wdietsch

FYI..... currently going for $41.00, the auction ends in just under two hours. No it is not mine however I do own one and this is a GREAT deal http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1806993845 [ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: wdietsch ]

Gene, are you maybe thinking about "Cloudwalker" by Jeff Lowe?

opps

Bronco, Any idea what size boot they have been set for? I might be interested. I wear a 11-1/2

Checking out the thread on the MSR snowshoe recall I went to the MSR site. I Figured what the hell thru the years I have bought a fair amont of their stuff (stoves, biners, pickets, cooksets)and I am interested in their snowshoes, let's check out the site and see "wassup" especially since the sell/buy between REI and Cascade Designs. Did I miss something here? When the @#$% did they start making/selling tents? What's up with this $370 "Titanium Dioxide" 2 pole rainfly gizmo. I feel like Rip Van Winkle or something. When did all this shit happen?

Alex is correct. Donations to non profit's including things such as mileage to and from non-profit activites such as fund raising add up over a year's time... take what you can cause if you don't the man will

Hey Zee, If you are still looking, here is a pair of straight shaft BP's for $150.00. Hell of a deal http://www.geartrade.com/browse/101/768/57/item/18469

Just happened to stumble on to this today. http://www.gearshark.com/

when you drop them off make sure you get a little slip from the attendant that lists what you are donating (i.e. 3 pairs ski boots, 3 pairs skis) and when you do your taxes next year you get to estimate what they are worth as a charitable donation

Hey Dru - get your self a pair of these http://www.northernmountain.com/tocs/climbing.html

you can always donate them to the Goodwill or Salvation Army and write them of on your taxes

Other than Hubba Hubba does anyone know if anything else in the canyon has come back in, say in the last week?

Hey Erik I got some cheese for ya, some "Fumunda" cheese, cheese fumunda my balls or wait I also have a nice wedge of "Fumouda" cheese for ya, cheese "Fumouda" my arse.

here are a couple straight shaft BP's hammers with stinger picks, leashes and extra alaska picks http://www.mec.ca/Apps/gearSwap/gearSwapDetail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=116103&catCode=clim&Id=14168 At about $220 USD this is a great deal if they are still there

FYI ... for all you 'Roid users out there http://www.bdel.com/alpinism/icetools_android_replace.html I just love it, BD calls it a "Component Replacement". It's a fucking recall!

not quite what you are looking for but I tought I would pass it on... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1802161912

For general mountaineering you may even want to consider something like the G10's

not really found in the mountains but in a now closed practice outside Yakima named "Painted Rocks" me and a buddy found a small bag of weed along with a little medalian of the Bagwan Rhasnish (sp?) stuffed in a pocket on the lower wall. lightem' up......

Me as a punk ass on the way to do Shuksan via Fischer Chimneys in about '84 Some buddies and I on the Inter glacier headed down from Shurman Goats in the Tatoosh with Rainier in the background Mount Blanc and Mount Blanc du Tacul Climbing on the Aiguille d'Argentiere Argentiere Hut with le Tour Noir in backgrond A buddy of mine in the Gervasutti Couloir,Mount Blanc du Tacul Same buddy on Le Chapeau de Gendarme The North Face of the Barre des Ecrins Aiguilles Rouge du Dolent and Mont Dolent from Argentiere hut Climbing on the Glacier des Violettes, Mount Pelvoux in the Ecrins St Helens, post eruption Aerial shot looking south of Rainier, Adams, St Helens and Hood Some buddies and me on Old Snowy in a white out Rafting the Tieton with my daughter and some of her friends my kids

rbw1966, Carrying ascenders - One part of my answer would depend on which route you are taking. If you are going up the Hogsback's or the Leuthold on Hood, for me at least I see no real need. If I am crossing the upper Nisqually or the Carbon, yes.Have you ever pulled 200+ pounds of climber out of a crevasse with prusiks? Have you every tried to work prusiks in the dead of winter with gloves or mittens on? I have more than once and personnaly choose to never do it again, that is do the job with prusiks.To me it is part of the speed/safety issue. The last time I was involved in such an "extraction" my buddy, dangling on the other end was useless due to a nice gash in his forearm recieved from the pick of his axe as he fell. He ended up loosing a fair amount of blood. The weather sucked and freezing prusik knots would definatly taken us much longer to pull his sorry ass out.No doubt they (ascenders) are heavy, the set of Petzl's I have with 6mm stirrups weight .4 lbs, a heefty sum. Not to promote Petzl but the Tibloc weight 39 grams, less than most caribiners. Have you ever carried more carabiners on a climb than you really needed?Even with the heavier ascenders I can still keep my total pack weight under 40 lbs.

philfort, thats...thats just .... thats just fucking gross!!

Ohhh... and what style

Erik, What's your Chevy have to say about that?

thanks zenolith

He's probably sitting back having more fun watching us watch him