el jefe

rafe1234, you must be new around here. joseph is a member of the "greatest generation" of climbers. in his heyday everyone who climbed had bigger balls than they do today. something about purity of the aryan race having been polluted by interbreeding with mongrel sport climbers explains why things have gone downhill since the golden era of extreme toproping on the towering walls of illinois -- joseph will certainly chime in with a clarification of any details. in any event, joseph and his heroic comrades used to routinely take 100ft wingers off cliffs only 50ft tall, and as legend would have it, they eschewed the use of harness or swami belt and either merely clenched the rope between their teeth or cinched it around their prodigious nutsacks. must have been a crazy time for sure.

unlike rich simpson, neil has video of his ascent and can tell us who is belayer was, so there is more validity to his claim than to rich's.

why don't we collect some money to send raindawg down to cerre torre (one way ticket of course) so he can straighten out those guys? he can probably take pope with him as i'm sure he'll be able to fit his little sidekick in the overhead luggage rack.

i believe this is what is called a "mixed metaphor" -- if people are slinging feces, then that isn't "mud" you got covered in.

it has been 2 months since you originally posted this and no one has replied yet, so arbitrarily narrowing the field of potential respondents is obviously the logical next step. good luck in all your future endeavors.

vomit taster has returned.

if you are opposed to bolted routes why are you also upset that bolting is being regulated in certain areas?

i'm confident that the majority of people who leave draws on a route do so because they know how much it will irritate raindawg. as i understand it, sport climbing was developed for precisely this purpose and leaving draws is just another way in which the universe conspires to make him unhappy.

really, raindawg, this is pretty pathetic. seriously. you really need to find something in life that makes you happy. perhaps then you'll get past spending your time concocting these weird revenge fantasies and posting them on the internet. truly, dude, this stuff makes me sad.

ken nichols is a "folk hero" who has "more fans than you could ever imagine"? i didn't imagine that nutjob had any fans but it looks like he has at least one, so yes, that's certainly more than i could ever imagine!

if your logic works like this, then you probably also make turd sandwiches with wonder bread and feces when you run out of peanut butter. see? i'd say this is a new level of incomprehensible gibberish even for g-spotter.

pete's pile is visible from highway 35. the approach is pretty straightforward and the parking as well. if you are headed south on 35 from hood river it will be on your left (east) pretty much where the turn off to cooper spur resort is located.

it's interesting how the anti-sport climbing zealots such as raindawg keep trying to twist this dude's actions into some sort of ethical statement when it is clear from the video he is just some unprincipled scumbag who got caught stealing. whether it is okay to leave gear hanging on a route is a different question from whether it is okay to mess with it. raindawg decries the vigilantes who would put a beat down on the scruffy lout, but proudly boasts how he would collect the draws and hang them on a bolt well off the ground -- which act amounts to vigilantism, too. but of course, in the mind of the zealot, his version of vigilantism is always justified. this guy is a thief, plain and simple. if you believe the people who left the draws on the route "deserve" to have them taken, then you probably also believe a woman who wears a short skirt is "asking for it".

i agree that this was handled very well by ian et al. also, the video was posted on mountainproject by our own beloved billcoe and showed up on climbingnarc today, so this quickdraw thief is becoming well known to the climbing community at large.

awesome route! nice work guys.

i'm hoping there is a video of the quickdraw klepto caught in the act. i'm hoping it goes viral, too. this jackass and whoever belayed him have earned this opportunity to become laughingstocks.

pm sent.

seattle's annual rainfall is spread out over many months, not squeezed into just a few. east side of the cascades is a different story for most of the northwest. hood river is located in the gorge right about at the border of the wet and dry regions. beacon rock is pretty close by and smith rocks ca 120 miles or so. there is one hospital in hood river. nearest other hospital is in the dalles, ca 25 miles east. the one at the dalles is larger (though by no means a big hospital) and is a vry easy commute from hood river area.

no one is interested in what Alex is talking about.

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nitrox = racist troll

fairweather is a creepy fuck, but he isn't little. let's be accurate here. he's a creepy fat fuck.

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