Dru

quote: Originally posted by lambone: A Quark shaft isn't the only thing designed specificaly for your hand Dru... If you are talking about my shaft I will have you know I'm so well-endowed I have to order my pants specially with a third leg sewn in them!

hmmm, vibration sounds good! i found the pulsar vibrated a bit but not horribly so. just not much clearance over bulges. FWIW I found my pulsars climbed better without the head weights than with them. so I took em off. anybody with a "Prince Albert" wants some head weights for a tool ?

I like to wear a kilt while ice climbing, after all it was invented by the Scots! I also like to drink whiskey while Im ice climbing, it keeeeps you warrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

If you put your gaiters on the inside, if you kick your leg you shred your $400 bibs. If you put gaiters on the outside, kick your leg, shred your $50 gaiters. Gaiters are sacrificial! The keep snow out of the boots feature is secondary. The reason I hate BD tools is pure and simple the grip. I wish they would make a Cobra with a Rage grip. The Black Prophet/Cobra grip design with it t-shaped and widerer at the back end, is the ugliest-feeling grip I have ever held, maybe it is the way my hand is shaped or sized, but I loathe it. On the other hand the Quark feels like it was designed specifically for my hand. Go Chalet! Quarks Forever!

Tim Hortons Donuts are strongly patriotic and will resist any attempt by the Great Satan aka Krispy Kreme, to invade our sovereign territory.

In the past week I have had JON AND TIM THE MODERATORS reject not one, but two attempts of mine to register names other than Dru so that I could try and catch up to Ray and Mike in the "number of avatars" sweepstakes. No dice. You Bastards!

Battle of the Planets starring G-Force, Rocket Robin Hood, Itchy And Scratchy

On the N face of Baring, isn't there a bit that says "The next weekend they returned. In high heat and lacking water, Beckey progressed 20 feet past the previous high point and drilled a bad bolt in 4 hrs, then had to return to work. The remaining climbers easily finished the route the next day". 1) That must be the only time in his life he had to go to work, 2) Years later and he is still choked they finished the line without him! 3) 4 hrs for 20 feet and 1 bolt sounds HARDDDDD!

quote: Originally posted by Matt: Best climber job = mattress tester Pros:1. paid to sleep in a different bed every night 2. Some nights you sleep alone, some nights you don’t3. Days are free to climb Cons1. doesn’t pay very well2. work at night3. one must have complete dedication to the job, often spending 12 to 16 hours in bed Can't stain the mattress either!!!!

Don't got no problems [with my browser] Im fine, so fine Eatin bread and drinkin wine (blues riff) Except... my baby left me For a dude who redpoints 15b Im down, so blue, what CAN I do Im gonna solo Everest, that will put me to the test And show her what the power of love will do for you (10 minute drum solo)

The only Rears I Admire are on the girls I belay

What rank is the shark?

quote: Originally posted by CascadeClimber: So it is 24 degrees at Washington Pass, elev 5510 and 54 degrees at Paradise, elev 5410. Bizarre. Let me know how your tour goes tomorrow. I'm interested in how close to the parking lot you can ski. -Loren Inversion at Paradise? Cold front sweeping down from Canada? It is fuckin cold out here right now, must be about 3 degrees or 37 in Us temperatures.brrr. maybe the ice will freeze - naw, its gonna rain tomorrow night.

quote: Originally posted by jon: Is this jacket on their website, I didn't see it? i dunno, i didn't look but it should be? its called the castor anyways. i just looked and they havent updated the catalog, still last seasons stuff. sigh. happens all the time. [ 11-08-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

... are tough. I had no idea! Feeding endangered species like that. I thought all you did was shoot people! [ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

PP, I have no idea if Sunshine was originally 11d or not, I'm just going by what Watts book says.

quote: Originally posted by David Parker: I probably will get a bunch of shit for this, but I can't seem to figure out how to use those "tools" when posting a reply. How do you post someone's "quote" before you respond, make something bold, put in those funny icons, etc? Click on them with your cursor dude. The Reply with Quote stuff is at the top of the post -look for the little "66 99" symbol. As for the icons you just click on them like if you want the beer swilling guy you just click on him in the box of "instant graemlins" and there he is And if you want another funny icon I suggest you find a website with a bunch of gif's and use the tags to add one in , like this : [ 11-08-2001: Message edited by: Dru ]

I think Reinhold Messner said, nowadays he wouldn't be able to climb hard new routes on the Dolomites, but when he was 20 he wouldn't have had the staminas and determination to ski across Antarctica... No word on at what age he started seeing the Yeti everywhere though

Right on, thanks, I didn't know if Redpoint had ice gear or not, I will look for them there and if not there at the gear store in Bend. weather.com says it is going to rain sun-mon-tues so we will probably be spending a lot of time wandering in the lava tubes or whatever...

if you get the hammer w/ evolution interchangable style , you can take the shaft and pick off and it turns into a super light alpine rock hammer for taking booty pins out of canadian rockies trade routes and so on..

Axars? If you get the pulsar make sure you get one Evolution with the interchangable shaft, nice for alpine trips where you use an ice axe on the approach and a short tool on hard ice on the route.

quote: Originally posted by Peter Puget: Dru - Sad to hear Slipping Clutch is dirty. I climbed it when it was new and very clean. It was the first route on which I used Fires to climb and the new rubber (compared to EBs that is) was amazing. The OW is not thru a roof and does not resemble any of the OW you mention. The route arches to right and becomes almost an arm bar undercling. (as if that makes much sense)I guess there might be various way to climb it tho. someone might have recently recleaned it actually. i hear you need some rps and tcu's?

at smith, they did downgrade when sticky rubber came along, for instance sunshine dihedral went from 12a to 11d.... they should do that for ice routes too! like if it was WI 6 with terrordactyls and strap on crampons it would be 4+ now

Who repeated Supercrack?

You have to be pretty stupid to rob a donut shop, it is like shooting a cop, they get territorial.