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yes and they blame you for all of it. nooooo... I'm Gen-X, were the one's who know the world is royally screwed up, and we've been left holding the bag! After the you damn people who lived through 60's, 70's, and 80's ruined recreataional drugs, free love, and rampant financial abuse, are the really good past times are screwed up! Grrrrr..... And now the Gen-Y people are convinced that it's flowers and puppies and some else is going to fix it for them. I love being cynical and bitter

All of this chipper, optimistic Gen-Y people annoy me! Don't the realize the worlds screwed up!

I find that sometimes having a partner in crime helps. You can support and motivate each other, and often learn new tips and tricks from the other person. For lifting, it's nice to have a spotter. And for running or biking, it's great to have someone to talk to and make the time go by like lightning. I don't know about anyone else but for me, guilt is powerfoul motivator? I never seem to have any issues working out hard once I get to the gym, but getting my ass there is a different story, and for me "I want to climb X, or want to lose X, or lift X" has never been sufficient. So having a group of people that I'm working out with/committed to makes all the difference in the world. One might do of they're hard core, but if they love lifting as much as I do it's a good way to drink a lot of beer. But 3 or 4 or 5 who are all mildly committed provides enough joking/guilt/cajoling to get my ass there. The other good one for me is making a financial commitment, even if it's just a token. Get the 6month climbing gym membership instead of paying by the trip, but then realize that you need to go at least 4 or 5 times a month to make it worthwhile. My first couple years of grad school I joined a a moderately competetive volleyball team that practiced twice a week. The combination of paying a few bucks, and knowing that there were 10 or 12 people who were depending on my being there made damn sure that I was there for every practice. Have done the same thing with martial arts classes which are great for focus, dynamic balance, flexibility and some good core strength stuff. Also be very clear about your goals: Do you want to loose weight, get into better condition, lower your body fat percentage? Specifics for each one will be different. All that said, the canuck is right, nothing burns calories faster than shivering! Where else can you get ever muscle in your body firing in opposition all at the same time

Oh, so you were an expert Tricam Man from the beginning. Well, good for you. Be nice, he just has a thing for the pink one. speaking of which Tri-Cams Zero-Cams are also pretty damn cool I can't believe I forgot to !

The topout move simply sucks! Groveling in the dirt that's rather quickly getting kicked to the bottom of the crag. If your going to lead it I'd do it soon before the remaining two grass clumps completely dissapear! Thanks again Alex, for the very well placed bolt just below the lip! Hopefully we'll get out again next week! With a little creativity there are at least 5 seperate lines there so we could probably squeeze up to 10 people in?

Once again much muddy fun was had by all. Had a nice even 4 people and put up a rope on one of the first anchor left of the bolt lines. There's one more anchor a little further left that we'll have to put last time. And I'm feeling jazzed so a very minor chestbeat but I managed to lead the left-hand bolt line up the anchors, though I did take a 5' fall at the lip above the last bolt.

If you want to come straight out there should be room for 3 cars.

It just got pushed back to 3:30 anyway Anyone else want to join us at the Highway 900 crag? Parking for 3 cars, but the issaquah P&R is only 5 or 10 min. away.

Sure! Can anyone be there at the Issaquah P&R at 3:00 It's a little nicer before it gets dark and wet!

Anyone care to make the obvious reference to insufficient writing skills and the failure of our government to educate us?

Even obvious pot shots need to be taken by some one! This is spray after all, witty batter would just be wasted. Oh, and the suckirk comment qualifies as very sharp on your part. But it should really be capitalized. It is a proper noun after all

A little too close to home? Your not a Montana boy are you?

dude, way too much thought went into that. Typically geeks are attracted to anyone who doesn't have a restraining order against them.

So you are into that sort of thing, I should have known

Quit flirting with him Archie or next thing you know he'll be pulling your pigtails. Well, unless your into that sort of thing of course

Quit flirting with him Archie or next thing you know he'll be pulling your pigtails.

I once watched 6 consecutive hours of Southpark. Boy did that hurt!

Yeah, but only because he's into that sort of thing

Can someone post pictures of the impending catfight? Should be good entertainment for hump day.

Leavenworth would definitely be the place to go if the weather is reasonable. If the weather is bad in the Seattle area keep your eye on Smith Rocks. It's about a 6 hr drive so not too close but it's much drier. May up here can sometimes be fantastic and sometimes wet as hell. Frenchmans Coulee and Tieton both have some reasonably good trad as well but aren't quite as nice, convienent for camping/hanging out, and have slightly lower quality routes than Leavenworth or Smith.

Chuck's roundhouse kicks cause sonic booms which tends to irritate the local camels, and he is an animila lover after all.

When Chuck Norris has a headache he roundhouse kicks the nearest person in the head so he's not the only one hurting.

You can't have a whole lot less experience dry tooling than I do! After all I'm up to a whole 4 evenings I think! Anyone who's interested is welcome.

And a lot of people have looked at your gear placements so you know they're solid.

hmmmm, what we need is more victims! Any other poor suckers want to go fool around on real rock? I just found out there's another set of anchors off to the left so there'll be a new route to try out? Otherwise next wed. should be fine. I'm trying to actually improve my rockclimbing and strength so will be hitting the gym on Tues./Thurs. But Wed. will be great. So any other takers? Tanstaffl? Rocnoggin? Olymtnboy? Alex?