selkirk

Poor bastard. Crystal was nice on Sun. A bit icy but sunny in the morning!

First off, ignore all things Drul says.... second... yep, find someone experienced to analyze your pro placements. Spending some time leading sport and/or leading in the gym is a great way to build "head space" Getting calm and comfortable even when your well above your last piece (bolt or gear). For my 2 cents, this is the hardest thing to learn. For the gear, spend a day or two out at Leavenworth and just place every piece on your rack and any rack you can borrow, twist pull on, add a sling and stand on them, as well as have someone else critique them all. Mock leading can also be useful for getting the mechanics down. (Set up a top rop, then tie into a second rope to drag behind you. As you climb place your gear and clip the trailing rope.) Once can start doing it safely just log mileage! Lead everything you possibly can at any grade! Have fun!

Any chance we can shift it Wed's or Mon's?

Take him to Tieton and make him lead First Blood. It's only 5.8 after all

Fruit: Huckleberry, straight unadulterated huckleberry! Meat: Mince-meat, home made with vennison! Haven't had it in years though

You have Ice! No fair!

as long as there are climbs there will be dirtbags!

I guess i'll throw in my 3cents.... BBQ is thin but DFA, your bein a fucking whiner... I managed to not kill myself when I had only led a whole 1 pitch of 10a crack and no 10a sport. Inca Roads is mighty stiff at 5.9 but am I have to go with Tangled up in Blue at 5.9. That fucker kicked my ass last time! I felt slightly better when smoot gave it a 10c. at 5.8 Dogleg is brutal, it's shorter, but harder than Classic. However neither is as scary as First Blood at Tieton. fist crack my ass. 5.7 P1 of the Cave Route on Concorde. That transition between cracks scared me to death! Awkward, insecure, thrutching! 5.6 and 5.5 Anything at these grades at Tieton is significantly harder than what i've seen at L-worth, Smiffy, E-38, or Vantage. Double Trouble always feels more like 5.7 than 5.5.

You know, there have been 2 male nude statues and no boobs yet! Talk about lacking equal representation!!!

I think I honestly fell asleep almost every day, in almost every math class i've ever had (which may not be quite as many as Gary, but still quite a few)! It was very humbling the first day I had a student fall asleep on me though I started out a bit insulted, then I realized how ammusing it really was! Best piece of advice i've heard is to remember that as the instructor, your more interested in the topic at hand than anyone else in the room!

My attention span is a whole 15 minutes, after that I get twitch or fall asleep. I wonder what the record for most college courses that have been slept through by a single individual, it would take a certain balance of being a sufficiently capable student to succeed while sleeping through classes, with a high enough guilt complex to require going to all classes, coupled with a very long period of time spend taking classes.

He didn't do so well on Chinchilla either

Much fun was had by all even though we got a bit wet! We had an even 4 people so watch for Meteor's tomorrow night. I brought home the North Wall Hammer that's been sitting at the base of the crag, since before Christmas. If it's yours give me a quick message with a description and i'll get it back to you! Lost and Found Link

There's been an old north wall hammer at the dry tooling crag on Highway 900 in Issaquah, for at least 3 weeks. We left it the first time but I grabbed it yesterday evening. If it yours send me a quick description and i'll get it back to you!

lmao... in that case.... Did anyone else loose weight over the holidays

This thread so wants to bring out the asshole in me, but ya'll are too nice!

Of course if we get an even number of climbers tonight it will herald the end of the world on New Years Eve.

Quick head count! There is only parking for 3 cars at the trailhead so if we have more than 3 people it may be wise to set up some carpools from the Issaquah P&R. Still planning on being their between 5:00 and 5:30 Cheers!

Any new word or has it all gone to shit?

I'll be heading out this thursday if anyone is interested. After all I've got a grudge match with one of the routes now! I'll be running a bit later than usual though. I probably wont' get to the parking lot/crag til around 5:00.

Leg brace? What happened? Torn MCL and meniscus. 'tis the season, I guess. And ditto on the QUACK! bugger, that seriously blows goats!!! Any word on the J-Tree trip? Is the back better? If fucking sitting in the rain for the rest of the winter than someone else had better be getting in my allotment of good warm rock!

got a little 35m glacier rope Now I can leave that damn rock rope at home!!! Oooh, and since I finally turned in the paperwork to get my ass out of grad school I got to thoroughly enjoy a bottle of very nice organic french red wine that my sister gave me 4 years ago. Now I know what wine that doesn't come with a crew top or a spout tasts like

dude, I think I just lost my nerd credentials. I can't keep up with this!

1. check f'in sweeeeeettt! 2. check 3. nope 4. check 5. nope 6. nope, but had great views from Concorde and Cutthroat! 7. nope cancelled my plans when the conditions were shit, and wasn't in shape when they cam back in 8. nope So bummed! 9. nope Not sure he's interested any more? Maybe a mild glacier next year. 10. Don't know but I had fun regardless! 11. check Just bought ski's and boots so i'm working on it! 12. check Woohooo the gawdaful thing is finished!!! and bumped my hardest onsight grade from 5.9 last year to 5.10c this year!!!! so 6/12 with +1 bonus! Hell of a year!

Read what I wrote. I did not tell sobo he was being trendy. I said that there is apparently a fad for adopting Chinese kids. Which probabnly explains the creepy multiracial Barbie mother/daughter thing. sobo adopted a Vietnamese kid. I did not say he was part of a fad. He, and you apparently, jumped to some weird conclusion. So chill. stfu bitch! regardless of what you meant, you're sounding like an asshole.