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Heh, this was like 10-11 years ago but I'd been leading trad for 4 years or something and I failed my lead test too. Fuck that was embarrassing. Those damn bolts were like 2ft apart and I was so used to 'grabbing low, clipping high' that 'grab near belly button, clip near left man boob' messed me up. so chin up buckaroo gyms anyway

The caretakers at the blarney stone get drunk in the evenings and piss on it at night from above. How did it taste? I'm not joking,btw.

"No Picnic on Mt. Kenya" by Felice Benuzzi is a fun read. it's about some italian POWs who escape from prison to climb mt. kenya in wwII and try to sneak back in unnoticed. Cool true story.

damn bastard... now i've had that crappy song in my head for the past 15 minutes... everybody cut,everybody cut...footloose...fuuuuuuuuuck... make it go away! aaaaaaaaarrrr

Uh, yeah, whatever... this girl is still dumb as stump. I remember seeing an interview of her on a 60 minutes type show where they asked her about the recent death of the King of Jordan and her response was "Oh, and he was such a great basketball player"

You're the one who lives in Colorado.

it doesn't count when you have to leave $350 on the dresser afterwards, layton....

Lincoln is fun stuff. Keep in mind, on the weekends it changes into a very popular zoo. Still fun but you'll probably have to wait abit.

if you want something to hold in your hand then go with Colorado Ice Climber's Guide by Cameron M. Burns. good stuff. amazon has them used for like $9+ and,,yeah, climbingboulder.com covers allot more than boulder. useful,semi current beta too

I'm proud to say I don't have a clue. And,blake, you might want to adjust your balls and talk about football to redeem your man-ness on this site in the next couple posts...

oh, I missed you are a group of six, keep in mind a grocery store won't have 150 packages of something most likely...pay the extra bagage fees or ship to whoever is flying you in(tell them it's food so they don't stick it in a shed outside for the mice) bring lots gatorade mix to hide that manky ass melted snow and all the shit floating in it too

Agree, sounds kind of silly and pricey. Google for Talkeetna Shuttle Service or Denali Overland Transportation...they will pick you up at your hotel and take you to/from talkeenta. Pretty cheap, I think $60 each way? I forget now. We got a motel near a grocery store and walked down with our packs and loaded up. Plus I brought gu and other things on the plane too. I'd plan my own meals but I keep it super simple at altitude ...oatmeal, liptons chicken noodle soup, gu, more gu, cliff bars, lipton noodles and sauce packages, snickers bars,more gu... and repeat next day. keep it simple... the higher you get(and colder) the less you will want to fuck around with elaborate meal prep. eat what you can keep down.

Anyone here want to fess up to owning the Mountain Hardware tent I watched shoot 50ft up into the air,tumble down the Muir Snowfield for a 1/2 mile and then take the big launch of a cliff into the Nisqually glacier back on a very windy day in May '01? poor bastard...

For climbing... lotsa stoppers cuz sometimes they just aren't worth the effort and a few 2ft pickets here and there on bails. Lost a nice Leatherman knife in the Winds one year but oddly found a nice Gerber knife the Winds the next year. Rafting...Got caught in a hole for a long minute on the Middle Fork of the Salmon and my loosely clipped daypack went in. It got shaken so violently it unzipped and all the contents emptied into the river. Gore tex jacket, good rain pants, sunglasses, maps, toilet paper, fleece jacket...went swimming to recover the fleece and a few other things in an eddy. Lost all the goretex though and watched the TP float down stream helplessly. Good lesson though on not getting too comfortable with powerful things that don't care about you, i guess.

kind of helps if you have a heated garage too. it's like 10 fricking degrees here in denver right now...

all gone.

pm me your name and email and it's yours.

2 left.

I've got three left... I started offering them to friends but most were clueless about them and I'm tired of explaining it to people already. If i get more then 3 interested people I'll just go and randomly choose.

pricey bottled water still tastes like crappy water in plastic bottle to me. people are tools for paying for that stuff. ya'll are chumps for marketing, i guess.

"I made a speed ascent on that climb." I blew my wad in less than 5 seconds.

ever heard of jeep trails?

bring chains otherwise you might get screwed and not allowed to go up to paradise . Dec climbs will probably amount to you getting completely fucked with bad weather or bad avy conditions. have fun.

probably the closest layton will ever get to licking a gash...

E, I hope it's cold out in that pic cuz I've seen half eaten vienna sausages bigger than that little hairy acorn hanging between your legs