Dru

I was there for 3 or 4 days in August. mostly i go there for the ice as, if i want to, i can climb loose rock without making the 10 hour drive.

actually I have never been there just passing on 2ndhand slander.

I thought all the good rock at Deception had been carried up piece by piece from the riverbed and lovingly bolted/glued on?? PS Congrats on busting the 1200 mark Ray. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-04-2001).]

I'm planning to fill up a bunch of inflatable sheep with helium and tie them to my pack to aid the long march in to the Enchantments this weekend. But if it will be considered wildlife harassment I will have to come up with a way to hide them from the rangers.

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Although the bolted climbs are usually well spaced and anchors preplaced on good rock for most climbs. Like at Vantage?? Spokane limestone?? Mt Si?? There's good rock there?

I like cracks cause I can sew them up where as on some older "sport" climbs like at Smith, the bolts are further apart than mysafe dogging distance and if i want to hang I have to fall to do it!!! Whimper!!

Beck! You could have written a book about it like Jochen Hemmleb! Take lots of corpse shots and send em to the tabloids baby. Maybe you can hire Conrad Anker for your next body discovery mission. I hear Reinhold Messner is no good at it - when he found Otzi the Iceman he tore the genitals off prying the body loose from the ice!

To those who said - Don't sport climb just toprope it - what about Monkey Face? that Burdo route on Baring? Sissy Summits in canmore? Pretty long toprope huh. or take a 1-pitch route at the base of a large wall, like say, Screaming Yelow Zonkers at Smith. How do you get the rope up there to set the toprope? Rap in from the rim with a 1000 foot rope? [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 10-04-2001).]

It could happen here too. http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,961384a1561,FF.html

Do sheep count as wildlife?

north face, north peak of index in summer?

BBQ The Snafflehound? Snafflehound Surprise: take 3 cans of beer and open them. drink contents. repeat. now take a big rock and a granola bar. wrap the granola bar with some nylon webbing and put it in front of a snafflehound hole. drink more beer. when snafflehound sticks head out of hole to eat grains and webbing (mmmm webbing), whap it with the rock. SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

the newest robots have machined cam stops just like friends. big deal i don't like about them, is the end of the axles stick way out so they won't place as deep in shallow cracks.

Chicks like helmets cause guys that wear helmets on their heads will wear a head cover on other parts of the body too???? [latex helmet?] What good is a helmet at Vantage anyway if a whiole column falls over? SPLAT.

farting is your body maintaining the pressure differential with low-pressure air at altitude. imagine if you didn't fart as you climbed everest. you might explode on the summit from the pressure gradient between your sea-level-pressure guts and the 8800m outsides.

Toyota Tacoma canopies are easy to find at major trailheads. Take a chainsaw to facilitate harvesting them off of the truck you find them on.

Any body read the new AAJ yet? I liked where Leo Holding called homeboy Sean Isaac an "aid climbing rapist" for placing a rivet ladder while aiding on La Esfinge.

Border crossings are asking for min. birth certificae and photo ID, or preferably passport, in both directions. I had to show a frickin' Canadian pasport to come back to frickin' Canada! They wouldn't let me just sing the anthem or answer some hockey trivia questions. what is this sad ol' whirl coming to?

A good cork or sphincter control works better than dietary changes. Winter is coming. 10 "logger special" breakfasts are a damn sight cheaper than a fancy-schmancy North Face jacket with electric heater coils!! Plus it gives the ladies something to hold on to.

Landjager, baby! Original power meat snack food. More calories than wimpy jerky, keeps you warmer at night. I like eating tofu too

anybody used the dmm terminators? they fit the curved scarpa freney boots REALLY well but I just played with them in the store and didn't shell out the cash yet.

For the money the WC Friends and DMM Cams are better units for approximately the same price range (if you buy the latter at MEC anyways).

Cinema verite, should be a winner on the mtn film fest circuit.

on the same subject I lost my copy of that book last time i was in Lworth. if anybody found a copy with some tick marks in the frenchman's and lworth areas and is feeling like good karma let me know. i realize this is a longshot. charlie - smoot has some errata posted on his website. there's a link to it from matt p's online darrington page http://www.seanet.com/~mattp/Darr/

do they check pass serial numbers? Cause those passes are pretty low tech and look like they would be easy to duplicate on a colour photocopier....