Dru

Who's he kidding, FB is 80 not 73. But I forget he was 59 for 10 years!

quote: Originally posted by plexus: Tomyhoi is pretty nice with Canada and its pastures and a town that appears just a few valleys away (Dru what town is that you see from there to the NW from there?). Also you have Larrabee, with its rust coloring, and the Pleiades and the border peaks (nothing looks cooler than these guys with a mantle of snow when you're driving to the ski area) right there. Also you get a far-away view of the Pickets, and some of the remote ones like Reboubt. Also love looking into Nooksack Cirque by Shuksan and Icy. Heard Baker is nice in clear skies, you can see the San Juans from there. Beautiful scenic Chilliwack BC, unfortunately current home of Dru. Famous for smelling of manure and super high rate of teen pregnancy. Coincidentally, most churches per capita in BC!!

There is a mountain in Las Vegas area called Turtlehead Mountain. Better get some Ex lax or pliers to get that baby delivered!

Euro Death Knot!!!!

Mike!!

Abbey did write about climbing - descending and then climbing up slot canyons, in Desert Solitaire. Also there is a climbing scene in Monkey Wrench Gang where they climb a cliff to escape from the Mormon search and rescue team...

I'm currently writing a self-help relationship book for climbers. I will call it Mars and Venus in Your Haulbag and make $$$$$$$. I will follow that up with a book of New Age psycho-babble and call it the Slessetine Prophecies. More $$$$$$. Then a pet owners/animal lovers book - The Snafflehound Whisperer. Finally an alpine romance - the Snow Bridges of Madison Glacier. $$$$$$$$ Soon to appear on Oprah!! Isn't there a 11c boulder problem/TR at Rat Creek Boulder called Atlas Shrugged? you sending that Holly?? Actually I am reading a science fictiony type book by Robert Silverberg right now called Kingdoms of The Wall. about a bunch of stone age aliens making a religious pilgrimage up a huge mountain. pretty cool, sort of like Mt Analogue for the sci-fi reader. I would recommend it to anybody that climbs if you can get through the first 50 pages of anthropology.

#0.5 - a brain? Or maybe not? Gonna take dirty pix of yourself Moondancing??

"aw gee, shucks, thanks Beck!" (blush) I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you SPRAY me... trask?

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I once won $250 from the ACC for prose excellence Trask, how's that ? PS I suspect both Trask and sex Chocolate are pseudonyms for.... I won't say (a certain poster who seems to have about 15 names already on this board)

Olympus Mons without oxygen via the Martian direct up the 6000m cliff band at the bottom. also to be ethical i will swim there from here like Goran Kropp! no mechanized support!! [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-17-2001).]

...MUCH more prone to hanging up... but agreed, when using 2 ropes of wildly different diameters (like 10mm lead rope and 7mm rap line), gotta go with something a bit better than the EDK. I usually go with straight DF in that situation, least bulk.

quote: Originally posted by jon: Dru I give ski lessons for beer! I trade ski lessons for bud, but there are a lot of locals lined up already to give me lessons. I think just for the joy of watching me face plant, actually.

quote: Originally posted by Climzalot: Ahh, one of my favorite pass times is to search for and research new additions to the lifetime tick list. Nemesis, Ghost Area, Canadian Rockies um, Nemesis is on the Stanley Headwall in Yoho, about 150 km as the crow flies from the Ghost River... if you are heading to the Ghost to climb Nemesis you are in for a surprise. or did you mean the Sorcerer or Hydrophobia, they are both in the Ghost??

I have only ever been skiing twice, once on tele gear and once on x country. My tele experience was a total failure i got dragged up the bunny hill on my stomach trying to use the rope tow! Oh no (shame). Just going for a tour in some knee deep powder and going down a hill with a pack on without wiping out will be enough for me to feel ive accomplished something. must be those ski films at the Best of the Banff working their twisted message. also So i can hang out with some friends all year long instead of just in the summer. I guess if you want a specific objective I would like to ski the east face of silvertip that I did the FA of a few years ago. 1000 feet of 50 degree snow to a bench glacier to another 3000 feet of 30 degree snow to a long ski out through the trees. i cant figure why johnny foon or jia havent bagged it already, they beat me and touche to plinth by 5 MONTHS!!! [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-17-2001).]

lambone - you can be fat and weak and still be a hard aid climber (although living on a wall strips the fat pretty quick all the OE 800 and whatnot puts it back on pretty quick when you get back to the Deli) but you gotta be pretty strong AND have good technique for hard ice.

main advantage on nappy style pockets is that they bulge out at the outside of the chest instead of the inside, so when you have stuff in them you can look down and still see your tie in point and feet (unless your gut gets in the way).

Choco-nut Mailer should move to Utah and change his name to Mormon Nailer and do a bunch of Zion aid. Then I will read him.

i'm not dissing Krakauer ( a good climber or so I hear) just his writing, which sucks. you can be a good person and still write shit. or vice versa But jk writing is not as bad as Andrew Todhunter's writing (which blows wet chunks). "I know, me me me, I will write a book about Dan osman which is really all about me and how I am scared to solo, mE me me me me. osman is braver than me so he must be warped. me me me."

RE: devils thumb. the way it came across he went in to solo the (then and still) unclimbed 6000 foot NW face then wised up after climbing a bit of the face. unlikely, IMHO. by his own description the gear he took was inadequate for the type of climbing that the NW face presents, which anyone who has seen a picture of or flown by the face would understand involves very hard mixed and big wall aid. then he solos an "easy" route to the summit. OK props to him. but, according to his description, he does the FA of an "unclimbed" variation to the Beckey route. my problem with this: the route he calls the Beckey route is the Culbert Starr Douglas E ridge direct. The "unclimbed" route he solos is the Beckey route. Im sure Jon knows enough about the mtn to know this. so did his ediotor change it to make it look like he soloed a FA or did he deliberately lie??????

aw shucks, thanks holly! (blush)

I put Jon Krakauer in the Outside School of Journalism with guys like Tim Cahill that can't write three sentences without mentioning themselves. You notice they don't ever write "The landscape was beautiful and desolate", they write "I saw the landscape as beautiful and desolate." Unending me me me me me all thru every book.

i found if you head in to N Twin Sister at this time of year, the gates are unlocked so hunter types don't have to walk to shoot things, so you can drive right to the end of the road.also with 6 inches of freshies you can do the glissade. special thanks to "fishstick" for hyping the dry tooling possibilities along this ridge.

I've heard a certain Mike Adamson once called people who post to cc.com "gapers and bumblies" [sic]. quote: Originally posted by whillans: So there's always this talk about NW legends (past and present) who deem themselves unwilling to post here in the trenches. Anyone have actual firsthand confirmation of a legend or high end Himilayan mountaineer who speaks derogatorily about cascadesprayers? I've heard so much name dropping around here. Viesturs, Krakauer, Bueler, Child, Drew Brayshaw, Beckey....