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Can't you guys start your own damn thread about pants and leave this one alone

What about Raven's Castle? I guess it's not multipitch, but it's got some exposure . Aren't there good 5.7 trad and bolted pitches up there? I know I'm falling into that old trap of upping the requested grade, but hell it's Squamish, 5.7 = ~ 5.4 elsewhere . And Calculus Crack is climber's left of St. Vitus. That would be my first recommendation if you can pull on gear at the 5.8 place (i dunno, never done it). If you're novice climbers though beware that Calculus Crack could end up being quite the epic for you. It's: 1. at your limit, 2. long, 3. crowded, 4. sorta tricky to find the descent. But you probably won't die, and it'd be a hell of an adventure. Get an early start and a bring a headlamp!

How many IED did that picture create? How many RPG's did that picture buy? A whole lot more than the act prevented I'll bet. This kinda shit happens in wars. It's not surprising and it's not particularly repugnant considering the people perpetrating this shit are up to their eyeballs in death, pestilence, fear and suffering 24/7 over there right now. War sucks. It didn't work out as easily and cleanly as they implied it would. Who'd a thunk it . Impeach Bush

Don't you go down to go up high plains drifter?

Holy shit! I had no idea I was brushing shoulders with greatness all weekend!

I think creatinine (stuff in urine) and creatine (body-builder stuff) are different things.

Here's one to break up all the ski pics Uncle Tricky gearin' for the crux and another skiin' one

What do you mean by "evening"? With an extra four miles on the road, you're talking about 3-6 hours to the lake probably. But you're officially not supposed to camp at the lake anyway. With all the snow around you can probably camp just about anywhere along the way. Right at the pass would be pretty darn scenic. The drive is about 2.5 hours. I think you're going to be hard-pressed to find anything "alpine" that does not require stomping through a lot of snow right now.

We went up looking for Claus Von Bulow etc... last year and I think we saw the Jap. Gardens pitch you're talking about. It looked (like it used to be) sweet. Claus Von Bulow... is pretty ugly looking too, with an exposed belay station below with terrible-looking bolts. End Run looked pretty good, Free Cat did appear to get a scrubbing, and Steel Pulse (excellent yet scary) got a nice refurbishment. Go climb that one! Do your part to keep it clean!

OK, how about this one? You've been climbing at Index (upper wall) all day and it's really freakin' hot, and your water ran out about 6 pitches ago and you're drier than a [insert your amusingly exagerated stereotype of a negatively aroused housewife here], and you get back to the bitchin 4WD truck, and all you've got is 4 ice-cold beers? Unfortunately, you've used blue ice as a coolant, so there is no ice-melt water. Only beer, refreshing beer..... what do you do? ?

I like that hat. I do like that hat. A splendid party hat!

Perhaps you are not in the position to be requesting perks, but if you could I'd broach the subject of just working a 2-3 day week with longer hours. Say you wanna do your part to keep cars off the road or something.

Matt's probably right that you don't need a 4WD, but it sure is nice, sometimes. It costs a LOT more, price, maintenance, gas mileage. But it is nice not to have to nurse your car up 20 miles of bumpy road at 8mph when you wanna get out and go climbing. Driving a 4WD up the Middle Fork Road can be a gas. It feels like you're in some rally race and you're only driving 20mph! And I've probably driven to 5 or 10 spots in the last 10 years or so, to where with an inferior vehicle, I would have been walking. I've also had to walk 5 or so roads in the last 10 years because we brought someone else's (inferior) vehicle. So anyway, a 4WD is a luxury. If you can afford it, go for it. Definitely get front wheel drive at a minimum though. And, though the clearance is nice, 2WD rear wheel-drive pickup trucks can get real squirrely on bumpy backcountry roads. You'll have to creep everywhere and risk torching your clutch with one of those.

We act a lot younger than those putzes on RC.com though! You're only as old as you feel

I like Iain's answer. I guess that would be the only possibility. Once I got up a couple of feet I'd probably be wrapping the short end (if I could figure out which one was the short end in that desperate situation) around my arm. Obviously a leg wrap would be better but you wouldn't need to climb as far up to get the arm wrap. OUch that would hurt, and you'd probably end up dying anyway. So here's a little thing to think about. Noone probably ever does this, but just in case you're wondering why... A while back a partner of mine was using a D biner for his rappel biner. Because of the asymetric notch, it was pulling on one rope way more than the other and causing it to run through the rap anchor at an alarming rate. Lucky for him/us a) we weren't rapping from a sling, and b) that I was at the anchor and able to grab the knot to stop the rope from running. Oh, and as for CBS's intial query. I'd just prussik up the damn ropes until I got to a no-hands rest, or a place I could anchor. If it meant prussiking to the top, so be it. Better than dinking around with an unpracticed method of self-rescue right near the end of the damn rope Prussiking just isn't that difficult.

I just checked out last Saturday's playlists from 9-11pm. That ain't no '87 punk, it looked like techno . '87 punk I'll be loving it when it becomes "classic rock".

These fags would be eaten alive at a DRI show

I wanna ski up to the base of something. Climb it. Then ski back down. That's what I wanna do. I am new to BC skiing. Is this feasible, or is the window of good-skiing snow too small to accomplish a climb too?

"Too many rats and not enough cheese is the basic problem"

Looks like he might be climbing Lingerie Party 5.7+

What's up with a "no stemming" rating for Lingerie? Makes it seem like a boulder problem or a gym climb. It's probably ten something if you rate in the standard fashion, without any fine print (top-rope assessment only there ).

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It's tough to make a cogent argument about something relatively normal by using an extreme example. Fightin' for fun is not the same as dismembering someone and eating them. And don't tell me that beating each other up at a hardcore show is extreme. People been beating each other for fun for a long time. Fact just this last weekend I watched a little boxing on the tube. First one to knock the other senseless wins! Watch an episode of Bonanza or Star Trek (the original), each episode had an obligatory fistfight. I went to a lot of shows back when they actually called it slamming. We were out in the pit for fun (it wasn't the head crackin' that Doolittle is glorifying, but I didn't attend many shows back East, nor did I go to metal shows). I thought it was way cool how if someone got knocked down, people would pull 'em back up, or at least protect them from getting piled on. As Doolittle said, "The Code." I always thought there was a little bit of a "opportunity in America" analogy going on in there at those shows. Basically, if you really wanted to get a good close-up view of the band, you could. No need to stand in line, be there first, follow any contrived rules. You just had to work hard. Pay your dues, take your lumps, sweat, and you could forge to the front and stay there as long as you were able. And to top off this brilliant analogy, if someone were disadvantaged (small, female, no aerobic endurance) then this opportunity didn't apply. They were just screwed.

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