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We are the R.O.T.
At 10 o'clock on a Friday morning, Jesse Enloe is downing his usual breakfast---three eggs, sausage, biscuits with extra gravy--at his customary spot, JoJos in southwest Fort Worth.
Amidst clanking dishes and shouted pancake orders, the 50-year-old vice president of the Republic of Texas is talking affairs of state.
It's not easy forming a new government, says the outsized Enloe, especially from the radically independent types in his outfit. Assorted tax protesters, self-styled patriots, militia members, white supremacists; these are guys with massive grudges against traffic cops or elaborate protests against building inspectors who hassle them about hammering up boat docks or utility sheds without city permits.
Listen to them long enough, and their collective mindset starts coming through. It's that boiling, pissed-off frame of mind that accompanies, say, getting stopped and ticketed for a minor traffic violation. Only instead of fizzling out in reasonable order, it keeps smoldering and feeding on itself and growing in a sort of philosophical cold fusion.
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Jesse Enloe knows what that's all about.
He can feel the burn, as one can tell from the blue-and-gold Republic of Texas license plates on his 1988 Chevy Corsica (Number 0001 0044) and his cheeky claim that he hasn't filed a federal income tax return since 1982--and doesn't plan to file one ever again.
Over the past year, Enloe has become the most readily identifiable spokesman in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for the Republic of Texas, a freeman-inspired movement organized around the belief that Texas is not a state but an independent nation illegally annexed by the United States 152 years ago. The group, which one Scottish reporter recently described as "a belligerent redneck group obsessed, apparently, with liberating the Lone Star state," has garnered widespread news coverage since its emergence in late 1995.
Most dramatically, one of its founders, Rick McLaren, held heavily armed state authorities at bay for seven days at McLaren's "embassy" in the Davis Mountains before he surrendered on Saturday. McLaren, the group's self-styled ambassador, and a band of six followers had taken two neighbors hostage and held them as "prisoners of war" for 12 hours.
McLaren's arrest in his trailer/lean-to redoubt has had little effect on the two Republic of Texas factions that split with him over the winter. They remain organized and active.
The most organized of the two splinter groups is the so-called provisional government that includes Enloe. His group was the first to split off from McLaren at a meeting of 200 members in College Station late last November. It was there that Enloe was elected vice president. A second group, headed by Archie Lowe of Rice, left McLaren in February.
"I think McLaren's gotten himself isolated and into a cycle of his own thinking," says Enloe, condemning the hostage-taking and some of McLaren's other militant tactics. "He's gone off the deep end."
While Enloe's faction, which has more than a dozen chapters across the state, is flatly critical of McLaren's use of violence, it shares his fondness for what Texas Attorney General Dan Morales has dubbed "paper terrorism," the targeting of government officials and other enemies with pesky, phony liens--a claim for a right to property until a debt is paid--used to collect "judgments" levied in Republic courts.
Before his elevation to office in November, Enloe was a chief organizer and clerk of the Republic's "common law" court, which meets every three weeks at the Park Inn motel near the University of Texas at Arlington. He has set about as a sort of Johnny Appleseed of common law in Texas, helping to establish these do-it-yourself courts in Lubbock and San Antonio.
It was Enloe's name that appeared on the Republic's "notice of eviction" demanding that Gov. George W. Bush move out of the state mansion in Austin in March 1996. And he is named in an injunction Dallas city officials secured recently against a Republic of Texas follower who refused to tear down an unauthorized dock on Lake Ray Hubbard, and declared a paper war against any official who got in his way.
Enloe's organization, which shares much of its militant anti-federal government agenda with various freemen and militia movements around the nation, may very well have its best days behind it, beset on one side by fractional in-fighting and on the other by proposals in Austin that would outlaw its courts and liens. Still, more than the usual number of people interviewed for this article requested that their names be left out for fear of being targeted for retribution.
Enloe hardly projects such a menacing image as he eases his six-foot, 280-pound mass into his car for the short drive from JoJos to his Fort Worth home, a little frame bungalow he rents from a retired defense-business engineer who is sympathetic to the cause. "I'll have to get someone to take care of that," he says, volunteering an excuse for the unmowed yard, overgrown bushes, and broken chair on the front porch.
"A real charmer," as a woman who once knew him well puts it, Enloe comes off as an affable suburban-neighbor sort as he talks politics in his tiny kitchen, his wife, Doris, keeping the coffee flowing. "The United States government is a federal corporation," Enloe explains, sounding a theme he's put forth in numerous interviews in the Dallas-Fort Worth media. "They're not operating by the law. They're operating under corporate ordinances. They have no authority in Texas."
Enloe no doubt has a genuine interest in the movement, but he and several members of his immediate family apparently have another, more personal agenda connected with their little revolution--one unexplored in the wealth of news coverage his group has received.
Before Enloe helped form the common law court, before Rick McLaren even conceived of the quaint notion that Texas is still "a whole other country," the Enloes were using this kind of far-right rhetoric and official-looking "court" documents to wriggle out of more than $70,000 in personal debts in Tarrant and Dallas counties, court records show.
Enloe concedes he helped set up the Arlington common-law court to try to further his scheme. He justifies stiffing his creditors with plumes of anti-government, anti-"international banker" language and separatist lingo.
His methods, as spurious as they are, have been more troublesome than his creditors probably would like people to think.
"They [the banks] create money out of thin air, so we paid them off with the same thing--air," says Enloe's 76-year-old mother, Irene, who is as committed to the Republic of Texas cause as her son. She goes on about the legality of their methods for a while, then in a scolding voice demands: "I really wished you wouldn't write about that...Not all those bills were mine...How did you come across that, anyway?"
If the Republic of Texas were to issue a recruiting poster, it could do worse than to picture the Enloes--Jesse, Doris, and Irene--smiling in unison above the slogan "We are the R.O.T."
They are by all outward appearances a snapshot of Middle America, of common folks. The family has been in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, primarily in suburban Arlington and Grand Prairie, since the late 1970s. Jesse is a former insurance salesman who let his license lapse in 1992, state records show. He hasn't held a regular job since.
"Mother," as Jesse calls her, made her career as an elementary school teacher in places like Tulia, in the Panhandle, and Hondo, west of San Antonio. She says the country started going down "when they took prayer out of the schools." Doris, Jesse's third wife, is a German immigrant who quit her job as a cafeteria cashier a few months ago to join the movement full time.
The three fellow travelers drove to Abilene last month on Republic of Texas business. Jesse has been meeting with various members of the other faction that has broken with McLaren, preaching unity. "He's very good at that. He's not seen as a threat," says David Johnson, an Odessa trailer home dealer who became president of the faction Enloe is in last November.
On the way to Abilene, there is plenty of time to get acquainted as the roadside bluebonnet fields fly by at 85 m.p.h. When the Republic takes control and Jesse's at the wheel of power, speed limits will be a thing of the past, he says along the way. "We're for personal responsibility. You can go 120 miles an hour if you want. If you hit someone, that's another matter altogether."
Jesse goes almost everywhere with his wife and mother, to Republic meetings in San Antonio, College Station, Amarillo, all across the state.
In the back seat, Irene and Doris look as resolute and loyal as a couple of Eva Brauns in their Republic of Texas name badges and pin-on flags. "We like seeing our friends at these things," says Irene, a slight, bony woman with a white poof-ball hairdo. She has her Republic of Texas tag pinned on her bright red denim jacket, which is decorated with lots of gold thread, matching her gold slippers.
