Dru

Twight kicks ass. Child kicks ass. Long and Sherman have been riding the same joke too long. Matt samet is pretty funny. I wish the Annoying Arron Gulley, R&I editor, would dry up and blow away. The editor of Polar Circus ( 2 issues 86 & 87)is Geoff Powter, editor of CAJ since 94 and a nice guy who lets me submit my article 3 weeks afte rdeadline... I hope

Back to the new pix up, I see lots of butt shots. Hey folks take the camera up the climb with you and take head shots. it makes ID ing people you meet at the pub easier. except daisy i would like to see a butt shot there ha i beat trask to that comment

You can hike around private property via Crown Land to get to Michelmoon. Lyle's Ice Map has the beta, or otherwise park at km 29.4 (or 24.9??)I think and follow the property line markers. look for an orange paint splotch on the road cut.

Isnt it 915 PM where you are, home boy? I AM at home now. I stole a computer from class today.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: If everone that tred it got in a line and whizzed down the Deeping Wall to make it fatter would it be better then If everyone poured beer down Deeping Wall it would make taking the core out of ice screws way better

HEY FRED What HEY FRED!!!! Oh uh yeah, huh. YOUR TURN TO BUY A ROUND FRED Oh yea, you want some uh beer huh. Maybe i should buy some beer for those girls over there. That one there on the left doesn't like her boyfriend. I can tell. he looks like a sport climber, huh daddi-o? YEAH HE DOES FRED. What? YEAH FRED "Who are you calling a sport climber?"

its just waddington range. and it has been 'almost out' for 6 years now! we gonna have to hassle him abvout this at ice fest. hey don, if you read this, where is the guidebook damnit?

AAJ is a phone book, CAJ is more Magazine sized and 160 pgs (NO ADS!!) and both come out 1x year. I find all mags listed at either MEC or Chapters bookstore with the exception of NZ Climber which comes out 4x/year and is only available by subscription from NZ, or you get it free if you join the NZAC. or get a buddy in nz to send you his old ones.

is 5 a large enough sample we can be confident in the statistics, though? remember what the fatality rate was for the matterhorn after the first ascent.

found this link to Al dunham's page. he may have more Revelstoke info in future. at least he knows what the routes are called! http://www3.telus.net/adunham/

Despite the argument he gives below the stats table, to include all deaths vs all summiters gives a false number, as the deaths include attempters who do not summit. Put simply if you die of overexertion trying to eat a monster chappati in basecamp you qualify for a "death on the mountain" using his stats. Only about one in three or less of Attempters ever Summit so the % death ratio is skewed at least 3 times too high. But hey, how are you gonna brag if the death figure isnt wildly inflated?

Pink Cadillac is the m6+ dry tooling corner with the odd ice blob left of Deeping Wall. Goes as 5.10+ dirt in the summertime.

The CAJ and AAJ are the only Great Reads out there. Otherwise here is my rating of the various english language mags. High to low. No numbers just relative quality. On The Edge (UK)High mountain sports (UK)Climber (NZ)Climbing (USA)Rock (Oz)Rock And Ice (USA)Climber (UK)Gripped (CAN) Also notice that the Climbing to R&I spread is basically flat. I just rated Climbing higher cause they had the Steve House article last issue. The first 3 are the only ones I would rate as mostly good every issue. [ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

Next time you want to harsh on those who lie on this site maybe you should get right to it instead of coming out with sonme pseudo-ingenuous question wondering where the great climbers are then. I mean, I once said to Lynn Hill, at our wedding, "Honey, do you think its 4;20 yet?" and she said "Move along, there are 350 more people waiting for me to sign these posters..." Um, where was I anyways? Oh yeah, Tooth Muir blah blah beer Vantage bolts spray spray Big Lou.

where is this one??? looks good. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/images/home/front_81.jpg

Michelmoon Falls calved on Sunday and nearly killed 2 friends of mine who were racking up at the base. Heads Up!

quote: Originally posted by Rodchester: DRU: The context of the post did not mean that NO greats EVER post here, but simply that given the amount of greats in the PNW, few actually do. Sorry if you didn't pick up on that context Now from the first post Rod made: This site has become well known by many climbers in the PNW. But for some reason the greats never seem to post on this site. Does anyone know or wonder why no great climbers post on this page? He then says: Actually, Dru where is my self-contradiction? So - Rod said No Great Climbers ever post here. Then when told they did he said that he never said what he said.... But see, Rod has an agenda. He will quote from anonymous personal email sent to him to bolster his point or mention his friendship with Carlos Buhler or any other dirty tactic but not cough up and admit that his original point was made not as an honest question but rather as a sneaky lead in to his concern about the spray on this site. Oh well PS If Rachel Babkirk and Christine Boskoff came upon Dan Larson smoking a bowl with Fred Beckey in Muir Hut, how many bolts would get placed on Dan's Dreadful Direct to compensate? Answers by 4:20, class.

here is my solution - only let people post if they include a scanned image of their drivers license, credit card, and house key as an image file in their signature. no anonymous posts then! rodchester - you seem big on missing contexts lately because you keep blowing it with self-contradictory statements like "No great climbers post on cc.com" or "My anonymous friend doesn't like anonymous postings" and then not noticing the self-contradiction til someone rips you on it then trying to cover your ass. my advice to you, baby, is a) LET IT DIE!!! or b) throw in some references to Dan Larson, Muir Hut, shitting your gore-tex, the Tooth, and bolts on DDD, and the Mountaineers - that will get us to 20 pages pretty quick, and that's what you want, right? PS next time hit the "edit" key instead of posting the same message twice. [ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by mattp: "The Joke" is an old school test-piece at Bon Echo, in Ontario. On the first ascent attempt, the leader fell off and broke his leg. He healed, and went back for a second attempt. He fell off and broke it again. That's the joke (no joke). The ice climb "Kitty Hawk" is named cause of all the air time logged by the 1st ascencionist.... 22 stitches i think... Air BC at pet Wall (SPORT ROUTE) has a similar story behind it...

e dog has issues with the superiority of canadian beer, women, technical clothing and ice and is trying to compromise by claiming that because he is from tacoma he is some sort of honorary canadian.

uh oh... diffusion through latex... that sounds bad!

What's up with that lurking behind an alias comment anyways - is your name really "RODCHESTER" or is that some sort of nickname??? I mean c'mon what type of weak BS is that? Here is some anonymous person who doesnt even want to post to this bbs but gets you to post a message they send you, doing a pot & kettle black routine, complaining about anonymous posting ??? HELLO - ANONYMOUS POSTER - IF YOU READ THIS - WHICH YOU APPARENTLY WILL CAUSE YOU APPARENTLY LURK HERE ALL THE TIME TO SEE A THREAD THAT HAS ONLY BEEN AROUND FOR A FEW DAYS - WHY DONT YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH????

maybe they could write notes on a pigs head and hang it off the belay on princely ambitions or whatever??

Who was TRing Pink Cadillac? ? ? ?

What I want to know is, who is the rope gun in that pairing???