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Nice photos! What if you all just hit the "ignore" button on the people who continually piss you off rather than continually letting them anger and annoy you? Trust me that it makes reading this stuff much more enjoyable when you merely "ignore" a few of the consistent annoyances. Merely my little old opinion. Peace, respect, brother/sisterhood.

Glacier Peak has always taken a commitment to the approach, but with this increase of an additional 4 miles of road in each direction, the commitment may become too much for most. Do I also assume correctly that Kennedy Hot Springs remains "gone" since the mudslide of years past? While this will cut down on the "crowds" at the mountain, I am not sure that it is a bad thing. Perhaps we have been bringing the mountains down to our level by creating road access so close, and perhaps it is a positive to have one great volcano in the center of the state that is hard to reach. Actually makes me more interested in returning in the near future.

But Muff-buddy, you can sure feel free to PM out those good porn stories anytime you like. I agree with the bunch that prefers to hear about the person conquering the frightening 5.7 lead than I do the 5.13's that I will never climb.

if the fight is next weekend, what was the video that I just watched on the interwebs? Was that the first fight I just watched?

Short term you might fall back on Couchsurfing.com; also hit up Craigslist. Have you thought about the benefits of just being homeless? E

OK, I hate to throw this out because I don’t want to start a pissing contest, especially in the newbie forum, but I seem to detect anti-bolters suggesting leaving pitons in the wall, and I am just trying to get my mind around the logic. If I am climbing a protectable crack, I should use removable gear. If there is a thin crack, ostensibly too thin to take pro, then I would use a piton. Q: Why not just place a bolt? Which bolt on a crack climb would no doubt raise the ire of the climbing community. I am making an assumption that on a pure ethical basis, leaving a piton and leaving a bolt are the same thing, but perhaps I am wrong. On a pure ethical basis, are bolts and pitons seen differently? My comment on running across a Fred Becky Piton in the hills would be that I would probably take a photo, but leave the pin so others can also find a Fred Becky pin on a route. Just my thoughts.

OK pin, the moss has failed to grow, back to the research. The rock is all yours, we will try again after you are done. Luck to you Buddy. E

I believe that anyone caught wearing a daisy chain is a yuppie sell-out to the gear manufacturers who continue to pump overpriced unnecessary gear into the sport. Just tie a knot in the rope FGS, and use slings/draws when rapping. That should be the "rule".

Hey all, I have a lady friend who just moved to ballard and wants to meet some climbers. Nice lady, about 28ish, once won an ass modeling contest. Kind of shy. wondering if one of you could give me a heads up the next time you do a pub-club in the ballard area and I can tell her about it. My guess is that the best to hope for is that she would be there to kind of check you all out from a distance to see if she feels comfortable. If one of you could give me a heads up with a PM I would appreciate it.

My advice Muff would be to find some guy who just loves to give foot massage and use him for all he is worth. May not help heal, but sure feels good in the effort.

With all due respect to ya'all, I just hate the rules you folks are imposing on climbing. I simply believe that the leash hung between the legs is far more simple and out of the way then wrapping it around your waist, though I do neither. If the weather is right and all I have is polypro, would be nice to be able to climb without ridicule. Just a rebel I guess, but I climb to get away from the strict rules of society, not to find a new set of rules. My humble opinion.

With my growing man-breasts I should eat a few dozen a day then. So the theory either requires willpower to eat only a few, or buying a couple nuts at at time eh. Nuts seem to turn into a popcorn type snack for me, probably better avoid.

tell me about the "almonds theory" sherri-doll. Arn't nuts merely high energy/calorie?

I think by the end of the week we are going to lose half of you guys. come on climbers, toughen up and lets make this happen! E

OK, I may be away from the computer for a while, so I weigh in today at 206. That is with no extra hydration or food on board. Gonna be a sexy 190 in a month Arch!

