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The Plaidman is rad man!

MontyPiton You're one tough dude.

Sherri Sendmaster! Way to go get it.

KOIN TV, the bastards taking advantage of this situation, playing on emotions and trying to drum up some viewers by exploiting this situation when having a beacon up there has nothing to do with the situation.

Facebook? I'm not on Facebook, so......I'm screwed...

Dave, what are you using for rope solo, what device?

Who did the first ascent of Deal with it Ranger?

Holding out hope and offering prayers for the safe return of the others, we are with you Scott, hang in there!

yeah, Sherri rocks!

There was a morning at Classic Crack when a team of Army Rangers showed up trying to climb it and rap it. I think it might have been the day in the photo above 25-30 years ago there about. Anyway, one guy got stuck half way and was freaking, and the officer was yelling "Deal with it Ranger, deal with it!" So that became our mantra when someone would freak out partway up on some climb we would yell it at them. I saw someone named a climb in the Leavenworth guide "Deal with it Ranger". Maybe the Rangers went to Classic Crack allot, but I only saw them there myself the once.

Nope, thats Foreigner. Rev on the Red Line, off the Double Vision album.

Is that guy really climbing or just hanging from the rope with his hands on the rock?

a little Gorge ice climbing with Plaidman and Big Wall Rick yesterday... http://www.vimeo.com/8122160

Deal with it Ranger, deal with it!! I was there that day when the photo was taken I believe...

What is George Bush doing in the upper right of that photo?

Plaidman getting it done in the Gorge today, sticking the third pitch!

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If I ever get to meet Fred again, I'd like to tell him the real reason Trigger Finger pinnacle fell over at Peshastin back in the 1970's....kind of a interesting story

Excellente!

Wow. Nice collection, thanks for the link. I guess I have a small dick, I hate when that happens.

Don't use Youtube, they will shut the soundtrack off on your videos on certain music companies, others they will run a ad over it and try to sell the music soundtrack. Use www.vimeo.com as they don't care as long as its not commercial and will not mess with your video. Nobody liked the photo of the ice ax I posted earlier of a vintage Stubai Nanga Parbat Extreme made in Austria? I bought that sucker when I was 15 with my hard earned money bussing tables. Here's another tool I bought, a Pterodactyl axe. I used it a couple time but didn't like it as it was a knuckle buster. Just dug these things out of the attic. Also got some old rock hammers Bill I don't think you have....!

Do you guys know how to make a movie using your photos and video clips with the Windows Movie Maker? Look for it on your computer. You can link your photos and videos togather and do special effects and add music and stuff, and it is a very simple and intuitive program to use amd teach yourself. I think it standard comes on everyones computer nowdays.

The east winds were like a freight train here in the Hood River area yesterday. I can't imagine what it must have been like yesterday at Beacon. 15 degrees here this morning.

It seems we have reached a general concensus overall in our sport where the type of crag and public opinion rules as to what crags are sport, what are trad, what are mixed trad and sport, etc. Some crags are just so much more suitable for trad then many other places, while some places don't offer trad placements at all. There will and should always be discussion and banter back and forth on developement but it seems to me a happy medium has been struck for a number of years now. However there always be a couple people that come along and piss in the soup in order to bring attention to themselves. Small minded and extremist, they lurk at both ends of the spectrum in all walks of life. There is no meaninful dialogue or bridging gaps and opinions, but simply a blind insistence that their way is the only way. They have no sense of community, common sense, or the overall picture and to engage them is simply to allow them to spew and get their rocks off.

not a hammer, but bet you haven't seen a fine ice ax like this is a while Bill