Dru

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.

I wonder if Toyota is ever gonna do an ad campaign based on that fact? Lawrence of Arabia had a big fleet of Rolls Royces for tooling around the desert in, I think.

Dont the Taliban drive toyota PU's??

Matt A, was he leading trad or sport? and did he lead in the gym or not? i wan to know how impressed i should be

Rockies have been pretty warm and wet so far and most ice is just starting to come in again as the temp dropped a bit last 2 days: Check forecast at http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/scripts/citygen.pl?client=ECCDN_e&city=WXA Gyms are for happy spiders not dry tooling. Metal picks can scratch hand holds! Get some of those plastic picks Grivel makes or wrap your picks and mono points in duct tape.

you ever notice "denali" is just "denial" misspelled?? my spell checker did. Scott important key to success is coming up with a catchy team name. TEAM HARSH REALM is still taken I guess, maybe you guys could be TEAM SWILL BEER or TEAM WE HATE MARK TWIGHT or something?

erik you got to post more, Lammy has passed you by like 100 posts!! that rust is a protective coating against sunburn - you put on titanium oxide - i use iron oxide.

quote: Originally posted by Terry: Dru, border crossing was Aldergrove. Other than the stupid questions it was a quicker crossing than pre-WTC. Most of the cracks were moist or had water running in them but the faces were dry. My first trip to Squamish with one of the other CascadeClimbers was spent climbing in the rain about 13 yrs ago. We did Diedre with a small river running down the crack. Neither of us can read real well and spent an hour or so trying to climb the headwall at the end of the climb, not realizing we were done. Actually, I think that was all Walter's fault. Of course there were no other idiots up there climbing in the rain. I think we wandered by Funorama on Saturday. I thought I knew where everthing was and had my old yellow guidebook. Now I realize that the MacLane 1992 guidebook is also pretty outdated. I guess I'll have to buy another one to keep up with the changes up there. I also need to add Doo-ood to my vocabulary, based on the conversations I had with the two guys we saw. Terry Make sure you buy the one that says "2001 Update" with a yellow spine and 140 new route supplement on yellow paper at the back, it costs the same as the 99 edition, but it has my name in it about 6 more times!

"oklahomo" was a spelling mistake on my part. I dont want to suggest all them damn okies are gay. im certain there are lots of sheep cows and goats that could testify differently!