Winter

Blame the aliens, blame the aliens!!!

"Playing in a rock and roll band is a lot of hard work." - Dee Dee Ramone RIP

Where's the info on House's climb?

Attended third weekend of weddings in a row. On the up side, I got totally waxed. Are there still mountains out there?

This whole story is really funny, because I met him in the Bugs last year shooting the shit with Mark Synnot and then climbed with him at Smith with MtnHigh this past spring. He was relaying a story about the NE Butt of Slesse being a dream for him and a friend and the knocking it out and realizing that it was piece of cake, so he started soloing. We put up some .11a sport route on the shitpile, and he's like "sweet, I've never led .11a before." He aced it. Really nice guy. Anyway, I'm pretty sure he's a pilot and not a guide unless he got a new job.

Have you tried smoking it yet? Could eliminate a few possibilities.

His plans must have changed. We talked back in the fall about a possible trip to AK during the spring but I couldn't swing it. Haven't spoken to him since, but we has planning a trip up the West Butt with some friends.

Aw shit I know Aidan. I think he was piloting for TAT this season in AK. Did he mention something about that?

We started the crux pitch from an obvious slung horn and then led straight up and slightly right through a notch in between two small roofs. Then further right on small holds to a grassy ledge. Not sure if we were on route ... prolly not, but it worked.

and they make your shit blue on top of that.

Guys did you know that the credit companies keep a detailed sexual history of you and your spouse and give you negative points for gettin your dick wet in the wrong place. Seriously. RBW had his score knocked down about 75% from what I hear.

Ralph Nader would be so proud of all of you!! Gold stars all around!!!!!

Guys they can't confirm it, because then only have one of this two urine samples. Furthermore, 15 other samples tested positive as well, and we don't know how many they have. Why don't we hear about the other 14 riders being identified publically and questioned? Because the French hate Armstrong and want to bring him down b/c he dominated their support. And they smell like armpit.

Pittsburgh Steelers? Come on!!! Does this guy look jacked up? They weren't the "leaders" ... everyone was doing it and they didn't even know what it was.

Wow, the "end of climbing?" Come on. That's pretty reactionary. Defendants love to bitch and complain about all the bad things that can result from a plaintiffs' verdict. Its called a PR campaign, and apparently its working pretty well. You think 1 $10 million lawsuit is going to convince the park service to close Yos to climbing?Yeah right. What's the climbing business worth to the local economiy there? Let the process play itself out before everyone starts passing judgments about a situation they know very little about. They've got a tough case to prove. Maybe win maybe lose, but crying about a speculative impact on the sport seems like an over reaction given the suffering that the family has gone through.

I blame TG for world's ills and the bad case of the runs I get every monrning.

aw right like that's freakin original. i liked the climb into your mom's bed.

aw fuck blame yourselves first ya fucking pussies. especially you canuckians. media. soccer moms. suvs. arabs. TG beer. TG beer. TG beer. huh, what was i saying?

Shit that's the first I heard. RIP As Richard Thompson and Daddy Del sang: "I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome Swooping down from heaven to carry me home"

BTW, the whole East Ridge is like easy 5th class with one move of 5.7.

Oleg, the South Face looks really easy - I think its 5.4 or something? No problem at all. You could also ascend the East Peak from the saddle between the North and East Peaks (start of the East Ridge route). The route looks like its maybe 2-3 pitches and very straightforward with an easy rap back to the notch. I would caution though against ascending that gully with your kid unless there are no parties ahead of you because of rockfall hazard.

There's a huge for sale - sale pending sign on the front of Climb Max. What gives? Are they moving or closing?

all you pervs quit ooglin my woman!

Climb: North Ingalls Peak-East Ridge Date of Climb: 8/13/2005 Trip Report: Jessica (jezebal) and I climbed the East Ridge this past Saturday. We left the lot at about 6:00, took 1:15 to the pass and then lolly gagged it to the base of the route. We were the first party on route and were happy to avoid rockfall hazard. Great day to be out. The ridge was fun and easy. Jessica was having a great time. We encountered a group of 8-10 mounties. All in all very nice, but they had the south face totally strung up. Instead of rapping into that rat's nest, we looked for the walk off mentioned in Select Climbs. I think we found it - not sure. We headed straight down the faint ridge to the right (looking down) of the top out for the South face. We headed down and then left on sandy and blocky 3rd class till we got to a bench. From the bench 3-4 gully systems cut down and across back to the gully below the dog tooth notch. We took the most heavily travelled gully on the right, led down one full pitch of 4th to easy 5th to rap slings around a chockstone. Very narrow gully. From there its one 30m rap to the ground. All in all it was a great, relaxed and very fun day out. Jessica was a great partner. Kristin, out with a bulging disk, met us at the lake and walked back to the car with us. Sunday we all climbed at Tieton and ate Peach milkshakes. Ahhhhh ... Gear Notes: Light rack, Single 60 m rope, Mountie repellant Approach Notes: Take the slabs straight up from the lake until forced to the right at the top of the gully.

Nice job!! In the spring of '01 there was no ice. Nice to see it back. Mt. Kenya is pretty much a stand alone mountain with several sub peaks. There are several other smaller peaks on surrounding ridge lines that have technical lines, but not a whole lot. Looked like there was signficant potential for new rock lines on the north and east sides. Great place!!