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Norm! Teach me how to ski!

Let's call it 'mattress-palooza' and invite some bitchen' bands to play! We could invite some vendors to sponsor it, too. I know a guy who makes cool chalk bags out of recycled stuffed animals. He includes secret pockets where you can hide your stash. I'm down with this.

The snowshoes are a sad pile of plastic splinters by now. It couldn't be helped. Yup, I'm thinking about a fat thank-you fete to show my appreciation to everyone who helped make my AK fantasy come true. Probably around the middle of June, when I return.

Congrats to Pete & Ry!

Hey Duchess! I wanna hear your report of loitering in the Ruth. By far my most interesting moments in the Alaska Range were poking around in the lower Kahiltna, scouting out potential climbs (Ramparts, anyone?). When we turned the corner and joined the masses 'doing Denali', the experience lost a lot of the mystery & magic for me. So, out with those TR's of Barille and Dan Beard and Moose's Tooth- I really want to hear them!

That's a different Jeremy - Jeremy Wilson was planning on doing the Cassin. We met him up at 14k where he was acclimating and caching supplies. He was doing well when we last saw him, and we all wish him the best of luck!

Pub Club is at the Fairview tonight! Starting now!

Naw, Klenke, you can be jealous of every one of us- Chris & Jeremy included. We had a righteous time up there, and we'll all hate to return to the real world. In a funny twist, we summitted right next to Pete A, Ryland and the rest of the 'Rednecks on Ice'. We also spent the next several days swamped in the ebb and flow of a delirious alcoholic haze, which followed us down to basecamp, to Talkeetna, through every bar in Talkeetna, including some of the seedier suburbs. Don't get me wrong- this wasn't all fun & games. Some serious introspection went on up there- interior epics of the soul, if you will. I have discovered (thanks to Dr. Figger8) that I am a GirlScout, and a gumby. Others on the trip may have plumbed the depths of their own souls, but their discoveries remain their own. Excuse me, for I must go now. This land of the midnight sun drives me to drink.

Sleeping bags are aid.

nice photos, Klenke!

time is never free

Some links on gingko biloba + AMS here, here, and here.

Last minute call for a partner on Monday and Tuesday. Ideally something snowy and alpine, would settle for anything, including aiding Index in the rain. I'm bad at everything, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Yeah, but it takes an artiste of the the extreme to come up with lines like: Me, I am a player...

My friend Dan has a cockatoo that he's training to clip bolts. It almost works, but the damn bird keeps backclipping. I told him he should've got a parrot instead.

You'd wanna sex me too, if you could.

better yet, let's have a Hot Tub Pub Club- more alliterative bang for your buck.

One more vote for the Buckaroo. The Buckaroo has the highest concentration of Harley's of any bar on the westside.

I hate to say it, but the new system makes a fair amount of sense- the people who climb it once per year are probably using the dog routes (and using the waste management systems) while climbers repeatedly hitting the mountain are probably using different routes, and hopefully not impacting the environment as much. Also, it might be a fair generalization to say that people who don't climb as much put a proportionally greater strain on the climbing rangers (I could be way off base here). It sucks to pay to climb public property, but this system seems a fair alternative to having frozen turds thawing out all along the Muir snowfield all summer.

The rationale behind Bush's attack was a pre-emptive strike against terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Now that its a done deal, are you safer now? Are you safer now?Yes, I feel much safer now. Terrorism will cease, and we can dismantle the Homeland Security Act.I'm safer than before, but now Norh Korea needs an ass-whooping.I'm safer than before, but France gives me the willies. Please kill the French.I'm feel safer, but we should annex Canda and Mexico as buffer zones.Hell no I'm not safe yet. Keep them tanks rolling til they hit the Pacific Ocean!I won't feel safe til Bush is out of office and the Homeland Security Act is repealed.

Trask, go back to your room and shut up while the adults are talking. This bullshit about Americans not protesting other injust wars is intolerable, especially in light of this week's tragic death of Rachel Corrie, run over by an Israeli bulldozer. You may not have agreed with her, but she had the strength to back up her convictions. She was doing her best to confront injustice. So shut the fuck up, Trask, and have a moment of silence to support the people who fight the good fight even if they're not wearing a uniform.

Sloop!! Maybe I'll pull some SICK plastic afterwards!

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Hell, I'm still fuming over our shameful refusal to sign the Kyoto agreement. Enjoying the warm winters? Anyway... end of thread drift.