Dru

I got some of that Spectra-A stuff that came out pretty good in the test but when I belay Caveman I will switch to nylon because of the chance the anchor will get loaded.

sometimes if you are lucky you can pop a screw through into water under pressure and it blasts out the ice core and gives you a running water spurt from your screw. kinda like tapping a keg but without the head... it would be cool if it was beer though. Terminal G., you have to design us an iceclimb made of frozen running beer on the outside of your brewery...

I invented a new form of ice climbing. 1) get on a route 2) hang from a screw/bolt/hook etc. and wait for a good climber to climb by you 3) hook a tool onto his or her haul loop 4) get dragged up the climb I call this Dru Tooling. Perhaps soon I will dru tool my way up many coveted M10+ routes.

thimble is only v4 but highball. i bet it gets done every week nowadays with 16 spotter dudes and their maxi pads all spewing beta at you. what the hell, thimble was v4 done in the early 60's, fontainebleau had v7 in the late 50's...

FWIW there seems to be a fair amouunt of groundwater flow and if it evr does freeze up good then routes are gonna be fat... House Of Cards looked like this might be the year to climb it, more ice there than at any time in last 2 years... sketchy bridge across near night & gale (up near dam), for salmon stakes etc prepare to wade.

23 posts left until page 20. i think jon and tim should just delete posts at random so they are seen as capricious deities to be placated (I stole that phrase from an anthropology text describing the origins of religion).

hands swollen from what? #4 camalot is knee jam and chicken wing size for me. luckily you can lieback/undercling then slap for a big jug on that route so you never have to really jam it except for a knee jam.

quote: Originally posted by mikeadam: Hmmm...Bubu-Twight versus unknown...unhearalded Canadian, American, Slovenian, Japanese,Gypsy climbing bums living in their trucks freezing all winter and totally against self promotion. I smoked a bowl with a slovenian japanese gypsy once. it was pure skunk.

spway on. i go home now. work over! 4:20 at 4:45!

quote: Originally posted by erik: cause he wants to be a woman too!!! want a woman, yes... to be a woman, only when you are around you manly stud!! NOT!!

Im not outing Kathy, outing would be revealing that Kathy is Bonzo... oops!

i am skinny but i still eat the "hungry man" special at the reynolds for breakfast. fat guys ice climb better - no shivering. work 2 hours miss 50 posts in spray. kathy is a guy.

17 down 7 to go to page 20!!

I never saw Rock Cop Go climbing, miss spray

oh yeah. homeless guys + buildering = plenty of cardboard sleeping pads for buildering mats. a friend of mine was scared to fall on those cardboard mats once. i told him he had "hobo -foamia."

i did a 4000 foot butt glissade off silvertip once. snow was just too soft to boot ski but sitting down gave more surface area in contact and increased flotation enough to slide. took like 15-20 minutes, froze my ass numb and didnt wear a hole in my gore tex bibs for which i am thankful.

Should add that Jade Falls on the Bridge road didnt look too bad but did not want to hike uphill for an hour in the rain to get there.

i climbed The Fox in Red Rocks once. what a pump. 10c off width. i used my sport technique of laybacking. technique of no technique. the brit expatriates tried to do fox hunts of the coyotes in the fraser valley back in the 1930s. but the coyotes were too smart to get caught.

praise be to panther for resuscitating the longest thread ever. its almost as long as the coiler i left in the bowl this morning and it smells much better. every body spray now, page 20 is on the horizon. here we come!

wolves were killing deer in the streets of pemberton last winter. wild kingdom baby! jordo i hear you about the cougars. you walk one way, you come back 15 minutes later and there are cougar tracks over top of yours --bad time to have to tie up a shoe lace. i have heard coyotes on both sides of the range but the urban ones do seem much quieter. survival instinct?

1) You can lead Mickey Mantle at 8-Mile Rock with tri cams so drop that TR notation. Also Classic Crack should be 5.8 not 5.9 2) Roof Crack at Mountie Dome is not a hand crack - it takes a #3 and #4 camalot 3) how about distinguishing between bad rock and absence of pro somehow in the "skulls" - if you are confident to solo a 5.7, that there is only 1 bolt on the pitch is no biggy but loose rock may be more of a concern. 4) better topo for Snow Creek wall and/or go back to the expanded topo for the shield like you had in the 1st edition. and/or provide more info on possible link ups to take in the good pitches of various routes.

I heard the real story behind this is that Beth Rdden was gonna Bobbitize Tommy but he put a hand out to stop her and she got his finger instead.

Went up to Lillooet Friday night. rained all night. drove up duffy sat AM in the rain. tube - in at bottom verglas at top. carls berg - sketchy WI6R looking icicles with gushing holes. nothing else much in. went back to lillooet & drove up bridge. now raining heavily. salmon stakes - kinda in. shriek sheep/ night & gale looked kinda in but hard to tell (hidden in the rain). heavy rockfalls observed & one almost hit my car drove back to lillooet and headed to marble canyon. rain mostly stopped first 2 pitches of icy bc in but anemic. other routes unconsolidated icicle curtains. 2 parties toproping. headed over to cache creek and down thompson - all routes melted out - back to Chilliwack 800 kms on the car and no ice climbed. IF a big freeze happens the ice might reform in time for this weekend but otherwise ice in lillooet is gonna be slim to nonexistant next week or so [ 12-10-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by trask: Really? ...and will you and Eva be coordinating this proctological buttress-mounting foray? NEWS FLASH Ray Borbon, newly hired director of NASA, replied to reporters : I think we are going to call the new probe "Enterprise" since it will circle Uranus in search of Klingons to destroy.

Oh yeah, Eva Lanche, that french girl. Nice double undercling there Speaking of probes Trask did you know NASA is sending a $20 million probe to Uranus