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Actually I think it was green

Oh man....to make matters worse, one of the guys was hosting a wake at his house when it happened....they finish up some light appetizers upstairs and tell all the guests to go downstairs to watch a video/slideshow he had put together about the deceased.....let's just say it's a good thing they ate before going downstairs

True Confessions.... FWIW - we looked at two houses in Ballard before we bought our townhouse, and they were 30% more expensive than our TH and being circa 1900's, we were worried that there could be major unanticipated expenses coming down the road. Truth-be-told, I'd live in Ballard if we could afford it. However, our deck looks over a wetland/bird sanctuary with Glacier and Baker visible in the distance and our development backs up to the Cougar Mountain Wilderness, there's about 500' of paved roads between our place and access to endless miles of of great running trails (Tiger Mountain etc.) My wife and I lived in separate states for our entire dating relationship, so we decided we wanted to spend the weekend during our first couple years of marriage doing something other than working on the yard, or upgrading heinous floor/wall/counters coverings. No SUV's here.....We both drive Civics - she a 94 and I a 97. As far as living in an older house, I have two friends whose basements filled with Poo in the last year....one in Greenlake, and one in Magnolia due to collapsed sewer lines....so choose your sword I guess - I don't like SUVs, or the lack of diversity that comes in the suburbs, but pretty happy about the fact that I've done nothing but change lightbulbs and a furnace filter over the last 2 years.

thanks bro

You are truly ignorant, any jackass with half a brain knows that Issaquah is home to Target. Do your homework before trading barbs with me.

Just sounds like a lot of yardwork to me.....and a lot of running to catch those sheep - keeps you in shape for climbing I guess. There's a photo earlier in the post that you might enjoy in the event you aren't up for the round-up this evening.

Seriously....you live in Peshastin, and your baggin on my digs? What's the chamber of commerce pushing out there...."Only 15 minutes from Wenatchee"

There are other differences.....My friends that live in circa 1910 homes in Ballard spend ~ 5K - 10K per year on things like new wiring, new roofs, new water pipes, siphoning up poo out of their basements when the clay sewer pipe collapses between their foundation and the main in the street....I spend my money on gear

No comment....just one post away from dropping the newbie label.

Good point....where do I get a logo plastered windshirt?

Gotcha.....and what exactly have you seen in my posts would lead you to believe I'm a conformist? If I were a conformist, I'd limit my discussion on CC.com to poop, sex acts involving poop, vaginas (their juices, their uses), my junk, things I like to do with my junk, Mos_Chillin's lack of junk....etc.

Can you define middle class values please?

Dude...you can attack my Townhouse all you want, but I haven't spent a weekend doing yardwork for 2.5 years

No one ever called them impoverished and underrepresented, so your sarcasm seems to be misplaced - why are you so angry??? Do you really live in Peshastin???....is that why you are so angry???....are you currently unemployed???....is that why you have so much time to troll this site???

Good to see you've moved on from picking on someone's grandfather in Anacortes

cool...thanks

how many people does it take to make a club?

Am I the only one who's wondering why these two guys would be taking pictures of a complete stranger on the top of Mt. Hood???

Does anybody use them (motorola or equiv.) for communicating with their partner on alpine routes....thoughts in general, pros, cons. Also, if you do, any recommendations on particular models? EB

I've rapped on an 8mm Mammut doubled through a reverso....VERY cafefully....I think 8 is the bottom limit for the Reverso according to their literature. Next time I will use my glove....it was VERY fast. I spent so much time worrying about losing control I perfectly positioned the rope in a crack where it got stuck upon pulling. Good times

As far as saving weight with the rope, we used a 60M x 8mm to save weight and doubled it......the climb lended itself to short pitches.

57 kids would hardly be considered prosperity in this crowd. I've observed amongst my friends that climbing coupons per summer are inversely proportional to number of children.

Sounds like you are getting a little too much prosperity doctrine in your church. Look what happened to the apostle Paul.

Dude...I'm a conservative religious guy whose working up to leading 5.7/5.8 trad....shouldn't be a surprise that I'm sticking to piggy-backing on inside jokes today....even when someone managed to blame George Bush for their diarrhea

with or without fringe?