Dru

clipless SPD aiders save weight and time????

quote: Originally posted by Matt: it should be noted that the Plague (as in the one that crippled Europe) still exists in Mongolia and other central asian countries and it is spread to people via the fleas found on marmots. The Plague also exists in the American Southwest, particularily the 4 corners area. It kills people once every couple years. Don't get bit by fleas in Indian Creek.

I ate a beaver. I saved a tree. It's eco -logical!!

Praise be to Caveman For he hath found the funny Site full of icons

Due to their eating habits the Snafflehounds near Waddington were renamed Falafelhounds some time ago.

That wasn't me that was Anonymous Retrobolter. But if voodoo works I wonder what happens if you stick a pin in a blow up sex toy. Would Pam Anderson deflate suddenly????

You don't have to grow up to become a dumb ass like me, you are one already...

When I started gym climbing, back in 1992, for the first couple of months, I could do 5.9 at Squamish, but not 5.9 in the gym. One of the reasons I hated gym climbing. Don't have that problem anymore but lots of new reasons to hate gym climbing!

quote: Originally posted by Beck: Regarding spectra vs. nylon, some guys I know that attended this years' Rigging for Rescue course in BC last month came back with new results that spectra slings and runners fail considerably below their kilonewton rating when even a small dynamic fall is induced on them. Spectra is static, what do you mean by a dynamic fall????

low clearance OK should be enough wire there NE ridge Bugaboo is 5.7, not 5.6 - good 5.6 and easier stuff on the peaks near crescent lake and brenta spire, west ridge of Pigeon, Kain Route on Bugaboo, etc. but W ridge pigeon excepted, as the grade gets easier expect more mountaineering and lots less climbing. Buy the guidebook!!! Go by Nelson on your way for herb supply and also to climb in the Valhallas! Bugaboos minus glaciers and crowds. Dont forget to take $$$ it is about $10 a night to tent and $15 for the hut, they DONT TAKE CHEQUES (except from Fred Beckey) OR DEBIT CARDS!!!!

MEC is out of stock on FLYs, Axars etc. for the forseeable future

if you aren't connected to your aiders, though, you face the all to real possibility of dropping them and/or falling out of them.

Once upon a time i was nailing up "leviticus" (now free at 13a) and clipped into a fixed head, bounced, its rusted cable blew and i fell 2 feet onto a set of stacked Peenuts on my (nylon) daisy. it held. then when I bird beaked into the deadhead, and bounced, and moved onto the beak, the Peenuts fell out!!!! so is this just theoretical or has anyone ever died or been injured by a spectra daisy or sling breaking in a climbing-type (aid or free) fall situation? [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-24-2001).]

I heard a rumor that Office Spice is really Donna Top Step posting under a different name???

If I get you right, by "dynamic" you mean a "sudden" fall instead of a slow steady pull like you would get with a pull-tester?

I still don't get how falling on a daisy could generate dynamic fall. What pulls through to generate the dynamic extension??? I can see, if you were belaying someone on a rope made out of spectra, and they whipped, and you let a few feet slide through your atc, that would be a dynamic fall. but on a daisy??

That could be the Capt., will Strickland or retro getting voodooed... you guys feel any odd pains recently?

OOOOhhhhh, Capt, OfficeSpice and Bone all on the route this weekend, they will spoon-up at the bivi and make a 3some? The cascadeclimbers girls will be getting jealous....lack of action.

quote: Originally posted by lambone: The best thing, get the rope in and your daisy off! Yeah, if you get it in quick, she won't have to pull your piece for you... and you will get it off - is that what this thread is really about????

LAMROD? Is that anything like Lambone?

Hey SpiceWorld, I hear Caveman is gonna be on the route this weekend also. Maybe you can put your hand in a pile of his shit and then sue him for embarassment, too!

quote: Originally posted by lisa: The 31st, now that calls for a big celebration, it will be my birthday, wiser every day. Is it just me, or do others feel more like a kid as they grow older? Yeah it is my birthday TODAY!!!! and I feel like the original kid that grew up to be a goat. Proof you don't have to get Wiser when your older, especially Budweiser... I'm sticking to the Bud part of that!

Those mosquito nets work real good but it a bitch trying to drink scotch thru them. I'm one of the lucky ones that doesn't have a reaction to mosquito bites. No swelling no itching. But black fly bites always swell up like a bee sting, itch for a week then turn into a huge scab. So I still need to put on DEET. DEET kicks ass! And it melts plastic and nylon too! I love dripping that stuff on my buddies ropes. Hey Yossarian, do ya think it works on snafu-hounds?

I think she hauled him up using the 3:1 Chongo hauling ratchet. And he hauled a haulbag full of OE 800. Hey Office Spuice, you need a chill pill, don't let La Mbone get to you, and drop the threats of lawsuits if any rocks fall down, know how hard that one would be to win in court?

If you want alpine ice tools go for the pulsar, especially the multishaft. if you take off the shaft of the multishaft hammer you get a super light 3rd tool. If you want waterfall tools I'm all over the Quark. The axar is not as good at alpine (where you need to beat pins) as the pulsar because of the head angle on the hammer, and not as good as the quark at waterfall because the quark has a better grip. but if you want, or can only afford, 1 set of tools that can do it all fairly well....