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Should be somewhere near the base of "Go with The Flow" in Manning Park. Doubt it will be seen until the spring what with all the freshiez up there and spindrift burial of the base of the climb. Still, on the remote chance you find it and feel like giving it back I post this. OTOH if you find it and need to booty it then you're welcome.

The stated length in the guide is too short.

Immunity to the fat virus.

Obesity caused by virus! You need a vaccine, not ephedra.

And the reason you can't help them get some where you got yours is because it was in Swissyland?

Since we are the first generation to have proper oral hygiene, our teeth will always be perfect. But the youngsters of today will probably have nanotech diamond-coated cavityless, unbreakable teeth, or biotech grow-a-new-one-on-demand shark gene teeth by the time they are 30.

Maclean's is trolling. They hooked you!

I prefer to sit in front of a computer where I can see the screen

If anyone's a hater here it seems to me it is a guidebook author who thinks "Weekend Rock" doesn't include classics like the Davis-Holland, Facelift (isn't that a 10b now?), or Bo Derek. I think there is either condescending or deliberate targeting of the stereotypical "rich bumbly" to make a guidebook that stops at 10a. Seems like you're telling potential customers "This guidebook is only of interest to people who will never, ever, be able to climb 10b". Hence the WTF. Not that this is confined to Washington. See http://www.joshuatreetrad.com/ A guidebook that implies that "trad climbing" is limited to 5.9 and under.

I bet you get sick friction with those felt boots too. Photo caption "Now, having wired my Mongolian assistant to this inverted crucifix, I will invoke Satan and the black concert rock T-shirt and transform him into a mulleted heavy metal fan!"

I don't think those can be real engineers. The F to M ratio is much too high

Columns aren't facts. They are ivory tower punditry. But if it helps your fantasy world to believe it, so be it.

It's easy to say "I will always wear a helmet when I ice climb" sitting in front of a computer, but it is harder to practice that when you have slogged 3.5 hours to the base of a climb and realize you forgot your helmet. Do you just tell your partners "I don't want to climb now" or do you accept the increased risk so you can salvage something from the day?

The main disadvantage is that unlike the Nomic or Ergo or whatever you are limited to one hand position on the tool whereas with the Ergo or Nomic you have two grips.

Climb: Manning Park-Go With the Flow 75m WI4-5 Date of Climb: 1/30/2006 Trip Report: Don S, Earthly (Scott), Stemalot (Steve) and I climbed Go With The Flow in Manning on Sunday. Nepopekum is also in albeit with a hole in the middle about 1/3 of the way up. GWTF is heavily snow covered with cruddy snice on the less than vertical parts, and good blue ice on the verticalparts. Don and Scott climbed a WI5ish pillar on the left while Steve and I climbed a WI4 on the right. Both parties climbed in 2 30m pitches and avoided the last 15-20m of lower angle to the top as it would have been an uphill wallow in deep snow over crud ice. The approach and descent were both entertaining with lots of headlamp trudging, a blizzard, falling-in-the-creek creek crossings, and a very slow drive out on an unplowed road with 8" of freshiez. Don and I both forgot our helmets The constant barrage of crud snice, ice chunks and spindrift was a bit scary. Enough spindrift was dumped down the climb that our packs at the base were fully buried. I lost a brand new 19cm BD Turbo at the base when it unclipped from my plastic racking biner. Reward for safe return but I honestly doubt it will ever be seen again with the amount of snow that fell on top of it. Snowshoes a bit better than skis for getting to the base but it was a real slog no matter what was used. Gear Notes: Screws and so on. Approach Notes: Deep pow. Bit of crust in the forest balanced out by the number of deadfalls to climb over.

Distel did you have to use a puppet to feed that one?

So in other words it's an attempt to target the bumbly market segment that has no interest in climbing hard or long routes, but lots of money to spend?

Maybe snowshoes would have helped

Y'all should get one of these Not only are they trendy and rare enough that not everyone already owns one, but they will eat your leftovers and clean up any unsanitary roadkill you leave lying around your doublewide

10 pitches and 5.10 seems like a weird cutoff point? Say you made a guide like that for SW BC, it would exclude the Grand Wall.

hey now, any canadian should be able to read that themselves

OMG HI2U LOL

You gotta have at least 10,000 posts to qualify as my potential nemesis, you dabbler!