Dru

quote: Originally posted by hikerwa: This is HIKERWA. I like Bad Religion. HIKERWA has spoken. We got the American JesusSee him on the interstateWe got the American JesusHe helped build the president's estate...

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: I'll blow em all away. Is that Somalia or Central Oregon????????

fuckin raw log exporting.... I got a raw log pokin the turtle head out right now!!!!!!!!!

unless it one of those things where two negatives make a positive and everyone else in the world but joe and wick died...

Climbing to a pounding rhythm lets you time your reflexes for speed climbing. So Techno speed metal jazz punk opera is ok as long as it got BEATS and BASS IN YOUR FACE!!!

1) I 'ave heard (from un-named gear store that returned all theirs but is worried about lawsuits) that the Smiley's/Omega knob, because it doesn't fold away, can open the gate on your biner... 2) another vote for not tying off. 22's suck. I only have one 22, for making Abalakovs in funky ice. 17s are bomber for most placements and for thin west coast dribbles over granite slabs you may want "a bunch of" 13s and 10s too. 3) Charlet screws are nice but the Turbine is kinda kluged. I wish they made a screw with the knob right on it. 4) BD Express works great.Grivel 360 has advantages but no one can tell me about long term durability of the wire crank. if your scrw gets frozen in on super cold ice it looks to me like you might bend the wire torquing on it getting the 360 out...?? hope not. 5) worth carrying a Snarg, spectre, DMM ice-hook or two for west coast type mungy frozen mud in cracks. it aint great but its better than no piece at all, cause it MIGHT hold a fall.

what about retrosaurus chopping some bolts off a giant britney? i think the pix on the main page should all be of pub clubs.

"Pope and Dru and Rurp: you guys too cool for Tacoma? " Fine company you got me in Dwayner, a bag-crapping fool and his avatar. Oh yeah, tip #1, never play pool with a guy named Fast Eddie unless you go by the handle of "Fats". I AM to cool for Tacoma but also unwilling to drive 6 hrs to get there. Yesterday I went up to Cheakamus Canyon and high-centered my truck in a drift. then i went into Vancouver and saw a slide show on "Prodding The Void" aka the recent FA of the south face of Siula Grande by a bunch of my friends. no beer though, it was a dry show cause they couldnt book the ANZA club. [ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

I think the Taliban would like Jesus cause he had long hair and a beard and hung out with a group of men. Whadda you mean Christian perspective? which of the 39 flavours? From an alien perspective, is human life intelligent or not? discuss over

Hey, if you take a communion host (which is kind of like an uncooked tortilla) and then fry it or bake it or however they make those tortilla chips and add some nacho spice would that make it into a mysticnacho??

"You know, if someone wanted to make a million dollars, the best and fastest way to do it would be to start a religion" - L. Ron Hubbard, 6 months before starting Scientology.

still, if you had to choose between simpson and wickwire, choose simpson. cause all the bad shit will happen to simpson whereas it always happens to wickwire's partners. just like if you go to everest with bonington someone in your party will die.

No more shit smearing? what do you do then - put it in a package and mail it to afghanistan or something?

I got to play with both of these yesterday. I found the rage to be a lot heavier than the axar. rage shaft is solid (or quite thick?), so the weight is centered lower in the tool, too axar has light shaft and weight concentrated in head. I liked the axar much more. rage has better pick though. clearance is about equal. spike on rage slightly better. i would go with the axar if i had to choose.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: A year ago I was spraying on this site under another assumed name. Now I am Spray God and use Caveman as my name. I climbed a peak somewhere in between. Yeah it was Mt. Si ! What a stud I am. Anyone else ever climb the haystack. Way sketchy! I managed to climb with a lot of you bums: Drank with Dru I'll be trying to keep sprayin. Thanks for those beer, Miller Lite or something but any free beer is good beer I heard a rumor you climbed the Tooth too. And a 5.9 at Exit 666 or something.

