Dru

quote: Originally posted by jkassidy: You boys have got it all wrong. (snip)compensate by losing the speedos under your lycra. Speedos, hell, just lose the lycra and make a free-ball redpoint!

Rastaf-Aryan Nations!!! White Punks On Dope!!

From searching the Mountain Index on bivouac.com I have recently discovered Canada has a "Mt. Boofus" http://bivouac.com/mtn/MtnPg.asp?rq=MtnPg&MtnId=3155 and "Bumbly Mountain" http://bivouac.com/mtn/MtnPg.asp?rq=MtnPg&MtnId=4280 , not to mention my own favorite, "Cumsack Mountain" south of Waddington. http://bivouac.com/mtn/MtnPg.asp?rq=MtnPg&MtnId=5463 Elevation wise I guess you could say Big Wadd shoots up way over Cumsack! Are there any silly names like this in the Cascades? I know you guys got a 3 and 7 fingered Jack but what about a hairy-palmed "5 Fingered Jack"?? "Big Bosom Buttes" near Baker is pretty good too.... [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 06-14-2001).]

MMMM Spam flavored posting! My flavorite!

It sure wasn't "NolanR style"

Good old Sally Five Fingers, pope? Or was it one of Mama Palm's 5 beautiful daughters??

Only mountain in the world where saying its name takes longer than climbing it

Or as FB always says "Ya want a chunk of horse cock? It might look like a horse cock but it's good eatin'!"

If some pervert at the factory shot his wad into the clif shot tube and sent it out would you be able to tell the difference? if you have to eat it every half an hour you might as well just swallow sugar cubes!!

Aidan So you're taking High School French huh? Obviously you 'ave nevair been to Keybek eh?

When I'm mountaineering i don't want to lose weight... I want to maintain weight. I get cold fast enough already. MMMM choklit. MMM scotch. Will is right I don't want to eat food formulated for some yuppy jogger trying to burn off a spare tire. But then again I don't and some chile-lime flavored bar isn't going to make me start suddenly. I do like those clif choklit espresso bars with the peets coffee though for 1 AM alpine starts.

Here is a good story. http://news.bellinghamherald.com/ Kind of nice to be lost and in need of medical attention and stumble into the camp of a party containing 2 doctors...

Actually Jon, fat has twice the 'bang for your buck' of protein (4 cal/g protein, 9 cal/g fat) but nobody makes a FatBar.... The Russians do that pig fat and vodka thing though for alpine climbing!

Adding to what Backcountry just said I wonder how many times I have been driving down the highway and someone has said "Look we just went over/through DoNot Pass!"

quote: Originally posted by Alpine Tom: I've always wondered about Bear's Breast Mountain. I think Beckey named that one after a night in a peeler bar and he was too hung over to say "Bare Breasts" correctly

quote: Originally posted by AlpineK: They say because Denali is so far north it's like climbing a 23,000' mountain on the equator. That sounds like a TEAM HARSH REALM statistic!

Its solar maximum right now. best time in 11 years to see the aurora. hopefully it will happen again this weekend, i'm still lookin'. when i was up in the arctic circle the days were so long I never got to see night let along the northern lights! best thing I ever saw meteorolgy wise was the famous "Brocken Spectre" up on Needle Peak during a snowy fall day with the shadow projecting onto an ice fog below the peak. very nice.

From experience with coffee, youlose more water than you gain. Maybe I make it too strong??

Wren't those things only "discovered" about 5 years ago??

Erik, I don't think it is the proteins themselves, but soy beans are a large source of so called 'phytoestrogens' or environmental estrogens, compounds which the body uses like estrogen. Women going through menopause are supposed to eat a lot of soy because it will naturally act like hormone replacement therapy! Hence all the soya in the Luna Bar as I understand it. Its a girl thing. http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/newsviews/queries/archive/jul_dec1999.html [This message has been edited by Dru (edited 06-14-2001).]

I picked up two partners in the campground for Mt. Cook and it turned out one of them despite claiming to have climbed a bunch of 600m peaks and stuff, had never been on a glacier before. We abandoned him on a saddle halfway up Zurbiriggens Ridge and told him "If we survive (! just to scare him) we will pick you up on the way back down - don't try to descend by yourself you will fall into a crevasse and die". We did pick him up and made him buy all the beer and so on for the next two days of Recovery for our "guides fee".

Bulk gummi bears from SaveOn Foods are pretty good. Or fruit leather strips, 99c CDN/45g, more calories than same weight of power bar, tastes better too. There is always JERKY too. One of the things I like about USA roadtrips is going by "Grocery Outlet" and grabbing a big 1 lb. bag of Oberto turkey jerky chunks for $1.99!!! Erik aren't those Luna Bars fortified with soya protein to provide women with beneficial plant-sourced estrogen? Are your breasts growing?

I thought it was 5.6-5.7 ish when I did it, it was about 7 years ago and I was a 5.9 climber (barely) at the time . I thought Underachiever was pretty easy for 5.8 too. Maybe a hold has fallen off or something? Or a crack has filled in with sand?

Say, beating a dead horse - that's necrophilia, bestiality and sadism all rolled into one handy perversion Do you have your own recognition symbol like rainbow banners? Maybe an upside down My Little Pony?

What about the phallic symbolism of free-standing columns like the Rod of God? What psychic anguish occurred when the Trigger Finger fell over? And in your learned opinion, what is the symbolism of deep caves like the ones found at certain Sport Climbing areas? Is iot symbolic of thesport climbers nreed to crawl back inside their MaMa and try again? Should rebirthing be banned?