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But just imagine if she was

Is that the left skyline as you're looking at Asterik Pass?

You know there's probably a 1 in 5 chance that she's real, and if she is there's a 4 in 5 chance she's never coming back

I saw that one - it slid right down to the dirt up by the crown. btw, was castle completely dry?

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So it wasn't enough for her to pass me twice in the same day on NEWS - now she's chasing me up givler's crack.

The road to white river campground usually doesn't open until mem. day weekend, so in mid may you'd probably have to do the long approach.

dude!! you missed like the most popular cc route ever - nf of chair

yikes!! it looks like he was one move away from a bomber jam. what does that pitch go at anyway?

on the desk? he's still out on the sandy thumbing this tr in as he climbs with a blackberry

I think maybe it's time to get the radio transmitters in your fillings adjusted

No, mother in law jokes are funny, it's just unfunny jokes that are unfunny.

I agree, no ebay listings in the yard sale - it's no better than spam. The best part of buying or selling stuff there is the small community of people, mostly local, keeps it honest. You know the tenth anniversary of spam was a couple of days ago. Let's hope the spammers can't figure out how to make bots that can post to ubb boards and ruin this like they ruined usenet. ughh!!

you're right, you don't need ice climbing skills to get up this route.

Gee, that happens to me when I listen to NPR!

This is the shirt to get, drives the the old time revolutionary libs nuts - can't wait to wear it to a ropeup !!

forgive me if this is completely obvious, but the west and east ridge routes on forbidden can easily be done car to car.

you know it sounds crazy, but as I was dodging the prodigious amount of snow and ice raining down these slabs I couldn't help but think what this looked like during that deep freeze we had this winter ... hmm.

Hey Chuck, Thanks for posting the pics and tr on your website Hiked up there on Saturday to learn the approach and find the start of the climb. I wasn't sure I had the correct start, but after checking your site and comparing photos I think I got it. Just got to wait for it to dry out now !! From your website: My picture from Saturday:

So who uses these things rock climbing? I've got a mess of 'em and bring them ice climbing every time. But not once have I used them for straight up rock climbing. Alpine once or twice but not usually.

Looking at one of mine now .. a yates regular screamer will extend 10", going from 8" to 18". A yates "zipper" has double the number of folds going from 8" to 28". Not much I know, but last year I saw someone take a lead fall on icy bc, falling on his first screw as he was trying to place his second, the rope caught him about 6" off the deck (he badly torqued an ankle on the way down). Likely to happen often? No probably not, but I do think about it. Of course we're not supposed to fall on ice anyway right?

.. maybe not. There's also the consideration of the additioanl legnth of the screamer, which is what - 24" / 36" ? May not seem like much, but I've seen a leader fall on his first screw placement (with a plain qd) and be caught by the rope only a few inches above the deck. If he had a screamer he would've hit the ground for sure. Since then I usually use a plain old quickdraw on my first screw to prevent the extention, then it's screamears till I run out of em.

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So now I'm curious - what's the story?