[spray] 8 new routes1 near fatal fall3 long term wanteds off my tick listabout 20 peaks tickedlots of unsuccessful hiking1 relationship crash and burnnew carnew gear#2 in all time Spray postings!#1 poster on www.bivouac.com#2 recommended poster in bivouac/serratus contest still alive beer in the fridge [/spray]

If you have lots of draws you can put two draws on one screw for the double-to-single clips and give each rope its own draw, to avoid the scenario gregm describes. But usually you have to clip the second draw into the first draw (sling not biner) to work this.

Dwayner - I like English-French-German- English. Betrueb, amigo. It is English at GermanEnglish. The index: End with the designation " through TO " hot end " - " hot point " - ". the meaning of " is called by program " of hot translation with a form of the verb " is called confused " - " over " good attempt to be called however. I will give you a doll of kewpie as prices anyhow. As you probably know, the majority of these translation programs sucks. They must really have a good functioning knowledge of the interest language to be able to rotate the raw translations which create it. I must treat several different languages in my work, and I sweep an unpleasant text with ROCK and the emptiness in the translation program occasionally, in order to catch the vocabulary, which I just upward often do not know and then outputs as much time cleaning he with a dictionary.

Bro Dwayner - I dont think you read my argument or maybe i didnt come across clearly enough. i dont disagree with you. paying 3rd world employees in a sweatshop American minimum wage is not gonna solve anything. the WHOLE COUNTRY income scale & expenses has got to increase so it is comparable to 1st world. (or at least comparable in the way that EU and N Am are comparable even though Barabee's is damn sight cheaper than REI and so is MEC). but if those employees want to make more coin they pretty much have to unionize cause it is unlikely that the corporations are going to give them more wages purely out of altruism. and the union has to go international and across board or else corp. will move to another country or bring in scabs. and the ability of a union to do that is pretty unlikely. on the subject of gear quality - , i have found. that said the difference between brand x and brand y gear usually comes down to design, materials and quality checking. so you get cheap gear that is made of cheap nylon, and full of flaws, or you get expensive gear made well and well checked. (ideally you want cheap but well made gear but they always end up putting their prices up because consumers think if its cheap it must be crap). country of origin doesnt come into it as much if materials, design and qual checking are equal.

on the issue of sewing skills - a large portion of the Vancouver based garment manufacturing industry including Arcteryx, is composed of recent immigrants, doing the sewing. seeing that Arcteryx uis expanding so fast that they would hire Zebu the monkey if he could sew, im sure they are not discriminating against native born canadians in their hiring practices, more like 1) many native Cdns dont really know how to sew that well, we just buy new jeans when our old ones get worn out 2) those born-in Canada Cdns that do know how to sew are probably not looking for work, they are like my grandma, sitting around home making quilts and jam to give out as Xmas presents. It kinda sucks though, you have a doctorate from Jakarta University, no one in Canada will hire you based on that, but you can make $20 an hour sewing fleece. then again I spent a year after i got my m.sc. belaying kids in a climbing gym, and I only made $8 an hour doing that.

A year ago I was right where I am now. except, a year ago, when I started driving to the Rockies, my engine blew up in Kamloops, it cost me $2000 to fix, and I never made it to the rockies. So this year I have a better car and i am gonna wreak havoc on that phat Alberta floe. so anybody that is reading this that is gonna be in the cdn rockies around new years send me a pm about hooking up for the party. [ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

aw hell i am so fucking ineffective i cant even get erik to delete one of my offensive posts. and I guess no one will believe that he edited it and changed all the "sick and disgusting bodily harm/ o r out right vulgar stuff" into #####'s. fuck it in 2 days I will be in the Rockies hitting and kicking icicles! [ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

Is it true that both of you were guarding alien spacecraft at Area 51 a couple of years ago?

rafael i have been thinking of getting a 360 or two,why didnt you like them?

I have 5 screamers and i place them on my first 5 scrws cause the fall factor is highest. they have wiregates on both ends because the low gate mass makes them unlikely to open if the stitch ripping causes vibration. i have seen guys fall on screamers on ice suddenly (like all 4 pts of contact suddenly fail while the guy is just standing there psyching) and they work awesome. never seen one rip all the stitches open - just about 1/3 of them- but i heard it can happen with bigger falls.