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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:49 AM
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donald949 wrote: ...3 bolts in 100 feet. blow the 3rd deck 80 feet type spurt climbing.
Yes please!
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:52 AM
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johnwesely wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: We're planning on going to shasta to ski this weekend, but the forcast is 30% rain/snow on one site and on another it's 30% snow. Are we go no go for launch? What do you guys think? I'm down for it, but I don't know if it would be good for the boys. This will be the second time for the younger. Thoughts? Builds character. Do it. Character is overrated.
Your 1 star status is no longer a mystery.
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:52 AM
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notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: We're planning on going to shasta to ski this weekend, but the forcast is 30% rain/snow on one site and on another it's 30% snow. Are we go no go for launch? What do you guys think? I'm down for it, but I don't know if it would be good for the boys. This will be the second time for the younger. Thoughts? Builds character. Do it. Character is overrated. Your 1 star status is no longer a mystery.
Ah who am I kidding, twas never a mystery.
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:55 AM
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Lazlo wrote: johnwesely wrote: donald949 wrote: Lazlo wrote: We're planning on going to shasta to ski this weekend, but the forcast is 30% rain/snow on one site and on another it's 30% snow. Are we go no go for launch? What do you guys think? I'm down for it, but I don't know if it would be good for the boys. This will be the second time for the younger. Thoughts? Builds character. Do it. Character is overrated. Apparently.
ZING!
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HAHA!
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:57 AM
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donald949 wrote: [image]http://www.rockclimbing.com/images/photos/assets/7/444037-work-photo.jpeg[/image]
*raised eyebrow emoticon*
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:57 AM
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote:  *raised eyebrow emoticon* |
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 12:58 AM
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donald949 wrote: Its my "protection" for my PT. You know about people steeling pt's right? Anyrate, its a picture on the front page I plagerized.
anticlimactic
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Gmburns2000
Mar 1, 2010, 1:02 AM
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake.
Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time.
it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right.
Been productive today, so happy about that.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 1, 2010, 1:03 AM
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notapplicable wrote: donald949 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Lazlo wrote: I started posting on another forum site recently. (I know, I know; insert comment about abandonment, mutiny, or cheating here) and come to find out, internet dwellers aren't anywhere near as nasty as they are here on the knob. I posted the exact same question on Telemarktips that I had asked here and got amazingly helpful answers! It was so refreshing. Mmmmm, friendly and helpful people? Sounds kind of creepy to me...  They're prolly a bunch retarded bastards over there. Going on about how their telemarketing turns are all the shit and what knot. How they earn their turns, back country bullshit, bla bla, bla. Like 2000 feet of verticle some kind of big deal. They can just kiss my wife's new shaped skis.  GIVE EM HELL CLETUS!!
wow - how'd I even miss this?
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Gmburns2000
Mar 1, 2010, 1:06 AM
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notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: The PCI is dead. And not for the first time. Yet, here she is.
proof that we may ebb a few times every now and again, but we always flow when the water is high and the winds are blowing from the east...
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Gmburns2000
Mar 1, 2010, 1:06 AM
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pc++ eh?
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:14 AM
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johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: Going to Laurel Knob tonight. Going to climb tomorrow. 1200 feet of granite, here I come. DAMN I want to make it back to Laurel Knob!! Be BOLD but safe. Have fun. We got our butts kicked. We tried to climb seconds even though the groove was a waterfall. I took a fall on pitch two when a foothold kitty littered. Needless to say, we did not finish. The entire approach was through 10 inches of snow, and we had to take off our shoes to ford a shin deep creek. A really good adventure. I was wondering how wet things were going to be with the runoff and all. Sounds like some good North Carolina style fun. It was a lot less wet than I was expecting, but enough to shut us down. I think a more experienced party would have been fine.
Don't feel bad, the one time I went, I didn't summit either. Cold temps, wet conditions and a partner with the flu turned out to be precisely the wrong combination.
Clearly outmatched, we backtracked and got thoroughly horrorshowed on Big Green. It was pathetic really. We ended up backtracking even further and nursed our wounds at Stone Mtn. instead. Not one of my more inspiring trips.
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:16 AM
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Lazlo wrote: I got my BD gear!!!!! I love it! Woooooot!
Eeeeeeeeeeeexcellent!
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:17 AM
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Lazlo wrote: i can't wait to hit the back country now. I'm sure my new love will be ski mountaineering. I have a soft spot for winter mountaineering any way already.
Climb up, ski down?
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:27 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW!
Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh?
I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong.
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:28 AM
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong.
Probably not though. Texas is a large state.
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:29 AM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Hey, that was me... Now I can saw I've met a famous climber. So famous Misty writes about him in her blog. Even more famous than...
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kachoong
Mar 1, 2010, 1:38 AM
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong.
Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though...
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:40 AM
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zeke_sf wrote: Maybe boulder there, or perhaps do actual climbing. |
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Mar 1, 2010, 1:41 AM
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Lazlo wrote: NOAA Weather wrote: ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM PST SATURDAY ABOVE 4500 FEET....
gOOd times!
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:50 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: Greg. Dude. Holy earthquakes in Chile Batman!! Where you headed anywhere near Concepcion on your trip? not really, though I was going to visit it at some point because it is a main city. I'm still planning on Santiago, but I have some research to do now to ensure that things are OK (i.e. - safe and / or I'm not walking into a shit storm where there's a lack of housing). I heard Chile has officially asked that "unnecessary travel" to the region (possibly the entire country) be discontinued for the time being. I doubt that will last for more than a few weeks but it's possible that a large portion of the country will be so wrapped up in the relief efforts that security and accommodations will be compromised for some time to come. Hopefully not but that was one hell of a quake. Yeah, we'll see. One of my contacts recently told me that Santiago was fine and that folks are pretty much heading to work on Monday. Intl flights started landing at that airport today. Gonna wait to hear back from a few other contacts, though. I have a few weeks anyway (stupid MA takes six weeks?!?! to get through a subsidized COBRA application. WTF?!? So, yeah, I got some time. it's nice though. My dad set up my grandfather's governor's desk (the grandfather who died while I was in Argentina in Nov) to write on. When I saw it set up I was astounded at how comfortable / inspiring it looked. I'm not one for contrived sentiment either. It just looked / felt right. Been productive today, so happy about that.
Six weeks? Fuck that. Things sound promising on being able to go forward with the trip though. Which is good news.
So, you mentioned something earlier about "the move". Are sticking around Mass. until you leave or are you headed back out west?
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:52 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: notapplicable wrote: johnwesely wrote: The PCI is dead. And not for the first time. Yet, here she is. proof that we may ebb a few times every now and again, but we always flow when the water is high and the winds are blowing from the east...
in so many words
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 1:53 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: pc++ eh? |
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notapplicable
Mar 1, 2010, 2:02 AM
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: MDDFTW!!!! ugh? meeting Double D FTW! Closing a bit of the PCI gap eh? I missed Magnus when he was over here but I'm headed to Austin for work from the 8th to the 15th. Perhaps I'll run in to Kachoong. Next month? Could be possible... we may be busy that week though...
Yeah, I'm headed down in a few days. It's gonna be a week full of putting names to faces, working and training. Not exactly a good time for all but I've never been to the "Hottest State" so I'm not gonna complain too much about a free ride.
I don't even know what part of Texas you're in. Are you familiar with Austin? Any worthwhile bouldering near by?
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