joblo7

he deserved it!

they homesick.

stfu

show me a democracy i´ll show you outrage.

i dont fit in any box i piss too much.

not seen my family for decades no friends to speak of no enemies lurking no career , no expertise no ambition , no desires i am the champion of mediocrity. i do all the little things nobody knows about. the king, a single kingdom ,i am. nothing to prove all to improve i march along the unseen road to an unknown destination with the confidence of a drunken yogi chef. and no , i dont pay for sex. virendra

is this THREAD ABOUT SILVERSTEIN?

oh yeah, and hillary IS hot in all the right ways. she has light,intelligence,resolve and would make a fine president.

i say that based on the desecration inflicted on it. it is out of respect for it. it should be stored somewhere until it is respected and not used to stir hatred/war/conquest.or as a punch line . the true values of freedom dont need no flag/country/crap.

that flag belongs in a closet.

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thanks. going to yamashraju mañana .this is all great training!iwent for a nice 8 mile run yesterday.

the usual summit is the one one the left, i would like to do both next time out...i got right of the bumb in the middle of them , on the ridge..

at it again. i went back to yaca to do vallunaraju and maybe more. only had three days. weather looked fine so i left huaraz at 5am and took a cab out to marian. started walking. had tent and all.after 1hr on the trail i met marciano,who watches the refugio. he was coming down ,so he gave me the key.i got to the refugio after 3hours i guess.i was not feeling that great so i decided to wait for early morning start to vallu as the weather gets cloudy at noon and i wanted to be off the glacier by then.i went for a 2hr walk around the morraine later. next morning i waited till 7am for marciano to give him the key. i left.walked down the road a few hundred yds and started up the trail.after 2hrs i was at the glacier.i brought a long axe so getting on was easy as i was all the way to the right and access was 10m of ice...i wandered my way up the glacier avoiding crevasses and holes. i sort of remember the route from doing it a few years back. it is much more interesting to figure it out though.the clear skies allowed it. the hard packed glacier was a breeze..i started to get closer to the summit cones. there is 2 peaks and the route goes between them and around to the summit of one . as i got closer the clouds started to come so that made advance route finding trickier. there is a series of shelves and crevasses that you have to negotiate to get to the right level to enter between the peaks..i could not get to the final step as fog started to flow in..i continued up this progressively steeper snow/ice slope to gain what thought was the ridge connecting the 2 peaks.it got to 70% as i reached the top. at this point visibility was 10ft!! i looked over into a chasm about 500m deep.i was about 100m left of the entrance to the summit slope of the given peak.i was 300m of 70/80% knife ridge to the other.i would have to downclimb the ridge in zero visibility then what?? route find in a bowl of milk.... i waited 5 min to see if it cleared.nada..i figured since the summit is about 6hrs walk/climb from my apt i can come back...!i turned around, knowing i could count on my tracks... descent was fine, glissading the slopes,i got down inm an hour. after 10 min i looked back and the summit cone was clear!!daing..!safety sucks. i was trying to do my first up/down the effin trail without creating an ordeal and what do you effin know i lost it again! impatience i guess, and lack of fear..i always work it out any way..this time i was on about half way until i crossed at large rock pile and did not reconnect on the other side.i went down the wrong valley/couloir until i reached a cliff, about 100m from the valley floor.i was tired, dehydrated and had to turn around and reclimb about 500 vertical meters of grass/mud/rock. i had puffin,hurtin,restin and contemplatin a nite out with clothes only.. i somehow got to the top of the ridge and saw some cairns...great..i followed them to another wrong couloir but this time i am not turning around?!! it was fine until about the last 100m. it got steeper in the euchalyptus trees. it ended with a downclimb of about 20m vertical rock crack full of dirt. i used my axe to do it. i took leaps,slides,hopes and got the eff down...only 8 hrs of exercise...felt like 16. i thought that was my last climb , i'm too old for this crapola...today i feel great, i went for a nice 1hr run around huaraz in the hills and i feel fit.. whoever is in charge of my workouts knows his stuff.......i'm going back tomorrow....!! i got to bag me some andean peak... get in shape and do some real stuff..

asi hablan los maestros del aerosol.......upaya chimi cholos!!!!!!

see: ´w´

i sell stuff to remain on permanent vacation.

i went 3/4 years ago and guides a were not mandatory.i think mid march is still fine if a little closer to tougher weather patterns which can be brutal there...i´m in peru right now and here the rainy season is approaching and the days climbing hours are from 6am to 12 noon, then fog/rain/graniso/snow..not alaskin type, just the annoying type..better to be above 5000m... good luck

oneness

just got back from doing 3easy 5000m peaks.am climbing only as rain-snow are daily .. still great fun.have 2 partners coming in 2 weeks..

they have guidebooks.!!!!!???

self-transcendence is fragrance-beauty ego-agrandisement is endless-futility. virendra

took a cab to just outside huaraz to go climbing.i wanted to climb vallunaraju(18500 )it is a walk in of about 2hrs on a road then 2hours scrambling to the glacier and 2hrs to summit: pretty straithforward..yaaah.i was carrying about 30lbs.i missed the entrance to the steep scrambling section to morraine camp.'tever,,i like bushwhacking.all the new routes i've done are all on approaches or descents.so i started up and improvised my way up some 5.3/5.4 rock,80% grass slopes etc.all in great fun.i finally exited on the plateau above,(17000ft) after 4hrs.. nothing like rock climbing at that altitude when your partly acclimatised.. found some lungs..i was about 600yds left of where i was supposed to exit..i saw i summit cairn about i/2hr up so i thought i'd tagged that ..cerro carhuac(5110m)i got down to the side of glacier lakes i camped.need to boil cause evidence of altitude cows is every where.i crashed and at 6pm am awakened by hail.peas fell for hours..about one inch by morning..got up at 6am and went up to glacier to climb vallu.needed perfect clear weather to solo the route as there is no trail now,and its like a parking lot.when i got to the glacier the snow slope to get on was gone and instead a 50/80 feet of 80% ice awaited. my lone ski pole seemed overmatched.skies started to cloud over already (8am!) so i figured i would have to turn around. i found a weaker line, so i went up 2/3 way to see how downclimbing would be, doable but not if i have to turn around anyway.i'll come back with a tool..so went back to my tent at 16800 at continued my acclimatisation. i slept as it rained and snowed all day and all nite. by morning 6inches had fallen. at 6am i left to go climbed 2 other peaks from the plateau i was on. all rock. all foggy but good track laying snow.one had a nice steep 5.2/3 finish.was back at camp in 2hrs. saw it was gonna rain again today so decided to back to town for new years eve. in the fog i lost the trail down again and ended creating another great workout for myself.. funnything is that when i met the caretaker of the refugio on the road up,he told me it was easy to spot the route up and THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY UP!! proved his ass wrong!!! christian!! all in all an interesting acclimatisation trip.. it is not climbing season here so anything i can get before june is pure bonus..! pics to follow

good k , bad k , all earned....congrats...