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I note how Iain leaves OR when he wants to do some real climbing.

But there is nothing alpine in Oregon...

Dai Koyamada can crank one finger pullups off his pinky. How's Distel gonna send the first Mongolian V16 now

But how will you take 1000 photos per hour with no pinky???

whatever dude. it's all good if it's alpine.

You could combine the two and make skin secretion soup in the hot tub.

Exactly. Soup is the most palatable means of consuming disparate leftovers.

When you put the shovel blade down in the snow you can make it flat by sinking the curved part. If you aren't cooking in the snow you don't need a stove stand. Unless you are cooking with a gas stove in your tent in the snow and you need the stove stand to insulate the tent from the heat of your stove. But you'll probably get monoxided and a hole burned in your tent will just help the ventilation.

A bottle of vodka?

Dru's Hot Soup Grate 2 large organic Fountain Valley carrots Cube one PEI russet potato, or two purple potatoes. Chop 2 or 3 cloves garlic. Chop half a red onion. In large pot, put some bacon fat saved from the last time you fried bacon, or use some canola oil. Heat. Sautee garlic, onion potato until onion begins to go translucent. Add grated carrot and the remnant pickle juice left after you eat all the pickles out of a jar. When mixture begins to boil, dilute with cold water and the remnants of last night's bottle of red wine, or half of the cook's beer. Add fresh ground black pepper, bay leaf, a lot of curry powder (maybe 1 tbsp or so) and a tsp or two dry mustard. Bring back to slow boil. Simmer. Add a handful or scoop of red lentils and simmer until lentils have cooked. Add one cut up orange or yellow bell pepper. Simmer 5 minutes more. Serve hot with crusty bread.

The is puckered up and the is wide open

Some wacky tilts on those camera angles

They can usually fit a differently shaped stock bail on there at a large gear store like MEC where they have them in stock. I know there are 2 or 3 different bails available for the Charlets and this is one advantage to taking your boots with you when you buy crampons in a store as opposed to buying online. The only disadvantage to trying to reshape your own is the possibility of creating latent stress fractures through pounding on it.

Deep fried Mars Bar soup.

That'd do it. I used an aluminum pie plate once. Light and foldable. Also you get to eat a pie in order to obtain the plate

Switch out the front bail for one that fits your boot and watch your problem disappear.

What's wrong with just using your shovel blade?

You can make anything into soup by boiling it, and keeping the broth instead of draining it. The trick is to add flavour along the way. Wine, beer, pickle juice, stock cubes, broth from other sources (eg. you boiled some veggies the other day and kept the water), bones, vegetable oil and soy sauce will all work. Then add spices while simmering.

Speaking of cold things breaking I heard The Terminator fell down yesterday!

Maybe your duct tape was substandard and you should pay $20 for a premium brand.

Cool Perhaps for your next attempt you should induce Korsakov's Syndrome so you have no short term memory and hence have no idea how badly you are suffering!

With 2000m of elevation gain and a notable lack of pro on 5.7ish mixed climbing for most routes it is not really recommended as a moderate winter climb.

Oh yeah the scary icicle on the Central Three Sisters that Janez and Don climbed last year, was almost touching down at 8:30 AM, and had fallen down!!!!!! by 2:30 PM

I do not like horizontal frontpoints for pure ice cause they seem to fracture chandeliers more than verticals. I have my M10's set up with offset duals, inner point long and outer point short, which gives me a pseudo-mono but some of the stability benefits of duals as well and seems to work with my asymmetric boots. I tried regular mono, and normal symmetric dual, with these crampons and prefer my current setup. Disclaimer I don't do much mixed with them so this is mainly with respect to water ice. The only BD gear I like is the ice screws. The tools all seem to have the wrong balance and/or grip shape and the crampons also seem to have design flaws as witness the infamous Switchblade which everyone seems to hate with a passion!