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speaking of new years plans, i have to tell you about a fun place.  For
the past 7 or 8 years i have been going to Joshua Tree just after xmas to
climb for a week or so. Therpy i guess you could say :-)  A few yeras ago,
i drove into the park on the first.  The first route i did was up a huge
monolith-  a blick block (250' high, 300' across the top- all verticle
sides).- Intersection Rock it is called.  I top out, walk to the anchor
and am shocked to see two dead kegs!  Good beer too!  Gorden Bierch and
Anchor Steam! These kegs where in a huge moon-dish type divot thing up
there, they were almost floating in 3" of spilled beverage!  So the next 5
or so years i would hit JT on the 29th and stay for 5 or six days and
have fun on the top of the rock at midnight! It was great.  They would get
the beer up there by pytting a rope over the top of the rock and pulling
the kegs up with a car attached to the other end of the rope!  On top
there are lots of anchors and 'life lines' to keep the drunks for spilling
in to the void!  Then there is a designated rappeler that makes sure
everybody gets down pain-free.

have a safe and fun weekend y'all
peace
Matthew
Moscow ID
84 weekender

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu