Dru

Chic Scott and I don't get along that well. Find out why in the book review column of the 2001 Canadian Alpine Journal.

When your partner goes into the coffee shop, put the beer at the bottom of his pack. Your pack will be that much lighter and you still get to drink the beer.

One time in the Canadian Rockies, hanging out in the ACC clubhouse, some friends of mine decided to go and explore "The Rat Hole" which is this neat cave you rap into located near Grotto Canyon, that has a preserved buffalo skeleton under a sinkhole in one chamber and other cool stuff. It being New years they set out wearing the required clothes for -30 celsius weather, at about 10 at night. I decided to stay by the fire and read old ANAM issues. Five hours later they returned but their nice one piece goretex suits were retired after that trip. ground in mud and large slashed rips from sharp limestone edges. moral of the story is, always wear shitty old clothes to explore caves, they will get trashed beyond belief. as for why cavers are so protective of their caves it is because the caves trash so easily. if you touch some cave formations with bare skin your skin oils will be enough to permanently stop them from growing. you have to be prety dedicated and a control freak to be good at caving, imho. tried it and it is fun but a bit too anal for me to enjoy.

quote: Originally posted by specialed: Rent lamas. That way you can learn about Tibetan Buddhism too.

Angels Crest if it isn't raining. Kakodemon if it is. don't know about Sunday yet.

Don't forget drilling holes in your toothbrush In the summer, take an overbag only, and wear all your clothes to bed, instead of taking a sleeping bag. You have to take the clothes anyways.

The Interior Ranges includes all mountains between the Columbia Valley/Rocky Mountain Trench, and the Okanagan. this includes the "Columbia Mts", Monashees, Purcells, Selkirks, Adamants, Valhallas, etc. etc. Just like the Coast Mountains includes the Pacific Ranges, Lillooet Ranges, Kitimat Ranges etc. and the Pacific Ranges includes the Tantalus Range, Spearhead Range, etc blah blah

Mosquito Bite + Testicles = No Fun

On the other hand it is a lot closer to Cathedral Peak than it is to Lib Bell.

Will, the "No Fear" target audience was ALWAYS zitty 14 year old teenage boys (NO OFFENSE AIDAN) that wanted to think they were EXTREME!! while they drank a gallon of mountain dew slurpee and fantasized about Lara Croft. Didn't you know that? [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-13-2001).]

Colin's new Secret Love Palace???

Erik, you want to "go down" w/ AlpineTom? Good thing you said "with" and not "on" have you checked out those lava tunnels by adams?

ERIK WHATS WITH THE CAPITAL LETTERS?? HAVE YOU TAKEN OVER JERRY SANCHEZ'S INSURANCE JOB????

"You're clear As a heavy lead curtain Want to drill you Now I'm running out Yeah I'm running out Runin' out, don't be mad about it baby" -BAD RELIGION "Solo, I'm a soloist on a solo list, all live, never on a floppy disc" -RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-12-2001).]

That wasn't me in Prison, I escaped in a home made glider 5 minutes after the gates closed. The prisoners must have been fooled by the lifelike dummy i left in my bed as a decoy. It sure worked on the guards. Sorry Capt. and Eric, my cherry ain't bust yet.

The stupid quotes that go through your head when you are climbing? I used to have Blood Sweat & Tears' version of "Spinning Wheel" going through mry head every time i went to leavenworth. Then i got the Shirley Bassey remix Cd with the bonus beats version of her cover of the same tune. Much better!!!!!

The strange thing about the Trad Klan is, when we take off our hoods, it turns out we're all black

Spandex is so named because it 'ex-spand's, not because of the Spanel family??? (I bet they got mad at people who misspelled their name "spaniel", eh?)

Today can't be tomorrow, tomorrow never comes, just like Lambone and his strap-on prosthetic. Bone, there's always adoption and/or cloning, to make lil' boney.

Aliens are easier to get stuck and harder to clean when stuck, than Metolius. Also need cleaning more often. But more versatile. Your call.

Hey LBone, I hear you need to do more than just "want" to have a kid, you need the participation of a female too.

"Hmmmm - your dog'd got Mad Possum disease sir, we're gonna have to shoot him." Those NZ possums aren't anything like American possums.They're big things like weasels. Ya see em flattened all over the roads.

Working in the climbing gym, I got SOOOO sick of childrens' climbing birthday parties and gym classes where there would be 2 keeners out of a group of 30 and the others would be little fat sacks of shit who didn't want to exercise because it would make them get sweaty. they would do half of one 5.6 and then drink 10 gallons of Powerade..... also stupid kids who would run under boulderers after being told not to.

quote: Originally posted by haireball: why don't we all just wear togas? and drink wine and ouzo, eat olives and goat meat, and live in barrels saying "show me an honest man" and have naked olympics! Seriously, i never figured out how you put a harness on over a toga. But i bet ArcTeryx could make some nifty goretex togas if they tried.

The thing about being a gym employee is, after i quit that job, (3 years ago) I haven't felt the desire to climb in a gym at all. Have only been in one twice in the 3 yrs. since then. Just like after working at Rotten Ronny's for a month or two as a teenager, I lost all desire to eat fast food. McGym=McClimbing.