They use Irene's car for these trips, a white Buick LeSabre with genuine Texas license plates. It's more reliable than Jesse's and less of a hassle with the state troopers, he explains, pasting back a shock of white hair with his thick right hand.
As little towns like Ranger, Olden, and Clyde flash by, Jesse sketches the outlines of his life story. "I grew up all over Texas; my dad was in the Air Force for a while," he says. Graduating from high school in Tulia in 1964, Jesse escaped the Vietnam draft when he was declared unfit for military service because of bad knees.
He got married in El Paso, worked a few different jobs--for a gas company, a tire company, and the like--and moved to Dallas in 1976 to enroll in Criswell Bible Institute. He didn't stay there long, though. "I had some serious philosophical differences with them," Enloe says. "I take the Bible literally." He went to work loading trucks, then got a job as a purchasing agent, then found some fairly lucrative work in the insurance business.
In his best year, around 1982, he made perhaps $300,000, he told friends, and he jumped right into the good life: expensive cars, jewelry, big tips. "He liked being somebody," says one woman who knew him in that period. "He's a real good salesman."
That didn't last long, however, and by 1985, the Chase Manhattan Bank of Texas repoed his $853-a-month Jaguar XJS.
After selling it at auction, the bank claimed Enloe still owed about $12,000, plus $2,000 more in interest. Enloe didn't contest them when they took the case to state court in Dallas and got a default judgment in January 1985 for more than $16,000--a judgment that is still unsettled and on the books.
More ominously, the IRS was on his tail for non-payment of taxes.
"They said I owed 'em $30,000, $40,000, something like that," he says in an account confirmed by two others who knew him at the time.
The IRS went after some of his wages--"They stole my income," as he puts it--and he found himself getting deeper in the hole.
"I didn't have the money, so I didn't file," he says. "I didn't hear from them for seven years...Then I met some people who had been involved with various groups that had done research and found out that the IRS is illegal. It's a fraud. I found out I never owed them any money in the first place."
One of the groups Enloe was referring to is Citizens for Legal Reform, formed in 1990 by a former roofer named Alfred Adask who became embittered with the legal system during a nasty divorce. Since 1990, the group has been a sort of right-leaning clubhouse for tax protectors, The Liberty Lobby, the John Birch Society, Libertarians, you name it, with Adask running unsuccessfully for various offices on the Libertarian ticket. Adask, whose magazine, AntiShyster, is dedicated to "raising hell for lawyers," is just the latest figure in Dallas' storied history of playing host to rightist fringe causes.
Loosely knit, these groups seem to feed off the same ideological buffet table: fear of gun control and income taxes; a reverence for the gold standard; and weird fantasies about banking conspiracies, One World government, and domestic concentration camps run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The concept of off-the-grid courts rooted in the Magna Carta and English common law; tortured law-book references that purport to nullify statutory laws and everything from the IRS, to traffic laws, to building codes; a profound contempt for the courts and lawyers--these are all ideas Citizens for Legal Reform was tossing around years before militias and freemen began showing up on the 10 o'clock news.
Nearly everyone active locally in the Republic of Texas got their feet wet in Adask's group, Enloe says, including him and his mother.
"A guy in Citizens for Legal Reform had a videotape by a Utah organization called The IRS Exposed," Enloe recalls of his first encounter with the group. "I started buying more books."
Beginning in 1992, when he attended his first meeting of Adask's group, Enloe began his transformation from someone who "didn't think about politics at all" to a man who embraces just about every wild-eyed conspiracy theory and every feature on the ultra-right landscape.
He ticks them off as Irene's Buick eats up the West Texas miles:
*There is a "secret 13th amendment," not the 13th amendment that abolished slavery, but another one that makes it illegal for lawyers to hold public office.
*The gold-fringed American flag seen in most courtrooms signifies that the court is operating under "admiralty law," not civil law, rendering the courts unqualified to hear civilian cases.
*When a government agency prints a person's name in capital letters, it is referring to a "corporate" individual, not the actual person. People's true names are spelled with capital and lower-case letters. The Enloes claim theirs include a comma between first and last names, a detail they cite while refusing to answer summonses.
*The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City two years ago was carried out by federal agents looking to discredit the militia movement. As its corollary, the FBI deliberately set the deadly fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco two years earlier, Enloe claims.
*The IRS is illegitimate and lacks authority to collect taxes for a number of reasons, among them: It is only authorized to operate in Puerto Rico. It can only collect taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. There is no proof that the agency was ever established by Congress, or that authority was delegated to it by the Treasury Department. The agency needs a person's agreement before it can levy taxes. "I have the United States code on CD-ROM. I'll pull it out and show you," Enloe says.
(For those of you who might want to believe this, Fannie Smith, an IRS spokeswoman in the Dallas regional office, says her agency doesn't believe in conscientious objectors. "Taxpayers who fail to file tax returns, file incomplete returns, or refuse to pay their taxes by claiming constitutional, religious, or moral grounds or the lack of a gold and silver standard face strict civil and criminal penalties." She points to the case of LeRoy Schweitzer, head of the Freemen of Montana, who held off federal authorities for 81 days before surrendering last summer. He was tried and found guilty in September of failing to file tax returns and is awaiting sentencing.)
*President Franklin Roosevelt took the United States' currency off the gold standard in 1933 so "a small group of bankers" and a secret society known as the Illuminati could "control everyone."
These weren't study points on Irene Enloe's lesson plans in her years of teaching the "three R's" to first-, second-, and third-graders in rural Texas.
"Things were quite a bit different back then; we had prayer in the classroom, we felt the police were out to protect us, we loved the president," she says, adjusting her designer sunglasses.
Now, she's on the other side--of law enforcement at times, and of the federal government's requirement to report one's income and pay taxes. That started in 1992, she says. "My husband was very ill and in a nursing home. We were the kind of people that had to pay every bill on time, and every year I took my taxes to the accountant.
"I had gone through cancer surgery and had all these things on my mind. I was walking around the house praying, and I hear a voice. You might think I'm crazy, but I heard a voice that said, 'You don't have to file that. You don't have to do that anymore.'"
So Irene, too, owner of a small home in Grand Prairie, stopped filing her income tax return.
Prompted by an obvious question, Irene Enloe concedes she didn't stop accepting her monthly Social Security check. She didn't have any problem with her now-deceased husband staying in a U.S. Veterans Administration nursing facility in Waco, either. "How can anyone afford a private nursing home?" she says. But when it comes to thumbing her nose at the tax collector, she says righteously, "I haven't worried about it. That decision was between me and the Lord."
It is an article of faith among Republic of Texas members around Dallas that Irene Enloe became a martyr to their cause when several squad cars stopped her on the way to her neighborhood Albertson's in February, and police officers hauled her off to jail in Dallas.
"When they kidnapped [Jesse's] mother, absolutely it was related to his becoming vice president," says Daniel Lopez, the group's Secretary of State. "I don't know anybody who doesn't see it that way."
Nobody in Republic circles, perhaps. But the Dallas Teachers Credit Union has other ideas about Irene and Jesse Enloe.
As court records show, Irene's arrest was the only consequence they have had to pay--at least to date--in the family's extraordinary effort to beat banks and credit institutions out of a list of debts totaling more than $70,000, much of that from credit cards in Irene's name but used by the rest of the family.
