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A "guide" in California is anyone that feels like calling themselves one. If you were building a house, would you hire a professional engineer, or a guy who decided one day that he'd call himself an engineer? If you need your appendix removed, would you go to a doctor, a veterinarian, or some guy in your trailer park that has a sharp knife and who's watched ER a few times?

Presumably right at the equator the top and bottom of the 8 are equally sized? And at the North Pole, you would only see half the 8, so it would look like a o balanced on the horizon.

You must have missed this part:

I think it's right at the base. Isn't it more like 7"?

In some very wild areas of the Pacific northwest, namely up the Coast in BC, north of Powell River, machetes are very much standard equipment. But it's still "leave no trace" because by the time the next party arrives, 10 years later, no trace of your machete work will be visible anymore - it will have all grown back, twice as thick and spiny.

At Squamish there are several anchors without hangers on the bolts that are used by local guides. They just add hangars when they show up with a class and then take the hangers again when they leave. This way they seldom have to worry about another group using "their" anchor.

First off he lives in Tehran where it is sunny and clear most of the year - unlike Seattle. Second of all he probably took those photos from his balcony or something. Just leave tripod standing.

BTW what are you going for on Baffin? Aiyuittuq or the Northern Fjords?

The other thing to consider is trench foot from humidity. Rich Prohaska got trenchfoot while putting up a new route on Turnweather, you may think your frostbite is bad but he couldn't walk for 3 months. Plan on frequent sock changes to ensure dry feet.

The Arctis Expe is more of a snow slogging boot, but should be plenty warm. look for the Koflach Vertecal if you want to climb rock in it Or some La Sportiva Olympus Mons or Scarpa Phantom.

CLIMBING ROPE APPLICATION 1) How long have you wanted to be a rope? 2) are you single, double or twin? What is your diameter? 3) In a crisis you are a) stretched out but holding on? b) frayed and broken up? c) maintaining the static quo? 4) Do rugs feature in your retirement plans? 5) Do you mind doing a couple of shifts in the bedroom? 6) HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE: what is Goldline? What was made out of hemp?

If here were two suns, would it be a dilemma instead of a unilemma?

I think it won't be the first time you've pushed past a rim.

But I've never climbed Rainier!

ninjas

Feeling a little inadequate, are you?

Pfft, if'n I wanted to pose, I'd blow smoke up your ass about what great performance art visionaries they are, or diss 'em as avant-garde wanksters with more style than substance. Instead, I think they've got great schtick but they just don't make my little heart go pitter pat. holy mother fucking christ. am i misreading this? somebody thinks off white don't know his shit when it comes to muzz-ack? fuck, i'm a fucking nancyboy when it come to this shit, but i still take it in the backside from offwhite.

nothing at si was bolted on purpose like that...where the fuck did you hear that?????? couple of routes in cheakamus where the bolt is placed in solid rock and then a fixed chain is extended so that you can clip the chain cause the bolt is 1 to 2 feet out of reach... doesn't look any different than a single point rap anchor except in the middle of a route.

The selection at MEC Vancouver is still comparable to a good independent store like Escape route, Valhalla Pure or Climb-On squamish. I mean Murray carries prana tops and $200 Chaco sandals and no one says he's sold out.... Mountain Magic and Monods in Banff are still the best non-coop stores specifically for mountaineering, they can sell to all the mountain tourists who wanna walk up and down the Cave and Basin Trail in plastic boots.

Diets high in vegetables, whole grains and liquid vegetable oils are the healthiest. Plus you get shampoo ad hair! Speaking of which palm kernel oil and cottonseed oil are so suck (agribusiness) so the good options are canola, grapeseed, olive, peanut, sunflower etc... Olive oil would suck for making desserts with.

accellerate.

WIKIPEDIA:

Is that the movie that was Lord of the Rings with muppets!?

Just wanted to be first one to post this image. Moderators, please make this Polish Bob's new avatar pic?

Why can't you use a liquid oil rather than a solid? Then you could use healthy canola instead of butter or lard or trans-fatty margarine.