DirtyHarry

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!! How much do you climb, son? At your age, if your shit isn't wearing out, you aint climbing enough.

Climbing it in here would be really tough!

If Budhism says desire is the root of suffering, then how come so many Buddhas are fat?

You should study snow science and be an avalanche forecaster or do avy control work. In general, it seems like the sciences allow people to do some cool stuff and have somewhat flexible schedules.

They flew my buddy off of Cutthroat Peak once after he fell soloing and was almost dead and took him to Harborview. They called it a training exercise and didn't charge him a thing. I've also heard of them rescuing folks in the Olympics.

I tried to complete the survey but when it asked me the difficulty level of the last route I climbed there was no option for "5.9+ dirty salad filled gash." What's up with that?

I, for one, am happy to make such a sacrifice for the war effort.

Aaaaarghhhh. A bloody pirate then you be. To the brig with yee forthonce !!!!

TimL is back in town?

Ahem. My trophy wife is at home getting botox and obsessing about her weight. My Porsce is due for an oil change and I have a hair appointment after. So I'll be arriving home to the condo late this evening. I'll have a martini. What was your question again?

I'm looking forward to getting up there this spring for some wine sampling as well as some toe dancin'. Yep.

If it's gunna be that kind of party ...

We already drank all the beer too. There's none left. Sorry.

I think Grant County produces more potatoes than any county in the country. Yup.

Clive the Grog Drinker.

Ummm ... yeah ... O.K. I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday, and, ummm, yeah, you're going to have to come in on Sunday too. Thanks.

Brett's slacks don't match his shirt today. And his hair is messy. I don't feel sorry for him.

Fuck off. Mashed potatoes taste good.

more hair product.

Funny, then, how you wrote this: " this site, however, seems like it's filled with a bunch of egotistical idiots. and she's not alone in her sentiments. most of the climbers i know think this site is full of BS too."

It is what it is.

April 12 Week number four started with clearing of sections that had already been cleared earlier. Three of the Cutthroat Ridge avalanche chutes released over the weekend and on Monday (April 10), crews had to clear snow that buried the roadway again, below Cutthroat Ridge chutes #11, 12 and 13, before they could get back up to the Liberty Bell Mountain avalanche zone they had reached last week. Snow below the Liberty Bell chutes is 40 feet deep or more in places (there are 4 BIG Liberty Bell avalanche chutes). As has been necessary in past years, we contracted with Lloyd Logging in Twisp to bring up their big caterpillars to help us tackle Liberty Bell. The snow blowers got the cut from Cutthroat Ridge to Liberty Bell widened, shoulder to shoulder. At the same time, the big caterpillars made good progress on the huge piles of snow below Liberty Bell #1 and #2 until late in the afternoon when the avalanche control team pulled them out because of snow in the chutes that started sliding. The avalanche crew shot explosives to bring down the unstable snow, but without much effect. Tuesday through Thursday, the chutes were more stable and crews cleared both Liberty Bell #1 and #2 and continued working on #3 and #4, just below Washington Pass. _____________________________________________ Man, how cool would it be to be avalanche control for the DOT? Hang out on WA Pass all day, do snow science, and shoot big howitzers. Badass.

Would probably make life easier in the long run, though.

Your point is definitly well taken. Such practices will most likely never effect me or most people who post here. But I would still argue there exists a wide range of alternatives to such blatant bolting of cracks. And as you point out, its not like Americans have clean hands on this issue either.

True. And it surely isn't fair for us to impose our ethics on climbers on a whole other continent (as if we could if we wanted to). But, for argument sake, I still think the reasoning you posit is faulty. I doubt few here would agree that we should bolt all the cracks in the U.S. simply because it would allow more people to get take up climbing, and would make climbing a much more populist and mainstream activity. Why should it be different elsewhere? Additionally, at this crag, aren't there enough faces and lines that are not cracks that can be bolted? I doubt that the rock is so fractured that the only climbable lines are cracks that could also be protected with removable pro.