This sizable list of deadbeat debts is headed by the note on a big, showy Buick, a 1992 Park Avenue Ultra. It was "Jesse's car," the Enloes say, but records show that Irene signed for it with a $24,084 loan at the Dallas Teachers Credit Union. When the car was purchased in June 1993, it had 28,000 miles on the odometer, according to the title.
About a year after the purchase, the Enloes stopped paying their loan. Then they sent the credit union a "certified money order" for $27,151 and filed in Tarrant County deed records a notarized "Notice of Default" demanding title to the car. "I now own the above referenced 1992 Buick," the papers read, swearing, "I have revoked and rescinded my signature from any and all applications, notes or contracts with Dallas Teachers Credit Union."
Jesse Enloe says the money orders were payable by an L.A. Pathahiah in Tigerton, Wisconsin. It is a name that law enforcement and banking institutions have come to know well over the last several years. Last month, a federal judge in Wisconsin sentenced Leonard A. Peth, a.k.a. L.A. Pathahiah, to eight years in prison for selling the bogus money orders in a scheme the judge said was clearly intended "to ruin the banking system." Peth and nine other members of Family Farm Preservation, a modern-day offshoot of the militant Posse Comitatus, were indicted in 1996 after they sold packets of blank money orders that 900 people in 27 states tried to redeem for more than $64 million.
In Enloe's view, the money orders are as good as currency, which he maintains is worthless because it is not backed by gold or silver. Because the loans were not made in gold or silver coins, they can be paid back with promissory notes--which are no different than the "worthless" money or credit that was originally extended, he says.
The credit union filed suit against Irene Enloe in January 1995, seeking to collect $21,221 left on the car loan, plus $5,422 owed on a MasterCard issued her a year earlier and $4,838 left on a signature loan she took out in June 1993.
Through early 1995, the credit union's lawyers began bringing their case against Irene with toughly worded requests for admissions, and questions about how the Enloes were connected to Peth and the Posse Comitatus, a virulently racist anti-government group that grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, fueled by angry rural residents threatened with foreclosure amid the farm crisis.
The Posse's leader, Gordon Kahl, was killed in a furious shootout with federal authorities at his Arkansas hideout in 1983. Earlier that year, two federal marshals were killed in another shoot-out with Kahl, whose group sponsored paramilitary training camps, convened citizens court, and "indicted" dozens of IRS agents and other officials.
In the years since, many of the fringe philosophies formulated by the Posse have been adopted by freemen groups like the Republic of Texas, particularly the adoption of common law courts and a hatred of bankers and lawyers.
Enloe says that "eight banking families that control the world" are among those trying to usher in "one world government."
Mark Briskman, regional director for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Dallas, says he has explored that notion at length with Republic members. When pressed to name who they believe is oppressing them, they "end up naming seven Jewish families and the Rockefellers."
"It goes back to the same old historic canard of 'the International Jewish conspiracy,'" says Briskman. "At the end of the road, that's where this stuff leads."
Among other Republic of Texas beliefs that have their roots in the Posse is the idea that government power rests in the local county, with the sheriff having the authority to enforce "the common law," meaning local precedent and custom.
The Posse's philosophy included virulently racist beliefs rooted in a notion that whites get their rights from God, while other races have had their rights legislated into existence by the 14th Amendment.
At least in their literature, the Republic has steered clear of race and religion. Several black and Hispanic members attend their meetings.
As the very mundane debt collection case involving the Enloes' Buick neared its trial in Dallas County Court No. 4 in June 1995, Jesse and a few men he knew at the Committee for Legal Reform set up their common law court in Arlington.
They called it Our One Supreme Court.
The court's paperwork--in the style of freemen movements nationwide--declared that the institution was not part of the United States, but instead a creation of the "Republic of Texas."
"The court we modeled it after up in Oklahoma used the words Country of Oklahoma," Enloe explains. "We liked using republic, the Republic of Texas."
At their first session, held June 17, 1995, they heard as one of their first cases Alice Irene Enloe Vs United States et. al; and all Whom it May Concern.
Before Irene testified, she took a so-called declaration of quiet title, professing herself a private citizen rather than a "subject of the United States." In the one-sided proceeding that followed, 12 judges/jurors arrived at a unanimous "finding of law and facts" that the Buick belonged to Irene free and clear, and they demanded that the credit union cough up the title.
Lloyd Black, a 72-year-old retired carpenter, signed the official-looking order as "special appointed marshal," and it was sent to the credit union's attorneys. The court even took out a legal ad in Fort Worth's Commercial Recorder. The notice said the credit union needed to send their claim to the court "no later than four days after publication or lose all right in...said private property."
Before the notice ran out, Judge Bruce Woody of County Court No. 4 in Dallas ruled after a brief hearing that Irene Enloe owed the credit union $33,778.77, plus $9,444 in attorney's fees.
What followed was a blizzard of stern rulings from Our One Supreme Court, including a "writ of prohibition" ordering "the inferior Dallas County Court at Law No. 4 to cease and desist in all actions and decrees" in Irene Enloe's case.
In early 1996, Richard McLaren began gathering followers to his Republic of Texas movement through various meetings around the state, including the Committee for Legal Reform, and the Enloes and others joined in.
"Initially, he had that magnetic personality that drew a lot of people in," says Enloe. "He got them excited."
Their Arlington court transformed itself into the official Republic of Texas court, renaming itself the Milam District Court of Common Law Pleas.
In another notice sent by the Enloes in the battle for the Buick, they informed Judge Woody: "I Alice Irene, Enloe hereby give NOTICE that I am civilly dead (civiliter mortuus), being a sentient human being...I am a free National of the Republic of Texas which is foreign to the venue, jurisdiction..."
"As a defense it wasn't very effective," says attorney Douglas Johnson, who nevertheless ended up compiling a thick folder of Republic of Texas documents and "rulings" sent by the Enloes.
The Enloes had surrendered the car in the fall of 1995, a day before a hearing on whether to hold them in contempt for hiding it. Still seeking to recover the more than $10,000 Irene Enloe continued to owe, Johnson set about to compel her to give a deposition. Their efforts ended last October with Judge Woody issuing an "order of attachment," meaning Irene could be arrested and jailed and made to appear at the deposition. By that time, the Enloes had simply stopped showing up in court, and took to returning notices with the words "Refused For Fraud" scribbled across the front. Irene began calling herself a citizen of "Yahvah's Kingdom at the Republic of Texas."
Irene was finally brought in by Dallas County sheriff's deputies in early February, processed, and taken to the 10th floor of the George L. Allen Dallas County Courthouse.
"I was so shocked--I didn't know where I was," she says, sounding like a hardened con. "You'd ask them a question, and they'd lie to you."
Sheriff's officials say Irene was a memorable prisoner. Not only did she make it clear she was the vice president's mother, but she refused to shower, and ended up smelling so ripe that she was put in a single cell, says Jim Ewell, the department's spokesman.
While Irene sat in jail, Jesse cranked his amateur legal office into full gear.
He tells anyone who asks that Irene's arrest was somehow connected with Attorney General Dan Morales' actions against the Republic. The attorney general has been fighting the group and 25 of its members in civil courts since last June, when he filed a suit alleging illegal restraint of trade, intimidation, retaliation, and falsifying government records. After granting a temporary injunction against the organization, a state district judge in Austin found Republic officials in contempt of court.
