Rad Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 'Fair' is something that happens once a year in Puyallup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainwreck Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 "That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cascadesdaj Posted March 5, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cascadesdaj Posted March 5, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephH Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 "The deader, the better" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 5, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Posted March 5, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayB Posted March 6, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredSilly Posted March 6, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted March 6, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtveld Posted March 6, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukuzka1 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 If you dont like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!! and "hesitation breeds fear" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvashtarkatena Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 "This fuckin fucker's fucked" was Edward Abbey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 13, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rad Posted March 13, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat gallagher Posted March 13, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCKY Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 "only the penitent man will pass" Â - dr jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted March 13, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 "fuck you, I'm eating!" Â - carls jr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 "You can't buy adventure like this." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 "Read me the route description again" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_warfield Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Two literary types: Â One said: ? Â The other: ! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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