Dru

Where theres a Will theres a way, yo Big willie Style take it away.

I think I just did 20 posts in 20 minutes or thereabouts, its these insult fests with Caveman. I don't wear Lycra in the closet I wear it out in the open!!! Usually when I am doing the Elvis and dogging on 10b sport routes at Smith Rocks. See you all there this weekend for a display of how to have an epic on a sport climb, watch me crater trying to clip 2nd bolt on BBQ The Pope again and then watch some 8 year old girl solo it.

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: I'm on the 8-ball shift lever (even if it'll be sitting on the end of an automatic shift lever). I'm also currently looking for some (here's your cue Dru) hot-purple dangly balls to go around the interior. The back windows and the one side window (no side windows except the 3 in the doors)are tinted, but not the front ones yet. It was a toss-up between chain-link and leopard-fur, at $4.99 leopard fur got the nod (plus it's getting cool out, chain-link is cold). For bumper stickers I'm looking for a "Benevolent Frateral Oder of Police" bribery system sticker to go next to the "Grass, gas, or ass..nobody rides for free" sticker.If I got the mullet-barbarian mural I'd have to get those heart or spade shaped bubble windows installed back by the rear corners, and probably would be entering an entirely higher level of pimp-style, I'm not that cool yet (need another six months to grow out the hair so I can mullet it). Hey, anybody got some Kid Rock on 8 track? My dangly balls are not for sale!!!! You got it right though they are pinky-purple most of the time. not blue like Cavey's

quote: Originally posted by Courtenay: re: leg swing on pullups -- I can see "swinging" being a real problem on hanging knee raises for abdominal/core strength, but can you give me more info on body position that could cue me in to your "swinging" issue and how to correct it? I heard the body position that sexual chocolate uses while "swinging" involves getting down on all 4s!

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: I picked down yo' goathomey dere and stole ha' mumy den dumped ha' out on de bridge. What it is, Mama! ah' stole mah' boots fum some wasted kinyucka' bitch. Right On! The Bridge of the 23 Camels? MMMm those Lillooet girls, they braid their armpit hairso pretty, if there was five or six of them together they might have a full set of teeth between them, sort of like Tacoma girls with class.

quote: Originally posted by sexual chocolate: I don't know, Captain, all-around alpine stuff. Maybe a winter ascent of Rainier, some ice climbing, maybe even some mixed stuff. Hopefully, one boot will work for all of that.... I find TWO boots works a lot better than one, ya one-legged moondancer!

I can't find Mt Eerie anyways anybody got GPS coordinates for that crag? Maybe its like the Bermuda triangle

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: That is where i got mine too. I was agreeing with you stoner Where you got your chicks, where you got your boots, or where you got your mumu??

I saw John Miller pick up Lillooet girls in "Mugs and Jugs" and he was wearing a mumu! Whats your point Cavey??

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Dirt is hard! As I mentioned before..... Until it is frozen up then it is M2!!!

Bumper sticker saying "if this vans rockin dont come knockin", airbrush art on the side of some barbarian with a mullet riding a polar bear with naked women at his feet, and an 8-ball for a gearshift knob.

you can always tape a shake-n-heat chemical handwarmer pad or two to the canister if you are leery of the wire wrap making it explode.

INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY Conrad Anker wears plastic boots and gets the chicks according to the Koflach ads. Seems good to me!

Some grades are harder than others (sounds like a U2 song line ). Case in point, when 5.12 was the upper limit of the YDS a lot of routes that would get rated 5.12 today got rated 11+. For instance the last pitch of Daily Planet (crux, 12b) was given 11+ by Perry Beckham, as was the first pitch of u wall (12a today) by Hamish Frasert and im certain there are more well known examples in washington. these days when everybody wants to pad their resume looks like its going the other way, 'grading for the onsight' and soft grades in general. funny at squamish, mclane keeps bumping things up a grade, lots of soft grades now. when howie richardson took over the skaha guidebook he bumped a lot of 10as down to 5.9s and a lot of 11as diown to 10ds and so on and now the grades seem spot on.

This site is run by my buddy "Ard Arvin". He takes submissions (hint hint).If legally pressed I woulds have to testify that I do not know anyone by the name of Ard Arvin. www.buildering.net

seems to me the area you start climbing always has the correct ratings and every other area you visit is either hard or soft for the grade. or both at once like at j-tree where the 5.9s on shorter wall are easier than the 5.7s on DQ wall never did figure out what up with that!

Saturday - did some hiking and smoking and skipped rocks on some subalpine lakes, and a little bit of bouldering. Unfortunately on the Chilliwack limestone crags at Slesse Creek it is fishing season and there are piles of fishermen's shit under all the pocketed limestone boulder traverses! Makes it bad news if you bail, more like soloing. sunday - went to the CoOp and bought some BD Express screws since now is the only time all year they will have them in stock! Also looked at some Grivel 360s at CMS but the 75 dollar price tag did not seem motivating. The funky coffe grinder wire lever seems like it would be easy to bend or break while beating on the screw with a tool trying to remove it or clear ice.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: I'm thinking about installing a shark fin on top of my helmet this winter. Route shark! !!

most of them started with a full set!

The Capt. needs to preserve his knuckles for dragging them on the sidewalk when he walks down the block to the liquor store.

Some things are definitely more inspirational than others, sad but true. Take Whittaker's ascent. would it have been as inspiring if he was missing a hand instead of a foot? OK then how about missing a finger instead of a foot? Little finger vs,. index finger vs. thumb? What if he was missing both legs below the knee(like Hugh Herr) instead of one foot? What if he had soloed it without oxygen with the disability he has? The inspiration comes not just from the accomplishment but from the style with which it was performed. If some quadraplegic was carried to the summit by Sherpas, it would be a "disabled ascent", but how inspiring would it be? The thing that I like about the Ancient Art ascent is the way the three of them were able to work as a team and overlap their capabilities for a successful ascent. And my gripe about the Slideshow advertised above is that it is motivational Everest hype pure and simple, USING Whittakers disability as a shill to suck you in and tap your $$$$. The slide show itself is "free" but the point is to hype the Sponsors. "Puffy Wipe - just like we used on Everist hyest in the WURLD!!!" [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

And I think that clearly Rheinhold Messner's ascent was the first disabled ascent of Everest. If you read anything that guy has written you will see he is suffering from some sort of bizarre mental condition: "I went to the Himalayas and saw the Yeti. Then I ran for the European Parliament!"

The next ascent of Everest will be achieved by piling up a mound of "Everest Literature" and motivational speakers who think that climbing Everest makes them and what they have to say interesting, and steeping DOWN onto the summit of Everest from the top of the trash heap.

How many ice routes has Vadim done?

There are at least 4 or 5 different thicknesses, weights, waterproofnesses of Schoeller fabric out there now so you better think twice when comparing fabrics between different companies.