The state is seeking a permanent injunction forbidding the group and its members from filing documents that purport to be from an official government agency.
While Enloe is not named among the 25 defendants, he has been served with a copy of the suit. Irene was served during her stay in jail, which turned into a 10-day stretch after she told the judge he had committed "perjury of oath" and had no jurisdiction over her.
Irene completed her contempt sentence and eventually gave up her bank account number in a deposition in which she repeatedly claimed she had a right against self-incrimination.
"That's the filthiest place you ever want to be," Irene says of jail, where she was kept in protective custody. "You are a criminal until you prove otherwise."
While the teachers were trying to recover their money in Dallas, Bank of America sued in Tarrant County, seeking to recover $9,021 the Enloes had run up on a Visa Gold card and attempted to beat with another specious Pathahiah money order.
The Enloes answered that suit, filed in June 1995, with another "judgment" from the homespun Our One Supreme Court. It asked 342nd District Court Judge Bob McGrath to "cease and desist."
Rather than shrug it off, however, the judge asked for police protection at his Arlington home. He says the sheriff's department was giving him dire warnings about possible violence from the Republic of Texas. Those warnings prompted the Bank of America's lawyer, Durward Moore, to drop the suit, McGrath says. "They said they didn't want anyone to get hurt over this."
Moore declined to be interviewed for this story, citing office policy.
That debt and all the rest mentioned in the Enloes' "public notices" have never been paid with what most people consider to be legal currency, Jesse says. Together with the Bank of America Visa Gold card, the debts total more than $38,126. There was $8,996 owed to MNBA MasterCard, $6,000 to First Bank MasterCard, $7,151 to an AARP Banc One Visa, $4,600 to a Discover card, and on and on.
Irene, asked about the debts, says with a sort of sheepish look, "You know some of my friends aren't as informed about this as people in the Republic. They might not understand."
Jesse Enloe differs with Richard McLaren, the group's deposed president, over a number of things, including what kinds of people can be handed phony checks.
"You can't do that to someone who renders you goods or services," Enloe says, adding that McLaren is less discerning. McLaren broke that rule when he used a worthless Republic of Texas check last fall to pay a Fort Worth printer, Enloe says.
Roger Downs, owner of Custom Copying and Printing in River Oaks, a suburb west of Fort Worth, says McLaren left him something that looked like a check for $4,569 to pay for a batch of Republic of Texas "passports" that Downs printed in November.
Jesse Enloe originally placed the order, Downs says, explaining that he printed the little official-looking books with blue and gold-leaf covers and expected McLaren to pay.
When he took McLaren's check to his bank, however, it didn't clear. He took it to another bank. It bounced again. Within a few days, several IRS special agents were at his door, Downs says.
The agents accepted his explanation that he was simply the victim in this, and Downs agreed to let the feds tap his phones while he discussed the check with McLaren and Enloe, he recalls.
Then he got cold feet. "I talked to my wife, and she thought we'd better just forget about it," he says. The agents took the rest of the passports he had in the store and told him to call them if McLaren shows up again.
The check made out to Downs was one of several dozen specified in a 25-count federal indictment unsealed in Dallas on Monday charging Rick McLaren and his wife, Evelyn Ann, and five cohorts with printing and passing worthless Republic of Texas checks. They looked like cashiers' checks and purported to be warrants drawn on the Republic's treasury.
In announcing the indictments, U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins said hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of the fake "warrants" were passed to credit-card companies, banks, and merchants.
For instance, Kelly's Jewelers in Austin was left holding a worthless check for $3,496, according to the indictment. Enloe says word in Republic circles is that McLaren had ordered 150 Texas Ranger badges from Kelly's.
"I heard I was going to get back-pay as clerk of the Republic court, and I got pretty excited," Enloe recalls. "Then I heard we were gonna get paid with McLaren's warrants, and I got unexcited real quick."
As the Enloes approach Abilene, Jesse dials his pocket-sized cel phone and reaches Monty Barnett, the local Republic of Texas man they are scheduled to meet. He tells them to proceed to the Royal Inn, at the edge of town.
Even the sight of the worn, '60s-era motel can't dull the brilliant Texas spring afternoon as Jesse pulls the Buick into a parking spot. "Let's eat," he says.
The Enloes, joined by Barnett and his wife, pile their plates with chicken-fried steak and cream gravy off the buffet of Pete's Family Restaurant at the front of the motel. They begin getting concerned that they are the only ones in the dining room.
Barnett is following a different faction than Enloe, the one headed by Archie Lowe, and Enloe had hoped to discuss ways the two groups could merge.
"People don't know they're not free," says Barnett, a young, heavyset man who says only "I'm in business" when asked how he makes a living.
"Yeah. 'Sheeple,'" says Enloe, echoing the term used by Rush Limbaugh after President Bill Clinton was reelected in November.
Only three other people are on hand when the short-lived meeting finally begins in the Royal Inn's banquet room, a vast affair decorated with ornate silver foil and red velvet wallpaper. One is an unblinking woman who tells anyone who will listen that government agents are following her and her kids, so she's planning to escape to Israel, or New York, or Waco, depending on which version of the labyrinthine tale she's on at the minute.
Later, the woman follows the Enloes out to their car, where they listen politely for a few minutes and then ease away.
"Boy, that was a waste of time," Enloe says as he heads the LeSabre back on the highway to Fort Worth. "I think Archie's group is in trouble."
Every other week, between 75 and 100 members of Enloe's faction assemble in a perfectly businesslike meeting room at Dallas' Hiltop Inn.
The crowd milling at a recent meeting is primarily 50ish and up, middle and lower-middle class, and includes many faces familiar from the Committee for Legal Reform, which rents the same room every other Tuesday. A couple of others are familiar from the every-other-month lecture series sponsored by The Eclectic Viewpoint, which is big into UFOs and fringe science.
"We used to get more than this before the split," Enloe says.
Talking at the back of the room, he says he gets a kick out of media accounts that say groups like his are hard-wired into the Internet. "This isn't the computer generation," he says. "I've got only a handful of people with e-mail addresses."
As an obvious concession to this age group's concerns, the Republic says that when Texas gets its independence, older citizens will still get their Social Security benefits from Uncle Sam. These things--like the handicapped license plates on Irene's car--make it hard to take the Republic folks as much of a threat. But it is easy to wonder whether violence is all that can come of rhetoric that gets as hot as this group's.
"We believe we can accomplish our goal peacefully, having all the people deciding the fate of Texas," Enloe says. "That's what I believe. But then again, that may be too much to ask for."
David Johnson, the group's president, came to the Dallas meeting April 22. A well-dressed sort with the full beard of a holy man, Johnson told the group that coverage by the major media will help distinguish their "rightful government" from Richard McLaren's. In what Enloe called "the first positive story I've seen on the Republic," The Dallas Morning News quoted Johnson last month saying that his group isn't belligerent or racist. "We've tried to reach out to all people," he said.
That doesn't mean white supremacists are shunned by the Republic, Enloe says. "No doubt, there are people [in the movement] who hold white supremacist views," he says.
There are no overt signs that the Republic of Texas has a racist agenda, says Michelle Bramblett, a researcher for the militia task force at Klanwatch, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. There even are reports, she says, that it has developed ties with a black separatist movement next door in Louisiana. "They're called the Washaata Nation," Bramblett says. "They say a part of Louisiana rightfully belongs to them."
