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natty daddy, tastes horrible, but you can get a decent buzz on for about $3. Man, what I would give for a job...

Mark and I got by on a liter and a half per day on half dome, I was dying on the descent. For a route that you'll be hauling I would budget 1 gallon a day per person. dehydration sucks!

yeah, I showed one of my non climbing roommates this and he couldn't believe it, so freakin' cool!

the birthers are racist, what else is new?

Just saw this video, really neat stuff. I was in the valley when they were on this, wish I knew about it so I could have cheered them on.

one last bit of spray, then I'm done, I swear.

yeah, UM is a bunch of Obamatron pot smoking rapers. Commonly known fact.

Beowulf, was there any other reason to watch the movie?

casual http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=537860

Might as well be a lift to the top of chair peak, that N face is a mediocre black diamond after all.

also the cascadian is the worst part of any stuart climb. I'd avoid going up it like the plague.

millie creek fire burned up the drainage by storm castle. It's over the ridge to the west of hyalite. Hyalite was closed for a few weeks because they were using the reservoir to pick up water for the fire bombers and they didn't want to kill any SUPers by scooping them up and dropping them onto a inferno. Snow forecasted all week, it's cold. Winter is coming.

heading in to the funeral for a friend area with a rack of pins and double ropes. got some lines that look like they might be good, I guess we'll find out. Fingers crossed that the ice'll be good. I think most of the formations are caused by spring water seeping out of the cliffs. Seems like springs would be less reliant on rainfall, but what do I know.

Sure, I'll post a conditions thread after the next time I go up. Gonna be going into the beartooths in two weeks and I have to fill the freezer next weekend. It's my guess in the meantime that the drive won't be worth it until at least the second weekend in November. There'll be stuff in before that but probably thin and sketchy.

I'd argue the opposite. It seems pretty arrogant to believe that humans are somehow special and the entire universe, eukaryotes, bacteria, archea, everything, was created for human beings. We live on a tiny rock hurtling through space around one star among billions of trillions of stars. We're special? I don't think so, we're just the first creatures to become self aware. We're a accident, an experiment without a scientist that by some stroke of luck managed to progress this far. Who knows what's gonna happen next, but I don't see anyone saving us besides ourselves. In the mean time I'm going to continue climbing rocks ( a incredibly pointless exercise, and yet I get so much from it) The organisms that witness the end of the earth will be as different from us as we are from those first lifeforms that managed to thrive in the primordial soup ~3 billion years ago. That is a mind trip and really fascinating to think about, at least to me.

Just hiked up into flanders for a look-see this morning. Champagne should be climbable really soon. There's ice forming up nicely on big sleep and the killer pillar is beginning to form. I couldn't see anything on bobo like. Pretty damn good for temps hanging around the 50's in town for the last couple weeks, this year is shaping up to be really good!

I ain't gonna pray to no cock sucker. Cocksuckers can't get into heaven anyway.

I was walking though the mall today on the way to sit in library and look at climbing forums when I was distracted by a man spewing vitriolic hatred about homosexuals and fornication outside of marriage in the middle of the MSU mall. He was surrounded by a crowd of mostly rational human beings arguing that his hatred was not fitting for a man of god, but there were 2 people who had legitimate tears in their eyes crying for us "unrepentant sinners". I am an atheist. If someone doesn't see the miracle that modern science has enlightened our understanding of the world we live in I honestly believe that they are ignorant and unwilling to look at the facts in a rational light. However, as long as an individual is trying to lead a good life and better the experience of others they get props in my book, regardless of their religious leanings. Human beings share 89% of our DNA with zebra fish, 95% with mice. In my eyes that verifiable fact is so much more powerful than some instantaneous creation 6000 years ago by a supremely intelligent being. How can people proclaim "love" and "salvation" in such a arbitrary and negative light? How do you sleep at night preaching love while simultaneously telling people that the love they feel for someone of the same gender isn't actually love? It's the same as that scene in Mean Girls, except instead of a hilarious satire of high school cliques it is a fully grown man preaching "truth".

Correct Alan, You might be in trouble if you were climbing on a binier that had been fired at a steel barricade with a railgun. Otherwise yer not gonna die.

AHHHH ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I skip out on studying for my test to peruse CC and end up reading about fukkin benzene rings! Neat application, is there a compound that'll bind to receptors in my brain and light up my comprehension of the difference between SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 reactions when exposed to ultraviolet light?

micro fractures don't exist. throw your rack off el cap and I'll use it once it hits the talus. If your axe needs replacing you'll know because it's broken in half. If yours isn't broken in half it's probably alright.

I'm gonna be doing some climbing on the UTW this winter, and I've heard that the methheads have been getting particularly active lately. I'm planning on just not having anything valuable in my car and leaving it unlocked, but has it really reached that point? Car break ins are lame. Previous experience leaving your car for a 4 or 5 days in the lot in November?

haha well now I'm stuck climbing limestone choss out here in MT, or the flaring gneiss cracks of the Gallatin Canyon. I've only climbed on WW1 at Little Si, and the one 5.9 there is really soft. It boils down to the fact that climbing is fun and I don't care too much about grades. I'll take a day at index over a weekend at the snoqualmie crags any day, but if I find myself in the area and it isn't pouring I'd love to get shown around by a local guru who isn't as aloof as I am towards sport climbing.

Try Whores of Babylon. It took a CO climber to complete the hardest climb in WA. We need to be better perfomers and less whiners and complainers. I watched Jonathan Siegrist climb his route there a while back, 32 is tough, I've only jumped on routes up to 12- there (because I'm a wanker) but I felt like the grades were a lot more spot on than a little ways up the road. As for Squamish being soft, I have fun whenever I climb there and I usually don't have a guidebook! Jangling Ball Wall in the Smoke Bluffs is freakin' hard for 11b.

wow, in 03 I was just a wee lad, still I'll chime in anyway. 38 is a fun places to get a bunch of routes in, but whooo-eeee is it soft! endless bliss is rated 10a, but is barely 5.8. Theres some 10a above it, ellies sweet kiss or something, can't be more than 5.7. I've gotten onto "10b" terrain after going the wrong way on criss crossing boltlines when i thought I was doing a 5.8. Fun place to climb, but I kinda ignore grades there, at least at the moderate level, as they really don't mean anything. Little Si though, that is a fun place to fall off stuff!