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quote: Originally posted by Charlie: Is that guy wearing a shriner hat? Moose lodge? That is an OR Gore-tex Fez only $49.99 on special this week.... look great at Pike Place Market or your next Masonic ritual...

{prompted by comments on the vantage accident thread but did not want to piss off more people by commenting anymore on that thread... } if someone starts a thread about topic X, are all comments other than comments about X to be considered spray? 'cause it seems to me that comments about or on the comments others make are perfectly legitimate expressions and should be encouraged even if the thread does become self-referential. this would increase the information* content of the thread and leads to a topic becoming a metatopic in the post modern sense. but maybe everyone here is trapped in modernity? Or as trask would say, "kiss it " so c'mon and flame me, flames are true metacontent! *as defined by Claude Shannon of MIT

So if you are doing like you should and taking a beginner climber out for some 1-on-1 experience it shouldnt bother you to find massive groups have stolen all the easier routes, that you were hoping to get beginner to climb?

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so TG, how big is Aconcagua??

quote: Originally posted by freeclimb9: La Sportiva fits my feet well; does the Mega Dru work okay as a walking shoe? I never seen them or tried them on but with a name like that I want a pair NOW!!!

Mtn Master is real good for, say, the East Ridge of Rexford, w. ridge of Prusik or climbs of that nature. Personally i would take rock shoes on Slesse NE buttress but some better climbers do the whole thing in mtn masters. La Sportiva Hyper is a nice heavier shoe (more support)- i wouldn't want to carry a heavy pack doing an approach hike with only my mtn masters on. i got a foot injury once hiking into the cathedral lakes area with an 80-lb pack and just a pair of hitecs for footwear. Mtn Master does wear out sole real quick if you walk around downtown, run, dance in clubs, etc. in them so as has been said just take them climbing. Also if you go by the Five.Ten factory in Redlands, CA you can get cosmetic seconds for cheap every friday.

oh yes we will

quote: Originally posted by OfficeSpace: I am concentrating on my numbers. I want to know what people think Canary is rated.. 14d, call the mags!!!

I liked Directissima, no crowds and good gear protected face climbing. warm up for DDD and harder than most 5.7 at Squamish although I see it is 5.8 in some of the guidebooks, maybe that is why... I would give it more than 1 star, too. [ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

so if guides are prostitutes who are the pimps? but seriously..... if you ever go to the Harrison Hut near Overseer read the 10-page rant some guy wrote in the hut logbook there entitled "Mountain Pimps and Heli-Fools" for the same idea expanded on far far past the point at which you wish he would stop...

50 people online... 1 person posting... 49 people reading & lurking... you PARASITES! That's it I'm so bored I'm gonna do some work now!

quote: Originally posted by moron: Yeah! And one time, at band camp... Where is this band camp you all went to?

quote: Originally posted by Dan Harris: All this earth stuff is trivial. How about Olympus Mons on Mars. It rises 78,000 ft. above the plain, is 500 km in diameter and has a 20,000 ft. cliff on one rim. Anyone up for a first ascent try! do a search for "olympus mons" on this website, we already discussed this. you have to do it oxygenless, and get from here to there under your own power, though. Goran Kropp style!

quote: Originally posted by Matt: Canary is a great climb for the grade. The beginning of the 2nd pitch is very "heady" and make you think twice before stepping out. Love it! Something worth doing again and again! I think that would be a 5.8 anywhere, not just 11worth. Once I sat at the 2nd belay and watched some guy try the exit moves on the 1st pitch 3 times! Each time he'd sneak a peak of the ledge, totally miss the bomber holds, grease back and fall on that piton. Yowza! I'd hate to pull that pin out! If you had a Laser Pointer with you you could have indicated to him the proper location of the holds. Metolius sells a $20 "redpoint laser" for just this purpose

quote: Originally posted by OfficeSpace: ...Roger has climbed it before the "Physical Change" as well as after? Roger caused the physical change

buy a pair of cheap teva type sandals sized big enough to fit over your rock shoes, then walk around the base of the crag in them, and keep your soles clean. look for thumb pinches when crimping. crash pads are worth it. if you carry two nut tools, you can remove booty cams much easier. look for spare change under amusement rides and playground swings go into restaurants, order water, wait for people to leave food on their plates when they leave then grab those plates quick.

quote: Originally posted by dynamite: Gee wish i could make it, but I won't be home until about 9pm. Been a while since I made it to one of the Tues night gatherings. Hmm. at 9pm the fun should just be starting if ray shows up

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: Its also amazing how many bolts are on that thing (P of D). 14 bolts per pitch or something. Were they hand drilling those? yup. of course in sandstone it takes like 5 minutes to hand drill a bolt.

quote: Originally posted by bobinc: Trivia note on the Uriostes: at the last belay on Prince of Darkness, some of the original hangers are there, each imprinted with the JU (Jorge Urioste) stamp. It's amazing how many routes they put up! If you post everything twice, it's amazing how many posts you can put up, too! [ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by Zenolith: yeah, see it gives him an excuse to build up the military, and arm postal workers, and run commercials that say, "if you smoke in the muir hut you are killing police officers and assasinating people's fathers" _no kidding_ they really have been doing that recently! oooh yeah, the afghani al-qaeda would have to take on the vietnamese triads and hells angels for control of the BC dope export market, and everyone knows we grow all your PNW weed anyways, right? arm postal workers? i thought those guys shot everything in sight already?

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: Never seen their guide, that sounds pretty funny though...who was the publisher, when was the last press run, etc? I've seen mention of three separate guides to RR (that's 3 different authors, not counting the Swain "select" in these) Anyone know about the third one? the Urioste book was published in 1982 (red cover) by American Alpine Club. reprinted (white cover) in 1999. the 3rd separate guidebook is a 1992 "guide to red rocks and area" by some dude maybe Mike Clifford? it is referenced passingly in the newest Swain guide. [ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]