Some vague white-supremacist language pops up in the legal papers Enloe prepared for his mother in the battle of the Buick--the references, for instance, to "Yahvah's Kingdom." The phrase, employing the Hebrew word for God, comes exclusively out of the Christian Identity movement and its ultra-right notion that white Christians are chosen by God, says Briskman of the Anti-Defamation League. And Johnson's family is involved in religious beliefs that "come right to the edge of Christian Identity," Briskman says.
Then again, Briskman says, "I'd venture to say some people in these groups toss this stuff around without understanding what it means."
Enloe says he meant nothing in using the term "Yahvah," except as a synonym for God. "I don't believe any race is superior to any other," he says.
As the hotel meeting ends, participants file out past a table where Irene and Doris Enloe are selling Republic paraphernalia: $3 decals, $5 badges, and $35 Burnett flags, which flew for the historic Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845.
These days, this cash is the family's only income, Jesse says. The Enloes talk of a secret "private trust" that one day will begin paying salaries to the Republic's officers.
Their booth is flanked by one where John Birch Society magazines are for sale, and another with tapes of past meetings and seminars on beating traffic tickets.
Another booth across the aisle trades in more sinister goods: copies of the IRA Handbook, Poor Man's TNT, and the Anarchist's Cookbook, plus "CIA non-detectable letter openers"--$5 hard-rubber survivalist knives.
The 40-round clips for AK assault rifles are priced at $20 a pop.
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Aortocoronary bypass graft failure is common and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Failure of saphenous vein grafts is more common than failure of internal mammary artery grafts. Whether early graft angiography can reduce bypass graft failure remains unknown. The Cardiac CAtheterization for Bypass Graft Patency Rate Optimization (CABG-PRO) randomized-controlled pilot study is a phase III, double-blind, randomized-controlled pilot trial that will randomize 170 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery to early (before dismissal) graft angiography vs. no early graft angiography. Coronary angiography will be performed at 12 months, to determine whether compared to no early graft angiography, early graft angiography will result in:
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"The other one was about $108,000," Young said. "This one was quite a bit lower."
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ATLANTA (AP) – Braves reliever Jonny Venters will have his ailing left elbow examined by Dr. James Andrews.
Team officials say Venters will see the noted orthopedic surgeon Wednesday after the pitcher felt tightness in the elbow during his last spring training appearance.
Venters had to come out of Tuesday's game against Detroit and likely will start the season on the disabled list, clearing the way for the Braves to keep Cristhian Martinez and Anthony Varvaro on the 25-man roster. Both are out of minor league options.
Andrews performed elbow-ligament replacement surgery on Venters' elbow in 2005. Venters recovered from to become one of Atlanta's most reliable setup relievers.
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ATLANTA -- Manager Don Mattingly's forensic study of Jordan Schafer's bloop single in a pivotal sixth inning Friday night revealed shortstop Dee Gordon was too aggressive.
"Dee was in the spot where Carl [Crawford] could catch the ball," Mattingly said. "Carl saw him and pulled up. You could see Carl almost come to a stop three strides before and the ball hits closer to his feet."
The single started a one-out rally that included an error by third baseman Luis Cruz and a grand slam by Justin Upton off left-handed reliever Paco Rodriguez, providing the decisive runs for Atlanta in an 8-5 Dodgers loss.
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By Charles Vernon
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Mar 29, 2005
|In the photo below, the route starts not in the huge left-facing corner, but in the smaller corner a ways right (marked in the photo by a little red dot).
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
May 4, 2005
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
The "normal" descent can be done with one 50m rope, but it is tricky. The first rap doesn't quite reach the end of a huge ledge. It is possible to make the transition to the ledge at the end of this rap, but it is a dangerous transition (you end on a steep slab). This is why (I believe) somebody added another set of anchors just 50' below the first. So do 2 raps here, the first one only 50', from the lower set of anchors you can easily make the big ledge (you would normally continue straight down here if you had 2 ropes).
But with 1 rope, walk towards the Eagle Wall (west?) on the big ledge, and you will find another anchor at the opposite end for a final rappel over an overhang and into the bowl.
Also, last time I did this descent (with 2 ropes) there was a suitcase sized block resting on a steep splab in the middle of the first rap. My concern was that our rope after pulling would snag behind this, releasing it onto us. This block may well be gone by now, but until then it is an accident waiting to happen.
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Nov 28, 2005
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Fun route - big day, not because of the climb itself but due to the approach and the descent. This may be it's only drawback- you are expending a lot of energy to climb only 4 or 5 good pitches. The single rope descent described in supertopo seemed flawless - we found an anchor just above the final slab portion of the descent which avoided a steep downclimb. I would guess that many find the crux pitches to be far more straight forward than the 2nd pitch (5.8) with its awkward section and the final 2 "easy" pitches. Is that really what 5.5 slab climbing is supposed to feel like?
By d-know
From: electric lady land
Jan 26, 2006
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|super fun day. not another soul to be seen or heard. we did the walk off in the dark and 1 head lamp between the two of us. some easy down climbing and scrambling and fairly straight forward. saw some big horn sheep too in the last remaining light.
By Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi?
From: Vegas
Mar 4, 2006
Did a Solar Slab link up to the start of the upper pitches of Black Orpheus. We branched off from Solar Slab, climbing a couple of fun pitches, which brought us to a ledge, beneath the ramp (Start of upper pitches of Black O.)
We were able to top out at 2P.M. after experiencing full satisfaction of the awesome upper pitches of Black O. (Started up the S.S. Gully at 8:30 A.M.)
We rapped the Upper S.S. Gully to the climber's right (I love this beautiful, scenic descent!) Single rope raps, and easy,intermittent down-climbing/scrambling to the S.S. terrace, then down the Lower S.S. Gully to our packs.
It was a beautiful day today in Oak Creek. Perfect weather!! Only saw two other climbers in canyon. I don't get it.
By Floridaputz
From: Oakland Park, Florida
Mar 19, 2006
|Pitches 8-11 were the most fun. There is some loose rock to be found on those pitches. I enjoyed the route. The traverse to start P8 is pretty cool. The summit is pretty cool. Darkness found us right after the rappels, and we still had no problem with the descent. Stay right on the upper bowl. Find the IBM boulder (looks like an element) and start down a gully heading west. it comes back East again then west again along some slabs right atop a short cliff. The last slab to the creek is polished like marble, and extreemly slippery. If you end up here you nailed the decent.
By Aimee Rose
From: Bend, or
Apr 5, 2006
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Definately just bring one rope and do the single rope descent. Supertopo does have the description nailed and I posted a pic of the "cool little arch" you climb through right before you head left and downclimb the chimney (which was wet when we did it on April 2). On the 3rd pitch after the 4th class section, make sure you don't place all of your small gear before the bolt! You'll need some to get up that dihedral!
Also, if the forecast says 15-20 mph winds in town, expect them to be 60mph up top. It was pretty scary, rope blowing sideways and having to cling onto the rock when the gusts came up.
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Apr 6, 2006
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|The "IBM Boulder" is perfectly named, but young people who have never seen a typewriter will get lost looking for it! It's named after the bizarre ball found in an IBM Selectric Typewriter. Imagine a metal golf ball covered with all the characters in a keyboard, sticking out so it can make an impression of each when pressed onto an ink ribbon. The real boulder looks just like this but is about 8' in diameter. I took a Photo of it last time I was up there.
