Retrosaurus

A 4500 ci haul bag could never hold enough malted beverages for summer climbing. And what about the ice? For Christ's sakes get a grip. What are you guys thinking about?

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: The Sausage King Keep your mouth away from my sausage Borbon.

quote: Originally posted by freeclimb9: ...Passing someone without their consent isn't really possible on Crimson Chrysalis. Bullshit. Six years ago my pregnant wife and I passed a party of three on the crux of Outerspace. We did not even ask. All we said was "Hi" as we climbed through. Did not need to clip their pro. Any one bumbling along that slowly I would not trust their gear anyway. Erik is right on. Climbing courtesy extends only so far. I am not going to get benighted because of some goober. On a trip to the Bugs my partner and I climbed that ultracool classic ridge on Bugaboo Spire. We got the early start from the hut but then screwed up the approach and ended up on 5th class talus. Scrambling to recover our place at the head of the pack. We ended up at the base with three other parties on the route ahead of us and another from New York at the base. The Yorkies, seeing that we were rushing, says "You might as well take your time and enjoy the route. There are several parties ahead of us too." We hurriedly roped up and simul-climbed eight pitches, catching the last party just below the summit and deciding to follow them because they had climbed the (descent route) Kain Route the day before. (I hate stressing about descents.) We were back in the hut eating dinner at 5pm. The next day the New Yorkers found us and apologized to us!. "Man, you were right. We got back at 3am."

Of course you can. Tell us how well the knot holds. If we don't hear from you within two months, I will contact you with my ouiji board.

quote: Originally posted by Recriminator: (1)your the only one doing the regulateing, you crag police or what?? (2)Hey sunshine wall is a climbing area, it can be crowded but it's cool, (3)except when a bolt chop'in, hanger remove'in, noze in the air asshole shows up bitch'in about bolted routes. (4)That would be mitch the bitch better known as retro-ball-less KISS IT (1)Do you have your parking permit?Do you camp only where you are told you can?You don't drive on the dirt roads in the coulees?Do you build fires?Do you restrain your bowels until you can get to the lone, trashed, portable toilet?Do you read the bulletin board to keep abreast of the latest regulations du jour?Do you follow the recommendations of the Frenchman Coulee Climber's Coalition? The Coulee has enough "Crag Police" without me. (2)Sunshine Wall was cool when:*it was not crowded,*there was not a trail,*the only guide book was verbal history passed from climber to climber,*all routes ended at the top,*you could clear the loose rock from a new route without whining from gym climbers 100 yards away because they were scared when they heard rockfall,*bolts were not placed within arms reach of a protectable crack,*you could not clip three bolds from one stance,*you could turn over a rock without finding a papered pile of human excrement,*you could build a fire at the base of a route to warm your hands on a cold winter day. Sunshine Wall is a shadow of what it was. If it is still cool because it is OK to be crowded because "it's a climbing area" then,so is Vertical World;and they have flush toilets.Recriminator has obviously been desensitized by too much time in that festering shithole of humanity on the wet side of the state. (3)I chopped half of the bolts on one route there. They grew back bigger. I hammered the hangers flat. A sport climber bent them back and they are still clipping the same hangers like the true lemmings that most of them are. I gave up on that cause. I shouldn't have. At that time it could possibly have made a difference. I have never stolen hangers. I installed two of the chain rappel anchors that were stolen, the one just right of "Party In Your Pants" and the one three cracks right of "Boschido". I prefer to make my statements by the routes I establish and the style in which I climb. (4)retro-ball-less?Recriminator, people that know me know better. Why don't you step out from behind your avatar and put your record up beside mine. (5)Thanks guys. MaxSzy...Kevin

I know a guy who has often top-roped solo by rigging an ascender wall-hauler style at the top of the cliff with the climbing end of the rope counter-balanced so that the counter-weight pulls the climbing rope up and through the ascender as he climbs. His system seems somewhat safer than wearing the ascender. He's still alive.

quote: Originally posted by avypoodle: Erik, your jealousy has gotten the best of you. How can you mistake "an overwhelming sense of revulsion" for "jealousy"?

And doesn't daylight savings time start this weekend? = extra after work pitches.

quote: Originally posted by Bug: Sad as it is, humans tend to deficate in their own cages and turn on each other quickly. ... and then Bugs flourish on their excrement and their rotting flesh. Sounds just like vantage to me, except they cart off the carcasses too quickly. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to be a bug. At least there is still the excrement. [ 04-04-2002: Message edited by: Retrosaurus ]

The power drill and the fools driving them have made a travesty of climbing at The Coulee. They are the only reason that the place is regulated now.

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: I got big gear. Maybe that is what she told you,but that is not what she told everyone else.

quote: Originally posted by Szyjakowski: you are so gay jtree was fannnnnnnnntasticnow in the bay area going bouldering at castle rock of all places Hey Jakoffski,I was not the one in the bay area grabbing somebody's boulders. Did they moan when you pulled on them?

A 2nd vote for Rat Creek. I recall one especially memorable section of bus-size talus with the floor between the blocks covered with devil's club and slide alder sweeping over the tops.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Duzzn't the rubber have to be lubed before you get it goin on your tool? If you're a caveman, "dry-tooling" means "dry".

OK then. It's 5.10.

quote: Originally posted by northfork: Got a problem with folks and helmets? Were they latex helmets?Were any of the names on the helmets "DICK"?

quote: Originally posted by chucK: Anybody climbed Lingerie? That's rated 11d or something did not seem too bad (on toprope) if you just stemmed out to Sex Party the whole time. That is exactly the case. If you stem to Sex Party at all then you have not climbed Lingerie. And likewise, the crux is at the start and is very difficult to hang on and place pro well enough to keep yourself off the deck. Lead Lingerie without stemming to the climb left of it and you will have no doubt that it is all of 5.11d.

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: I swear that I thought the MTRS were gonna bivy on Midway once If they do they'll be ok cuz they alway have that ENORMOUS PACK with 79 essentials; condoms and everything.

quote: Originally posted by rayborbon: I free soloed Britney Spears Twice!! It was free and you only did it twice?!

quote: Originally posted by telemarker: I've climbed with a guy whose rack consisted of 17 cams, all mismatched because 16 of them were what he's found over the years. Hey,I know that bonehead.

quote: Originally posted by kevin page: It's been snowing here in Leav every day since at least monday. Everything is buried and probably won't get back to climbable conditions for at least a week or two. Kevin, You have a keen grasp of the obvious.

quote: Originally posted by Jarred Jackman: Don't know how cold you like it, but Vantage was 26 degrees cold yesterday. I was out there the day before and climbed "Corner Pockets" with my five-year old. Buck up.

Ray,Guiness from a can? You are a degenerate. Free,I will chill on the name calling. But realize that I am here primarily for the entertainment value. Hitching nylon onto wire is still stupid, for reasons obvious to "almost" everyone. And hitching nylon to nylon (or other runners with even lower melting points)when there is a possibility of whipping hard is only slightly less stupid. I think that was constructive. Can I go back to name calling now? I'm bored with this thread now and so is everyone else. [ 03-20-2002: Message edited by: Retrosaurus ]

Gues this means Eric wins.

quote: Originally posted by freeclimb9: I'm a professional big game a lemming