denalidave

Plaidman, I took quite a few pics of you from the 1st belay anchor on our line but not with my camera. If I ever get the pics taken with my buddies camera, I will send them over. (We traded cameras while on route so I could get pics of him with his and vice-versa.) Not sure if I will ever see the pics I took with his camera though.

Jim says he was quite the bad ass back in the day. He certainly was. I miss Ken. no need to miss him - jim had him out a month or so again and i was able to See the Legend and swap some fine stories I've met him out there quite a bit lately...

Think Ken could have used it this summer then Dave! Exactly!

I like to have mine for the clock, and it can work as a light in a pinch when you don't have a headlamp. Also, I would not hesitate to use it if someone had a broken leg or other serious injury. That said, I certainly don't use a cell phone to push climbing limits any further and calling in a rescue would be the last option for only the worst scenarios. Last summer, I was just starting the 2nd pitch on a climb when my phone rang, it was a buddy calling and asking for help with a partner that took a bad fall on a route nearby and really messed up his ankle, so I guess it can work both ways. Lastly, my phone is my business and I have done a deal or too while on route. NOT the best form but ya gotta do whacha gotta do. I usually try to turn it off but forget to most of the time. One of the few times I did not have a phone on me, my partner's headlamp went dead and my wife thought I was over due and called the sheriff. Both the epic descent and the grief at home would have been completely avoided had I decided to bring the phone along. I would have been able to call my wife from the summit, which was the only place I could get reception, and remind her when I was due back. My partner could have used it for a light.

"KENNY, TURN YOUR FAWK'N MUSIC OFF AND PUT ME ON BELAY!"

Jim says he was quite the bad ass back in the day.

Climbing solo while thinking you are tied in is probably the scariest of all (after you realize it anyway).

How do you know that I am a liberal? It's pretty obvious to anyone who has to read your posts...

Right Gull is OK, but far from my favorite. No one asked you if it was your fav, homeboy I just threw it in there because no one had said it yet, dood! we still gonna try to get out tomorrow? Yeah, hopefully we can get out around 1:30...

Looks like JDJr is sip'n the sauce again I wonder if he is really a WalMart CEO?

I thought your last sig was more apropo.

Right Gull is OK, but far from my favorite. No one asked you if it was your fav, homeboy I think I smell your bacon burning, better STFU and go check on it...

Are you saying you have free soloed YW's? Free soloing YW would be pretty balzy, let alone on-sight free solo. So no, I have NOT soloed YW and that is not at all what I said. Have you? Has anyone?

We got worked over on Dod's, but nice to be out on a day like today, even if I did get spanked.

That sucks Ivan, sorry to hear it. I hope she is feeling better soon.

Surely, you jest?

I on-sighted the route from the parking lot to the summit. Free solo, none the less!

Right Gull is OK, but far from my favorite. Anyone want to get out today? Blue skies and high around 60.

Collections, really fast, always Fast forward a few months/years when you are trying to buy a house, car or anything else on credit and you are turned down because you did not pay some stupid $56 ticket. Pretty lame, but if you want your credit to stay in tact (assuming you already have good credit, which any self respecting true dirt bag would never have) you'd better PAY DA MAN...

speaking of dr. stranglove, here's a cool anniversary for you - today was the 48th anniverary of the largest man-made explosion in history - the russians set off "tsar bomba" oct 30, 1961 - the bomb itself weighed 28 tons and was so fucking huge it was never intended as an actual weapon, more like a gross physical salute to going all out to fuck some shit up! they basically strapped it onto the outside a b52 looking thing that could barely lift it the initial fireball was 5 miles in diameter - the bomb itself equaled 50 million tons of tnt (and could have been 100 if they hadn't purposefully reduced it from the theoritical 100 megatons) - a person standing 62 miles away would suffer 3rd degree burns from it - meow! [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkhYhmKgv0&feature=related Holy bacon Batman! And I thought the white gas in the beer bottle, then set in the fire pit was cool. Think of all the bacon you could cook from 62 miles away if you had some of those bombs.

Let's give a cheer for Bluebird, too. OK, three cheers for Bluebird.

The Busta Bacon Steak.

HAMMA TIME...(insert 80's dance move here)

Looks like he's got plenty of his own rack.

Bacon, the other pink meat!