You don’t understand Rainhawg, I agree with you fully! I too have measured my manhood, I got out a good Canadian ruler and came up with a full 9 canadian inches! I am with you. These normal people just don’t understand what rebels like us are capable of! It is to express our complete independence that we align ourselves into a unified group of anarchists. The man cannot put his rules on us, we live by our groups own adopted set of adopted anti-social behaviors (hell, they don’t even know our secret handshake (let me give them a hint, we reach out a little low, grab, and shake)). They have no clue brainslog what we are planning next! Then they will take us seriously and quit laughing at us! By the way, our new secret club t-shirts are nearly complete. We will have the logo on the inside so that no one else will know we are wearing them. And one more thing, but you will have to use your secret cap’n crunch decoder ring to unscramble this. WweW WareW WdorksW. They will never get that one. Power to the Person!

self deleted for mean spiritedness.

So Rumor, is your objection the anchor itself, or the fact that people are not sharing very well? I have always found that with polite conversation most people will typically (not always) flex/ and I know that when I am monopolizing a route I always allow others to climb through. Is there an educational alternative to chopping these anchors? Much like bikers often chant “share the road dude!” perhaps we need a climbing mantra of “share the rock dude!”

Warning, getting a little "Teva funk" out of my non-teva footies. But boy, do my feet feel good!

Heck of a list. Perhaps dick measuring should also be a factor. I could show up at noon, tell tales about mine being really long, then everyone should step aside. No sense having 10 people enjoy the rock that I alone could really enjoy!

I agree with you completely routehog and am quickly becoming a fan of yours. I think they should make you a moderator so that you can just delete the posts that don’t agree with our hard-nutt beliefs. When one gets too old to stand behind their mother for protection, they can always make their public stands in the darkness; nothing dishonorable about that. Our anonymity while performing our brave acts is merely for the protection of those masses who might mock our bravery! It is for the masses that we sneak around for our public deeds!

I will be crashing in Wenatchee M-th for the next 4 weeks buddy, keep in touch. Each weekend (3 day by the way) I will be climbing over that direction. Love to ya E

pinguy, I am headed out of town for a month. Feel free to clean the rock anytime you like, just let me know if any moss was growing before you cleaned it. We will try again later after you clean. Love you man

I outsmarted you AlpineK and have been pounding the Ice Cream and am peaked out and ready to lose. What is the contest: Gross pounds, percentages? How long is the contest lasting? What does Arch do for the winner? Rules/Prizes? Somebody specify so I can get the incentive straight in my mind.

Troll? The only trolls here are the sit-starting yuppies who crawl out from under the rock to get in the way of us real climbers. Until they learn to do the route just exactly like we do they should not be allowed to call themselves climbers (thus watering down the esteemed title that we real climbers want to protect from others who are not really rock climbers, even though admittedly they are climbing rocks, and climbing the same rocks we are; but not in the same pretty style. And it is the style that is important!) Next thing you know they are going to quit dressing like climbers should, quit drinking the proper cheap beer, and start carrying designer gear. They should not be allowed to crowd our routes and hog the attention that we want to keep for ourselves! If some hard nutted real climber did not take matters into his own hands, then whose hands should he have taken them into? (And yes, we know it was a guy, because we still are not allowing women to water down our club and call themselves “ hard nutted real climbers.” ) And why should this brave soul have to identify himself, there could be public ridicule at stake. Would MLK have risked such public ridicule when he secretly took public matters into his own hands? Heck no, that is why he went with his nick name, “MiLK Toast” for the anonymity. The bravado of this hard nutted rock stud is something to be glorified. Sneaking out there in the night and pulling bolts is a frightening experience. What if he got caught or seen or identified? Only true balls (again, not girlie balls because we are not calling them real climbers) could go out there in the night when there are scary noises in the darkness and commit such a selfless act. We should salute this brave soul (of course without knowing who he is). Power to the Person! Edit: Nor should people be allowed to use cams on this route. When I first did the route (OK, I have never actually physically climbed the route, but I have visioned myself pulling the route in tremendous style) I did the route in true hard-nutt style, using only penis jams for protection (unzip my polypro and shorts, lean in and think of Kevbone (who is really Arch posting under a different name and fighting with herself; i.e., not going to be allowed to be called a "real climber" ever) and that would free both of my hands for waiving at the adoring fans.) If I could climb it without cams, no one else should get to use them and call themselves a hard nutt! Again, Power to the Person!