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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2012 - 01:47pm PT
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Love the Otter Dog!
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 26, 2012 - 04:53pm PT
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Nice shots Chaz. You've got that kite/camera thing down.
I've had some good times in the PNW. When the weather's nice, it's truly glorious but in a way those sunny days in the English countryside are glorious. They're so rare and the scenery is the result of lots of rain. I think Chaz' original observation pretty much sums it up:
The coffee's pretty good. I won't buy a cup of coffee south of, say, Grants Pass.
Every town - no matter how small - has its own brewery. Even little one-horse towns like Laconner, Port Townsend, and Birdsview have outstanding local breweries. When the weather sucks as much as it does, you need strong coffee and lots of alcohol to compensate. You're actually trading alot for that good coffee and beer.
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Binks
climber
Uranus
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Sep 26, 2012 - 05:13pm PT
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Why complain about the weather? I'm in an office all day anyway. If it's raining on the weekend, I go to the mountains. BTW, it hasn't rained appreciably in Portland for the last three months. The rainy months make reading books,cocooning with your artistic pursuits, and hitting the pubs and cafes very appealing. The culture is great.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Sep 26, 2012 - 09:43pm PT
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Unclimbed walls half an hour away. Well, probably two hours all told to the base. Same time as to get to Squamish but greater effort.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2012 - 01:12am PT
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Even though the Locals all grumble about the ferries, I like them.
The dog likes them too. She gets to walk around on the car deck. It keeps me from going upstairs and wasting money on over-priced beer.
I can't see myself ever on a cruise ship - even though I dig ships. Ferry rides are just long enough to be entertaining without the mind-numbing boredom of being stuck for days in a floating hotel.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2012 - 07:51pm PT
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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More Portlandia, but this time, nobody's trying to make anything up:
Star Wars Yoga is Really a Real Thing in Portland
Make sure to check out the video down article.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Well, HST probably would have just shot the f*#kers. :-)
Eric
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Nov 22, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
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San Juan Islands. I have had five acres on Lopez for over thirty years. Maybe someday I will build something on it.
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Nov 23, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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Best wine in North America. Year round climbing and less than 10 inches of rain per year east of the Cascades (just why DO you folks live on the we(s)t side? - all the good wine and dry rock is over here....)
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2014 - 08:22am PT
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Somewhere in America, it's summertime right now ...
... but not here.
I like summers on Whidbey Island. Summer here is like winter in SoCal.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Aug 13, 2014 - 08:55am PT
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It's summer here in this part of the Pacific Northwest!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2014 - 09:01am PT
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Wanna go to Port Townsend, and get a beer? Here's your ride.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Aug 13, 2014 - 09:13am PT
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"Put a bird on it. "
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Aug 13, 2014 - 09:28am PT
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index is like primus... sucks
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2014 - 10:24pm PT
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They get low clouds here sometimes.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Aug 13, 2014 - 11:11pm PT
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The skiing is good
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2014 - 10:56am PT
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Seattle is a damn scenic city - but not so much at street level.
Fortunately, there are some tall buildings with observation decks open to the public ( and I'm not talking about the Space Needle, either )
100-year-old Smith Tower is one of them:
Columbia Center is another one:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 19, 2014 - 11:01am PT
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The guy that owned the Smith Tower BITD paid a friend of mine to change the
salmon wind sock he liked up there every six months. I helped do it once.
You had to climb up a ladder into the tiny glass cupola on top that had a
light in it when it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi.
Then I belayed Mark as he went outside and did the deed. Lotta fun.
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