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The DK's reformed? Is Biafra signin' for them or Dan Larson? Dan's punk name could be "Dan Sucks." We all know who got post#1 on which page but who got post #420 on this thread?

quote: Originally posted by snowman: Does anybody know of some practice cliffs near Everett? Something with 5.7 or 5.8 toprope stuff, or low 5's that are easy to protect. Index

quote: Originally posted by Terminal Gravity: oops! How do you import a photo you gotta upload it to a website then link to the URL of that site with the tags.

Eve Dearborn Memorial. I better not see any godamn Mountaineers top-roping that one when i show up!

quote: Originally posted by goatboy: On the lighter side: Another good one is to put beer into one of the small streams crossing the snow creek trail as you hike up to the wall, then get your beers on the way out, ice cold!!! So good. So... my next bit of advice is "Look for free beer in every creek along the Snow Creek trail".

"Mt. Analogue, A Symbolic adventure in non-Euclidean mountaineering" - by Rene Daumal. "Vortex" by David Harris. "The Longest Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz. "Climbers" by M. John Harrison "Green Mars" (novella) and "Escape From Kathmandu" (linked short story collection) by Kim Stanley Robinson. "Everest - the Mightiest Hump" by Tami Knight "The Unknown Mountain" - Don Munday "Killing Dragons" - Fergus Fleming "Angels of Light" -Jeff ("NOT JOHN") Long "Mixed Emotions" and "Thin Air" - Greg Child. "Touching the Void" and "This Game of Ghosts" -Joe Simpson "No Picnic on Mt Kenya" - Felipe Benuzzi "Against The Wall" -Simon Yates "Deep Play" - Paul Pritchard No offense but those wooden accounts of 1950's explorers seiging up mountains, or exen worse romanticised accounts of Tibetan and Nepalese life c. 1932, leave me bored, so I have offered some non-traditional alternatives to the ones others have proposed.

quote: Originally posted by galssuncog: We're just about straying to spray here, folks. what's so bad about that? I've been checking the board daily for news about Jim, and find today that the posts have strayed ... well, I don't know where exactly we've strayed but it has been a natural evolution , but is there any news about Jim? I heard rumors that he was being tranferred to the UW, but then nothing. Hover on sombrero! [ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by chris_w: On the grand this past summer I saw girl that was carrying down slippers for the belays. The rock\air was cold so she would put them on over her rock shoes while belaying. Then packed them while climbing. I haven't tried it, but I wish I had them on that climb. I will try it the next really cold rock climb I do. shake n heat pads in the chalkbag as noted under the red rox thread. take 1 down jacket per 2 persons. swap em at belays. if climbing chimney with a pack, hang pack off your harness with daisy chain and get it out of the way of your back. black lycra makes your muscles look bigger

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: You mean it's not? Trippaaaaayyyy New thread: hypnotism in Muir Hut. "I don't know how I got up there or where my wallet went, but I got this nifty blue souvenir sack. I wonder what's inside" posts smoke'teryx. Doob_Larson replies "that's some good shit in there!" mookadam tells them they're both gapers and AlpineX is lost in a cloud of smoke.

it would be better if it moved...

quote: Originally posted by Crackfiendcarla: The Boeing Alpine Society basic class schedule:March 16/17 St Edwards ParkMarch 23/24 Mt ErieApril 6/7 Steven's PassApril 13/14 Snoqualmie/Commonwealth BasinApril 20/21 & 27/28 Devil's PeakMay 4/5 LeavenworthMay 11/12 TatooshMay 18/19 Nisqually GlacierJune 1/2 & 8/9 Mt Baker 70 students this year, so quite a crowd. Quit picking on the classes. We've all got to learn somehow. how can you learn in a swarm environment? you must have a really high wait to climb ratio.

quote: Originally posted by bobinc: Dru -- what was the Grit Roof like? We climbed on the other side of that formation one day and looked at the Roof on the way out. its easy up to the roof, then about 8 feet of hand jamming. you swing body around and heel hook a flake over the lip, then get a hand over and rock up on the heel, then make a few OW moves up to the top. i couldnt pull the lip and dangled in space until i was lowered. of course i had just sprained my ankle falling off the start of Diamond Dogs, so... ( I got back on that one and sent it before taping up the ankle hence the huge swelling by the time i was on GR). still it isnt really a foot climb but mostly arm strength going out the roof. i got some good shots that were never scanned of it. i gotta go back and do that one!

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: The day after a soaker summer thunderstorm or early season snowstorm rolls in, pack the packs and head for your closest super-classic trad climb. Once the rain/snow abates, get on the route and collect the booty. This works especially well on the longer easy Valley climbs. Four cams, eight nuts, and 15 biners in 12 pitches on Manure Pile one day. No giving out the good secrets like that one!!!! Next thing people will be giving away the locations of secret free bivvy suites

pinched rib is more like 9+ than 10b and in fact is listed as 9+ in photos of it in climbing mag. one move wonder but fun. i would personally recommend checking out the DQ Wall for some sandbags. only time I ever fell on a 5.7. and the hardest roof crack i've ever tried - Grit Roof 10c at Hall of Horrors.

4:20 comes at 3:56 today. bye.

leeper z stacks in the lock arm are really useful for opening locked gates with. or you could just use a crowbar. if you can infallibly catch the end of a rope when you pull it through the anchor, you MIGHT get lucky one day. or maybe not. if you can buy headlamp batteries for $4 CDN at MEC and they sell for $8 US in California, a case can get you a long way on a road trip. if worse comes to worse, you can catch birds with a fishing line, hook and bread crumbs.

quote: Originally posted by sayjay: I dunno bout that... trad climbers are just inately more sexy than sport climbers, no matter how ripped. that cause trad climbers got bigger racks

The only consistent thing about climbing grades is that no one can agree on them!

quote: Originally posted by Heinouscling: I did not ask which climbing area has the greatest "percentage" of females at any given time, I asked which has the most. In other words, I'm interested in climbing areas that are likely to be dense with climbing babage at any given time, so that a good looking, ripped, climbing fool such as myself can meet one, and with any luck get laid and meet a climbing partner at the same time. OK, don't start hammering on me here. I'm being silly about the good looking, ripped part (I'm anything but vain) but be honest folks, how many of you go to a climbing area like Smith as much for meeting someone of the opposite sex as for the climbing? I mean, come on, you have some of the fittest human specimans on the planet climbing around in the hot sun all sweaty and glistening. Often almost naked. I bet even the attached climbers catch themselves lustily staring and would succumb to the urge if given the opportunity. -Heinous that's what gyms are for. what? people actually go to gyms to climb?

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: What happened? just wanted to make a completely contentless post!

quote: Originally posted by Peter Puget: Putting the route into the rating “equivolator” results in the following output: At Index 5.7+ – Short people may find the second pitch to be the crux. At Squamish 5.10a - The first pitch has a sting in its tail. Well worth the effort expended. At 38/Si S11 (.10b) – One of the top five crack pitches in Washington. Second pitch is a giant step into bigness. At Vantage 5.10a/b– Popular. At Yakima 5.7 – Start in the first corner left of ______. At Smith Rocks 5.9 - a bold start leads to sustained climbing. Fight up the crack avoiding swarms of wasps. The second pitch features an airy step out into space and nauseating exposure. Inexplicably attracts novice leaders with triple-length slings and huge clanging sets of hexes.

quote: Originally posted by pope: There are two kind of advice: that which is solicited and that which is not. Are you saying you solicit sometimes ???

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: that is my current alltime favorite graemlin!

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: [ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]