My back!! I think it's broken!!

This is the PC++ thread, NOT the PC-- thread.

Nope. Bin there, done that. My knees hurt more then anything.

Sowwy. I meant to, I just never got around to it. I had to fly to NC early (found a 99 buck ticket) so I wasn't there when ewe wuz.

*winks*

Welcome back mi amigo.

Have a good time. Hope you're feeling better and well enough to get some good stuff in.

The Bugaboos are probably the coolest place I've ever been.

I wonder if I'll be the one driving this thread into it's 1000th page.

The way it went down...

I left the company I was at on a Friday afternoon.
That Monday Leigha went into work and they laid her off.

I think it was about a week later we had to move in together to make ends meet.

So, on a landscapers income, I'm supporting Leigha and her two boys. She's just now starting to get unemployment checks.

Yea, then someone will steal the PT...

Yeah, did you get my text for my number?
I think it said "tc++" or something stoooopid like that.

Really, really badly.
It was getting better then I was working this hard problem in Levenworth Wahington (I'm in Cali now, BTW) that tweaked the shit out of it. I met a bunch of my brother's friends yesterday and it was super painful just to shake hands.

LEAVENWORTH IS THE SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I swear to god that place is the best kept secret that's not at all a secret. People drive by that place to boulder at squish but it's way better then squish. The right hand problem on the Fridge has to be one of my very favourite problems I've done, just fantastic.

Too bad the town is so redneck (this is the only description allowed on the internet - surprises are fun).

so was donny gone for like, august?

So the plan was for us to drive to lake Tahoe via the leap and for me to get dropped off on sat morning, but my brother went via the other road, so I couldn't get there till like 3 or later. I ended up just swimming in the lake all morning, which was alright, but kinda boring. When we got the the leap I met up with Laz and we had a beer. Laz is totally sound, we had a blast hanging out. My brother scared the crap out of him pretending he was a cop and pretending he was pissed that laz gave his little brother a beer. Hilarious stuff.
Then we did Bear's Reach. It was good fun but I have to say I was a little sketched once or twice. Maybe I'm not used to the rock or something but some of the moves felt a bit funky. We topped that out and headed back to camp, to find that my brother had driven off with all my stuff... So all I had was a t shirts, pants, and climbing gearz. I ended up borrowing Laz's sweater vest and sleeping in his bivibag while he slept on the table in his sleeping bag.
I was COLD that night, even with (heheh, please, laugh - I did) some smirnoff ice's and mike's hard raspberry lemonaids.
The next day we awoke to rain. Well, laz awoke to rain, I awoke to the patter of rain. It wuz wet, and when it dried we realized we didn't have time to do a route on the leap proper before my brother came by to pick me up, so we sprinted up some route (dunno what it was, pretty damn easy though) on hogsback using swami belts, hip belays, and hexes. Good times.

Dude!!

I went to the dentist today and the oral hygienist is a fucking sadist. She straight raped my ass.

Honestly, I have never had such and intense or painful cleaning. Fucking brutal.

Yesh.
Means I can't meet dubba D though

I hear there are lots of people in this world who have seen parts, but not all of, Ranier.

I got your text. But then It wouldn't take my calls.
Why U no answer my calls Sun Why????

You were in leavenworth and left before I got there to climb w/ U. You Rat!!!! Well the days we were there it was freaking HOT. Like 102 HOT. Spent the whole afternoon in the river hot.

Also, it appears I missed Damage on his little tour around index/liverworst.

So close, yet so far.

Did I mention yet that I didn't do any climbing on my little trip.

Hip belays and hexes FTW!

sounds like you had a blast.

Phone was out of moniez.

sucky.
Leavenworth was cool and rainy when we were there.

Cough, Cough, Cough
Her and her two boys....
Woa

So she got laid off, anything to do with them trying to get revenge on you quiting?

Maybe. Could be. A few people have said that actually

I sawz that, bummer. We went through Sac city Wed evening. I thinks you were still there.

Man so close.
What was the nature of the climbing and the rock? I wuz kinda tied up w/ the family, and it was too hot to even want to drive up the canyon to explore.

The bouldering was, according to sungam, better then squish.
In fact, one of them (a V4) was my favorite problem I've ever done, anywhere.

Alright some bouldering, what about cragging? I like Cragging.

