Dru

WE WILL, WE WILL, ROCK YOU!! Those are the only two Queen songs I know.

quote: Originally posted by Bronco: "Fat bottomed women make the Rockin' World go 'round" - Freddy Mercury "Fat bottomed GIRLS, YOU make the rockin' world go 'round", actually. "The ants are my friends, its blowin' in the wind. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!"

quote: Originally posted by lisa: With 50% of americans overweight and 25% obese, I thought it was 80% and 40%??? Remember, the average American has one testicle!

If you weigh 300 lbs and put on 50lbs, you'll still fit into your XXL spandex, but you might have to go out and buy a whole whack of new size 48 clothes because your size 44s are too small now....

quote: Originally posted by smb: >I actually find the whole concept of >"training" a bit fucked. I'd rather DO than >TRAIN. Sure I try to stay in shape but I do >it by climbing and mountaineering not >working out or running. Lucky you if you can get out climbing and mountaineering enough to get fit from that alone. For those of us limited to weekend trips, some sort of training during the week can be very helpful. Hell, I actually enjoy and look forward to it. SMB I only get out climbing and mountaineering on weekends though! (And evenings, and during working hours while supposedly working doing site visits, I do work at places otherthan a keyboard sometimes ) Ive always been pretty fast off the couch I guess, after not climbing rock for 3-4 months it takes me 2 days to get back to leading mid 5.10's, which is usually my onsight level anyways, and i'm mostly too lazy to work harder stuff, so it's my regular climbing level too.... likewise it takes about 2 weekends of mountaineering to get in shape for a weekend of 16 hour days on technical ground...

I guess bouldering (I don't trail run) is training fitness for alpine, but I also find it a fun activity in itself, and I have a tick list of boulder problems I want to do, actually, given the undeveloped nature of the area I mainly boulder at now, most of them are FIRST ASCENTS!!!. So when I'm bouldering, I'm focussing on the activity itself, not on how it will make me a better alpine climber.... pumping iron, I would be doing it to get stronger for climbing, not because I wanted to bench 400lbs or look like THOR or whatever. The training aspect of my training is incidental to the activity, I guess. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-11-2001).]

quote: Originally posted by Pencil Pusher: Nobody could guess what my job entails. Judging by your CASCADECLIMBER.COM profile, it entails accounting!!

I actually find the whole concept of "training" a bit fucked. I'd rather DO than TRAIN. Sure I try to stay in shape but I do it by climbing and mountaineering not working out or running. I just don't have the mental stamina to do something as boring and repetitive as pump iron or run just to run. Sure I'll ride my bike to work, chop wood for a few hours, or slog through the bush with a sixty pound pack, but at least there i'm accomplishing something besides training. more power to those that do but i can't see how you can force yourself to do it.* *Of course, I reached my peak of fitness when i was working in a climbing gym, bouldered for 2 hours after work every day while changing problems, and walked the 15kms to and from work. my only excuse is that i was too poor to take the bus then!

"The thicker the cushion the better the pushin'" Some guys like fat girls. Some fat girls like to flaunt it. You don't have to look! I personally wonder what the story is about fat guys with tight belts and a huge gut hanging out over the top. Why not just wear a mumu?

WHATEVER DOES NOT KILL ME MAKES ME STRONGER HE WHO FIGHTS MONSTERS MUST BEWARE LEST HE BECOME ONE oops sorry, I will stop pretending I am Mark Twight channelling Neitzsche now...

Art teacher/assassin. (HA POPE! I beat you to it with that answer )

Good point Viktor & Capt. Congrats on the Cash Crags traverse by the way Capt. . Also its the NE ridge of Bugaboo, not the east ridge. Bugaboo doesnt even have an east ridge!! Also, planning on using "50 Classic climbs" as a guidebook, you deserve what you get - I won't say any more...

Don't discount the lung capacity of those High Priests. How do you think they got High anyways??

Lambone can keep his strap ons, i hear he uses them for penetration when things are frigid "Baaaa!"

I used to have one of those #27 Camalots but i traded it for a #18 Tri Cam, they're a bit lighter. Also easier to bivi in.

OOOOh... sorry to be pedantic but....THE BUGABOOS ARE NOT PART OF THE ROCKIES!!!! They are in the "Interior Ranges", so there. When offering number grades, Wishbone Arete at 5.6 and Japanese Route on Alberta, ditto, is like calling the North Face of the Eiger, 5.7, it might be somewhat true technically, but it doesn't do the route justice. [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 07-10-2001).]

i note the # of members is supposedly up to 966 although probably that means only 750 with the remaining 200+ being multiple names registered by one person.... But, is there gonna be a prize for CC.com's 1000th officially registered member? Jon? Tim? maybe a tasteful collection of Fred Beckey's earwax or a dream date with Donna Top-Rope??

quote: Originally posted by fishstick: On a side note, beware of the ravens in the area. In some twisted form of evolution, the local birds (or at least two of them) can and will, open zippers on abandoned packs and spill their contents across the glacier. What - you're saying MEC doesn't make raven-proof zippers??

quote: Originally posted by erik: slap, i don't own the tikka(thought it was junk) but i do own the princeten-tec led light.....there is no other headlamp i would rather use you and ED VEISTURS huh? but you aren't getting paid to use it either, right?

Is it skinnydippin' in a hot springs or just par for the course? Reason I ask is I was up at Meager lately and since you have to pay to use it now, its about 80%suits/20%nude. Back in the free days it was 95% nude/5% suits. I wonder why??

quote: Originally posted by lambone: Just goes to show that hockey players from Chicago are tough Mo Fo's... Funny, the Hawks seemed kinda out of the Playoffs this year!!! maybe they're tough but they can't score (sort of like Capt caveman)

More to SW BC bouldering than Squamish. In the Fraser Valley check out "old hope" and lake of the woods. North of Squamish good bouldering in whistler, and at mystery creek and green river bastion north of whistler. no guidebooks (except whistler) !!!

Two Words. joe simpson Not just for Touching The Void, but for the many other damage incidents. Including my favorite story, after being avalanched down some Himalayan peak and having his face stuck in the snow for hours, his contact lens was stuck (frozen to the surface of his eye), so he SCRAPED IT OFF WITH A SPOON!!!!

Even though not recommended as a free climbing piece, a 00 cam with screamer is a lot better than nothing for protecting free climbing. Ever since I got my 00 Metolius I'm amazed at how much I have used it on free routes (like on EVERY PITCH of Dreamweaver in Marble Canyon ) . Never fallen on it though. the 00 will go in a lot of places where RPs wont, and is much, much lighter than pins and a hammer.

Never Enough -It looks good in the Beckey Guide (and gets left out of the Burdo guide because he didn't put it up, just like he claims the 1st ascent of 'Rampage' when it was actually done by a Canadian party the previous year...) Possibly lots of other potential for routes on that side of the ridge??