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  1. Trip: Mt Hood via mass transit. - S.S.

     

    Date: 7/21/2017

     

    Trip Report:

    How to get to Timberline Lodge w/o a car. Caught TriMet bus to Max blue line to Gresham TC ($1.25). Then Sam (Sandy Area Metro) to Sandy TC ($1.00). Then Mt Hood express to Timberline ($2.00).

     

    Started stumbling at 10 PM. Felt like quitting as soon as I started as I felt too stumbling bumbkinish. And yet, the self imposed Sisyphus in me (tasks that are both laborious and futile) kept pushing/pulling me along. The stars were glorious. I made it to just below the bergschund when I started to feel like barfing. I sat down and took stock of my condition. I then noticed I had the beginnings of a real skull pounding thumper. Alas and forloin I decided to call it a success while I was still in pauseable shape. The foul stench of the mountain's bowels made my choice that much easier.

     

    Although I have done the S.S. several times I still found it interesting. The various combinations of scree, talus, and snow were arranged in a new landscape, and that combined to make an old worn out shoe seem new. Such is the always changing scenery of nature, unlike man.

     

    The folks that run the industry of skiing still bitch about the climbers being on the ski slopes and not using the climber's trail; and yet, it really is misery and mystery to me why to this day the climber's trail is not clearly marked all the way past the lifts. And climbers still boast that getting off route is part of the climbing adventure. I guess the climber's ego is as fragile as the flora and fauna.

     

    P.S. Lost Cam your co-workers are going to punch you for me.

     

    Gear Notes:

    Aluminimum.

     

    Approach Notes:

    Mass Transit.

  2. Yes, refugees should have Sanctuary. Look around your city and tell me who has the most sanctuary? Do the weakest have sanctuary? Homeless Animals have foundations to rescue them. Homeless people not so much. Where's the equity for USA refugees? All is quiet on the home front until someone gets annoyed. Move the bums out! is the cry. Why not have MASH units for the refugees and homeless? Oh, that's inhumane. We HAVE TO wait for real housing. Why the double speak on who gets help? Ends up pitting people against people.

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    Just came back from Vegas and can't believe you're blowing off Ivans offer. I bet he'll even lead the hard pitches! :lmao:

     

    It was 69-70 degrees and almost too warm on the south facing walls, which means that Black Velvet canyon should be prime time by April. Dry and warm were the watch words. Good stuff!

    Thanks. Uh, it's wet and warm now. So aborted. Going Gorgeous. Hermit like. :yoda:

  4. you could always found a nice burro to settle down w/ out in the joshua trees n' stay as long as you like :)
    Lost count of the times been to JT. Takes more then I got left to go gorilla there. Met a hardy young fella that did though. Cold, snow, rain, wind, sun happens w/o warning, as well as, LA crowds and steady train of cars these days. The magic is still there I guess; just saying it's gone for me. Had chance years ago to meet locals at what's his names place but blew/snoozed it off. :sleep: Even tried to get work at local shop but had no game compared to the kids.:cry:

    i meant the j-trees of red rawks, but whatevers - guess you seen one american desert ye've seen them all - at least this one has groovy n' gaudy nearby public fountains to wash yer whites in :)

    Not much Gorilla left for Red Rawks either. Thanks just the same Ivan Von Tailor of Rhythm Rhyme

    :pagetop:

  5. Don't come to 11worth it's been snowing every day since like November
    Thanks. Thought I was still a mountain man till this winter here in Portland proved me out to be a limp wimp. Definitely had enough ice and snow to last me to the grave. Still dream about it, not sure why, cause it's over rover. Something to do with pristine vestal virgin snow environment, me thinks. Something about white snow equals purity of soul? Tabla Rasa reboot? :shock:
  6. you could always found a nice burro to settle down w/ out in the joshua trees n' stay as long as you like :)
    Lost count of the times been to JT. Takes more then I got left to go gorilla there. Met a hardy young fella that did though. Cold, snow, rain, wind, sun happens w/o warning, as well as, LA crowds and steady train of cars these days. The magic is still there I guess; just saying it's gone for me. Had chance years ago to meet locals at what's his names place but blew/snoozed it off. :sleep: Even tried to get work at local shop but had no game compared to the kids.:cry:
  7. Want sunny, dry, warm place to visit for 2-3 weeks; Island or Desert. Tent or floor. Prefer temp room. Has been climber, weak kneed, weak hiker, weak drinker, weakened wet constitution. Poor speller. Fly in & out. Low budget. Antagonizing replies, or ideas, gladly accepted. sickie