That was a pretty enjoyable read I must say. Sounds like it was a nice day. I'd like to know about the ridgeline to the left of Plummer, though. That looks nice, too.

The peak on teh left is Pinnicale Peak. It is either a scramble or class 5, depending on who you read. Prolly closser to something in between around class 4. Here the SP info on the range:
http://www.summitpost.org/...6/tatoosh-range.html

Here another picture that more closely looks like the weather I had. Except clouds instead of blue sky at the horizon. Another Summit Post pic:

Really? Wow, that flight never gets cancelled.
Alrighty, I'll check my messages...

Looks about beer 30 to me.

Two very nice photos they have over there. You should add yours, too.

Good see your back too.

Tha basterd'll rot in 'ell fer that.

aight, just set up a business account for my pseudonym. sweeeeet.

Hip belays and hexes FTW!

Spokane was rainy, much to our dismay.
The town itself was more forested and hilly than I guessed/remembered. Of course I was quite the young lad in 74 when I was there with my folks for the worlds fair.
Did a little sight seeing, visiting freinds, canoeing, and got in some more hiking.
We had a number of freinds move up there several years ago, including my wife's best freind at the time. So we stayed w/ them.
We visited Lake Coeur D'Alene, very nice. And one of our freinds took us out on it in his boat one day.
The last day one of the guys took me for a hike. We knocked off about 8 miles by 1030, which was good by my standards. It was a very nice hike, and the area is very scenic. But he really gave me the low down on the area. Big on skiing. Which it prolly my favorite activity. And kid freindly skiing too. Lots of Mtn Biking and Hiking. Tons of good lakes and camping in Idaho right next store. He also has some freinds that climb, dang why didn't he say so earlier.

Thats what you get for FAILing to murder him while you had the chance.

Phone was out of moniez. I suck at managing multiple back accounts at the international level.

It's too bad you didn't get any pitches in but it sounds like ya'll had a pretty good time catching up with old friends while still spending plenty of time outdoors.

Is that legal?

Flight got canceled. Complimentary hotel room for the night and flying out tomorrow.
*Limeydave PM'd!!!!*

Well he was in Sacramento as I passed through town. We where going to meet for dinner. At which time my plan was to slip something into his drink. But alas He Did Not Call. That rat!!!!!
So anyrate, we moved on south with my getting my chance. Cource Laz had his chance and blew it too...

The hike I got done was good.

But I need to get on the rock. I haven't gotten on the rock since June! Course July sucked, I got a fever and had to cancel my weekend to the southern Seirras. I have heard that my bussiness trip Sept 14-18 is to be cancled, so it may free up some time to get out in a couple weeks.

Yeah, I'm Greg Burns doing business as...

So if you were Chouinard you'd be Yvon Chouinard doing business as Patagonia. Except my "patagonia" is my pseudonym.

Yeah I saw that you and Magnus just missed each other, I was referring to when he and Greg went climbing out in the desert. He brought this on himself.

The weather should be cooling down a bit here shortly (already has here) so you just need to free up some time.

Yea, I was just checking out the weather forcasts. The mountains are still looking good, but the desserts are too hot, so mountains it is. And if the B trip gets canceled I'll take some vacation, and try to talk my noob buddy who's an out of work construction guy into going. As long as I pay for gas I'll bet he'll do it.

Yeah man. This place is a time vacuum so I just had to stay away for awhile to keep up with everything. Things are starting to ease back a bit now though.

Thats what you get for FAILing to murder him while you had the chance.

Is that legal?

Well he was in Sacramento as I passed through town. We where going to meet for dinner. At which time my plan was to slip something into his drink. But alas He Did Not Call. That rat!!!!!
So anyrate, we moved on south with my getting my chance. Cource Laz had his chance and blew it too...

We stayed at the local KOA, which wanted 60 bucks a night, ouch!



We landed at another KOA south of Seattle, this time at 68 bucks OUCH!!!

Fxt

*Looks out the window and sees blue skys. Scratches chin in confusion*


How did that happen? We got nary a hint of foul weather on the EC.

Heh, yeah, I'll prolly disappear for a while when I get back to school/work/training/girlfriend.

I have no idea what that means, but the room I'm in now costs 269 bucks a night - luckily NW airlines is comping that for me.

Heh. I doubt it.

Holy crap! That's some dough!

Koa is a camping/RV place along major highways. that you can spend the night at. (as far as I know from the signs I've seen)

I figured something like that.
Yeah, I love getting free roomz!

