Dru

Do you mean - pins that your partner placed in rock adjacent to the ice that you are removing, or screws and ice pitons that your partner placed in the ice, or fixed pins that you find while you are climbing and want to claim as booty? I assume you mean the first... its trickier than aiding cause you usually dont have a funkness. So; pound the pin back and forth until it loosens enough that you can pull it out either with your hand, by hooking your pick through the eye and levering, or by putting a sling/draw on it and yanking on that. That method also works for the last case but those pins are usually rusty junk anyways and some people get upset if you booty them. For the second case - buy your partner some ice screws then you will not have to remove Snargs or warthogs or scary oldskool devices like that. [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

Im gonna suggest that you focus on just climbing peaks and not specifically volcanoes you will find it a lot more enjoyable in the long run. Scrambling ridges on good rock is much more rewarding than slogging up a wanded path on a glaciated volcano with hundreds of other climbers swarming around you.

you know i used to be skeptical about the Tikka. Then I got one as early Xmas present. Now I love the Tikka. Tikka is so light weight and pretty useful. put it in your pocket and carry it up the route. I wonder how good it will be for night bushwacking though because the light does not go as far as my old Zoom. But i see that Petzl is discontinuing the 4.5V flat-battery model Zoom. too bad because those batteries are $3CDN at MEC and $7 US in the States. I always take a box with me while road trippin and fund my road trip.

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Actually I like the idea of watching hockey! Yeah the other ice sport. Those guys are REAL athletes not like wimpy climbers. Maybe we could watch some curling and ice fishing on dish TV too and get the full ice experience.

Hey Gord there will be hours and hours to talk we are talking about an hour or two of slides out of what, 5PM to 2 AM, 10 hours of standing around, chatting and drinking. Also my understanding is that slides would show while we are eating so perfect opportunity to watch stuff while you stuff your face and less sprayage of food from talking while eating. I like slide shows.

There are no classes scheduled for the day. I personally don't care that it was Will rather than Lyle who bolted the wall next to Old Dogs. Lyle didnt seem too choked by it either... I DO care that Will gave us a paragliding slide show at an ice climbing festival. In the Legion hall at least you can always shoot pool or play shuffleboard if you dont want to watch the slides. Or go downstairs and watch vids - hopefully we wont have to see Beyond Gravity again. That film is seriously dull after anbout the 2nd viewing. [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

As long as you have a working car you will have no shortage of people to go on trips with.

quote: Originally posted by Heinouscling: I've always noticed the pictures that I take looked way more impressive in person. Also, how many pics of your partner's bum or head do you need? -Heinous I guess you might benefit from a photography course then.

It better Freeze soon or the only ice we see will be the ice on our aching foreheads on the morning after.

MNo worries marek you should see me try to speak Polskje. Good on you for getting out there and peak bagging. The reference to a 420 was not "more than a 360" but a joke that erik, capt, smoky mc, willstrickedout etc will understand.

Tim Horton died a long time ago but his doughnuts live on. Tim Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The best donut at tim's is the Canadian Maple donut (filled donut with maple icing and boston cream filling.) Coincidence? I think not. We should all in memory of Dave. Who gonna be in the ads now? [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Dru ]

I will bring the magic marker next weekend for us all to inscribe that "FEAR" in big letters. Can you believe when I went to the Rockies over Christmas, I left my camera at home. I could have shot 4 or 5 rolls conditionswere beautiful for photography. I am a stupid git! Too much weed no memory!

UM.... In Beckey volume 3 there is a statement about how Cathedral Peak was formed by glaciers exploiting master joints. Hh heh "exploited master joints" he heh.

The mtneers with all their qualifications and courses sound like the old Appalachian Mtn Club in the 60's. that makes the KTK the Vulgarians!

I think its unfair that there is a U-joint but nothing called a Lou-joint. It would have to be a 6 ft long carrot blunt with its own little tripod to support the other end and you would look like one of those Tibetan horn player lamas while you were toking on it. I nominate strickland to roll one with his supply of "dank nuggets" and using a copy of High Times for rolling paper.

Hey guys if there is any ice left up there that weekend it will be a fun time. 78 year old old school mountain dude is thinking of coming up that weekend too.

Oh according to the latest AAJ Puntacarpa Norte looks like it has some good rock too.

think its mainly designed as a quick piece to dog on if you are pumped, or protect you while you place a screw, in situations where it is only holding body weight, not a fall. also could be used to lower off if you want to bail but ice is too crummy to make an abalakov or place a screw.

Here is another good one. Go to donate blood. About a pint will do.Drink a pint to make up the fluid.Run five miles home through the cold rain, lightly dressed in your running clothes.Realize you left your keys in the bar.Run back, get keys, run home, all after dark in the rain.Realize you grabbed the wrong keys. too tired to run again. climb 5 stories up your apartment building on balconies, astonish your neighbours, pick your balcony lock in the dark with no headlamp.Just as you get inside after all of this the phone rings and you have to discuss your relationship INTELLIGIBLY for an hour with your girlfriend. If you can do this - alpine climbing will be no problem whatsoever.

WRONG DONNA!!!!!!! No coffee yet this morning. Im such an idiot without the black brew. Off to

it would be funny walking into a big bookstore and seeing a bunch of guidebooks in the Oprah's Book club display. PS Anybody see the latest Weekly World News headline? "CLINTON HIRES 3-BREASTED INTERN" (with retouched photo showing said intern on Bill's arm.) Sidebar says : Hillary shocked: "I thought he was a leg man"

when you forget all your rock gear at the car they work great as hand placed pieces in limestone cracks. from personal experience on Gibraltar wall.

I find they are good in dirty cracks full of moss when winter alpine climbing below treeline or dry tooling around unformed pillars at Lillooet. BTW DMM ice hook costs $20 less than Spectre at MEC. I think you have to be pretty desperate to place them in ice. But if you put them in your last pick hole at waist height and tap them wih the mammer they place real fast. putting them in a brand new placement with no starter hole, i have heard, can be a mistake.

how can you be offering donna top rope for sale when we all know donna is pope's avatar?