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I've got an $80 store credit at Second Ascent in Ballard that I'll sell for $75. If there's something there you have your eye on it's basically $5 free bucks for you for the cost of a postage stamp. I live in B'ham and already have more gear than me and my 5 porters can carry. At the moment I just can't think of anything I need to add to the pile. The credit is a receipt that works same as cash. PM me if interested.

I guess you either line-up in agreement with what Krugman writes or you discount what he says completely. Not a lot of middle-ground with what he has to say. Hard to refute what he has to say about our Attorney General though!

Another house of worship built with public funding, to think how 400 million could help the American people...

That is a friggin unreal photo! Incredible luck to be flying by with camera in hand. What are the chances of that? 0.0001%

In some sense great multipitch 5.10 climbs are concentrated in a few distinct areas. I would not miss climbing at.... The Squaw 5-7 pitch climbs almost all in the 5.10b to 5.10d range Birds of Prey 10b God Forsaken Land 10d Great Game 10d Haven't done it but hear it's excellent The Solarium Remote, quiet area with some beautiful routes Sun Blessed 4-pitch 10b **** One of the best Several other worthy routes as well Base of the Grand Wall Apron Strings 2p 10b Classic, tenuous laybacking Cruel Shoes 6p 10d Excellent low angle face climbing Pheasants Route 5p 10b Fun Milk Run 3p 10c Burly!!! Split Pillar 10b Must do! Shannon Falls & Papoose Local-Boys-do-Good 3p 10d slab Don't miss this one! Centerfold 3p 10b Incredibly varied climbing Papoose 1 5p 10b Neglected but Excellent The Apron 5.10 climbs on the Apron tend to have sparse pro where as 5.11s tend to be well bolted. Go figure Unfinished Symphony 5.11b or 10d+A0 **** Another of the best climbs in Squamish. Pro can be challenging. White Lightning 10c Excellent, old-school, run-out friction climbing Furry Kitten Wall This is way up in a drainage behind Squamish. I got rained off one route here but the climbing we did was excellent, good gritty granite with nice crack systems. If you're there in the middle of summer check it out otherwise it could be damp. While you're there I would highly recommend doing Star Check up in Cheakumus Canyon (best position of any route in the area) and go cragging at Seal Cove as well (Slab climbing directly over Howe sound).

Holy Crap! What inspired that?!

A different sort of Choss on The Titan

The first half of Springbok Arete on Les Cornes is pooo. Lots of kitty litter granite mixed with a nice assortment of fragile holds, loose blocks and wide cracks. Oddly enough the second half is as good as alpine rock gets. I've decided that I must fundamentally be an optimist as I really only remember the second half anymore. I once attempted Sunday Cruise on the backside of With Doctor Wall in Darrington. It's the only freeclimb on the wall and the topo it looked sweet. We made it two pitches before bailing at the top of a pitch of 5.5. Entire thing was made of massive, loose, mossy, perched flakes. I will never go back. Yellow Brick Road in Marble Canyon is the BEST chossy climb I've ever done. If you don't tear off 1000 lb blocks of limestone you'll have a great time!

What are you saying? New Jersey 4th class = Washington 5.7 ??

bold slashes with a suttle background of light clawing on a seemingly opaque medium remind us all of the universal struggle to define what a meanigful existence is......

Reuse the holes! If that means drilling it out to 3/8" so be it. That is a lot better option than drilling new holes next to the old ones IMHO. Clipping fixed gear is clipping fixed gear, if someone is going to be bent out of shape that a bolt ladder is in good condition they should be aiding up that big scary wall near the parking lot!

Ugghh. Sorry to hear it. How did the broken ankle occur?

Evidently that face was a bit of a "test piece" ski descent back in the 80's. I believe it saw numerous descents. Darin

The NE buttress of Goode and NE Face of Redoubt are undoubtedly super bitchen. My dream week would be to hike in Downey Creek to Dome Peak, climb Dome, cross the Chikamin Glacier, climb Sinister and sweet granite on the Gunsite Peaks, hit Agnes if you have time then hike south across the Hanging Gardens to Image Lake and out via the Suiattle River. That would be the schiznit.

You can be as as you want about it. But it's just amazing how shit rolls of Bush Jr. like mercury.

Here's a quote from that press conference of his back in April. "freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom." Well there's his justification for the driving force of our foreign policy.

Last year I was in the Cirque from July 2nd through the 7th. No snow. In 1998 I was in the Cirque and Deep Lake area for about 10 days from June 21 through July 1. Lots and lots of snow, though it melted fast and we did lots of climbing. Darin

And this will somehow be more productive for them than say looking at guidebooks or a recent copy of Rock&Ice proudly displaying the longest blted sprt climb in the world? Exactly what beta will they be looking for? Best I can tell is that they will find that a vocal minority here is not impressed with engineering of blted climbs in what have tradionally been wild areas. In fact that might be considered a good thing if they realize not all climbers are running around with Bosch in hand, or support such activity. So exactly what is being said here that is so harmful to climbers?

As well as for the big quake. Shit!

AAaaaaaghhh! Don't post that shit, it gives me anxiety!

Woke me up as well in Bellingham. More of a deep rumble than an explosion.

Waddington Guide = Inspiration Coast Range Picture Book = photos of obscure snowy ridges All books sold EN MASS to one fellow spraymeister. Sorry guys!!

Particularly sad considering your alpine success ratio. Sorry Mike, couldn't help myself...

Very well put

I've always wanted to do the Macrabe-Matiarche-Grimface traverse up in Canada just above the Okanogan. See the red beckey guide or ask Dru. 7 hour approach, to long mid-5th ridge traverse. Looks amazing. In the Swatooths of Idaho there are many remote low-5th climbing objectives. Warbonnet Peak (II 5.6) was one of the finest trips I ever did, didn't see a soul.