Dru

Its more like being a Trophy Husband but on a short term temporary contract

"Belay loop is twice as strong as anything else on the harness"- Arcteryx wisdom.

Don't say "scraping the bottom" on this website you will get pinkpoint excited again!

whoops wrong vk! you two should have a celebrity death match to battle it out over who owns the initials!

i wish there were more winners of thechest beater award on that site, there are more than enough candidates out there-like the guy who is always bragging about climbing some obscure route on some obscure peak on bivouac.com - I think his name is Drew Sprayshaw or something...

i can't find that page anymore? viktor/victoria [that was a funny Ed Wood movie about transsexuals i think] how can you find a comment like that disturbing after that "news item" about yourself getting caught... you posted a few months back?? Adamson is a brawler and likes to get rowdy. my advice is don't take it personal. i've caught a few slaps from whillans myself but i dont mind cause when we met in person the free beer flowed copiously. how is the updated guidebook coming by the way viktor?? next spring or what? cause the binding on my current copy is almost completely kaput. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-22-2001).] [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-22-2001).]

That is pretty cocky of J.O. signing the summit register as a "car to car in a day" trip when he was half way done -on the summit with the descent left to do - some of those Red Rocks routes take longer to descend than they do to climb...

2 clove hitches, aid, bob's your uncle. or you can go the spendy route with a silent partner, safer but $$$er. your call.

I believe the amount of methane and hot air emitted moondancing makes all the other environmental impactors you mentioned pale by comparison. I believe your trolling license has expired.

Instead of selling gear you could have taken a GIGOLO assignment for a week or so, it helps to like older women, and good physical training of the body core area for pulling those roof moves. Plus you keep the gear for long aid climbs and Indian Creek.

FOUND on certain holds at Frenchmans Coulee and Smith Rocks, SUSPICIOUS WHITE POWDER Better evacuate the place it could be ANTHRAX! "If someone reports white powder found on a doughnut in a Tim Horton's we are going to rate its threat hazard very low" - an unidentified member of the BC Hazardous Materials Response team discussing Anthrax Scares on the radio.

I bet it will make spooning at those ultralight bivies more fun. Now you and your partner can see if 2 people can fit in 1 jacket!

soloed davy jones' locker with a pack fulla gear and mtn masters on for training. then went hiking, more training. then went to housewarming and hot tub, not for training.

one time, i was down in zion, bumming around in the rain after bailing on a wall route*, and i found a copy of ed abbey's desert solitaire in a mormon thrift store - after i read it i understtod how privileged i was to see rain in the desert. didn't feel so bummed anymore. * it is scary when you see the rock soften to the point where the nut you are standing on starts to track out...

5.9 A2 in the Rockies is like a5, it is the top of the grading scale. if youthink its the hardest possible thing doable you give it 5.9 a2. of course many old 5.9 a2 single pitches are now m9's... the new sandbag grade is "m6+ and they can choke on that!" (this quote courtesy of Steve House of Mazama, Wa.)

when it is -30 out the plastix will keep you from getting popsicle toes. got to be LOTS of leather and thinsulate and stuff in leathers to prevent that.

quote: Originally posted by freak: Viper is a boulder problem in Squish Dru next time you try that thing, on the starting hold ajust your hand to instead of crimping to a sidepull with your thumb on top, it makes it a little easier, somehow it works!! but the upper part is still desparate, I have to add the lotus flower tower to my list, nic I'm still using the beta from the picture of the girl climbing it in the michaux guide.

quote: Originally posted by crazyjz: David Parker: As you all know, I am one hill-billy juke mother fucker, and I have broke more old climbing ropes with trucks, cats, and tractors than I can count. They typically break either at one side of the knot, or at the hitch, shacle, or clevis. One time we were tryng to yard an old alder down with four parallel rope tied to D4, and they all broke essentially simulateously, with a report that sounded like a bomb. I have never broken a rope with a cat, when I try they just meow and bat at it. even promising some catnip tokes won't get them that motivated.

quote: Originally posted by forrest_m: and whats more, his most famous route? (drumroll please...) CAVEMAN M9+ (i'm not making this up) Featuring 10 m of rock roof to a dead tree 'coated with ice' [sic] Bro Sean was called an "aid climbing rapist" in the latest AAJ!

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: That Twisting Couloir Looks fun Central Couloir was fun too

If you miss that date but want to see the show Guy Edwards will be doing the same deal in Vancouver as part of the MEC slide show series - Nov 6 at the ANZA club. I hear Vance is also going to be on the panel discussion in Banff Mtn Fest on Mtns of Afghanistan. He was there for a year with Doctors W/o Borders.

quote: Originally posted by freak: astroman rotc Hyperspace Death FLake problem, forrest land other death flake problem big booty bitch slap Finish the Grand wall Viper the regular route half dome nic I got not one but both feet off the ground on Viper once!!!!!!!!!!! I'm my fucking hero now!

The Old Settler is the best mountain in the world. As for the other peaks in the guide I don't know I haven't climbed any of them too busy spraying (on stealth mission today checking out big walls in Powell River)

I want to learn to ski.

but in chilliwack at least some stores are open on sunday!