num1mc

RETRO CHESTBEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At what point did you suffer permanent brain dammage???

Billygoat, I'm not attempting to justify anything. The ethics I grew up with are that if you leave gear on a route you lose it to whoever can retrieve it. I've lost gear by this rule, and I've worked at unsticking left behind cams only to give up in the end. In this case I scored and got a cam. I agree that the, "other num1mc's," post where he googled some other Matt M with an alchoholic wife is a bit over the top (though funny). My only reason for posting is that Matt's partner failed to come clean about what happened to the cam. Matt deserves to know that his partner wasn't honest with him, so that he can either confront him/her and or choose not to climb with him/her in the future.

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Fender4 and Matt M, My buddy made the first post here, but I'm the guy with Matt M's cam. I don't believe the first post here is obnoxious at all. Matt went climbing with a partner who due to their newbie status was unable to pull a piece of gear at the overhang on catapult. What they did was pull everything they could; that being the quickdraw and all carabiners. When I found the piece it was a lone #1 camalot which I pulled with one hand and a little jiggling while on lead. Apparently when ask about the piece of gear they made up some story about how they didn't know where the piece of gear went. I've been climbing a while. The rules of the game as I learned them is that if you don't pull your gear it's booty to the next party who climbs the route. We didn't have none of this internet forum lost and found bullshit back in the day, but never the less if you leave gear it's free to anyone who can retrieve it. You wont see me in this forum crying about gear I couldn't retrieve. Matt M, I've left gear behind too, so I'm part of the karmic cycle or whatever hippy dippy shit you want to spout. The fact is that you could have gone back to get your gear if your partner had come clean with the facts right away. What happened is that your partner lied to you when questioned. Here are my suggestions: 1) If your partner is a guy; then scream at him and or beat the shit out of him. 2) If your partner is a women you're trying to screw (or your girlfriend ) file this information away; obviously she is someone who will lie when convienient. 3) If your partner is your wife... you poor sorry bastard

It was in the crack, with a caribiner hanging from it. Your partner just left it. Beat the shit out of your partner. My pal has it. I would say "a fool and his climbing shit are soon parted".

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I think it's a good story, but possibly a little fictional. A real wall climber would relish the stench.

Has anyone have any info? How about some good hikes and hotsprings in the same area?

I think W is very very wrong about blowing off the court date. If you contest the ticket, and do not reach an agreement with the prosectuter, you must appear in court. The judge may agree that it is an unenforceable law, but he will take a dim view of any defendant who does not appear in his court. A failure to appear will result.

People should be aware that Marlene (Yoders girlfriend) has swung leads up probably fifteen El Cap routes, including the NA. I am also unaware that she ever broke her ankle climbing.

I would like to try to 'rassle this doggy back to the original subject. Freak, while I don't really boulder anymore, I cannot see anything bad with writing a bouldering guidebook. But I do think that if you attempt to include first ascent info, your errors and omissions will be huge. I think that many who claim recent first bouldering ascents do so because they feel that the "new" problem is either too hard to have been done previously, or so obscure that no one could have possibly been there before. This I think is wrong. Levenworth has seen many very talented and far ranging boulderers, whose trace time has faded. First the locals. Of course this includes Lee Cunningham and JY, but also Gordon, Mike Crosswaite, Paul Cook, the McNerthneys and others. These guys could boulder (especially Lee and Jim), and weren't afraid of a hike. Then there were the talented Sea-town dudes. John Nelson, Craig Olson, Monte Westlund, and Rick Graham were especially talented, and were doing very hard routes twenty years ago. As far as masters of obscurity, the late Dave Anderson was the equal of Eric Zieche. And lastly, I don't know if people remember how good Eric Thixton and Russ Erickson were. I climbed a ton with Russel, and he could hang on anything for ever. In 1980, he almost top roped City Park free. Russ was a pure climber, and could spend hours by himself hiking to and working on a henous problem, which he would probably refuse to rate. I still smile when I remember Russ pointing way above and to the side of Midnight, and telling me all about the great problems he did up there. So Freak, go ahead and write your book, but don't try to include historical data, because you'll probably be wrong.

I went to Western Optical a number of years ago, and had them make extra dark lenses for their round "glacier" frames. They are rather dorky looking in a retro kind of way, but were reasonably priced and have side shields. They have served me well in Alaska and the Himalaya. This is a simple and local alternative.

Howdy, With only eight or nine days, you will be hard pressed to even hike to the Solo Khumbu/Kala Patar/Everest Base camp, much less climb a trekking peak. I would foget about any climbing, and try to fly to Lukla. From there start trekking towards Namche, and then either Goykho (sp) or Kala Patar. Go slowly and see how the altitude feels. Or else try some jungle trekking or hiking lower and closer to Katmandu.

For the most part this year has been short on Drury epics and lond on success. Here is a short and incomplete history. 1980 R. "Ten" Gram falls into Drury Falls 1980 John Stoddard, his pack, and his snow shoes fall thru the ice on Jolanda Lake 1982 Dan M falls thru Drury 1987 Cockroach and Jackson get drunk, canoe across river, get feet wet, return to car (no extra socks!), cross river third time, capsize, sink,etc. Their fourth trip across the river was by wading in the dark. A local saw them changing in the bathroom of Crystals and said "We have a word for people like you - Dumbshits!" 1988 Dean and Lee climb Drury in one day, although it takes Dean three days of partying to recover 1988 Cockroach and this author climb Drury, but spend the night on top with no bivy gear. 1988 Doug Klewin is half way across the ice bridge when it breaks, sweeping Doug several hundred feet down stream. This points out that Doug is lucky, and the Cockroach is one stupid MF'er.

Retro: Most stuff that is visible from the road has probably been visited before, but remember, the rock Jedi thinks he climbed just about everything in the 70's, whether or not he actually did.

No, I'm right.

High climb: Learn how to spell, and use proper punctuation please!

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