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That brown gully-system above the spindly tree in the foreground right is where AlpineK and I witnessed spontaneous (?) massive rockfall. Just in case anybody wants to know.

How often do you guys replace your rap/belay biners? Those things seem to get a groove worn in 'em fairly quickly.

from Retro: a cool way to equalize two bolts using a single tie-in rope from The Sloop: 2 32 oz beers is closer to 6 regular-size beers than 4

MOUNTIE! DIRTY MOUNTIE!!! I've seen you and your staggering ilk, crushed under bizzarely huge packs, exhausted, soaked to the bone from sweating all day under your Penta-ply goretex, and, most offensively, with your gaiters tangled uselessly around your ankles, sideways, tripping over your broken home-made stirrups, covered in pine needles. YOU SUCK!!

Those battries gonna get hung up in the chimblies.

Nope! Cool people are hanging out here .

He's ropegunning GregW up the the Dolphin Chimney...either that or the Beckey Route on LB.

Sounds cool bro. We can talk about me in the "Smack Chuck in the Head at Pub Club" and talk about you in the "SMARTER THAN THIS GUY FORUM"

I think a popular forum here would be a MAKE FUN OF NEWBIES FORUM . Only problem is, that might be confused with the already existing NEWBIES FORUM so maybe we could call it the " SMARTER THAN THIS GUY FORUM ". Then we could also use this space for trashing on accident victims.

Well SHIT!!! Isn't anyone bringing any guns!!??!

hey dbb, what/where is "voodoo doll"?

There is an easy way to do that move onto the ledge. I discovered it last spring with Mattp. I wouldn't want to ruin everyone's fun by posting the blow by blow on the internet though By the way, it cannot be that secret as the key hold was very well chalked.

He's one of the folks that assoiates alpine climbing as "shitty". That route did have an alpine feel, however. So what made you associate it with "alpine"? I did it. The only thing I can think of is the aforementioned stretches of easy brushiness, and I guess also the fact that the canyon up there feels pretty wild. Also, I guess there weren't any bolts (besides one shitty one).

He/she wasn't too thrilled about the battery thing?

How about the Black Flag classic You bet that I've got something personal against you

The Urioste guide (Red Rocks) describes the Frigid Aire Buttress route as having an Alpine Feel. Perhaps in his mind it means discontinuous climbing (steep parts then less steep bushy parts)? Is Crap Crags that huge chimney system that you walk over right at the end (right side) of the Bellygood traverse? That looks Alpine . Has Fern (or anybody reading this) done that one? Looks adventurous!

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Not quite Speaking of water pu[t]rification, a couple weeks back I was at the surplus store and they told me the Army no longer uses iodine, but Chlor-Floc tablets. They looked real handy as they came in little foil packets so you didn't even have to carry that (dinky) heavy glass bottle. What they do is Chlorinate and Floculate (?). The Floc part is some agent that makes all the sediment in the water bind together which can then be filtered out with something more crude than a special water filter (the box says to use flannel). So I tried 'em. I put the little tab in my bottle and shook it up and it got all full of milky white sediment. I filtered it out using my t-shirt. The t-shirt got all gummed up and I had to use two different parts of my shirt to filter out 20 oz of water. My t-shirt got patches of slimy off-white goo on it. The water still was cloudy, but I didn't feel like running it through my shirt again. I drank it. It tasted like pool water. Yech. Chlor-Floc tabs

Yes. It is such a pain to have to boot them all up when going through the airport security

Hey Gary, On the surface your Triumph plan sounds quite logical....except for one little thing. You chug a litre of water at the lake then guess what? Whether it's in a bottle, purifying with iodine, or it's in your stomach... YOU ARE STILL CARRYING THE WATER UP TO THE COL!!! I do not believe that stomach linings counteract gravity.

oh yeah. duh

And what about no cell-phones in hospitals? Is that all just a fear-mongering thing also? Is it just to force people to use the hospital phones . The whole no electronics on airplanes is crazy and scary. It's either one thing or the other, both scary. Either 1) They really have no idea why the planes malfunction and crash and kill everyone, so they just make some wild-ass guess and prohibit something to give the illusion that they are actually in control 2) Planes actually are so fragile that Gameboys could send them plummeting into the tarmac!! That is the most scary . Maybe the next terroristas can just bring about 10 gameboys and a couple of calculator watches onto the plane (not prohibited) and then threaten to turn them ALL ON AT ONCE .

What about those heroes that brought down the 9/11 flight in PA? The standard lore is that they called their SO's on cell-phones and found out what was happening and thus sacrificed themselves for the good of whomever those terrorists were planning on flying them into. How were they able to have those conversations? Or is it all a myth like the Jessica Lynch thing?

He's been busy!

Me too. I have to work.