Dru

6e) Squamish 21) How long have you been dry tooling?a) 5 minutes nowb) since pubertyc) since my girlfriend left me

oh yeah the photo of purple people eaters you see on the cc.com front page sometimes is on alpaca peak which is two cirques over from steinbok. the rock is better but the cracks are mostly absent.

The whole Anderson River area has exceptionally coarse rock resulting in a layer of death crystals. but there is some good stuff. that edwards/spagnut will go unrepeated for a while, I do beileve. it aint too hard (5.11a) but very sustained and requires all kb pro while free climbing and wailing in pins from sketchy stances. or maybe some new ZeroCams from Wild Country The big roof is called Mosquito Roof for a reason. Expect 40C in the summer as it gets super hot there sometimes. THE route to do is Springbok Arete on Les Cornes. Take a bolt kit or enormous balls and Sharma like down climbing skills to replace death rap anchors (tied off blades of grass, by repute) on the rappell descent.

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: 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? Ummmm, let's see....it's a graph (sideways) measuring Canadian contributions to world events. It is Big Brother telling you to exercise in 1984. Every time someone slacks off on a jumping jack you start over from 10. You can hear Annie Lennox sing this on the soundtrack too Nice guess though.

"Clit route"is on the Catherine Face. according to my 1992 Mt Cook and Area Guidebook.

I wish Lomborg would reunite with ABBA. "Dancing queen, young and lean, only 17.. oooh la la!"

i think that meat is "mystery meat".

ice forms fast when it gets cold, and melts fast when it gets warm. go get a salt shaker cause all this beta gets taken with a grain of salt.

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...