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Master/slave is a term of RESPECT in the B&D community How dare they claim it is pejorative!

http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/flashback.swf

I don't know anyone who has actually done Bagatelle that confirm or deny the grade, except that Lynn signed a poster for me once and Paul Piana told me I should "live my life like a thrown knife". Have you done it jonah? I'm not from the midwest, if I was I'd talk funny like carolyn

So his publicists would have you believe but apparently Pete Cleveland climbed Bagatelle (13a) before this. EDIT: although the pundits at rockclimbing.com claim its only 12d, the Climbing mag article on Cleveland said that Lynn Hill and Todd Skinner thought it was 13a.

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=bc_home&articleID=1783925 "Record returns!"

Goodness Gracious!

You think his nutsack is a strap-on?

Coffee and Naan with Kofi Annan

So nice of you to mention "securing your load" in a thread about nutsacks!

Snowline rose by like 300m overnight in Chilliwack and temperature rose by 8C

Knee pads

Car accident to sweaty ballz in 10 posts, a new record! Where is Iain with some Googled images to add class to the thread.

Maybe if MEC starts making them in Vietnam the price will go down. Maybe they will even make a 50L Genie to go up against that silly GoLite pack with no lid.

oh yeah have fun digging through the three feet of wet slush on the Coleman right now in order to find ice for anchors!

Hell ya kill off old people!

there was an article by Jeff Jackson in Climbing mag about 4-5 years ago. or you could google "guadalajara climbing" and see what you get

hint hint Amboy hint hint

1) Use the down soap. 2) Front loader ONLY 3) Do several rinse cycles to help get all the soap residue out 4) You have to have some sort of agitator to prevent the wet down from clumping as it dries. The tennis ball is the best bet as it is soft and round. Using a harder object like a wooden spoon or an old shoe can do damage to the seamsof your bag as it stresses the down underneath especially if it sneaks into the bag and thrashes around in there. 5) It's even better to hand wash it in the bathtub instead of using a front loader, but it takes longer

I got hit in the windshield by a flying chunk of truck tire last week. It's true what they say, highway driving IS more dangerous than climbing.

Actually it works the opposite to how FW's post describes it. The ones killed off by lead based paint, go-cart crashes etc. are not around any more. Thus the overall life expectancy was reduced. Not to 35 though. But you old people () are the exceptions to the rule. Just like if you look at centenarians, they survived more or less randomly, not because of anything they did or didn't do. The official debunking of FW's post can be found on snopes.com as usual.

Fuck J Tree Climb for free in the Granite Mountains You heard that right, (am)Boyeee!

"Fixed screws" or a series of rappel-placed abalakovs. C'mon be ingenious! In fact you could just pre-place 3 dozen leashless tools and just yard up a tool ladder!