layton

really? both those bands singers have such distinct voices, it would seem hard to do without really sucking

did you vote for Bush?

cuz we only had one day and took a chance that it was cold enough for my super secrety projects to form. whatever, we had a fun time...it would've been nice to climb more than 2 pitches though.

clothing for ice climbing: Pants: I added a thin layer of an ensolite foam pad (i.e. yellow hardman pad) to my butt and knees of my pants so I can knee and sit down on the snow w/o conductive heat loss and it saves the knees on featured ice. Jacket: I found a super thin spandex balaclava patagonia made and cut out the front, and sewed it onto my jacket collar as a non-insulating spindrift hood. fucking awesome on climbs and bushwacking in snowy trees! Gear: Tricams-i just use duct-tape to stiffen them Cam trigger wires-replace old ones with plastic weed wacker wire! I spray Triflow teflon spray on my ice tool leashes so they slide open when they get waterlogged and frozen...i also spray the shit outta my aliens when taking them on winter climbs so they don't freeze like they usually do...same with my ice screws i cut holes in my packs that don't have a camelback adaptor and seal the edges w/seam grip chopsticks for the large cams to keep em small and shut i always remove the tape off the ends of my ropes to prevent them from getting stuck on something I also take my gear to the local chuches of every major religion and have them blessed once a year.

the correct term would be to lose consciousness as a defense mechanism to avoid the auditory insult

so who was it?

dave leahy! right on!!!

Climb: North Cascades Hwy Roadside-John Pierce Falls Date of Climb: 1/16/2005 Trip Report: Marcus Donaldson and I made the pilgramage up to HWY 20 to go lookin fer ice. Unfortunately we only had one day, so we had to miss the good times in Hope. It was warm and raing and not much climbable ice until past Colonial Pk which we couldn't see so don't ask if it's in. John Pierce falls goes at one short pitch of WI2 and one 61 meter pitch of WI4. It was a vertical slurpee in the light rain and fog and both of us got eye fulls of water after some swings. screws were mainly useless. Good times rapping off (never saw any tat on the trees?) as the route 1st let loose a major slide. not the gently hiss of a colorado powerder dump, but a rumble and a sizeable slide roarer right over our packs. As we grabbed the packs after rapping and high-tailed it to the car a point slide released a fireworks display of a slide down the climb again. Then the snowplow cleared the road above us on the bridge we were under once again dumping a massive amount of snow onto the drainage. Luckily our car wasn't burried and we weren't hit. the overall quality was ok, but i wouldn't bother with it unless it's the only thing you can think of doing. i don't think it'll last much longer. Gear Notes: 8 screws and slings avy snorkel Approach Notes: walk several feet to the climb

and I'll be hurling my feces down upon you

and they look REALLY good too

i feel sorry for you guys

i've actually been in several time, but no ice..so i got after it, but not on it

i would give it a while to melt/freeze

i want

Sang "Baba O'Reily" like a rockstar. That wasn't an easy song either. 1st time doing it, gotta do some Kareoke spray! Going again soon, NEED SUGGESTIONS! "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" was on my mind (flaming lips song)

i saw those the other day. beware of getting a MAJOR ticket/arrested if you climb anything right off I-90 cuz it'll cause an accident

it looks like it's on HWY 7 near Harrison Hot Springs

in my "other life" I actaully read these articles, instead of quickly skimming them

must'a blotted that outta the ol' memory banks, who's pitch was that Jason?

Todd, I have you to thank for a lot of it. Thanks for doing a major portion of the dirty work so all of us could climb on some of your awesome finds!

i left on the 31st, musta been marcus and christian who left on the 1st or 2nd. i didn't do the main vein, but i imagine it goes very very fast and you can get off before dark. lane and I left the cabin at 9:30 for spying and flying and it has a 2+ hour approach with many pitches and we managed to get off before dark, so if you got up before 8am you should be fine. warning, do this on a cold, or cloudy day, w/o much wind. the top pitch gets baked as does the top of the mtn that feeds into the climb.

"if I was a vagina, i'd be dried up by now...you'd have to do me in the ass...which is exactly what we are about to do" -after bailing on a climb today and getting the motivation to do a really really stupid shitty route for scraps. My motivation. to get back to the car. that is it, plain and simple.

dru said what I wasn't going to

Whoops! Is this bad?

why don't you jump out of an airplane with skiis and a parachute and just get it over with quick? p.s. SKI SPRAY! I love it! cute.