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road looks to be melted out to near the head of the valley zero gully and minus five looked fat payne was quite impressive see photo from outram in outram TR

as long as the haul loop is full strength it's no big deal of course when you fall off you assume the "peter pan" position hanging from the rope, facing down and horizontal

Sea otters are to Sea lions what boulders are to mountains

Sea Lion Caves, plenty of steep roof problem and a crowd of fish-eating spotters

I'm actually surprised that it lasted as long as it has. I figured it would last about 3 issues due to the small size of the target audience...it seems like 90% of today's climbers are sport, trad-crag, or boulderers with no interest in long or alpine routes. More or less the people that Urban Climber mag is aimed at in other words.

I stole this one from Trask Wal-Mart announced that they will soon be offering customers a new discount item: Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is teaming up with E&J Gallo Winery of California, to produce the spirits at an affordable price, in the $2-5 range. Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Wal-Mart brand into their shopping carts, but "there is a market for cheap wine", said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing. She said: "But the right name is important." Customer surveys were conducted to determine the most attractive name for the Wal-Mart brand. The top surveyed names in order of popularity are: 10. Chateau Traileur Parc 9. White Trashfindel 8. Big Red Gulp 7. World Championship Riesling 6. NASCARbernet 5. Chef Boyardeaux 4. Peanut Noir 3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar! 2. Grape Expectations And the number 1 name for Wal-Mart Wine: 1. Nasti Spumante The beauty of Wal-Mart wine is that it can be served with either white meat (Possum) or red meat (Squirrel).

A vulture boarded a plane, carrying two dead raccoons. The flight attendant stopped him and said, "Sorry sir, only one carrion per passenger." NASA recently sent a number of Holsteins into orbit for experimental purposes. They called it the herd shot round the world. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One took off to Hollywood and became a rich movie star; the other stayed in South Carolina and never amounted to much. He became known as the lesser of two weevils. Two Eskimos in a kayak were chilly, so they started a fire, which sank the craft, proving the old adage that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. A three-legged dog walks into an old west saloon, slides up to the bar and announces, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." Did you hear about the Buddhist who went to the dentist and refused to take Novocain? He wanted to transcend dental medication. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and met in the lobby where they were discussing their recent victories in tournaments. The hotel manager came out of the office after an hour, and asked them to disperse. He couldn't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer. A woman has twins, gives them up for adoption. One goes to an Egyptian family and is named "Ahmal" The other is sent to a Spanish family and is named "Juan". Years later, Juan sends his birth mother a picture of himself. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. He replies, "They're twins for Pete's sake!! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal!!" A group of friars opened a florist shop to help with their belfry payments. Everyone liked to buy flowers from the Men of God, so their business flourished. A rival florist became upset that his business was suffering because people felt compelled to buy from the Friars, so he asked the Friars to cut back hours or close down. The Friars refused. So the florist then hired Hugh McTaggert, the biggest meanest thug in town. He went to the Friars' shop, beat them up, destroyed their flowers, trashed their shop, and said that if they didn't close, he'd be back. Well, totally terrified, the Friars closed up shop and hid in their rooms. This proved that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

In many places where people are starving, better environmental stewardship would have prevented conditions from deteriorating to the point of widespread starvation.

you could always try using a pterodactyl

The more crappy rock that is covered with solid snow, the less crappy rock is available to generate rockfall. If I can get funding, I will establish several hundred ramdomized quadrat sampling sites along Liberty Ridge and use photogrammetric measuring techniques to quantify the number of rocks impacting per square meter under high and low snow levels. A simple heteroscedastic two-tailed T-test should serve to verify or reject the hypothesis concerning rockfall and snow levels.

Somehow I knew fishstick was going to work in a reference to the Piranha

Source? Seems similar to the micro cracks in cams myth. No- I had read this one in one of the climbing rags a few years back. Some of the ropes tested were over 5 yrs old but had been kept out of UV range. These failed on the first UIAA drop test. provide magazine name and issue # or it's still a myth. anyone having old ropes they are scared of - send them to me - i can dispose of them properly.

even girls can fly

TNF has a new shoe called the "Buildering"

meanwhile in da Rockies they skiied and teled the Aemmer couloir on Temple

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$50 rental! large rubber feet extra.

Not to mention Tauntauns

First winter* ascent Ebutt SEWS?

When I take I have sometimes levitated, up to 176mm above the ground.

Gym climbing is aid

i have size 10.5 (UK) koflach verticals with a size 10.5 liner in them.

no cause the 'Hood keep the spray in the email instead of online.

in 10,000 BC i made the first ascent of a brontosaurus, placing hand-chipped flint pitons along the way. this was before fire was invented so we could only do night descents using glow-worms, fireflies and bioluminescent alagae.

i think you need a snowmobile fred b went to take a look and ended up going to smith instead