilize and hopefully will a positive impact. but this is unlikely. well, back to being awesome. later!

i'm going for speed

i'm going the distance

I would say you'd be able to follow big wall routes (i've seen a number of "disabled" climber documented who jug the big rocks. that would get you out there! i would think that just going on an extended hike with that thing in the North Cascades would be awesome (over passes, etc). What sort of range do you think you have for the peak you want to do for the fundraiser? (as in miles or nights on the trip)

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I just donated some money and the reciept indicates that the money is going to "Washington Climbers Coalition" and "Reference: Index Fund". As I said, the WCC is a 501c3, so this receipt will be deductible for taxes. From the WCC site: "Donations are Tax Deductible. The Washington Climbers Coalition is a non-profit public charity, qualified as a 501©(3) organization with the Internal Revenue Service. Our EIN is 42-1644686. Talk to your tax preparer for more information on this."

Hi John, good questions! The WCC is a non-profit (501c3) and you WILL be able to write off your donation to the fund. We filled out the necessary paperwork with PayPal so we're getting a discount on their rate,but I'm not sure that your receipt will indicate it or not. The money is going to the WCC, but is earmarked for use only with the IndexFund purchase and costs associated with that land purchase.

pretty cool. that looks a little like the classic view of prusik, eh?

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THIS SANDWICH TASTES GREAT!

I won't speak for him, but I don't think Blake necessarily was being negative. He was just pointing out that by one definition (whether that is a generally accepted definition or not is another story) the route still hasn't been freed. That said, hats off to the sender! And good on you for cleaning it! Its way above my sub-moderate ability, but for those those that can climb at that level should go give it a go! Lets hear some informed opinions, is it all of that?

SUPERFUN=SUPER STOKED!!!

GOOD MORNING!!!!!

Nice Pope! Thanks for the TR. BTW yes fixing that redline should be a fairly straight forward procedure, but you'll have to have some grasp of Photoshop. I'm not photoshop wizard, but I did this basic/crude removal in about 5 minutes (you can see a few defects that could be cleaned up): There are many ways to achieve this, some better than others. I just used the "Spot Healing" and "Clone" tools.

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Hey, at least some Colorado climber didn't come and snag it!

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