Dru

The only problem with using vinegar is that you smell like fish-n-chips afterwards, and all the seagulls that hang out outside Ivars will think you are food!!!! and dive bomb ya.

Didn't Chongo and some Asian girl make an 8-day ascent of the Steck-Salathe? I heard that story down in J Tree once...

quote: Originally posted by erik: bone, steck-salathe has been upgraded to .10b. so this office dude is probably out of the loop. as far as your bro at feathers...yawn! Dude, upgrading it to 10b, they might as well retrobolt it!!!!! WEAK!!!!!! They should downgrade all those "10b"s to 5.9.

quote: Originally posted by Matt: Hi All! Today I bought the battery operated Mosquito Repeller made by Lentex. It claims to mimic the wing beat frequency that dragonflies and male mosquitos make. By replicating this sound it repels female mosquitos-- and female mosquitos are the only ones that bite. It's about the size of a wrist watch and runs on a tiny battery. It claims to create a bug free sphere of 6 to 8 feet. I can't wait to try it out Has anyone tried this product out in the woods? You got screwed dude. Those things don't work. At least you have a nice toy for your dashboard though. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-24-2001).]

Real Mountain Girls just drop em and let fly like the boys do.

somehow i have a feeling that bit about bolts on coke crack is a myth - if not someone out there is a ood target for tarring & feathering. hmmmm in answer to jman all i can say is them's my ethics. what gives me the right?how about that climbing is practical anarchy. I have never had anyone who climbed my routes complain about the bolts except for the lack of them in certain places where i figured it was good to run it. cmon up to squamish and climb a few if you want - chop em if you can, i don't care. squamish without bolts would have a hell of a lot less routes. if i want to climb totally bolt free i head to the mountains because us alpine climbers in sw bc are too lazy to take drills along. yeah but we bang the pins in! man i placed 5 pins and 6 screws yesterday. it was good fun. the only thing better than placing 6 screws would be screwing in 6 places.... i can't take this thread seriously today, sorry, i'm too tired.

quote: Originally posted by Wopper: Check out the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper. It would take a day but it is a great drive with lots to stop and look at along the way. Enjoy. And you can climb Andromeda, Athabasca, Alberta, Snow Dome...pee on the summit and watch it flow into all three oceans!

just about anyone can use a trail but you've got to be a climber to use most bolts!!!!

I use Lysol spray on, in the "Alpine Fresh" scent, it's sooo appropriatly named, you can drink it too I have heard.

Go to Nelson, climb the south ridge of Gimli Pk. Forget the 50 classics, that thing is gotta be N. american top 10.

Given the tone taken by most on this board to bolting I can understand why some local legends prefer to lurk. Also that way they are denied the endless complaints about errors in their guidebooks... Viktor obviously the exception to this lurkage. Hey Viktor, what about that reference to "granite Canyons north of Wenatchee" with endless new route potential in the old edition of LR. I see that reference not in the newer edition..What was up with that?

Euro accidents are way more common place than here. Reason? I'm guessing easier access to mountains. Any other ideas? (C'mon someone say its because all their crag routes are bolted or something)

What about the puddle on the trail. Did ppl have to walk through it or what?

You should have used that opportunity to inform her of the benefits of muscle control, so she could pee standing up like guys do, and then she wouldn't need the sentries.

When I bolt routes (and I have done it a few times) it is because no clean option exists for protection and the consequences of falling are either a groundfall, or ledge fall. I have placed every bolt but one on rappell with a borrowed power drill because the drill lender did not want me to risk the drill bolting on lead. I placed one bolt on lead with a hand drill and the 1.5 hours required to slam home a good 3" 3/8th bolt in the iron-hard Skaha rock was a big disincentive to do so in future.

Got an email from Brian Burdo pointing out I had slandered him unjustifiably in some post or other with regard to Vasiliki Ridge and the FA of "Rampage". He does admit that he doesn't have the most current version of Beckey Guide Vol III though.... Anyways, Brian, my apologies, I was a bit snide. Since you are the friend of my good friend Andy Cairns I withdraw said remarks. I still think North Cascades Select is a bit too self-referential in tone...

Hey Sisu Suomi that was good you got both crotch eating and the toothless beaver reference into your posts! Do you use a Dental Dam?

quote: Originally posted by dbb: Dude, Fred has been looking all over for someone to do that Monarch trip He will probably come down with the lumbago again anyways. It's gonna be funny though watching him go a week without a phone to call guys aboutr some other trip planned for 3 months later.... WHAT? WHAT?

Stubone, Lambone, lots of bones out there thes days. But THE Bone on Lower Castle is the supreme bone. all the others are weak reflections of the original.

Caveman you aren't coming up here now?? What am I gonna do this weekend? It will be just me and Erik... whos going to shoot the grizzlies??

quote: Originally posted by lambone: Jardine is reinventing the wheel. And if he hadn't invented cams, I would have! he,he,he You and Greg Lowe, and Vitaly Abalakov, eh.

I think it's called Dolomite Tower because Beckey and Schoening thought it looked like a tower in the Dolomites of Italy, not because it's made of dolomite. although, with the geology of the N. cascades, i wouldn't be surprised... don't think there is really any dolomite around those parts though.

quote: Originally posted by specialed: Dru, I didn't want to have to tell you this, but: I'm your father. "Son, I don't know how to tell you this - your mother is a virgin..."

you guys just like those road bikers because of their shaved legs.

Man that place sounds like Lighthouse Park (granite bluff in West Vancouver popular with top ropers). One time in 94 or thereabouts I was at Lighthous with 2 friends doing some route or other when this hiker comers by and says "Oh, someone is calling for help over there..." So we run over. This guy named "Lighthouse Mike" [a strange dude who likes to set up TER's using about 4 old ropes tied off to trees 30m away for the anchors, and tries to find newbies and teach them his special climbing tricks before they know any better] has a Tr set up and then has been soloing next to it. He fell off, hit rocks on the way down, and broke some ribs and a leg, then fell in the ocean, and has crawled out on a ledge just above tide line. This is in late March by the way. So friend #1, a nurse, takes command of first aid. Friend #2 goes running off to nearest phone. Hiker keeps walking her dogs, stupid %$&^ figured she had done her part I guess... Anyways Friend #1, Nurse AMC, gets sketchy Mikes soaked clothes off and him covered up with our fleeces. He's in shock, bleeding, half drowned, way fucked up. Eventually local firemen show up and flail all over the rock in their rubber boots with huge hemp ropes trying to remember how to do a rescue.They call for Coast Guard hovercraft. Hovercraft arrives and Mike is thrown in along with our fleeces and vanishes. Fireman offes me Mikes rack and ropes but I don't ever want to be in contact with him so I say, No, keep em at the firehall. Nurse AMC manages to get her fleece back by visiting Mike in hospital but he says mine is out being washed. His rack is collected from firehall next day. Weeks go by and I dont see myt fleece returned. No one knows how to contact Mike. I even run classified ad with no results. One day I'm riding the bus downtown and I see Mike wheeling along sidewalk in his wheelchair (leg is still broken). Get off bus and chase wheelchair down city sidewalks eventually catching him. After threatening to run wheelchair off dock into English Bay, Mike tells me where he lives. I show up that evening tpo collect fleece, Mike has changed his engine block while wearing it and it has brand new cigarette burns and grease stains. MORAL OF STORY: if you rescue someone, keep their rack as collateral.