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Not with you, Private Cowboy! "You pukes will sleep with your rifles. You will give your rifle a girl's name. Because this is the only pussy you people are going to get!"

You obvioulsy haven't used the bathroom after my brother...

Some years back, I was approaching the top of some climb at Royal Columns from the walk-off trail. As I was happily skipping down the ball-bearings-masquerading-as-gravel-laden pathway to the cliff edge, I came upon what appeared to my trained eye to be a benign branch across the trail. At the last second, just as I was about to step over said benign, large-diameter branch, it suddenly came to life, coiled up, and buzzed ominously at me. I literally pole-vaulted over it on one foot in mid-step, landed "safely" beyond it, and still on one foot, began to skate helplessly toward the cliff edge and certain death. My partner, who was behind me, said later it was quite entertaining to watch me slide, single-foot-style, down the trail to the edge of the cliff, whooping up a shit-storm of four-letter words. I never did understand why I didn't put both feet back on the ground...

Fixt it fer ya. I'll be watchin' you!

Have to concur with CBS. That is seriously fucked up. A 5-gallon bucket full of talons from slain raptors? Someone ought to pull out his finger and toenails and see how much he likes that. Fucked up asshole... Thanks for the post, tilia, and for the search effort, Bill.

No, but that is pretty scary if I am the super human... truly - as the drill instructor says, the better half best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the sheets! mattress! Fixt it fer ya.

Where the hell is Harry Pi anyway? I miss him... that little capitalist pig hater.

Ba-dum, ching!

"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life." C-3PO

Pffft! You're just a "member", so what do you know? (just kidding) I'm averaging ~77 posts per month over the long haul. You sir, by contrast, are averaging only a wee more than 5 per month. Clearly, 15X more trash is spewed forth by me than you. So if there is a trash heap here, it's me. The REAL Trash Heap has spoken...

Everybody knows that you would consult the Oracle of Delphi. Then get your retard to kill their retard. WWKLD? (what would King Leonidas Do?)

Yeah, you're right, Bill. But judging from your TRs, I'll wager that Beacon would kill me right now. OTOH, getting together for drinking is altogether another matter...

I guess you haven't read John Long. Rescuers find dead guy. Rescuer1=>Rescuer2: His jacket looks like it might fit you. There's a HUGE difference between making impersonal jokes about scammin' gear and saying “good f*&king riddance he’s dead, really”. I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Sort of like our fighting men will strip the weapons and ammo (and his dog tags) from a fallen comrade. It's nothing personal, just picking up the necessities of life. Survival mode. That was clearly not the author's intent, judging by how mankato paraphrased the lead-up to the conversation from the book.

I believe that you answered your own question. The operative word here being "hire", which assumes that payment follows.

Hey, I made the Top 20! Hey bill, You need to get busy, Mr. #21!

"I am the best in the world at not having an ego." :lmao:

Ah ha! It wasn't at RC! Mythbusters unite!

I am trying like the dickens to figure out where you were standing to take this picture and have it be at the Royal Columns. I have spent years climbing there and don't recall any tufted pillar tops, huge horizontal crack at mid-cliff height, and slope/terrain aspect that this picture indicates. For instance... 1) RC faces predominantly to the northwest. With the sun hitting the cliff top obliquely from climber's left as shown, this would indicate that the sun is practically northeast of the crag. You would have to be climbing in pretty much mid-winter (and in another hemisphere) to even get close to approaching that aspect. In late May/early June, the sun would arrive on the face from the right (southwest), not the left. 2) The rock shape and its color aren't right, either. RC is formed in columnar basalt (andesite) of regular dimensions, not this blocky shite. And the Tim Pond Wall has a bit o' green on it, but not Royal Columns proper. And that reddish tint... WTF?? 3) And then there's the issue of those grassy pillar tops. I can't recall a single such tuffet upon which Miss Muffet might park her ass and chow down... 4) And another thing, the top of RC doesn't break over abruptly like that. The top of RC's slope eases back and the top is littered with rock outcrops and sagebrush. This pic looks more like the top of some cliff at Frenchman's or sumpin'. 5) Lastly, there's the issue of this ~30* slope that you're standing upon to shoot the picture. The approach trail takes you to the base of the cliff from the far right hand side and behind an elk fence, and there is a pretty steep drop-off below the cliff base trail that this picture does not suggest is present. So where is this, Dave?

What was it that rob said a few weeks back?? "My awesomeness springs from a deep well of humility." Classic.

[sarcasm]yes, it's ok for a huge group to overrun all the best easy climbs at a crag and make things unpleasant/impossible for everyone else not in their club, because there are other, shittier, climbs elsewhere in the area [/sarcasm] I can understand your sarcasm, Pax, and also find it humorous. I'm not excusing the Mounties for hogging routes/crags, but come on, how many times have we all been chased off the rock by a herd of n00bs in our careers? Weren't we all once n00bs? If you've been climbing long enough, getting rockblocked (not to be confused with cockblocked ) is something that we've experienced, we learn from it, and move on. It's one of the many reasons I never climb at Smith anymore. Climbing there is like living in Mumbai. Personally, I solve the issue for myself by not climbing at a location where I suspect that I will have to wait (very long) to get on a route. That's just my way of climbing.

A few years back when I still lived in Yakima, I, too, ran into Tony & crew at the Royal Columns and my experience was much like yours, Jay. Nice attitudes were exhibited by all involved. And for the record, I am not a Mountie, so that didn't give me any special privileges. DonnieK- First off, while I can empathize with you for having lost your opportunity to hit a few of the Royal Columns classics that weekend, the Tieton is a huge area and chock full of other climbing venues. Just a mile up the road is The Bend with many easy and moderate trad leads to cut your teeth on, too, ya know. Secondly, I consider it a personal favor to me when a large climbing organization makes a public announcement that there will be a n00bfest at a particular crag on a particular date. I make alternate destination arrangements and it's all good. Everybody wins. You should try it.

That's gonna leave a mark... on his resume’...

Everything that Blake said. :tup: Simple, fast, and secure. Discuss the procedure with your partner (if he/she is not your regular partner) before leaving the ground so that everyone knows their role and eliminate the clusterfuck before it even happens. I used to use this approach with my first partner and mentor Frank (R.I.P.) and we romped up multi-pitch climbs in no time flat. I don't have a steady enough partner anymore that wants to do this. Don't forget to flake/stack the rope for the next lead as you take it up. Every little bit of time saved helps...

You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

And my answer would be "No, you did not." The prevailing ethic with respect to buildering dictates that all vegetative matter is OB. Unless of course, you're climbing the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in which case it's on...