layton

dude, please don't be lame and buy this thing. you would get -1,000,000 style points. be a man and get a regular down jacket. and you really need to reconsider going outside if you require leg insulation of that caliber. very uncool. warmer poly-pro and a shell should be fine, else get in your sleeping bag. if it's cold enough for that suite on Rainier, you should be climbing all the ice in washington that should be in 1st! p.s. shorts over poly pro, vests, unnessesary gaitors,and one piece goretex suits are also alpine fashion no-nos....oh same goes for walkie talkies and leather boots in summer. can't think of anything else, but I'll keep you in mind if i think of anything else.

goddamnit, now we have to volunteer? lame

$three.fitty

Actaully Muffy, one date wonder is another term for "one night stand," so if you mean getting lucky as in breaking the one date curse, then yes. I've been complaining about relationships before, you fuckers are just to shallow to think that means anything besides you know what.

Well, it's about fucking time I wrote a TR...finally got a pool of photos from the cats I went with. Here goes: The playa's: Me: the hot mysterious one Necronomicon: the bad boy Lane Brown: the romantic Jay H: the Jew Christian: the crazy guy Marcus: the really really tall guy The Bison Willy's Bunkhouse Gang Life was good in the bunkhouse, climbing in the morning, debauchary in the evening: Shit got a little outta hand at times and after a little skirmish, we had a dead prostitute on our hands. Didn't we learn anything from the billboards along the roadside? Guess not, well...I paid for it: So anyways, besides night after night of intense debauchary and heavy drinking we actually did some climbing. Luckilly the bunkhouse was sponsored by Red Bull. Here is our fridge: The 1st day Jay, Necro, and I did an amazing 100 meter WI0 by accident, "Climb Left of Deer Creek" which was this awesome couloir (read: flat streambed) and then realized we fucked up and did Deer Creek, the only sandbagged WI2 i've ever seen. I actually backed off soloing it! Seriously, we were a little worried about grades in Cody after this thing, and yes, Cody is on the challenging end of the grade spectrum! It was in "lean" conditions to start with, so everything was at least a grade if not a full grade harder. Most WI4's and 5's were 4+ and 5+, the mean green pillar was probably WI6. Jay and I the next day did Smooth Emerald Milkshake, a 200 meter fun WI4. Lane and Necro did it later (here's necro leading one of the pitches) I gave it a thumbs up Lane and Necro gave it a thumbs down, the wankers We had to step it up after than and go do High On Boulder a beautiful climb, reminiscent of the Sorcerer. My crampon fell off at the crux, VERY EXCITING! Other fun climbs from the trip were (in order of photos): Smoked turkey, Outdoorsman -2 pictures, and Main Vein me smokin' the turkey Necro on outdoorsman lane on outdoorsman Jay showing us the main vein My highlights were doing Mean Green. Marcus on a separate day with Christian took an amazing 25' whipper and landed on his head right as his screamer activated. Good times! It was in hard conditions for sure. No one took any pics of this climb unfortunately! Spying and Flying is one of my favorite climbs ever. You start off by rapping down this 60m slot off the trail into a deep slot canyon. Lane and I pulled the ropes and I got one of the best leads of my life. Run-outs on weird ice bubbles, stemming and Chimneying off rock and ice. Fucking awesome! Then pitch after pitch of beautiful big ice with some STEEP long pillars. One pitch took me probably 20minutes to find a screw in a sea of vertical chandaliers. Fuckin' pumpy! All in all a fun, kinda pyschologically tiring trip! Of course my alternator died on the Hwy during a snowstorm which added the obligitory shitty drive home. Wish I wasn't so tired right now so I could'a embelished and written a little better article, but tough shit.

...is broken. fuck all y'all!

remind me to kill myself when I hit 5,000

fuck that sucks

here's $5, you were right, you are a total fag

please please tell me you're not concidering using this thread as a reference. three words: VERY BAD IDEA!

where? I had my bike stolen in front of my apt above Stuarts-it was my only mode of transportation and pleasure cuz I was in two walking casts at the time. real sorry to hear that.

by scrubbing unsightly lichen

actually, the weight savings from something like an alpine bod compared to like an arctyrx Vero is so minimal, it's not worth concidering unless you're talking wall harnesses. if it were me, i'd just get a cheap one from SierraTradingPost.com cuz it doesn't matter that much. you should see the shitty harnesses that most hardmen wear.

nice effort darin! that was what I was thinking conditions would be like on most N.facing mountain routes. sugar snow and not much ice. we need a snow, a melt, and THEN a freeze. that road sux my ass hiking up in the winter. took me 8 hours to get to the base of the N.twin in winter as well...then here comes Tim Schultz right behind me smiling saying, "thanks for busting a trail guys"

well said. just get something comfy and cheap.

i actually spelled it out for you if you read the 1st letter of each line. there may or probably may not be a good line on it. The ridge coming down on the right side of the photo would probably be a VERY fun ez moderate, the face is lots of ribs with wide cracks separated by LOTS of sand gullys, kinda like parts of silverstar. no route stood out as much fun and we made an agreement to not force something stupid (finally).

I resent that!

Hey now! I just finished a morning run/coffee date. But yes, i can yank on it harder.

My love of metalwork is my only true love! It was worth the $1,500 i had Necronomicon to commision this fine piece.

how's the N.F. of index looking?

don't waste your time with that

just leading y'all astray w/the grimface thing. clue: hiking trail, it's not on the way to anything, owe it to us, we didn't climb it for a good reason lately you can't ride a mtn bike most of the way b/c lots of downed trees due to fire indeed it's in red fred way back there a far hike yucky

grimface

how's that going for you?

The deer is bangin' the dog so hard, that the deer's penis is pushing through the dogs stomach cavity