By Will Eccleston
Nov 27, 2006
My wife & I climbed Black Orpheus on Thursday, Nov 23rd, 2006 (Thanksgiving day). Thoroughly enjoyed it. I am 5'10" tall, and the bolted section that is supposed to be the crux felt quite easy, like 5.7, or maybe Red Rocks 5.8. I would say that the crux for me was the liebacking above that, which is supposed to be only 5.7, but felt harder (slick feet!), but great gear. Not a soul in sight other than the bighorns on the lower slabs, although we could hear folks on Solar Slab. Leave anything you're not bringing up the route all the way down in the wash.
Great day!
By rpc
Oct 8, 2007
|Great route! Gotta agree with the comments above though that somehow the last 2 pitches felt harder than the "real crux"? Is it because mentally you think you're done after that 9+ bolted move (which itself is quite reasonable if you're tall)? Or is the runout on the "5.5 slab"?
By Jordan Ramey
From: Calgary, Alberta
Nov 29, 2007
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
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By Jesse Morehouse
From: CO
Jun 1, 2008
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
A fun outing! Id recommend ignoring the grades and not letting your guard down till you are back down! The 2nd to last pitch seemed the diciest to me and I was on toprope for it! It seems like simulclimbing pitches to the base of the 5.8/9 diehedral w/the stronger person on the back of the rope due to that awkward move on P2 is a good way to expedite the ascent.
The 1 rope descent was pretty straight forward once we determined we were on it. Id recommend paying more attention to the text than the topo on the SuperTopo. You actually ascend all the benches of rock then go left in the gully. Downclimbing looked fine in retrospect but we were cautious and rapped from a nest of slings on shrubbery. We were forced to rap the last bit to the ground since an ice flow blocked our way for the last little bit. This was December and the climbing was pleasant in the sun and frigid in the shade.
By Ben Folsom
Oct 20, 2008
On Oct. 12, 2008 Maura Hahnenberger and I climbed a variation to the right of the first part of Black Orpheus. Surely it has been climbed before, but it is actually a pretty good line and isn't in any books I've seen, so figured I'd post what we climbed.
Begin approx. 150-200 feet right of Black Orpheus. Pitch 1- Climb a loose looking face up into a left facing flake/chimney. Climb the smooth walled chimney and at a good stance, move left and then up a good face to a sloping ledge and belay from good stoppers. 225 feet, 5.8r Pitch 2- Follow weaknesses directly up the face above. Move up and left to a large ledge near the end of the pitch. This pitch was about 15 feet longer than a 70 meter rope, so a tiny bit of simul-climbing was involved. Belay from the large ledge. From here it is easy to walk left to the easier middle pitches of Black Orpheus. 5.8 Pitch 3- Climb a steep, short corner to a left leaning, shallow, black dihedral. Some insecure moves in the dihedral lead to a small roof which is surmounted to easier ground above. Then move left into the leftward traversing pitches of Black Orpheus. 5.9+r. I'll post a photo/topo of the variation that we climbed. We did not see any or leave fixed gear on this climb.
By Sherri Lewis
From: Sequim, WA
Nov 29, 2009
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Count me in with the folks upthread who felt that the last two pitches were, in some ways, harder than the crux. Maybe I was just tired by then, but the sustained lieback on P10 and the heady runouts on the thin, soft edges of P11's face had me going.
After the twin cracks just above the crux on P9, I wasn't sure whether to climb the featured corner on the right or to go straight up the smoother, black face to the left of ledge. The varnished face on the left looked more my style, so I gave it a try. When I groped for what I hoped was a jug at its top, I was suprised to find a flat ledge that I'd need to mantle. I think there was a pocket to latch into in a far corner but my reach wouldn't allow. Exciting times!
The rap descent out of the Painted Bowl(next to Plate of Fate) has experienced recent, significant rockfall. I'm no expert, but it looks dicey around there. Piles of debris and boulders sitting just above the first station.
We did this climb just before Thanksgiving with temps forecast to be in the upper 50's; wore all of our layers(incl. puffy coat and hat) on the first few and last few pitches where we got little or no sun, but were comfy in shirt sleeves for most of it. Extremely windy conditions kicked up as we topped out, making the descent very difficult. We noticed a well-used bivy cave near the first rappel station at the summit...I can see why.
By jpvandever
From: San Francisco, CA
Dec 2, 2009
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
climbed this on saturday of thanksgiving weekend. only one other party on it. left parking at 530 and arrived at base of route around 730. started climbing around 8 and topped out around 2pm. we simul-climbed the middle pitches. from the top we walked down the ramp to a rap station (required a leap to a boulder and scramble down a chimney/gulley). the first rap diagnols down towards the ledge visible from the first rap station. we did three raps with a 60m rope. got back to car around 630 just as the rain started falling.
great day except we returned to our packs in the gulley to find that they had been stolen. hide your packs well!
By Daniel Trugman
From: La Jolla, CA
Jan 1, 2010
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Really fun route with more of a mountaineering feel than the other few routes I've climbed at RR. I thought P2 felt like 5.9 but with good gear when you need it. P5 (as described above) is a truly incredible bit of climbing with everything from airy face climbing to jamming to stemming to chimneying; 5.9 (if you brought doubles of medium sized cams, you brought em for this pitch!). P6 and P7 are very nice as well, I would rate them as 5.9+ and 5.7, respectively.
By Tyler Williams
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Feb 14, 2010
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Did the route Jan 30, 2010. I'd give it 4 stars except the wandering middle pitches. some beta on the descent - we accidentally did the supertopo "upper painted bowl double rope descent" with a single 60m rope and it worked out fine. We stopped at the intermediate anchor and then the third rappel finished at a sort of sub-ledge under a huge overhanging section and did one or two 3rd-4th class moves to get into the bowl proper.
Pitch 8 definitely seemed like the crux to me. Very sustained. The 10a move wasn't too bad at all, just one crank next to good pro. Also, the pitch 10 lieback seemed pretty stiff for 5.6. (pitch numbers refer to the supertopo description)
One of my favorite parts was probably the descent, the water in the creeks was running pretty strong and some of the boulders were coated in snow and ice so it was a good canyoneering-type adventure to get back.
By Tradiban
Mar 16, 2011
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Would have been four stars except for the middle pitches. All other pitches were stellar, especially the 5.6 layback at the top.
The crux was really easy for me at 6ft, a shorter person would have to dead-point to a tight knuckle lock.
Stay right in the 5.7 hand crack directly after the bolted crux, the left cracks in the corner are a sandbag.
Supertopo did nail the one-rope descent description. With two chill single rope raps I don't see why anyone would bother with the two-rope descent. A 70m rope helped on the last rap to get on flatter ground.
I found the middle 5.2-ish pitches to be easily climbed but not very secure considering the poor rock quality and lack of pro. Best to belay for the pitches instead of simul-climb.
By Justin York
From: Phoenix, AZ
Mar 21, 2011
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|This route was so much fun! The approach, middle pitches, and descent made for an adventurous and committing feel to this climb. P8 was the best and most sustained by far. P9 was really fun, and P10 is more like 5.8. P11 was no big deal at all! Great day, highly recommend this route!
