NTM

i worked there and can confirm that they aren't much help. it would just be a place to try one out.

but dont go to greggs

so, all sass aside, I personally like konas and rocky mountains. 2nd ascent has a couple good konas and greggs greenlake carries rocky mtn.

a good one

In our youth we had not been mislead by fantasies, nor by the bloody battles of modern warfare which feed the imagination of the young. For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the forntiers of life and death, we found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread. The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties, and we adorned them with a child's simplicity and revered them with a monk's veneration of the divine. -Herzog, "Annapurna"

TAAAAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEEE!

probly not

i hope to marry someone like you

from the video i just saw, people who suck make others happy

"Good weather, bad weather, now later. Any time is good for climbing."

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/editorial-cartooning/works/GayMarriage.html apparently this will solve all of the nation's problems.

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wallingford

Get back to work down there!

There was a Chris Rock stand-up (at least I think it was him) bit that had me laughing, but it wasn't a terrible idea at the same time. He suggested that instead banning guns, we should just make bullets REALLY expensive, like 50grand. "I would shoot you for saying that, but I already have 2 bullets on lay-away for a guy that talked shit to me last week. You best watch your back if I win the lottery though..." To combat black-market bullet sales, we can just make the penalty death by a firing squad, a bit of humour/irony

has anyone tried Back Country coffee in Twisp? My dad just brought me back a pound of Sumatra from them and it's not bad.

I wish I could have hair like this:

hockey mullets

for every bolt you chop, i will put 3 in, just to remind you that you are doing more harm than good. that way you are directly responsible for the over bolting in this area

i kind of liked the short bit of japanese gardens also.

wilderness areas are simply political boundries. IB is not that far from 38 and 32 (geographically), so, like troggie, said, why use "wilderness" as an excuse? we obviously have to draw the line somewhere, but just because a hunk of rock is closer to the road than another makes it acceptable to bolt/visa versa?

Roger's Corner is fun. it's particularly fun if you go up breakfast of champions afterwards (even though I just climbed it for the first time this weekend).

holodeck and online are aid

we got the whole thing done 14hrs c2c, by the way, with only the last 15 mins of hiking in the dark.

approach is ~45mins. pitch 11 is ~.10a and pitch (i think) 19 is the crux at .10b (i think the rating was fine). then a short 5.8 pitch and the last .10a bit, a bolted chimney for a bit that then pulls onto the face. 2 more easy to the top. i had a good time doing it once, but will probly never do it again, too long of a day and the good climbing was too spaced out ot make it all that classic.