AlpineK

I've never played the role of a hippie, but maybe I can act out the role of a dirty hippie

Well, I'm sorry to say, but it looks like the Hawks have lived up to the role of looser. Too bad, but Chicago is a pretty good team

Huh. I am a mod, but I guess I was too lazy to figure that spot out. It was a long time ago, so I figured it went better in Spray. After all we didn't get very close to the top.

Too bad. I remember getting into those books while I was high school age.

They will be all over Whistler next season.

How long ago was that? Sometime in the 80's. He had this crazy ride with a skull and crossbones airbrushed on the front hood. I think he released his one album Skyscraper right after that.

All I remember was he was really curious about what kind of a belay device I was using.

I talked to him while he was climbing at J Tree back a long time ago. He was being guided and he had a belay from above, but also from below at the same time.

In my free time, which I have a lot of, I've been reading the Necronomicon. It's almost like reading greek mythology about how the world is ordered. It's a recent book, but it's supose to be the basis for a series of books that H P Lovecraft wrote in the 20's. Those are some crazy stories about fucking with dead people or going to a mountain at the south pole where they dig up and try and defrost this alien frozen in the ice.

Sorry dude. I thought spray might be a fun place for this non NW stuff. Getting out of Nepal was exciting. The only real climbing we did was getting up Bill's Butress to camp 1

That's cool, I figure I'm just doing good by posting them. Speaking of which. Our big ass base camp manager having a drink with some sherpani who were really impressed with him You've gotta haul all your crap up to meet the liaison officer in Tibet. When we left me and the two brits in our group decided to walk down valley as far as we could. We told our friends to tell the liaison at the last second that we were down valley. He was fucking pissed at us when he caught up with us. I don't have any photos, but we spent the night at the hotel on the way out. We had a wild party and kind of trashed the building. We had to fight with the Chinese in the morning. They wanted to lock us up, but eventually they relented and drove us to the border.

Kiss is going to play Smith?

At the upper right you can see where the NE Ridge hooks up with the upper part of the N Col.

Here's a full view of the NE Ridge We set fixed lines on the butress on the left. This photo was taken later on and you can see a big part of what set us back. Note the big avy debris. The actual route was to the left and above the debris, but it still freaked us out.

Ok here's one that is a little more funny. Goretex yak getting ready to haul food up to ABC

Back in the old days Rudy used to kick some serious ass.

While I'm at it I'll try one more. At advanced base camp we ran into this guy. I've forgotten his name, but he's a brit who came to Everest a long time ago by himself. He was going to solo Everest, but obviously things didn't work out.

Drinking the local swill is a good way of getting in touch with your home.

Dru was probably busy that day hot on the trail of his furry friends the goats. IMO you really don't want to know how things turned out.

After my recent trip to Harborview the doctors sent the Seahawks this note. It's ok for Kurt to play for the Hawks as long as he gets to play with a big stick to put the other team down.

Only when there's a big traffic jam

My supply of canadian money would show my love of Molson or one of the canuck micros

I wanted to see if I could still upload images This was take at about 24 grand on the big E way back in '89. Looking up the NE Ridge. We didn't get much higher than this

Its the funny shaped ball

Wow. I went to see a model of Everest he made back a number of years ago. It was on display at a private showing in Lake City. He was really inspiring