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how many people take prusiks to the gym anyways?

Has Distel applied for your job yet?

why not just climb to the 3rd belay instead of using your second belay if the 3rd is only 25 feet higher?

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When climbing in the mountains: climb at least half the rope then start looking for a good belay. If no good belay when all rope is out, simulclimb. link pitches when convenient. otherwise don't bother.

i have climbed on the silt cliffs near skaha with ice tools. it is fun but dirty and hard to protect. the silt is not as solid as the chalk in england that they manage to protect with wart-hogs. if you tried to protect silt you would be left with a big hole where you tried to drive the warthog on.

According to the Wired story the same technology is used in vending machines.... http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64987,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 Who wants a free Coke?

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skiing and climbing

Here comes MIXED ALPINE SEASON!

If you just go "hooking", not aid climbing, in the rain it probably means you are hooking up a sport route with closely spaced bolts to catch you if you whip. I'm all in favour of that. If you bust off a hold it will infuriate the stick-clippers and they'll get their lycra knotted.

Toyota Matrix. Why didn't they go all out and call it the Keanu?

There is currently a recall on the WC Heliums. A clean nose when racking can lead to dropped nuts. The BD oval wiregates are good. Ovals have more space to rack on. I like the DMM wirelocks. The gate has this half-twist which makes some fumble-fingered people dislike it. Really though the ProWire is just as good. The BD Livewire is another good wiregate. I like to make a quickdraw with a ProWire on the top (gear) end and a livewire on the rope end.

The collapsing state vector is a metaphor for anarchist revolution, geek!

Oh I bet you could get some climbing in, maybe just not primo rock climbing. But if you summitted Mt La Perouse you'd be pretty sure you'd climbed something I betcha.

Its more like the dishwasher was half way through the cycle before i woke up enough to realize i needed a knife. anyways once i get hungry enough this is gonna taste real good!

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All the knives were in dishwasher. Forgot to do dishes before going to Haida islands.

Ledge for lunch Back on topic.. today's lunch is minimalist. Knife was in dish washer so i have 2 pieces of bread, a tomato, a cucumber, and the remains of a wheel of cachiavallo in a bag.

What was I thinking of saying S is for Snow and Skiing and Seracs in the Alpine ABCs? S is definitely for Spooning. Choose your alpine partners based on their cuddle potential....

I've never been "trained" in any of that, but I have done most of it . Does advanced cover using the Jaws of Life

Yeah. My boss is cool too.

A limpet is like a single octopus sucker minus the tentacle, and wearing one of those old school Chinese hats.

They said there is only snow down to the ground for a week per year. Otherwise it would be water ice heaven over there.