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i always wonder about my climbing partners "sudden illnesses" if they are real, psycosomatic, or just a good excuse. all i know is it happens a lot

never seen birds screw before until now. cross that off the list of shit to see before i die.

seems a bit aggro for the actual contents...a very client like thing to do

while the girls spooned, did you guys fork? i bet you did.

yeah no shit. i've been meaning to scrape those off for years now.

hey, saw you guys today.

i killed it and burned the nest. sorry.

Wish i read this thread ealier. Thin fingers was covered in several INCHES of dirt. how much shit did this guy clean? holy chirst! at the same time, if folks didn't clean it, index would be teething with pterydactyls and moss gollums. Still, pretty friggin lame time to start a cleaning proj, right when summer is starting. it better rain pretty hard soon to clean up that flippin mess. holy shit. add a letter grade to everything in the trundle zone. soooo, who's doing the cleaning? dude, thanks for the effort, but maybe you should'a done this in the winter or at least asked around if folks thought it'd be a good idea this time of year.

give randy a call. he's my temp roommate and a good guy.

10p 10a on battle mtn. you can see it up the forest service road. the ranger station at the state park enterance has a copy of the older guidebook w/topo and will xerox it for you. say hi to jenniffer, the pretty blond haired minx.

Hey! Anyone have a room for rent in PDX starting late august at the earliest? It'd be nice to have a roof over my head during school.

yeah! Fuck this thread.

that makes the baby jesus cry

yeah, he's gonna be soooooo pissed when he gets home from work and read what i've posted. and i'm gonna go slit my wrists now that this thread only has 3 starts from the 5 lunger gave it. my entire self-worth is soley based on how many stars you give my threads.

nice! hey, i hope it was scenic. my only exerperience from portland to seattle is on I-5 and i feel like gouging my eyes out.

or spray protection

True dat.

we really didn't go in to do a new route, or really care if it was or not...i just wanted to thank the baby j, and also make sense of what's been done on that peak. did you guys make it up stuart?

definate shoe empty potential in the middle, but never had to. and also there was pro in the cracks.

Nice to see ya up there dood! what's up with the face shield on the helmet? do some welding up there?

i was wondering how the grass could grow back so quickly? you should post a topo of your route! It's simple. Draw it on a dry erase board or napkin and take a picture of it. No digital camera? Just use letters and symbols on the keyboard to draw one. Here's right facign corner to face cracks to the summit for example: ^ : : : [ [ [ [

you musta read the 1st post while i was adding the photos erik. do the pics ring a bell?

Dry Erase Topo: Boola Boola Buttress (routes are 'round the corner) Little Anapurna n' spires (flagpole i think) Witches tower Pitch One Pitch Two Pitch ??? Starting up the summit headwall Topping out "You got it Skyler! Send it bro-brah! Summer and Cheyenne just sent it, you got it brah." Rolf working the 'proj. Gnar Gnar.

Climb: Boola Boola Buttress-"Thank You Baby Jesus" Possible new route Date of Climb: 7/10/2005 Trip Report: Rolf and I headed up to Boola Boola Buttress, a 1,500' chuck of granite that is hidden below the dragontail plateau, across from little anapurna. It threatened to piss on us all chilly day, and it was a bit unnerving since we had only one rope and there weren't any trees and not a lot of good bail options. Within minutes of reaching the top it started to rain, and we both got throughly soaked on the way home. I felt bad for my friends on stuart, it looked pretty soggy over there! Rolf particularily enjoyed the hike out, his favorite parts being the singing birds, flowers, interesting hikers, and the section after the big bridge to the car. He gayly chatted away about his feelings on the trip and we hugged a tearful goodbye after he invited me in for steaming mugs of cocoa. I drank liquid eggs for dinner and a way too cheap flask of whiskey, so i was in top form. We attempted to follow the instructions for the Yoder route, but we got the japanese version or something cuz we couldn't figure out what went where. Pretty sure we did a new route, or at least a major variation. Not sure where Pete, Erik, and Dan went last year either. The 1st three pitches were great (2nd pitch was terrific laser cut finger cracks) and the last pitch was the best of all. It was a 70m arching 3" crack, to a step around through an o/w, then verticle shallow double corners spinkled w/chicken heads to keep the grade down to 5.10- (sustained). We did a lot of rooting and weed pulling on the 1st pitch up a shallow groove/crack. The middle section of the route (and by the looks of it, the whole buttress) is choss world. EZ walk off the top. All told about 1,500' of climbing and 8 rope stretchers with simul climbing. Lower part was 5.9, middle low 5th-4th, upper 5.10-. Probably a grade III. "Thank you Baby Jesus" Gear Notes: rolf and i combined our gear to create the sketchiest rack in the cascades, comlete with frayed webbing, rigid stem friends, hexes, and cams held together with weed wacker wire, and fishing line. Approach Notes: no snow up asguard. keep the poons and tools at home.

Bottom Line: How Much $$$