By Owen McGrath
Nov 29, 2011
|Did this route on 11/25/11 and really enjoyed it. We followed the 11 pitch description on Supertopo, using the bolted anchors on the first two pitches. We simul-climned 4-7, which went by quickly (never had to catch up and trade gear). Pitch 8 is really the gem of the route with the wild exposure and dihedral stemming moves before moving to chimney moves. While low angle, pitch 10 does keep you breathing with some burly lieback moves. Beautiful topout for lunch and a pretty straightforward descent with three raps on a 60m and some 4th class scrambling. It took us 10 hours car to car. I highly recommend it!
By C Horse
From: Truckee, CA
Dec 9, 2011
|Nice route. A little more adventurous than your standard Urioste route. Almost feels like your in the mountains, except for the sound of crotch rockets screaming through the scenic loop. Grade seems right on although the slab exit from the 5.6 layback feels about three number grades harder. Descent is straight forward if you use all the rap stations you come too. The book gives this as a descent option for the Solar Slab but I imagine the aspiring 5.6 leader may be a bit sketched out on the slabs.
By DaveF Farkas
From: Durango, CO
Jan 5, 2012
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
Just got back from RR with my girlfriend and we did this route. 10 hrs car to car and a spectacular day. Temps were in the 60's, cloudless, and windless!!! Couldn't believe how splitter the weather was. We climbed the route as described in many guides and simul-climbed the middle low angle stuff which greatly benefited to our time management.
Pitches 1-3: straight forward climbing at the correct grades
Pitches 4-7: low angle section and if you simul-climb it, lots of nut and cam placements while you run it out. we set up below the 8th pitch at the cactus ledge down and slightly climber's right of the bolted 5.8 thin section. great belay option. the 5.8R to the bolt is totally positive, juggy, and cruisy.
Pitch 8: in my opinion the most fun. great variety of moves, fun layback to stem to the belay ledge. fits a red cam under the upper roof perfectly to protect the move right to the ledge
Pitch 9: nowhere near 5.10. at 5'9" the moves past the 2 bolts to the juggy ledge were easy and after this the climbing much easier to the belay.
Pitch 10: amazing 5.7 laybacking
Pitch 11: the sandy hollow traverse past 3 bolts to the R section on lower angle slab was a fitting way to end the route. kept the upper section very enjoyable
We used 1 60m rope with 3 raps off the top and found it very straight forward. From there just head right past IBM boulder and you're down although it takes a while.
We left packs on a large slabby boulder in the creek directly below the route and could see them virtually all day. No other climbers in the valley that day.
By monkeyvanya
From: Denver, CO
Jan 14, 2012
I was gently shitting my pants on the last 5.5 slab. Seriously scary and commiting.
Double on BD#0.75 was useful on 5.9 crack pitch.
Made it down with one 70 (50 would do too). 2 short raps to a large ledge to the left of main rap line, then 2 more from left side of the ledge.
Very memorable climb.
By John Wilder
From: Las Vegas, NV
Feb 21, 2012
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
Checked today and confirmed you can do the double rope descent with a single line- even a 60m (which would be close, but you can 4th class off left easily).
I did it with a 70m line, so take that under advisement, but the 70m was casual, and it was about 12-15' longer than I needed for the rap.
By David Stowe
May 4, 2012
|This route made for a really fun day. The approach isn't bad at all, mostly flat walk across the desert until you reach the wash at the mouth of the canyon. The 500 feet or so of 3rd and 4th class slabs leading up to the climb is both fun and a good warm up. We linked the first 3 pitches in two to get to the easy ground linking the lower and upper portions of the route. We found all of the pitches to be fun. Not sure what some of the comments about bad rock or only a few worthwhile pitches are about. We thought that all of the pitches were enjoyable, well protected and pretty much stress free. I didn't find anything on the route to be 10a and if there was any 5.9 it was only a move or two. The 2nd to last pitch, 5.7 layback while taking some effort could not be better protected and the last 5.5 pitch with the runout face is a blast. We climbed with a single 70M so we did the 3 rap descent into the painted bowl and walked off from there. If this climbing is near your limit I can see this route taking time, but if you are solid on 5.9 then this route should go pretty fast. Get on it and have fun.
By Ryan Hoover
Dec 30, 2012
Great route! Crux is easy, the second bolt is unnessacery. I felt the real challenge of the climb landed in the second pitch, maybe that's just me though. After pitch 4 we unroped and traveled up the easy fifth to the pitch 8 belay. The eighth pitch is excellent, along with the twin cracks on 9. The 5.6 lie back is a definite sandbag, but also fun.
If you have the time and patience, we jammed a nut cutting straight up where p4 starts (not recommended), there's a cam and a nut jammed deep in the crack on p8 (to deep for a nut tool), a solid stem at the top of 8, and a rusty #2 camalot on 9 left of the twin cracks. Can't guarantee quality of any besides our nut.
By Kurt Ross
From: Boulder, colorado
Apr 10, 2013
I put this video together from an ascent of this super fun climb:
By Jared Wicks
From: Las Vegas
Oct 29, 2013
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|That was a rad video Kurt... Thanks for sharing.
By Sean
From: Oak Park, CA
Mar 10, 2014
morning shade for P1-P3, sun for the P4-P7 simul and P8, then back into shade cast by the massive dihedral for P9-P11, on Mar 8 with high of 68F
after topping out, we scrambled all the way up to and through the cool little walk-through arch to the big headwall. then down the gully to climber's left, leading to a short chimney that could be downclimbed or rapped. then cairns led us to the two consecutive raps (three raps now if counting the previous chimney rap) as described in the Supertopo guidebook, with that first rap down another short chimney off of a slung block with just slings. the last long rap was just a few steps down, off of a slung tree with sharp cactus at its base. we used one 70 m rope, which was just long enough for that last rap, with about 5 ft to spare. a 60 would work too, touching down onto downclimbable terrain. this one-rope rap descent starts differently than the other Chicken Lips one-rope rap descent option as described in the Handren book and here on MP. the latter would be the quicker option as, after topping out, one wouldn't need to scramble up as high to the little arch, and instead one traverses across a lower shoulder to a first rap off of a bolted rap anchor at the end of a downsloping ramp
By Patrick R. M.
From: Mesa, AZ
Feb 22, 2015
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a PG13
|Dropped iPhone 4S from the top pitch! Likely somewhere along the low 5th class area. I'm sure it's trashed, but if found I wouldn't mind getting it back via a message on here! Sincere thanks!
By Rico Tan
From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 25, 2015
|Love this route!! Don't leave pack at the start. I had to do some sketchy down climbing after retrieving my pack.
By Likeasummerthursday
From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Mar 11, 2015
You are the master of sketchy downclimbing. I'll keep you tight.
By Joe Crawford
From: June Lake, California
Dec 7, 2015
|Really enjoyed this one. I felt that the last two pitches were a sandbag at 5.6 The lieback pitch was 5.7/8, and awesome, maybe the best pitch after the 5.9 8th pitch. The final face pitch had a short section that sure felt 5.8 on pretty hollow flakes. Neither pitch is hard, but they're definitely not 5.6.
By wirednut
Nov 26, 2016
great route! beta in the guidebook is all good. bolted anchors (new, stainless ones) on top of P1, 2, and 10.
but whats with P2? from top of P1, there are 2 bolted anchors, directly under 2 different left facing corners... we climbed the right hand one, had 2 rusty protection bolts on it, was great climbing but in hindsight obviously not the correct one - appears to be better to stay in the left corner. but no mention of that option here, or in the guidebook... odd.
