Dru

I'd rather be fast & light than slow and heavy anyday of the week. So what's up with this thread anyways? LameBoney and OrdinaryEd pairing off? I hope you guys aren't just "bouldering", I want you to practice safety & use protection. Which one of you is the top though? Or are you versatile? Unlike Dean Potter I guess you touch each other even when one of you is "soloing" -do you comb each others palm hair too?

quote: Originally posted by Ropegun2001: What are some of the projects out there? I have a few, even a secret one for August! 1) Drink more beer than Capt. and Erik 2) Devil's Tongue 3) Monarch Icefield trip with the Old Man of the Mountains in August.

1) Do a web search on the keywords "Jim Thornburg" 2) Send him an email & tell him you've seen his pictures and want to get in touch with Rachel. 3) Sit back and wait for the anti-stalking court order to arrive in the mail.

Chris Sharma climbs Biographie extension, 15a Russian team climbs middle Lhotse, 8400m Inspiring! Lets all go out and crank a project this weekend.

And you should crag trad limestone not some silly sport crag. Canadian Rockies isn't Ceuse or Wild Iris... hit Marble Canyon on your way to the rockies and do dreamweaver, that will get you ready.

take regular glasses and buy a $30 CDN pair of mountaineering 'fitovers' at MEC. i use em for all mountaineering and it is so much cheaper than prescription glacier glasses, plus if they get scratched or smashed by rockfall, just buy another pair, also you can take off the fitover part in the dark and not be blind.

If you are in Robson area Bow Valley is a bit far to go for cragging. Much better to head to Jasper. Colin Range has big quality limestone and a HUT!!

If you climb an overhanging route at Vantage rockfall might turn it into a slab by the next year. Canadian Rockies shale bands are pretty bad. Imagine climbing stacks of dishes like you would find in a restaurant sink. Ditto the "Coast mountains red rock" found on peaks like Birkenhead. Still not quite Volcanic-bad though.

Flu does kill lots of people. Spanish flu in 1919 killed more people than World War I in 1914-1918 did!! Saint Peter to Man at Pearly Gates: "How'd you get here?" Man: "Flu".

I'm keeping both of mine anyways. But you may feel free to donate one of yours, probably to a sport climber who needs to get some balls to go trad climbing....

quote: Originally posted by Mtnclimber: I found the the rock on the south face of Mt. Viennese to be very poor and at the 5.9-5.10 range Opinions differ Route originally climbed in leather mountaineering boots and rated 5.7!!

If you can find some back issues ofthe Canadian Alpine Journal from the late 90's look for a neat article by a guy named Reinhard Berg on climbing with his two young kids. Started them off at 5 and 6 ish, just wearing running shoes or barefoot. They did routes on Yamnuka and bivied! and other fun stuff. In the new @001 CAJ, he has another article - his son is 11 now and his rope gun, leading him up the Grand Wall. Kind of inspiring.

I kind of like chossy rock that you can't trust or get pro into because it evens out the playing field. Doesn't matter how strong you are... and you can't bolt it into submission. Same challenge for you, modern techno-climber with asymmetric crampons bent shafts and sticky rubber, and for Joe Old School in 1922 step cutting in hemp breeches with a tweed rope, smoking a pipe

Yeah, don't carry food, go the Euell Gibbons way... doesn't work so hot in deserts though. Choking down those cactus chunks on a 40 degree Celsius day, you aint gonna be hiking too fast. It's better for the land not to live off the land when you visit the wilderness. Leave that stuff for when you are behind enemy lines

CIRCLE JERKS DKs BAD RELIGION DOA SNFU NOMEANSNO REVOLTING COCKS NOFX SEX PISTOLS old school. even if NoFX is borderline...

Sharma is honorary trad Klan member now since he onsighted 13b Crack climb and loathes chipping and repudiated all those chipped routes he used to climb. Also because he smokes much weedage.

Capt. the softer the rock the better the tool swingin. Look at the chalk climbing they got in Britain. have tried this fun technique out on the clay cliffs near Skaha. good fun. Lambone would like it its kinda like legitimized chipping....

I've heard Yosemite called choss. so there.

Yeah but he sure is a good hiker!! It's good he quit climbing and took up a sport he could do without chipping

On the Annapurna Circuit you can roll the buds in the leaves of the plant and make yourself a giant blunt... I hear you can do that in some southeastern national parks too just watch out for the fish hooks dangling at eye level and growers with big guns and knives

What kind of crampon is barefoot-compatible?

Maybe you should bring your chainsaw to the pub and I will send you guys a Grizzly B'ar down from Canada.

Capt. let me get this right -If, in response to Beck calling you a "closet homo" you reply "Bring your cuffs or whatever" - what exactly is going to go on at that pub club meeting - a little bit of male-male bondage session? [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-18-2001).]

Getting in the Battle Cage over temperature conversion is kinda silly - why don't you guys segue into a battle over retrobolting or Marc Twight or something worthy?

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Offroute?! Famous sandbag. But calling it 10a is kinda pushing it.