Rad Posted February 28, 2015 Posted February 28, 2015 'Fair' is something that happens once a year in Puyallup. Quote
trainwreck Posted February 28, 2015 Posted February 28, 2015 "That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!" Quote
cascadesdaj Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Relationships are a lot harder than climbing. You can't just slam a bolt in their forehead and bail. Dave Nettles Quote
cascadesdaj Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Also: Â "This fucking fucker's fucking fucked!" Â Alpinist coming out of the mountains holding up a broken ice axe. Quote
ivan Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Also:Â "This fucking fucker's fucking fucked!" Â Alpinist coming out of the mountains holding up a broken ice axe. it gets broke in the alpine, it gets buried in the alpine Quote
DPS Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Also:Â "This fucking fucker's fucking fucked!" Â Alpinist coming out of the mountains holding up a broken ice axe. I thought that was Greg Child. Â Quote
JayB Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 "Never attempt to reason a man out of something he wasn't reasoned into." -Swift  "Where's the omelette?" -Orwell Quote
ScaredSilly Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 When using pitons remember, the rock, like a good woman, can only take the occasional pounding. Â Rex Green - author of Wasatch Granite. Â Quote
CascadeClimber Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 Whether you agree or disagree, if you stay tied in, you agree. Â If not now, when? Â Practically all of "Postcards from the Ledge", particularly Childs' 10 Point Dialectic of the Bivouac ("You can tell who the dominant climber is by who becomes the pillow", "If I had a sleeping bag inside this bivy sack I'd be dry and warm, if I had a bivy sack", "There's always a better ledge just above", "There's never a better ledge just above") Quote
curtveld Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 "A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sweet and sane by the great numbers of the mediocre, who do it for fun" Quote
kukuzka1 Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 If you dont like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!! and "hesitation breeds fear" Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 "This fuckin fucker's fucked" was Edward Abbey. Quote
ivan Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." Quote
Rad Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 "This fuckin fucker's fucked" was Edward Abbey. Â No. Postcards from the Ledge, Greg Child. p17. Google will show you the page. Â Â Quote
pat gallagher Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 im sure mom or dad said it long before either. Â never read childs. could be parallel evolution working her magic. Kindle that shit - theres a graduate thesis in there somewhere. Quote
LUCKY Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 Life teems with excitement, but man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. Fear confines him and limits his scope, he stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small narrow world to explore William O Douglas 1950 book: Of Men and Mountains Quote
ivan Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 "only the penitent man will pass" Â - dr jones Quote
G-spotter Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Mr. E posted this one on Facebook a couple days ago: Â "Find the thing you love and let it kill you." - Bukowski Quote
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) The thinking that got you into this should be different than the thinking that gets you out of this. Edited March 14, 2015 by matt_warfield Quote
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 "dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs see us as equals" Â opossums play dead. Word to the wise. Quote
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Two literary types: Â One said: ? Â The other: ! Â Quote
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