By Paul Hutton
From: Dirtbaggin' western US
Feb 16, 2017
We screwed ourselves when we took our approach packs up the slab system to the first 5.8 pitch. Had to go all the way back up, after the descent, and down climb back to the wash lol! Sufferfest!
I'm seeing a lot of peeps saying the 5.6 layback at pitch 10 was sustained and sandbagged. I loved it! Clipped a bolt, and a buried hex (red?). Only 2 clips into pro. Never stopped to place my own.
At the top of pitch 1, there are two bolted stations. Left station has rap rings. I chose to set up belay on the right station- hangers only. Stay left.


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taylor714 wrote:I have read through that article. I always wondered if innova actually had a chart or something, like in order to throw a speed 12, you need to consistently throw 400 feet or something of that nature, but it appears that they are more grouped into classes as opposed to specific speed ratings vs distances.
kaht wrote:What am I saying.... they'd probably still buy it anyway.
Blake_T wrote:each disc speed rating roughly corresponds to a speed range. exactly what that speed range is depends on the nose down. more nose down = less speed is needed to generate intended flight path X.
as a rule of thumb, to "work" the disc you need to be able to exceed the upper bound of the speed range. if the disc falls below the lower bound of the speed range (given the nose angle) it will begin to fade. this is why OAT happens when players throw discs that are too fast for them. they don't generate enough speed to get the disc to turn naturally and if they don't turn the disc it fades off too much, too early.
you can somewhat offset speed requirement with stability, but there's a term for fast discs that can be thrown for players who don't have enough power... and that term is squirrely.
consistent distance and control is yielded when players are able to generate speeds beyond the upper bound of the disc's cruising speed range. there are some cases where discs have an incredibly high upper bound and a significantly lower lower bound (teebird, roc, wizard come to mind here) and for these discs it's more a matter of being able to go well beyond the lower bound.
i find it's easier to gauge average driving distance than it is to gauge actual flight speeds (although many of my approximations on actual speed are fairly accurate). i've used this to approximate minimum distances needed to get consistent distance from a disc (although this doesn't necessarily reflect "workable" power levels). basically, the ability to turn a disc over from a pured flat throw is the minimum measure that a disc is a good choice imo (with a few exceptions).
drivers that turn at ~250' of power: sidewinder, cheetah, leopard. archangel, etc.
drivers that turn at ~275' of power: gazelle, polaris ls, XL, cyclone, EL
drivers that turn at ~300' of power: JLS, roadrunner, valkyrie, beast, XS, xpress
drivers that turn at ~330' of power: wildcat, rogue, viking, surge ss, avenger ss, TL, orion ls
drivers that turn at ~360' of power: wraith, SL, orc, flash, orion lf, surge
drivers that turn at ~390' of power: destroyer, force, crush
the "ideal" is something you can throw pure that will turn on a flat throw and fly straight with some hyzer on it.
there's only a handful of drivers that are anomolies in that they are fairly straight but need power in the 400'+ range to see any turn. the Teebird (480'+ range), Starfire-X (430-460' range), X2 (460'+ range) would make that list.
drivers that turn at ~330' of power: wildcat, rogue, viking, surge ss, avenger ss, TL, orion ls
I'd say the X Avenger is one of the closer disc to a more stable Viking. I like discs around that speed for distance drivers and the Avenger in X starts off on the overstable side and beats in well and is a great moderatly overstable driver in Z.rusch_bag wrote:How is the viking and what would be a more stable counterpart? I have never thrown one, but this interests me. I was looking at the innova chart and it has the FL at the same speed but more stable which leads me to ask how is the fl?
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Lenovo: The Apple Of China… And Then Some
Lenovo may be unfamiliar to most American consumers, but in China the computer maker is a household brand, as well known and beloved as Apple is here. Maybe more so. Lenovo is ubiquitous in its homeland, with more than 15,000 stores in cities and even the smallest villages. That's almost as many locations as Starbucks has worldwide, nearly twice as many locations as Walmart and roughly 14,700 more stores than Apple has.CS


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(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Feb. 15, 2013) California Lutheran University will present a documentary on rape in the U.S. military and a discussion with a survivor featured in the film in commemoration of International Women's Day.
"The Invisible War," which is nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, will be screened at 7 p.m. Friday, March 8, in the Preus-Brandt Forum. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Allison Gill, a veteran and survivor of military sexual trauma who is featured in the documentary.
Directed by Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick, the documentary investigates the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in 2010.
Gill, who served in the Navy as a nuclear reactor machinist's mate, will speak about her experience and her efforts to stop sexual assaults by male soldiers. She went on to earn a doctorate in health administration and currently works at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She was nominated for San Diego Woman of the Year for her work with female veterans and women's health at the VA.
"The Invisible War" won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best Feature by the International Documentary Association and as the Independent Spirit Award Best Documentary. For 2012, Time named it one of the Top 10 Best Movies and the National Board of Review included it on its list of the Five Best Documentaries.
After its premiere, the film circulated through the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Obama administration. Two days after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta watched the film, he directed military commanders to hand over all sexual assault investigations to a higher-ranking colonel. At the same time, he announced that each branch of the armed forces would establish a Special Victims Unit.
International Women's Day was first celebrated by the United Nations in 1975 and is now celebrated around the world each year.
Preus-Brandt Forum is located south of Olsen Road between Mountclef Boulevard and Campus Drive on the Thousand Oaks campus.
CLU's Gender and Women's Studies Program and Center for Equality and Justice and the Thousand Oaks Branch of the American Association of University Women are sponsoring the free event. For more information, contact Akiko Yasuike at 805-493-3565 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A few new drives with my spiffy new camera, this time actual drives instead of midrange shots. Please be so kind as to let me know what you think!
They're a bunch of .MOV files, so you quicktime dudes can frame by frame 'em.
heh.. MAN was I rockin' the farmer's tan in the ones where I'm wearing a t-shirt!


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Quiroz quickly forging bond with Giants pitchers
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- If experience is the best teacher, then Giants catcher Guillermo Quiroz should have a Masters degree in baseball.
Quiroz, 31, has played professionally since 1999, less than a year after Toronto signed him as a non-drafted free agent. He has played for five Major League teams, including two stints with Seattle. Since reaching the Majors with Toronto in 2004, Quiroz has hit .206 in 103 Major League appearances.
Quiroz's knack for bonding quickly with pitchers has enabled him to remain employed, though he has almost always been a backup catcher, even in the Minors.
"From Day 1, you start creating that relationship," Quiroz said on Saturday. "If you're behind the plate, they want to be able to trust what [signs] you put down."
Playing for Lara in the Venezuelan Winter League last offseason, Quiroz got the attention of Giants hitting coach Hensley Meulens, who managed the league's Margarita club. The Giants needed veteran catching depth after dropping Eli Whiteside early in the offseason. Quiroz filled the void by signing with the Giants on Nov. 20.
He will probably will begin the season with Triple-A Fresno. But if Quiroz receives a promotion at some juncture -- Hector Sanchez's shoulder woes could create an opening -- he knows he'll feel comfortable with the Giants.
"It's a great group of guys," he said. "They're humble, they have great chemistry and it feels great to be part of this team."
Left-handed pitcher Madison Bumgarner implied that Quiroz's presence has been more than welcome.
"He's smart. He knows the game, knows how to catch," Bumgarner said. "It's tough right now because we're doing stuff you wouldn't ordinarily do during the season. But I like throwing to him."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.