Another sentence. This one is the first of a short story and it fits well with the rest of the paragraph, but it is definitely not a good sentence. Too much "tell" and not enough "show." Gotta rework a lot of this short story.

"Without air conditioning on a muggy day in late August, the university students sweated and panted ou the classroom while they retreated in conversation back to their dorm rooms."

A lot wrong with that sentence, so now it's off to proving what I'm trying to say.

Limeydave - climbed with me the first and last day here.

If you can't talk an out of work construction worker in to a free ride to a day of climbing, you should just strap on your skis and head south because hell just froze over.

I have no idea what that means, but the room I'm in now costs 269 bucks a night - luckily NW airlines is comping that for me.

Maybe. Could be. A few people have said that actually

We all kind of wiffed at our chance.

Todays sentence: "All the failing students from last year tried to forget about last year's problems and instead turned to envying those with great minds who were competing for good spots at prestigious law firms across the country."

It's deserving. He's a good Scot. Anyone with Macleod roots born on Feb 25, 1975 must be a good guy.

Woot! I'm famous here too.
And old.

Plus it gave me time to hang out with Limeydave! We climbed at TRC (Got to see rtwilli5 and mikesaint/aceto as well as Jasonsdrivingforce too) and then gabbed beers, food, and ice cream sundaze at the hibernian pub, where Dave is famous (he's the pub-soccer-leaque capitan for that pub).
Gud timez.

Limeydave - climbed with me the first and last day here.

Whoa, back up, cowboy! You're... *gulp*... a daddy??!

That sucks about the layoff. I wonder if they thought you two were in cahoots, blah, blah, blah...? Work fucking sucks. If that's a retaliatory firing, it could be illegal.

Heh, yeah, I'll prolly disappear for a while when I get back to school/work/training/girlfriend.

I have no idea what that means, but the room I'm in now costs 269 bucks a night - luckily NW airlines is comping that for me.

Well, I booked them a year ago. In that time, the economy changed, and some flights were cut from the schedule. Mine was one such flight. They moved me to an earlier one, but didn't inform me until today - after tht earlier one left.

Heh. I doubt it.

Yea, thats what I was thinking.
Well not exactly, but along those lines.

KOA is a chain of commercial campgrounds. KOA stands for Kampgrounds Of America. They've been around a while. Anyrate, your site will include water and power for your trailer. More expensive $$$ sites include sewer. 60 and 68 bucks were already the most expensive camping I did. We stayed at a number of other commercial campgrounds, and prices varied from 25 to 40 bucks a night. Commercial campgrounds had restrooms with showers and a pool. KOA's included a small play structure for kids.
Nation Forest Service Campgrounds are generally less expensive. But they don't have water, power, or sewer at each site. But with my trailer battery and water holding tanks, we can go with out for quite a while. Forest Service sites also tend to be farther apart from each other and quitter. But the parking sites themselves may or maynot be level, and may or not be easy to back into. So we are carefull to pick a site we can work with.

Anyrate, the $68 KOA was kind of expensive, the site was rather narrow, and it was right next to a busy road. Which had potholes that launched the trucks bombing down it. Not a recommended loacation.

Took me all fucking day but, I finally got somewhere with this:

"Most of the doomed students had failed the class last year, but the excited ones were the kind the professor liked: they were bright, talented, and had a knack for solving problems. He preferred intellect above all else, and he regarded himself as the guardian of student contracts and the pursuit of truth."

Woot! I'm famous here too.
And old.

My best friend was in an accident last week. I found a news article.

http://www.theunion.com/...p;parentprofile=1053

[image]http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=TU&Date=20090827&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=908269996&Ref=AR&Profile=1001&MaxW=550&title=1[/image]

Magnus, This is looking down onto the Whitney Glacier on Shasta.

My best friend was in an accident last week. I found a news article.

http://www.theunion.com/...p;parentprofile=1053

[image]http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=TU&Date=20090827&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=908269996&Ref=AR&Profile=1001&MaxW=550&title=1[/image]

Nice. Flowed very well.

thanks. there will be more to come. I promise!

2009 kamikaze sledding championships??

Holy crap!!

The article said it took almost 2 hours to extricate him from the wreckage which isn't surprising based on the photo but still, that must have been torture for him. I hope he makes a full recovery from his injuries. That is some scary shit.