Dru

http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/calgary/news/currentconditions.html

yeah so we will annex WA, that will make things easier, and with the exchange rate you guys all become millionaires.

i propose battle cage match between hikerwa and hakiowa for the rights to their homophonic names.

Steinbok - I assume you are talking about the North or east faces. Good luck, doorish and burdo backed of fthe east face, so did sean easton (twice). the n face is a choss pile waiting to happen. the Ne buttress has 2 routes and played Kichatna Spire in K2 the movie.

are you gonna make some special sour toe cocktail with the chunk that comes off?? good work man. according to a buddy that did the S face, the "virgin rock" you mention is the worst choss in the world. but dont let that stop you!

i found out edwards has one of my screws and touche has another one... that makes me down 1 (which was maybe stolen, not unclipped) and up 1 on booty, so i'm even.. the clipper isnt an unclipper after all... boy i was just being pessimistic!

I think if you approach from BC to climb it, that makes it a "BC peak". That would include Foley, Slesse, Bear , Redoubt, Spickard, Hozomeen (mostly) - and Tomyhoi 50% of the time.

Hey, that "Lomborg book", the Skeptical Environmentalist, gets a 40 + page rebuttal as a Special Feature in the January "Scientific American" from scientists who actually know their stuff... Lomborg is a statistician who knows little science and apparently picks and chooses the facts he wants to find... most of his citations are to news articles in Time and the like, not to peer reviewed scientific publications.* *The last time SA did this type of in-depth debunking was when The Bell Curve came out, same wishy washy pseudo-logical tobacco science there. Ps lomborg was apparently never what you'd call "deep green" either despite him tooting his own horn that he was, if you read his statements in past publications.

Hope/Thompson: Sailor Bar, Jackass, Kanaka Column, Crucible - all have big wet holes and are not in. Hope WAS in on Thursday but is now quickly falling apart. Goldpan climbs - Energizer and After The Gold Rush are in. (ATGR is a 3 not the 3+ it was last year). The pillar on Happy Boy is touching down but really wet and chandeliered. Take scuba gear and an aqualung. Bridge: the same as last week. New Leash on Life is a bit thicker but still has open water. Hell Creek not in. Top pillar on Silk degrees touching down, bottom not touching and looking thin. Someone climbed Old Dogs, judging by the broken icicles, but it looks thin and scary as a lead. Texas Cr: Texas 2 step in, very thin and wet. Take a file and some tie-offs for stubbies. We also did (according to Lyle) the FA of a 30m WI2+ up a chimney to finish in a cave under a chockstone, right above the road at the 1km mark. "Lone Star", the "Cherry Ice" of Texas Creek.

Hey Thomas, is there any ice at Soo Bluffs? Entropy or similar?? PS Moaning Tree is not in the West Coast Ice guidebook. It is located 5 minutes walk past the Calcheak rock climbing area (see Whistler Rock for location).

oh and the photo in Beckey guide is mislabelled, I think it says NW when it should say NE. can we get an administrator to move this over to the BC conditions section???

Good one Zenolith!!!! I had to ask a Norwegian girl I know to translate that one and she just laughed at some of it and wouldn't tell me what it means...

Rolf like Rolf Harris? "Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down..."

have you tried hitting it yet?

Imagine the whole Earth as Muir Hut.... now lets say AlpineK and Ray are smoking a bowl when in comes Christine Boskoff and Scott'teryx together with a large German shepherd... someone is asked to extinguish the joint... panther chips in some snide observation about Lambone's name...meanwhile over in a corner Retrosaurus, Peter Puget and pope are preparing for fisticuffs over the discovery of a rappel placed bolt on the wall... Larson is placing 40 wands on the path to the outhouse...Rodchester denies any Cascade legends are present and Fairweather claims it is all the fault of the Liberals... jon and Erik delete the whole thing and timmy is too busy skiing the freshies to notice at which point Dwayner mentions how much he hates the term freshies... I was up in Lillooet and missed the whole thing but i still managed to spray about it the next day on the web... I was gonna make some Lambone joke too but I forgot... where is Foo Foo?? [ 02-01-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by Peter Puget: Just a quick reminder guys: whenever you say you want to regulate something through government control what you are really saying is that you want to use the police power of the state (ie the gun!) to make people do something they do not want to do. Also look at those areas with significant governmental control of economic resources and you’ll find the most destroyed environment. The textbook example is the old “Eastern Block” and the Soviet Union. The Modern economy failed us? Look around large areas set aside for wilderness preservation, our ability to go on extended climbing trips, our ability to even get to the crags, our long and healthy lives? There are lots of examples of “pre-capitalist” societies screwing up their environment. The world is always full of uncertainty, unmet expectation, unforeseen problems, looming challenges but our modern economy is the best one to deal successfully with them. PPFree Minds & Free Markets NB – The CC.com posters here in NA have more in common with Ken Lay in terms of wealth than they do someone working in a sweatshop in Indonesia. So where is the guy with a gun & Police Power in setting higher vehicle emissions standards, or in a carbon tax, Peter??? And who the hell is Ken Lay anyways, the guy who owns Frito Lay or what? I worked (sweated) with some ex-Indonesians at Arcteryx and we got on well... man you should hear the stories about Indonesian mountaineering clubs they make the Mounties look positively LAME!!!!

quote: Originally posted by Dwayner: Brother Matt says something to this effect: "Why do you think they are so angry at America? What has driven them to think the only solution is terrorism? I think it's because they are losers..." Exactly! Terrorists ARE losers! [ 02-01-2002: Message edited by: Dwayner ] And losers are just winners with a new attitude...

i walked around on some low angle ice with a buddys rambocomps and climbed a grade 3 pitch in them last year while evaluating different models and there was no problem.... face it for low angle ice just about anything will work good, even caulk boots like loggers use. the flexibility of the boot is much more important than the crampon for low angle stuff... the only thing to consider is that more points on the sole give you more traction when standing with just some part of your foot on a bulge on steep ice, and i still think the dmms are best for that cause they have like 30 little points down there. the m10s have some secondary points centred under the flat of your foot which theoretically is nice but with the antibotte they seem to just push it off the crampon too bad grivel didnt give you payola$$$ maybethey will change their mind if you make nice next time you review some gear online...

the best pack is a free pack you find as booty on a route. especially if it has a medicine bottle full of the sweet leaf in it ...the second best pack is a pack you get pro deal on...the third best pack is one that looks like it is full even when it is nearly empty so your buddy doesnt ask you to carry any of the beer cause he thinks your pack is stuffed full...the 4th best pack is the one that floats along behind you on little helium balloon supports.... i tried out that design on the design team at arcteryx but they were worried about what would happen in windstorms....

"Sangre de Cristo... blood of Christ... doesn't Christ ever get tired of Bleeding?" - William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads.

just like Sharma

quote: Originally posted by W: I don't do motorcycles. But i bet you climb in an old pair of Tao's

its 4:23 on Computer Time

When I snuck into the Enchantments on an overnight trip with a daypass, I filled out my day pass in the name of, and was ready to tell any rangers I might meet that my name was, Ray Borbon!

10!10, 9, 8!10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5!10!10, 9, 8, 7, 6!10!10, 9, 8!10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3!10, 9, 8, 7!10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5!10!10! Can anyone tell me what this is a reference to?