Dru

yeah I'm talkin to you!!!!! hey you!!!! you cc.com member who is lurking out there! I see you all on the http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=whos_online busy reading topics but you never post anything! C'mon, resolve to post at least once a day even if it is something as stupid as this Lets help jon and tim justify all their fancy bandwidth and whatnot. All together now: take that little mouse - slide it up over the box that says : Post New Topic : click - there ya go!! Remember, quantity is better than quality when you are bored at work. [ 01-31-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

CASCADE LEGEND SIGHTING!!!!!! Rodchester take note! Anybody looking for a big face to ski should check out the east and south faces of Silvertip. 2000m vertical Has the NE face of Redoubt been skied? seems to me i heard it had but can't recall the source. maybe it was John Chilton?

trask has a latex sleeping bag rated at 40 PSI.

wait for arcteryx or patagucci to do the R&D then steal(copy) the design from them. it works for MEC!

you need the $1200 electronic carabiner that was hyped on rec.climbing about 2 years ago. i believe Gander Mountain has some in stock. seriously, though, quicklinks work fine, get the stainless ones though, and no need for rap rings as well unless you are worried about rope twisting. for building permanent stations on new routes I find a pair of bolts, hangers, lap links or quicklinks, and two 3" lengths of 3/8" stainless chain makes for a bomber rap station.

i saw a 11mm break once but it was in a tug of war with 30 climbers pulling on each end of it.

quote: Originally posted by max: It seems like I've had the "best day ever" happen to me several times. I've been finishing a day that seemed so regular...no huge climbs, no super hard pitches, maybe not even that long of a day. But as I'm walking back to the car I think to myself "This is probably the best day of climbing ever! I love climbing" Maybe I'm just easy to please. Maybe I've got bad memory. The ordinary days of climbing are pretty good but there are some that stick out even years later for me - a bunch of alpine climbs like Purple People Eaters, Lillarete, Standing Wave, Beautiful Nightmare, s. ridge of Gimli and east ridge of Rexford, the Matriarch to Grimface traverse; then things like doing White Lightning and Squamish Buttress for the first time; Gibraltar Wall, Weeping Wall, Moonlight; passing parties left and right on Black Orpheous; rapping of Space Shot in a thunderstorm; a "fifteen-star day" at J-Tree in December; Keyhole Canyon near Red Rocks; stumbling back to camp after 21 hours on Redoubt and watching David Persson have enough energy to ski a quick run on his short skis while the soup water was boiling; soloing 20 routes at the Smoke bluffs in about 5 hours then just sitting on top of Pink Kliff and watching eagles soar; soloing Banana Peel for the first time; putting up "Routopia" at Skaha, cleaning onsight from the ground up and throwing holds at my belayers Basically the stuff where i went climbing and had a good time and did something that was memorable in some way, and gfelt like life was worth living, and that climbing was what it was all about. sorry for the spray about myself and a serious post for once

i just went to monos this year (Charlet M10's) and i really like them. for just straight in kicking i dont notice a difference but for mixed moves and stemming and corners where you are moving your feet more, a mono lets you move your foot around and not have your points lose contact. they are also better for mixed climbing (except Rafael Slawinski says Sabretooths are the best ) as you can get n to smaller features and in cracks better with only 1 point. i think they work your calves a bit more too. also the M10 you can make mono, dual, offset mono, offset dual, etc etc. except the antibotte sucks!!!! and Grivel Rambocomp and M10 and Bionic all ripped off the DMM Terminator design, and the Terminator is cheaper than any of them at MEC, so maybe you should get that? You can even put horizontal front points and heel spurs on the terminator... [ 01-31-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

if you drop gear, even from your hand onto the carpet, it becomes unsafe and should be retired. please send all such gear you want retired to me as i can guarantee it will not fall into the hands of climbers and be reused again and cause accidents.

Day trip it from the new logging road that runs to just below WilliamsonLake. welch is a better peak. see www.bivouac.com for more info. look out for avalanches in May. oh yes, this question should be in "British Columbia" not "North cascades" because our Cascades are north of nothing much...

arent you worried if you took that many pictures of your ass you might start to notice it growing?

C'mon page 2. spray is good

RUM

I get most of my rap slings thanks to guys like Norman Clyde, who leave extra bomber webbing in perfectly good anchors. My best score was a full set up of locking biners and sewn webbing somene had left on the anchors atop Orchard Rock when they rapped off. wait, you say - Orchard Rock has rap ring anchors. exactly BOOTY

Keep Beckey away from your women. "So, your boyfriend is a sport climber huh? do you want to climb some mountains with me? WHAT?"

I think, if I could free solo the NE buttress of Slesse, that I would be happy if that was the only climbing accomplishment of my season.

If Dwayner is "Alpine buddy" (that term affects me the way the term "freshies" affects Dwayner) does that make RURP "little buddy" like Gilligan?

post #14... post #25 starts page 2... im going home at 4:20

Have you noticed that all the "who's online" attendance records are set on wednesdays?

THE RANT O' CHEF... South Park?

HE TEACH FRONT... sounds like Dwayner with a centerfold open, explaining mammalian biology to his class

i didnt say it was true just that our local news reported that, contrast that to what mattp heard on his local news.

mattp is right. i am wrong. who even knows ifconstantino had a beard either? dont believe anything you read on the Internet, including this statement.

Duane Constantino? (old school washington Rock author and beard owner) Duane Raleigh (editor Climbing Mag and presider over its current sad decline...)

the dumb ass news anchor has probably never been outdoors in their life and was reading some BS from a prepared statement by "Blame the Victims". The local news noted all 3 were experienced skiers who had dug pits and made every attempt to evaluate and minimize the hazard to themselves.