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I'm voting for all you. You're all WINNERS!

are these huge lumps normal?

You were there??? I was too!!! Third from the back, wearing the Iron Maiden t-shirt.

I was looking to climb the Cascadian Infinite Bliss Spur. Does anyone have any beta on it here?

damn, teh interweb delivers yet again with another gem. this is visual poetry.

work is indeed fun. give me that 9-to-5 anyday. nice climb Erik and Mike.

w00t! i'm gonna swing both ways for da partay at skull hollow and the ropeup. i'm for a two party system. full moon at skull hollow, then friday the 13th at the ropeup.

do post the pics!

yep. my son can climb 2 grades higher when there are other kids around. we still have to figure out what we're going to do for camping though...

Screech: Dustin Neil Diamond (born January 7, 1977), is an American actor who gained fame during the 1990s as Samuel "Screech" Powers, a nerdy character in the popular sitcom Saved by the Bell. Little known Screech fact: n the May 2006 issue of Stuff magazine the readers voted Diamond the 3rd most annoying former child actor that they would like to punch in the face. He was beaten by former child stars Danny Bonaduce and Corey Feldman.

Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae. They are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the far north, and high on mountains further south. Larches are among the dominant plants in the immense boreal forests of Russia and Canada. They are deciduous trees, growing from 15-50 m tall. The shoots are dimorphic, with growth divided into long shoots typically 10-50 cm long and bearing several buds, and short shoots only 1-2 mm long with only a single bud. The leaves are needle-like, 2-5 cm long, slender (under 1 mm wide). They are borne singly, spirally arranged on the long shoots, and in dense clusters of 20-50 needles on the short shoots. The needles turn yellow and fall in the late autumn, leaving the trees leafless through the winter. Larch cones are erect, small, 1-9 cm long, green or purple, ripening brown 5-8 months after pollination; in about half the species the bract scales are long and visible, and in the others, short and hidden between the seed scales. Those native to northern regions have small cones (1-3 cm) with short bracts, with more southerly species tending to have longer cones (3-9 cm), often with exserted bracts, with the longest cones and bracts produced by the southernmost species, in the Himalaya. Here is a pic of a male and female larch going at it:

sorry, i was an actor in the movie, will have to talk to the camera crew.

we could go to the tumwater poach site...but no campfires then! you know how kids love fire.

No group campsites were available for this weekend (the 15-17th of Sept). Chatter Creek, Bridge Creek, Eight Mile, and Tumwater groups sites are booked up. I have a few ideas, but does anyone else have a suggestion for where we can camp so the kiddies can run amok?

Where did they bury the survivors?

only 46 days till Ropeup. start your engines.

i would move Mt Fuji using molecular biology.

its that Chris McNamara dude doing the yapping.

new version of the board will replace PM with something callled "private topics"...basically it is like a thread that only you and the person you're "PM'ing" can see...so it will give you that by default Blake.

you might want to rethink the name there craig. after all, how many people do you want climbing "craig's butt"?

Thats a picture of Dru and his special buddy he met up in the 'Wack.

Hello Cascadeclimbers! I read about this top testpiece of Washington State in a climbing magazine, and I'm looking to make a name for myself by climbing it. Can someone direct me to the beta? Thanks in advance.