  8. though, in truth, this coulda done just as good - jeebus, why is it that the ang-lish just GET the awful ambivalence of this'er listless life? :)

     

    [video:youtube]

    Thanks, this cheered me up. Guess my luck hasn't run out with friends. Big tear. :yoda:
  9. Here a Tap 9_9

    There a Tap :yawn:

    Everywhere a Wire Tap :fahq:

    Rap Me Here :mistat:

    Rap Me There :P

    Rap Me Wire Underwear :eveeel:

    In Me Subpoena :wazup:

    No Corpus Delicti In My Pie :laf:

    Ad Hominem Me :provoke:

    Ad Hominem You :ass:

    We Got's Hominem Stew :noway:

    Attack You? :tdown:

    Attack Them :tup:

    Now Attack Me Again ::skull::

    It Don't Matter :argue::battlecage:

    Were still Dirty Cave Men :[]

  10. Was

    Not Scholarly like Ivan but, wha happen? Uh not here. Autobiography of a Brown Skinned Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta. Very Fast Read. Lots of wacky acid trips, growing up Hispanic, vomiting blood, booze, speed, cigarettes, lawyering. Other stuff I don't remember, duh, there you go again.

    :pagetop:

  11. it's always fun to quote the father of capitalism in any conversation on wealth in a nation :)

     

    "Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."

     

    this one seems appropriate for the man in question too:

     

    "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."

     

    From Russia, with Love :[]

     

    _Adam Smith,"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the revenue which their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."

  12. :ooo: A Trumpeter told me that most Billionaires earn their money. My feeling is that most of them make it off of the backs of labour, schemes profiting from bank deregulation, and inflated military contracts, etc. In other words, unethically.

     

    What's your take?

     

     

  13. Beastly women in high heels. Beastly men in high heels. High women in beastly heels. High men in beastly heels. Women heel high beasts. Men heel high beasts. Beast on Beast. Beast on high heels. Beastly high women in heels. Beastly high men in heels. Heels on high men. High on heels beast. Beast on heels high. Men on heels high. Women on heels high. Beast heels high women. Beast heels high men. Beast high on women heels. Heels high beast all in.

    nary a breast in all that bedlam? :)

    :cry:Not into Adult Baby Role playing, but whatever works, as long as it doesn't upset TRUMP (like the Bill of Rights). BTW, Festivus is on the 23rd of December.
    :provoke: Denial is not an admission! So there!
  14. Be on time. Commute. Answer correctly. Wait patiently. Participate in acquiescence. Pay taxes for things you morally and ethically object to. Now feel bad for being upset that your upset. :[] Now model behaviour for children. Rinse and repeat.

  15. Beastly women in high heels. Beastly men in high heels. High women in beastly heels. High men in beastly heels. Women heel high beasts. Men heel high beasts. Beast on Beast. Beast on high heels. Beastly high women in heels. Beastly high men in heels. Heels on high men. High on heels beast. Beast on heels high. Men on heels high. Women on heels high. Beast heels high women. Beast heels high men. Beast high on women heels. Heels high beast all in.

    nary a breast in all that bedlam? :)

    :cry:Not into Adult Baby Role playing, but whatever works, as long as it doesn't upset TRUMP (like the Bill of Rights). BTW, Festivus is on the 23rd of December.
  16. Beastly women in high heels. Beastly men in high heels. High women in beastly heels. High men in beastly heels. Women heel high beasts. Men heel high beasts. Beast on Beast. Beast on high heels. Beastly high women in heels. Beastly high men in heels. Heels on high men. High on heels beast. Beast on heels high. Men on heels high. Women on heels high. Beast heels high women. Beast heels high men. Beast high on women heels. Heels high beast all in.

  17. horror movies where they invite more white-folks into the house
    What is known as White on White: house, bread, sugar, pasta, bride, fence, mime, bakers, psychiatrists, butchers, catholic Easter service, snow, natural cheese and butter, salt, toilet tissue, toilets, strychnine, milk, congealed bacon fat, wedding, sheets, KKK, dwarf, ghost, clouds, snow, cocaine, toothpaste, underwear, socks, buttocks, tampons, cellulite, lie.

    :moondance:

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