Dru

Check Lillooet weather at www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca before you go. In the event of warm temps (possible in Feb) Rockies would be a better choice for a wk of ice. From Oregon you could cut through east wash its probably only about 3 hrs more driving for maybe 700+ more routes? Not that Lillooet isnt rad but you might run out of stuff during a warm week and the after hours scene is way better in Canmore. OTOH if there is a real cold snap forget Lillooet and head to Whistler/Pemberton, lots of ice and pick up ski bunnies in the bars afterwards.

i dont know about cavey but I spray 9-5, weekdays only. this weekend i will be out climbing.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: dickhead (dikhed) noun,verb,adverb,adj,string,variable,const.subroutine,array,function- Drul! What a fucking Drul! [ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Cpt.Caveman ] caveman: either a boulderer addicted to contrived sit down starts, or a "mixed" wood and rock route with no ice in Alberta, or a bizarre guy by the name of Xray Bonbon who has a uni-brow and masturbation scars on his palm from the time someone told him to sharpen his tool.

Mer you got a bunch of possibilities: (this is all 2nd hand info or stuff I have seen but not climbed)-prepare for beta spew. 1) Gap Falls area 12km or so west of Revelstoke. Gap Falls is a 2-3 pitch WI 5 right behind the hotel on the highway. within 1-2 km east of Gap Falls are several longish WI 3 and 4 routes hidden in the trees, also south facing. Gap is in West Coast Ice, the other routes are recorded in the 1985 CAJ, I think, Rick Cox article if you can find a copy. 2) North of Revelstoke on the Mica Dam road I hear 2nd hand is some good ice. Call up Roger Laurilla(guide) in R'Stoke and ask him (try the people finder on mybc.com to get his phone #?). Post here what you find out. 3) on the Trans Can east of Rstoke there is some slabby ice across the valley from the highway somewhere out near the Lauretta Slabs. Looks like 3-pitches of grade 3-ish stuff?? sort of like Kicking Horse Canyon ice. N facing 4) In the pass itself there are some super sick and maybe unclimbed pillars coming off the north face of McDonald. You can see it from the highway between the avalanche sheds. If you are looking for M7 WI6+ on good quartzite with high avvy hazard take a crack at it... 5) Near Chase there is some steep ice way up above the highway where it crosses under some big chossy n facing cliffs.you probably know what i mean here cause you live pretty close.

Stupid Canadian question: When is Presidents Day?

quote: Originally posted by sisu suomi: Dru, I take it you like hockey! Do you know who the Iron Rangers are? How about the Hanson Brothers!? Hansons are maing a comeback. never heard of the Iron Rangers but the Canucks are 3-0-1 since they got Linden back! Buy your Stanley cup tickets now folks!

quote: Originally posted by TIMM@Y: freshiez live Oregon Freshiez are dead, behooootch.

quote: Originally posted by no_pot_heads: Dru- well mabey this will help you be a better wife/bitch [ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: no_pot_heads ] "Mabey" this will teach you how to spell better!

Agree with David parker, I think it was Jo-Jo was soloing once and fell on a daisy chain on his belay which was 3 screws and his 3rd tool all equalized, he blew the screws and the tool held him (pick bent though). good thing he placed it eh!

Parker - the photo has got to have a web link like http://www.photo.com/thisismyphoto.jpg. Then you post it with the image tags same as you would with a smiley like this:

"all of that wasted time planning meals....sewing overboots...organizing shit...memorizing high alaska... you could have been TRAINING!" -Scott Backes to the west butt sloggers c. 1998 (as quoted by Twight) You sure done dug yourself a hole scott hole-sure. [ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

I am a "no stepper" You can't trick me into opening that http://www.jhs1.f2s.com website. [ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by erik: NOW!!! erik

nice try Larson next time call yourself Flying squirrel or some less obvious name.

Spondonicle:* Originally Australian for a pot gripper (that grabby thing that comes with the MSR pot set) the term is now used interchanably with whatchamacallit and widget , ie "Can you pass me that spondonicle?" or "Dude where did I put my spondonicle?" or "None of my fuckin' spondonicles will fit in this crack!" *On the supertopos website, on Conrad Ankers topo of El Nino, "spondonicle" is on the gear list.

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forgot to include the trained squirel picture. this thing is the coolest! props to whoever found it.

freeclimb was that "Earl" Earl Redfern?

Maybe you should check ANAM 1988 instead of AAJ 1988? Best place to look for old journals is often in climbing club libraries, the clubs all send each other comp. copies.

we should chop all the bolts so you know you arent going to miss any of them - none to miss. then we should pile freshies over every climb and dry-tool to the top and ski down in a cloud of face shots. and then drink , and watch the trained squirrels run around with ropes in their mouths, and everyone should create a new avatar , and all spontaneously worship Big-Lou, and have a flame war, and sleep it off. oh wait that is what we do anyways !

All AVATARS showing up at the pub club will have to buy their main personality a beer

you call that freshiez? up here in Canada we would call that a dandruff day... just a dusting of white flakes on a bald hill.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: yeah, cause o and a are so close to ach other on your keyboard right? Dvorak, baby, Dvorak! meeeeaaaaawwwwww!

PineyK you should submit that bridge trip report to www.buildering.net (plug plug)

Spray is the most popular topic since spray postings now show up on the front page again.