larrythellama

close your legs ben.

Also I would call almost any newer route on Prussik(anyhting say after the early 80's) a variation of a variation. It is such a nice crag.

So I just read this idea that Christianity is what has pretty much ruined the 3rd world, I will use Africa as an example. not to mention the anglo-christian greed for mineral/material wealth. There is always the classic 3 g's: gold, glory & god! So in Africa families have been having 5-10-15 kids in an effort to atleast have a few survive the natural cycle of life that occurs on the Dark contienent. Disese, drought, famine, death by wildlife, etc...have always been a natural happening there. So the idea of many children seemed to work if say 20% survived to become adults(15 years of age was pretty much conisered an adult). It is a natural balance. So in waltz the christain cultrue with the belief that all life is sacred and the idea of children dying just made the whites ill. So they bring in their modern medicines and ways of life to curb this sad happening. Now the death rate is lowered and yet the idea of create as many children has not been curbed, so population growth rates increase as the mortality rates decrease. The land there is not the same as where the christains come from and cannot sustain as many people. The cultural idea of only owning what you need and to share the rest. The ideas of agribusiness where one place grows all the food and ships it abroad has never been the custom in Africa. The christains attempt to force these ideals of gluttony and material wealth unto the people who reject it, so the christains use force and do exactly what they came do irradicate death. So now we have Africa using christain medicines to decrease a natural balance in the culures and thus taxing the way of life in Africa beyond its worth. Trees are cut down in alarming rates in attempt to harness christain agricultural ways, which the land rejects by means of drought, floods and what not again, this time besides killing off the pepole in the natural balance now the land is dying too. Christains said that they came to help the heathens see the glory of god, yet the christains refused to see the glory of the Africans gods. The believed the Africians worshipped false idols and thus god killed the children with his tools of mercery(drought, disease, famine, etc..) Yet the Africans see the christains being the one tainting the pool of their existanct and rise up against it. The christains see this as a threat to their attempts to rape Africa's riches and slaughter the Africans with technology, ie: firearms. So tell me where are the christains doing good?

adventure choss, guides need not apply.

Dead Baby Goat, Black Pyramid

whats it to you aaron? you seem awfully familar with the list!

hey fairweather: according to the Bush campaign, which filed its own FEC complaint earlier this year alleging "coordination" between Kerry and the left-leaning groups. here looks like they are both fucking crybabies.

Jason I disagree with most of the people, you have all the tools needed to do two grade IV's down there. Just be smart about it.

just finnished the poisonwood bible and just that happend. drought drove the ants to overrun the village and consume everything.

3 hrs +/- from seattle youhave to drive up the teaneway about 28 miles or so. tho i read somewhere there are some small fires in the area so you might check with the cle elum ranger station.

did you beat it with a stick?

a strip club porn? pffft! i just had my first encounter with a strip club recently and all i can say is that i was/am disappointed in the overall experiece. i even fell asleep as the entertainment was anything but.

will you be putting the nickels in the slot machines for us newbies?

i got a thule box here in oregon that is available. even got two keys and two small easily repairable cracks. $150

bless you!

tissue?

around dunsuir there is alot of access to the sacto river. this section of river is amazingly beautiful. tho in the early 80's i believe a train dumped several hundred tons of acid into the river and wipped all the living things in the river. tho the river has made a come back. bun the train company refuses to admit that the tracks are dangerous and guess what the politicans agree? this is like the 3rd or 4th bad train derailment in the area. or down by lake shasta there is some squatting camping to be had. tho on weekends be prepared for alot of people and cops. or just stay at lamebone's and get coffee and his world famous blueberry pancakes! safe drive!

packs? two ropes? dang people! that is some extra effort! kudos i guess?!

lotsa cool grade IV's down there. a few that come to mind are epineperine, cloud tower, levitation 29 and there are a few more then that too...i just dont know them off the top of my head...ask lanceg.

after looking at pax's friend's website i would like to say that even tho all the guidebooks state you need big gear this is not true in any respect. we had a hard time even finding a place to place a #3.5 friend. so any talk of an ow is not true at all. also the pic where the person is haning is breshaer's crack and it is .12 and not the actual start to wunsch's but just another variation on a piece of rock that has many perfect splitters. the actual start to wunsch's is the visable wavering crack with the pod mid height visable in the same pic mentioned above.

End up in Colorado for a week and climbed some really nice routes. I would have to say tho that the best route I did was Cynical Pinnacle's center route. I paired up with JRCO an old friend from the south sound who escaped the rain several years ago and had given me an open invite to come climb with him anytime. After 5 years I followed thru and I certainly am glad I did. The route is a 3 pitch flawless grainte hand crack. Stout for the grade as it is continous and some what steep, It reminded me of jamming on desert sandstone. Lotsa hand sized pieces needed. If anyone is down in the South Platte this is a must do. Next time I am down there I am gonna do the route next to it, Wunsch's Diehedral. Similar style route but even steeper!!!! And everyone says the appraoch is real bad, but even my fat ass sea level dweller found it not too bad. The sad thing was the fact that my coffee didnt set in until the 2nd pitch.

the worst part about skuzzy's whole ordeal..is that he WILL eat the scab.

garmont ferratas

you should all really get some work done.

"There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say: Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime." - Edward Whymper you are right not all accidents can be avoided, but i think one in which is self inflicted can.