DirtyHarry

RIght on kids. I love Zion. Looks like you were movin pretty efficiently.

Hello. I just called to say "I love you." sickie

For the weight of an MLU, you could easily carry half a fifth of Jamison's 12 yr. And, really, what's more important than that?

What are th e GPS 'cords?

I am famished. Chicken wings! CHICKEN WINGS!!!

Toss in some archery and you've got the next Olympic sport.

You are sure to be the next one to die if you don't use you cell phone to call for rescue on that 500 ft high peak. And better learn to arrest a freefall with your ice pick if you hope to survive.

As it were, I'm off to learn to discern between different types of snow. Toodles. Oh, someone get off their lazy ass and get Tva... some more cognac.

I've seen Oly's ass and I wouldn't say it's arrogant. Nice. Definitly nice. But not arrogant.

Because christmas is truly about presents, I got a cool teched out Suunto watch as a gift. It tells you all sorts of shit like the weather on Mars and the body temperature and heart rate of the nearest taun taun. I think it also gives you the power to time travel, but I haven't figured out which buttons to push yet. I will be unstoppable now, sure to complete some gnar FWA's (first winter ascents) on some steep inclines. Sick. Whatever you guys got for christmas, festivus, or kwanza my cool watch is better.

Fun. Good times. Titties. Beer.

Wut up Sky. Skiied those cliffs again yesterday. It was frigging sweet. I even launched some shit. No crevasse falls though.

Apparently steep inclines are only located at the tops of mountains now.

I will climb this route in a ballerina suit and tutu one day.

Wow. This is some classic shit.

Polish climbers don't count.

Tell that to Abe Linkun.

Congratulations. Glad to hear you made it back safe so you can go play in the hills. Right on!

Has the dispatch to Alpinist been sent yet?

Whose going to post to www.abnormally-large-housecats.com anyway, Muffy? I lived in SD for a while and had no trouble meeting folks to climb with, despite the lack of a cc.com parrallel. But maybe that was just my sparkling personality.

27th switchback has some burly moves.

That's cool their finally making a movie about the Gates of Thermopalae.

When people catch their homes on fire, I think we should charge people for the cost of the fire service to put out the fire.

OK, I'll play too. Southwest Ridge of Mt. Hunter. Our first route in Alaska and we left Kahiltna camp with light and fast supplies. Skied 9 miles down to the route in splitter weather and climbed the thing in two long days. Weather came in on the descent and we barely made it off the route in time. But there we were in a blinding whiteout, mentally and physically exhausted, with two lightweight sponge-like bags and a leaky bibler I-tent between the three of us. Eventually we gave into the inevitable and holed up in the tent for three extremely uncomfortable days and nights until the storm broke and we could head home. When we got closer to Kahiltna basecamp I could smell someone cooking bacon from about a mile away.

I agree with W. But sometimes routes are committing by nature and bailing is not a good option, or not an option at all. Sometimes if something goes wrong (weather, or whatever) a party is so high on the route that the only option is to keep going up to the summit and down the other side. However, on routes like that, you better either get real lucky with the wedder or wait for some serious high pressure.