OH NO!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!
I'm crushed. How will I be able to go on.
Oh cruel cruel world - why did you mistreat John so? Now our hero has gone and had to cancel the only thing that made life worth living in this sad little non-icy hamlet of PDX.
PLEASE COME BACK TO US JOHN!!! I'LL BE BETTER THIS TIME! I'LL MAKE YOU COFFEE, I'LL POLISH YOUR FRONTPOINTS, I'LL KEEP PRETENDING YOU AREN'T GAY, WHATEVER YOU WANT!!!
JUST DON'T LEAVE US! YOU ARE OUR MARK TWIGHT, STEVE HOUSE, REINHOLD MESSNER, AND CHRIS SHARMA ALL ROLLED INTO ONE!
Sincerely,
-Mixed Climbers of PDX
p.s. If you won't come back and "pick up the torch" for us, I will try to make the best of things and be a better, more unselfish person just like you. Because I know that's what you would want me to be. I hope you will at least let me come by sometime and photograph you sending those awesome new "hard routes" at your new place. Wow. I'm all a-twitter just thinking about it!