tivoli_mike

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Yeah, Freeman, thx for sending out the topo for Prime Rib!

No kidding, look what happened to the last mountaineer outing:

The scenery is pretty nice , from what it looks like:

Over half of the kids in North Seattle attend private schools. Of course the irony is that once the higher income/lower needs kids leave the public system, the per student costs increase as you contend with more immigrant ( ESL), special ED, 509s, and others...

It was a new one, near a finger crack, though, so it may not be needed, I just happened to notice it whilst I was stuck up in vegetation trying to get over the 3rd overlap/roof.

Well, the trunks aren't that large, but a fair number of limbs with foilage...

Climb: Three O'Clock Rock - Darrington-Silent Running Date of Climb: 5/21/2006 Trip Report: scottp and I hit the base of the route around 11am after the hike up the 8 mile creek trail. There is some significant treefall on the trail forcing some bushwhack to go around. The road to the trailhead was passable by all cars ( Camry at the TH). I started the first, snow abbreviated pitch, and we switched leads from there on out. I got schooled on the 3rd pitch (5.9+) on the techniques of D-Town slab climbing, but I managed to get through it. We topped out at the 6th pitch, and I decided to push on to the bonus pitch, but ended up bailing with the weather turning and my flailing getting more frenzied. There is a missing bolt hanger halfway up this pitch. scottp was grumbling about the button-head 1/4"ers on the 6th pitch, but the new bolts were well placed. Had a squall hit us on the rap down, but it blew through quickly giving us a chance to catch up on lunch before we headed back to the car. Less than four hours from the base to the 6th belay and back down. Gear Notes: brought 10 draws and a rack to 2.5"... Approach Notes: snow at base... trail has treefall.

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Seattle Bubble Blog overvalued real estate blog

Got this catalog in the mail, thought it was land's end until I hit the tents page...REI? Huh, not one carabiner in site. They did have a hand powered espresso maker... I heard at one time they did sell climbing gear, maybe they'll branch into housewares next

Ah.... its the annual "exit 38, car break-in, oragnized posse" bitch thread... summer is just around the corner...

I was the one waving back at you. The rocks you sent down weren't a problem , they fell off to our right.

Climb: Mt. Garfield-Infinite Bliss Date of Climb: 4/30/2006 Trip Report: Well, OlympicMtnBoy and I had a leisurely start to the day and rolled into the trailhead around 12. Found the trail and headed for the approach. Trail crossed the creek and then got steep, almost Mailbox Peak level of suffering. Finally broke out of the trees and onto the slab. We scouted around and finally found a set of anchors (actually the top of the first pitch) and headed up, swinging leads. The 1st four pitches quick, and in retrospect we should have simul-climbed. The fifth pitch (sixth according to topo) had us go over the small head wall. Walking over to pitch seven ( our sixth) we started up again and reached another ledge system which had us walk over to the eight pitch and the beginning of the "Gully of Minor Annoyances". I led this pitch up and into the gully, after some runout up the gully finally found the third bolt and then a little higher placed a TCU. Probably didn't need it ( the gully is around 5.4) but made me feel a little better :-). The ninth pitch ( our eighth) had my partner come out the gully and onto a 5.9 face. Some water on the face made for a tricky traverse at one section, especially since as I followed I wanted to go over to the nice flake system on right. The other party that was ahead of us was coming down by time we had topped out on this pitch and plus it was getting late in the day, so we decided to rap down from here. Double rope raps down to the base where we ended up going to the right (facing the mtn) at around the top of the third pitch where we found another set of anchors not connected to any of the pitches. This proved to be good to dropping us off by our packs in the trees. Time up from trailhead 45 minutes Eight pitches 3 hours 15 minutes Rapping down 1 hour 45 minutes Gear Notes: 16 draws single runners to extend the draws nuts,small cams Approach Notes: road is open and passable

There is a McMenamin's owned hotel in the old downtown district...

Dude, avoid Spire rock if you can, between the pools of urine and broken glass its not worth the effort. topo guide

Although I do like the built in smoking cave

Pfft. Check out the Korean sites

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Nothing much will come of it. A substantial part of Dubya's base will say ( perhaps not in the open) that those people (folks in NO) deserved it and gov't isn't there to help... And the folks who are thinking that there is going to be a wholesale change in November need to remember that all politics are local and only a handful of seats are actually in real contention... and that really sucks!

If you had the REI credit card then you would earn 1% on any kind of purchase through that. ANother point is that $7 million of dividend went unclaimed...

That's alot of "Life is Good" shirts! Of course that billion dollar number is from sales income. I was going through the statements included with my dividend notice and was struck by the amount of cash on hand, which was about $135 million dollars. Of course there was related the expansion plans of several new stores and an eastern US DC, but still...is REI going to buy out EMS? I mean "Big Green Vest" isn't carrying any long term debt on their books...

Umm. I would never buy a rope 2nd hand, sight unseen. Actually that extends to any load bearing climbing gear. As for rope, a 60m x 10.5mm is a good workhorse coil and should last you a while.