Pissed. "Navigator" picked a genius route that now has us 4 hours behind where we could be, making tomorrow a 12+ hour day.

I also am sick as shit. Gah.

No doubt!

Does this mean she can pawn the dog off on him?

Agreed, I fucking hate GPS. In addition to often giving bad-beta, they really encourage you not to pay attention to outside surroundings, so you don't remember routes when you do them again. Just one more fucking square screen that we're spending our lives staring at. This past weekend, on the way to the NRG, the GPS told me to take a right turn at a middle-of-nowhere intersection, which I did not remember, and I thought I was supposed to go straight. I wound up doing a rolling stop through the intersection and getting a fucking ticket. While clausti will be quick to point out that this was my own fault and not the GPS's, I am going to say that I would have not mad a right turn, and thus would have made a complete stop, if I had not been staring at the fucking thing. DAMN YOU GPS!

In funner news, BINER! Come to Columbus, we will wine you, dine you, and then thrown you down into the catpee basement! We haven't even changed the sheets since caughtinside stayed! WOO!

Nothing really to tell. They aren't done yet, apparently.

Although, he's supposed to move to Seattle or something. I'll let biner give you the full presentation.

I hadn't told it yet, but now that Biner is too far down the road to come back and smack me...

Worst "breakup" evah!

Look I don't really give a rats ass about all the moves you can do. The only thing I care about is you learning how to do the fuking moves you can't do. Sure, it's great that you can do a bunch of difficult moves, but unless you fuking learn how to do the ones you can't do, you will never do the fuking route. I'm getting really fuking tired of hearing you complain all the time, that you can't, when you haven't even tried the fuking move. And tring a move, doen't mean one or two weke assed attempts franticly stabbing at a hold, it means sitting in front of the move, shutting you fuking mouth, listening to the coaching and attempting correctly, the move a dozen times on each run, if thats what it takes. Climbing a difficult route isn't always going to be fuking easy, sometime, you just have to suck it up princess and put a little heart into in. Everytime you decide to skip a section, you have just wasted a run and wasted my fuking time. If you want to do routes that you can easily get in a go or two, maybe it's time to move on, find another partner and start climbing in those easier, slabier areas. Either get with the program or get the fuk out of my sight!

I just got a message from OKel on facebook. Apparently she was at our house yesterday checking out the new walkway I've been working on while we weren't home. Her daughter had a hokey game in town or something.

Can you say creepee stalker?

Hokey game FTW!

hahaha
Probably not too far off the truth.

blutarski, looks like we may have to hang out on that green alien at the start of o'kelley's a whole lot more.

you forgot an arrow at teh fist jam saying "will knot hold" and an arrow at teh alien "not exploding ... yet"

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

Duh. You always wear red shirts for bigname climber photographers. Just part of their quest for the toprated front page sanjaya pic.

Wow. You'd think with three people in the car they could outwit the GPS.

Curt

Look I don't really give a rats ass about all the moves you can do. The only thing I care about is you learning how to do the fuking moves you can't do. Sure, it's great that you can do a bunch of difficult moves, but unless you fuking learn how to do the ones you can't do, you will never do the fuking route. I'm getting really fuking tired of hearing you complain all the time, that you can't, when you haven't even tried the fuking move. And tring a move, doen't mean one or two weke assed attempts franticly stabbing at a hold, it means sitting in front of the move, shutting you fuking mouth, listening to the coaching and attempting correctly, the move a dozen times on each run, if thats what it takes. Climbing a difficult route isn't always going to be fuking easy, sometime, you just have to suck it up princess and put a little heart into in. Everytime you decide to skip a section, you have just wasted a run and wasted my fuking time. If you want to do routes that you can easily get in a go or two, maybe it's time to move on, find another partner and start climbing in those easier, slabier areas. Either get with the program or get the fuk out of my sight!

