AlpineK

I remember one time while working for my former employer when 6 or 7 of us went out on this booze cruise on the lake (the other guy was the bosses son) It was a Thursday night, and we were out till 3AM Anyway about 7AM I showed up at the bosses house to get the work orders and saws. I was holding things together pretty well while he told me everything we were suppose to do that day until he gave me a sharp look and said, "Kurt you've got glitter all over you." Everybody did show up though If you want to play ya gotta pay.

See if you'd save all the stuff about flora and fauna you could impress your new friend with your knoledge of things other than rock climbing. As it stands your on your way to proving how one dimensional you are to her. Of course I am assuming that it is a her. I have no advice if your, "friend," is a drunk male prostitue.

Except of course that snowboarding is waaaayyyyy more fun. keep telling yourself that.

Shit man if I got fired for every time I fucked something up I would have worked for 40 tree companies at least. The key is to produce more than you break.

When you get here make a post in the partners forum. Be specific about what type of climbing or route you want to do and provide a one or two sentence description of your climbing ability.

God damn it I wanna see blood; quit being pussy's and fight.

fight, fight, fight

Rolf lives in Leavenworth, so shit is really really nasty. I wouldn't advise going there unless you have a strong stomach.

On the other side of the coin I fired 4 people last year. There's only me here, so I can't shove that stuff off on a secretary; not that I would. The first one took the longest; I'd never fired anyone before. The thing is after 6 months the kid could barely tie a slip knot and the only tree he could identify was a doug fir; it didn't help that he was pretty wimpy to boot. I was going to give him 2 weeks notice, but then he did about $1500 in damage to my chipper. I wrote him a check on the spot and told him he was fired. By the time I fired the last guy it was kind of like a reality tv show. After I'd yelled at him for being late a couple times he showed up 2 hours late and acting like he was tweaking on something. After I told him he was late he said, "Well I'm here now what do you want me to do." I thought a minute and said, "Why don't you go home." His jaw just dropped Things aren't perfect now, but I do have somebody who shows up every day.

If only your family had stayed in France things would be so much better now.

Ya know I suppose if I wanted to expend the energy I could read all this economicspeak, and I bet I could come up with something to say. All I know is that I've been to France once and it was a fun time. They had better food at the restaurant at the top of La Grave than I've had at many restaurants in Seattle. Also the city of Grenoble was fairly nice; I saw a few bums at the train station but not to many. The way I figure it France isn't too bad off no matter what policy they have. Perhaps we should argue about things closer to home. Of course Jay hates France, and all I can say is...Go with the hate.

Oh yeah Banff is the Boulder CO of Canada. On the other hand there's a lot of cool shit in the CR's if you have the time when the weather's good.

Are you kidding every time I read a Dru TR it's about climbing some chossy gully up a mountain.

I don't like any of you.

Yeah but Squish doesn't have dirt and choss, so Dru doesn't go there too much.

Have fun with your new toy. I'm sure it'll be fun. Someday when you want something that's actually made for backcountry travel you'll get a pair of skis

Fire is your friend.

I'm sure there are lots of trees that deserve death for the greater good, but I'm kind of lazy about it when I'm not getting paid.

As a postscript I did cut down the maple at the base of Godzilla last year (no troll) I checked for Uncle Tricky hanging out in a portaledge first. He wasn't there. There was some woman at the base of a nearby climb. I walked by her with a chain saw and said, "I'm going to make a little noise." She glared at me as I dropped the tree into the swamp but never said a thing.

I guess Jay's never been south on Rainier Trust me if you lived in Columbia City it's a straight shot down Rainier to the Valley FWY to Kent.

I thought you hated hippies. All those PCC shoppers, even if they have now shaved and cleaned up, used to be hippies. I hate hippies, and I know where they hang out. Don't push me. As to living in Kent. Why the fuck would you want to live in some god forsaken suburban hellhole. Living in the suburbs is what you do if you have a 50's mindset, a labotomy, and 10 childeren that you want to go to good schools (i.e. no darkies)

I hear Dru and G Spotter are planning an expedition to the back side of Brokeback Mountain.

Yeah, Columbia City is viable. It's come a long way since I was a kid, a healthy business community is bringing the neighborhood back up. Beacon Hill or Seward Park might be a thought. All would constrain you to I-5 to get to the Kent Valley, though. Traffic anywhere on I-5 sucks these days, but at least entry points would be south of downtown. The next bottleneck heading south on I-5 would be towards Southcenter right about where you'd get off. You don't have to use I-5. Head south on Rainier and it'll turn into the Valley Freeway. I-5 is for suckers. Seward Park is pretty close and there's a PCC at 50th and Hudson.

The subject isn't about some lame road in Or-e-gun but the North Cascades HWY. I doubt you can get around the gate on the west side, and even if you could they haven't plowed anywhere near far enough to get to the good skiing. Plus the man would put you down.

Look in Columbia City.