rbw1966

hey Tex-- Drop me an email if you are still looking for a partner. I've made one attempt at it in winter but bailed from the first genderame due to weather (got some great pics). I know someone who climbed it in August (totally bare) and its a total choss pile. Personally I have zero desire to climb it barren.

Tires equal gear in the NW. If'n you can't get to the mountains, you can't do any climbin'. I'm sitting here with nose pressed to glass praying for more snow. More snow. . . more snow. . .

I've climbed extensively in the Cascades, Ecuador and eastern europe in my makalus. Bought 'em in '95 or thereabouts. Still going strong for me. I treated them once with nikwax when my feet got wet. Haven't had to retreat them since then. YMMV

I'm reading Don Delillo's Underworld right now. Great book, I can appreciate it more now that I am not hauling it all over like I did on denali. That was a big mistake.

Toss an extra biner in the mix and you're gliding smooth and slow.

I'd much rather listen to DFA's contribution to the debate then your showcase of Tourrettes Syndrome.

Backcountry is where its at baby. Anyone been on snowdome lately?

Rumor has it that Wild Country is making a pack with folded linoleum as a back support for those spontaneous moments of breakin' Thats fresh!

D'oh! There goes that idea

quote: Originally posted by sketchfest: It'll take ya to a place you never thought imaginable and a place no boardhead could ever get to. Just once I'd like to see a day here without a topic turning into soft porn.

Hero loops are also attached to aiders as hand-holds for moving up in the steps. Also, you can use hero loops for tying off short on pins or rigid friends.

Gore dryloft baby.

Ever bouldered at the large boulder a bit away from Beacon Rock itself?

Nope--I am referring to the "top" of pitch one before you traverse over to the anchor for the start of pitch two. Whilst we were rapelling down I saw a guy girthing some hand-tied runners to the hangers for his anchor point. We didn't even get there until about 1 p.m. or so. My other friend had never climbed before and got sketched about 20 feet up so we lowered him and the girl and I finished the route. Ran into my friend Larry there but aside from that I didn't see anyone I knew. I was surprised by how free SE corner was. Jills Thrill is a great route.

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: ...And Trask and I are just the guys to do it. A new amateur porn video? All this time I thought Trask was into goats. My bad.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Wasnt Hussein pretext for kicking out the inspectors the last time the incredibly overt actions of US & Britain Covert Ops teams posing as weapons inspectors and placing bugs while they diligently searched for bombs and germ warfare factories under saddams bed, etc.? I hope they pretend to be weapons inspectors a bit more proficiently this time around.[/QB] I can't believe the U.S. would do something so devious. Are you sure they weren't cannucks?

What did you climb Erik? I was there with a couple friends from out of town and all we had time for was SE Corner. By the way, how do folks here feel about girth-hitching webbing to hangers? Seems a rather questionnable practice to me.

I don't think it mattered to Bush much if Saddam allowed inspectors back in or not. You'll recall that he preempted this posture by stating that Iraq has to deal with all 16 UN resolutions in order to prevent war. Allowing inspectors back in is but one of those resolutions. My moneys on Bush pushing this all the way. I don't want to see war but I bet its on the way.

FYI when my partner and I bought our bags for denali (Western Mountaineering) we got a 15% discount for buying them together. Got 'em at Oregon Mountain Community. I've never been happier with a sleeping bag before except when my wife shared it with me. 'Course we weren't married at the time. . .

No condescension was meant my friend. I just don't see the use of nuclear weapons on a par with conventional bombing of military institutions. I also don't agree with the use of conventional weapons (or nuclear wewapons) against non-combatants a la Afghanistan. This is not winning their hearts and minds.

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: mabe youshould read your history there fuck head... the name starts with p... i'll give you a new hint in 10 minutes... i cant believe this one... Ahhh. . yes, you are right. A bit of rectal-cranial inversion there. So sorry. Fuck head? Mkay. mi culej dint lernt mee sow gud.

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: yah...war over... what excuse are you going to give for the japaneese bombing us? if we didn't end the war...chnaces are double that many civilians would have been killed because of the ensuing conflict... what would you have done mister secretary of defense? keep sending in more 18 year old boys to get killed? Wait a second--the "japs" bombed us? This is news to me.

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: its not till 4 now and i do not scrum...i am a back! And trask is a "front"?

Must have been a fast scrum.