Look I don't really give a rats ass about all the moves you can do. The only thing I care about is you learning how to do the fuking moves you can't do. Sure, it's great that you can do a bunch of difficult moves, but unless you fuking learn how to do the ones you can't do, you will never do the fuking route. I'm getting really fuking tired of hearing you complain all the time, that you can't, when you haven't even tried the fuking move. And tring a move, doen't mean one or two weke assed attempts franticly stabbing at a hold, it means sitting in front of the move, shutting you fuking mouth, listening to the coaching and attempting correctly, the move a dozen times on each run, if thats what it takes. Climbing a difficult route isn't always going to be fuking easy, sometime, you just have to suck it up princess and put a little heart into in. Everytime you decide to skip a section, you have just wasted a run and wasted my fuking time. If you want to do routes that you can easily get in a go or two, maybe it's time to move on, find another partner and start climbing in those easier, slabier areas. Either get with the program or get the fuk out of my sight!

you forgot an arrow at teh fist jam saying "will knot hold" and an arrow at teh alien "not exploding ... yet"

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

well, they're both red. I doubt blutarski had a Charter Club Taproom Olympics shirt, though.

You did Tap-dancing in school?

Ah, to be young and confused again...

Curt

Look I don't really give a rats ass about all the moves you can do. The only thing I care about is you learning how to do the fuking moves you can't do. Sure, it's great that you can do a bunch of difficult moves, but unless you fuking learn how to do the ones you can't do, you will never do the fuking route. I'm getting really fuking tired of hearing you complain all the time, that you can't, when you haven't even tried the fuking move. And tring a move, doen't mean one or two weke assed attempts franticly stabbing at a hold, it means sitting in front of the move, shutting you fuking mouth, listening to the coaching and attempting correctly, the move a dozen times on each run, if thats what it takes. Climbing a difficult route isn't always going to be fuking easy, sometime, you just have to suck it up princess and put a little heart into in. Everytime you decide to skip a section, you have just wasted a run and wasted my fuking time. If you want to do routes that you can easily get in a go or two, maybe it's time to move on, find another partner and start climbing in those easier, slabier areas. Either get with the program or get the fuk out of my sight!

Reference to The Office?

you forgot an arrow at teh fist jam saying "will knot hold" and an arrow at teh alien "not exploding ... yet"

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

You didn't put much thought into this.

That they would fall on that climb is even funnier.

Curt

Good one.
I need to get some aliens, but I also need to know they won't blow up.

Good one.
I need to get some aliens, but I also need to know they won't blow up.

It really wasn't so much falling as it was pulling on gear.

That really is the heart of the issue. Though Snupe's haven't exploded on me yet.

Which makes my post remarkable in what way?

Curt

Let me think a second. I was out climbing today in 70 degrees without a cloud in the sky--I think not.

Curt

Agreed, I fucking hate GPS. In addition to often giving bad-beta, they really encourage you not to pay attention to outside surroundings, so you don't remember routes when you do them again. Just one more fucking square screen that we're spending our lives staring at. This past weekend, on the way to the NRG, the GPS told me to take a right turn at a middle-of-nowhere intersection, which I did not remember, and I thought I was supposed to go straight. I wound up doing a rolling stop through the intersection and getting a fucking ticket. While clausti will be quick to point out that this was my own fault and not the GPS's, I am going to say that I would have not mad a right turn, and thus would have made a complete stop, if I had not been staring at the fucking thing. DAMN YOU GPS!

In funner news, BINER! Come to Columbus, we will wine you, dine you, and then thrown you down into the catpee basement! We haven't even changed the sheets since caughtinside stayed! WOO!

That sucks about the ticket!

Wining/dining Biner will also mean wining/winding her mom and the luberjack.

Look I don't really give a rats ass about all the moves you can do. The only thing I care about is you learning how to do the fuking moves you can't do. Sure, it's great that you can do a bunch of difficult moves, but unless you fuking learn how to do the ones you can't do, you will never do the fuking route. I'm getting really fuking tired of hearing you complain all the time, that you can't, when you haven't even tried the fuking move. And tring a move, doen't mean one or two weke assed attempts franticly stabbing at a hold, it means sitting in front of the move, shutting you fuking mouth, listening to the coaching and attempting correctly, the move a dozen times on each run, if thats what it takes. Climbing a difficult route isn't always going to be fuking easy, sometime, you just have to suck it up princess and put a little heart into in. Everytime you decide to skip a section, you have just wasted a run and wasted my fuking time. If you want to do routes that you can easily get in a go or two, maybe it's time to move on, find another partner and start climbing in those easier, slabier areas. Either get with the program or get the fuk out of my sight!

