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Drews does some bouldering. Location: Monkey Traverse Nothing like bouldering on boulders in Boulder. Gratuitous, undescribed climbing pictures follow. - 107 0740 IMG
Location: Boulder - 107 0741 IMG
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Location: Boulder - 10 01
its Gorgeous Location: the Gorge This is probably the most beautiful venue I have ever seen. This pic is from NIN's website, and was taken before any fans got there (duh). - 112 1216 IMG 2
Waiting to get into the park Location: Hueco Tanks office While the crowds at Hueco aren't huge, they only let 50 people go climbing there each day--thus the lines. Luckily, we had reservations for both camping and climbing. - 112 1220 IMG
Mushroom boulder Location: Mushroom boulder, Hueco Tanks This is Bryan's nemesis V8, Mushroom Roof. - 112 1221 IMG
A little rope climbing Location: North Mountain, Hueco Tanks Drew, Jeff and Bryan do some roped climbing on "Alice in Banana Land" (5.9+). - 112 1222 IMG
A little rope climbing Location: North Mountain, Hueco Tanks Drew, Jeff and Bryan do some roped climbing on "Alice in Banana Land" (5.9+). - 112 1259 IMG
Ripple Location: Enchanted Rock State Park This is Jeff at the Base of Ripple, a classic 5.9 on the backside of the main dome. He's explaining to Bryan that the first clip is about 35 feet off the deck. That won't be a problem, will it? - 112 1265 IMG
Funny place to meet Location: Enchanted Rock State Park We met this guy (Dave, I think) at the top of Ripple. He spotted us a rappel; our rope wouldn't have made it. - 112 1266 IMG
Just sitting around... Location: Enchanted Rock State Park ...120 feet off the deck. - 112 1267 IMG
Ripple from afar Location: Enchanted Rock State Park That litte ripple halfway down the rock to the right of the big tree shadow. That is the namesake of the climb. - 115 1554 IMG
Big M&Ms Location: Las Vegas Strip We went out to see the sights on the strip after we got to the hotel. We still hadn't seen or heard from Drew, whom I was expecting at 10:45 or so. It was about 11:00 at this point. - 115 1561 IMG
More Bruce Location: Alexis Park Hotel I'm currently working through another of his books, Applied Cryptography I got interested in it after reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, in which one of Schneier's algorithms is used. Schneier also submitted a proposal to use his own encryption, TwoFish, as the new national standard ("AES"). It didn't make it. - 115 1562 IMG
Pirate radio gear Location: Alexis Park Hotel The FCC who? - 115 1563 IMG
File sharing Location: Alexis Park Hotel There was no love for copyright law on the DC9 LAN, that is for sure. - 115 1568 IMG
Wireless heaven Location: Alexis Park Hotel Who needs to pay attention to the talk on renegade wireless networks when we've got our own right here? - 115 1572 IMG
It's Hot, and the Day is long Location: Alexis Park Hotel Many of the talks were located in a tent on the roof of the hotel that was, in theory, air-conditioned. Right. - 115 1573 IMG
Location: Alexis Park Hotel - 115 1574 IMG
Intelligent, Adaptive IP IDS Agents Location: Alexis Park Hotel This guy was so full of himself. Good talk, though. - 115 1579 IMG
Heading to the black and white ball Location: MGM Grand George and Doug went back to the Alexis Park for the Black and White Ball (which turned out to be a bust), while Drew, Ali, and I got ready to go see George Carlin. - 115 1581 IMG
George's checking balance Location: MGM Grand Here you see the ensemble of the hotel phone, a defcon pass, and an ATM slip showing that George's checking balance has just jumped up by $20k, as his parents are buying him a new car. - 115 1582 IMG
Hacking challenge Location: MGM Grand A private hacking party that turned out to be not so 1337. Didn't want to take the paper around with me, so I took a picture and tossed it. - 115 1599 IMG
Reunited Location: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Clare had been in France for too long, and this was the first they had seen of one another since she had left. Aren't they cute? - 115 1600 IMG
The Defcon Program Location: Sonterra Apartments - 116 1601 IMG
The Defcon Pass Location: Sonterra Apartments Liquid filled and uber-c00l! - 116 1602 IMG
George Carlin ticket Location: Sonterra Apartments - 240 G
Arrival Location: Maumelle Park, Arkansas After a long and lovely drive through various east Texan towns (we opted for the backroads rather than I-30) and various Arkansan hamlets (ah, Arkedelphia, ye city on a hill), we arrived at our campsite not far out of Little Rock. Only slightly dismayed by the prevalence of the over-65 set, we pitched the tent and set off to the nearby Pinnacle State Park, to scale the largest mountain...within...half an hour of Little Rock... - 251 G
the pinnacle Location: Pinnacle Mountain State Park, AR Having scaled said mountain, a friendly native Arkansan snapped our picture. It was a beautiful view, and an excellent way to spend the last few hours before sunset.