So you guys are seriously wearing matching shirts?

That must be a nice change from the 110 you have had the last 6 months

just back them up and m34tb0mbz on them.

So a good climbing buddy of mine got hitched this weekend.

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We've been buddies since college and have done mostly ice and moutaineering stuff together.

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He was also the architect behind this masterpiece:

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True to form, he and his bride dragged 50 guests up a 1.5 mile hike close to the summit of Bald Mountain in Maine.

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After scouting out a spot, they each changed into full wedding attire while the guests stayed in thermals.

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Not a bad view!
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They did it!
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After the ceremony, and getting itchy for food and drink, Andy didn't bother changing back into hiking gear, the hardcore young man that he is.

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We descended to a great party and homemade food (he's a farmer). Of course, we made sure to wreck his car.

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Congrats buddy!!

you know any firefighters he could hang out with?

the tech center attached to my high school had a firefighter in training program, and i took the first year of it. we learned about the chemistry and physics of structure fires, strategies, getting into firefighter gear (under a minute or you fail the course), and crawling around blindfolded in a hot building on our hands and knees to rescue whoever the instructor tapped and said "your'e dead." oh and sprayed stuff with firehoses. wuz a good time.


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This time save the chips until after you tag the route.

That would have been teh suck! It's a pity they don't do the same thing these days. They need to show the sacrifice that's made every single day, even if that's the pre-deployment farewell tears or the flag-draped containers.

Those recruiters are like car salesmen... slimey and full of themselves... but I'm sure a tricky job to recruit. I wonder how many youngin's volunteer vs being recruited? 2:1? 4:1?

Oh no, there is a Donny in here!!!!

Jack, one thing the recruiters will not tell him is that even though he may only sign up for a 4 year enlistment he HAS to serve 8 years. He will serve his 4 "active" and then his other 4 "inactive" which means he doesn't have to do anything but they can call him back anytime. I have 6 buddies right now that had been out for 2 years and are now back in Iraq. Might be something to bring up.

I have a hard time picturing Jak giving nuturing parental advice. Mostly I picture a down-trodden kid at the breakfast table, playing with the left-over flakes in his Wheaties, scared to look up as Jak paces back and forth across the kitchen floor yelling "Yore an embarrassment to the family! Even the Smith's kid down the street - The one with the gimpy arm! He can climb 5.14! WTF is yore major malfunction!??!?!?!?"

Every now and then jack comes up with something profound. Purely on accident no doubt.

What rowt was this again? Or does naming the location/route violate anti-spray regulations?

Was yore fingerz swole?

Heh... obviously you don't know Jack!

The name of the route doesn't really matter. sides if I said it, some poser like snoppy would just look it up and spray the number all over the board... or some ball cupper like WMD would tell me that at least I'm werking insert 'some giant number'. Can't you just be happy that it seemed difficult for me and that I failed?

Jesus Jack, you sound like such a.... responsible parent! Now get your ass to JTree!

jack! ropegun me some slabz!

Whut root is this?

Today is last day here, we depart tomorrow - on schedule.

Long story, maybe I'll tell it one day.

#16?

No, I've been kicked to the curb.

It was more of a gentle nudge.

I think I'll go back to being a lesbian for a while.

What, the nudge or the lesbianism?

That sucks about the ticket!

Wining/dining Biner will also mean wining/winding her mom and the luberjack.

The lumberjack is in the car too going to CO? How did I miss that part of the story.

Nothing really to tell. They aren't done yet, apparently.

Although, he's supposed to move to Seattle or something. I'll let biner give you the full presentation.

Rough day at the office?

Nice rant, btw.

I love you, man. seriously.

Protege gone bad?

Not sure if you would like the routes I like, that are out at JTree.

Nice pic, I like the matching outfits. and yea, if you gays were wanking on the first moves... put a little more werk in to it.

Hardly....

Sometimes when the fear is so great, a pat on the ass and saying your pretty doesn't werk and I have to play hardball.

After the tears, the anger, the being really pissed off at me, she went up and actually did the moves, lowered off and said 'that wasn't really that hard'.

Drives me fuking nuts sometimes.

But let's be clear, we aren't talking about some low angle, 2 bolt, overated wankfest that you can't do. We are talking about a full on, 11 bolt, steep, difficult route, that dispite hundreds of attempts by all the strong locals has only been done by myself(with lots of werk) and two, one four mutants.

*lily shitz pantz in rage*

That BITCH!!!

Seriously,

I'll admit, I really didn't have much respect for Biner. She hasn't really done much to try and earn any. but this just makes her slink to a gnu low.

The Lumberjack?

Seriously?

That girl has serious issues dude. Be happy with the bit you got and be happy you got away.

So you think I should bolt it even though I can barely do only two of the moves and can't even come close to the others?

You forgot to use the [wmd] [/wmd]

So Jack, what routes at Jtree do you like? I'm just wondering, aside from steep spurt, what kind of oldskool tard climbing you prefer.

I see, so you are going to make me revisit teh nightmares of my past....

The last route I went to at JT was South of Heaven that was two seasons ago, though it is probibly considered 'sport'. Other routes that I liked at JT, other than the 'sport' were Course and Buggy, Spider Line, The Beaver, Tick Tic Boom, Wanger Banger... now my head is starting to hurt. Generally though, what I like best at JT is the 'sport'. Things like teh Black Diamond, stuff on the Ivory Tower(though I haven't actually been able to do some of it) and Iconoclas. I would have to pull out my guide to give you any more details... and I'm not quite sure where it is right now.

That's the crux. You've been sport climbing so much that you must have forgot.

Curt

Did you get any big chunks of that spray on yourself?

Curt

looking down at myself I don't seem to be wet?

I know it hard... you know, with the hole being queer and being drunk in the morning thing and all, but try to make the distintion between stating facts and spray. It kinda help with not looking so stupid thing. I'm just saying.

Glad you're OK, especially since you soaked the rest of us. Stating facts + puffery = spray.

Curt

Just one of those silly route at that crag you said you didn't like very much, teh Douchelode.

Bailbiner had to stick around one more day to break WMD heart in person?

She shot me in the face

Heh... Kinda hard to tell from here without a little more information on the route, your fittness, whether it's choss and still needs 'cleaning' or if it's gud rock and you think it will go with what's there and of course how much time are you willing to put in to it.

There is a big difference between a route that has already gone and a route you are starting from zero and have to figure out everything. Generally, if I can do all the move with just a day or two of werk, the route will not end up being that hard. If I'm looking for something that is actually going to be pretty difficult, I'll be willing to put in a week or more of days werking on it before I'll decide anything.

For example the route I've been werking on and off for over a month now, I can do some of the moves and can hang on to all of the holds now. Took me several days to just be able to do the opening couple moves and not fall into the pond. That being said at the end of this past weekend, kinda tired I fell off them and splashed. Course some of that was C-ya's lack of ability to belay quickly enough so that when I called for rope then fell off instead of clipping that she was able to pull the rope in quick enough to keep me out of the water. On other moves, it took me dozens of tries just to figure out what to do, then more ties to actually do the moves.

So yea, I think you should bolt it, if you are willing to put the time and werk into tring to do it.

That BITCH!!!

Seriously,

I'll admit, I really didn't have much respect for Biner. She hasn't really done much to try and earn any. but this just makes her slink to a gnu low.

The Lumberjack?

Seriously?

That girl has serious issues dude. Be happy with the bit you got and be happy you got away.

Isn't it obvious by now that we will never get the real story from bailbiner.

She shot me in the face

So she's a squirter?

So she's a squirter?