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  1. Meth precursor.
  2. Dru

    hooking

    Barbed hooks are cruel.
  3. Dru

    Free Advice

    Have you tried begging, huh?
  4. Types of falls? TR falls Lead falls that are "clean" Lead falls where you hit something Lead falls where you hit the ground Soloing falls Falls where you rip off enough rock that you hit your belayer with it and knock him or her out so they lose control of the belay and then you fall and land on them... don't laugh, cause it actually happened at Vantage! Falls of rock and/or ice from above Falls of large amounts of rock and ice from high above where a helmet would be irrelevant Frozen water falls Not quite frozen waterfalls Slush Falling freshiez Fall leaves Falling into blackness Or if not then what exactly do you mean?
  5. Dru

    Great white coolness

    Free the shark!
  6. Maybe they could string a Gondola from the summit of Adams to the summit of St Helens. That would be a cool ride. The only way they could make it better would be if instead of a gondola, they had a suspension bridge you could drive a snowmobile on.
  7. yeah that's a good one.
  8. film camera. except for the bouldering but i had this other guy take them and they sucked. you dont want to see my caulk boot technique anyways.
  9. There are only two sure things in life - death and taxes. And some tax money goes to support you dealing out death. Synergy.
  10. Dru

    Photo Gallery Upgrade

    Did you know you can right click on the main page and "Add This Page to Favorites"
  11. Or "Slender"? No fat gapers need apply. Return to slendor Address unknown No such number No such Bone.
  12. Pickets suck. Flukes suck. Just use rock pro. My two bits.
  13. Isn't this DVD to Big Screen reverse marketting the same method that the Christians used to get Veggie Tales in to general distribution? Sounds like the Left is learning from the right.
  14. Climb: Haida Gwaii-Some Bushwack Date of Climb: 9/13/2004 Trip Report: I went to work on these islands off the coast of Northern BC for a couple of days. The highest mountain is like 4000' but treeline is at 2000' so there is some very low alpine. I saw salmon spawning on an old logging road...they must have been desperate! Fallow deer have been introduced to the island. The bears only eat fish so the deer have no predators as the islands are too far out at sea to have cougars or wolves. [Either that or they used to have them but they went extinct. Don't know for sure]. These deer are everywhere. We saw like 30-50 a day. Hunter take note the bag limit was recently revised upwards from 10 a year to 15 a year. The browse pressure is so intense, devils' club ("tsi'liihn jaaw" in Haida) is considered an endangered species worthy of protection..... The rock is pretty crappy. Pillow lava and sea floor sediments mostly, some limestone, little bit of granite. I did scope one clean looking 400m wall with chimneys across a bay. It might be horribly loose. I found a little bit of beach bouldering but hardly destination bouldering area unless you like limpets! I would go back. The surf is rad. The whole area seemed like Tofino before the rich New Agers moved in. Gear Notes: Rain gear, rented 4wd. Approach Notes: Pot holed logging roads. 6 hr ferry or 2 hr plane ride. Wet bushwacks. No devils club but lots of alder!
  15. Your New Wave A3 Is My Post-Rock French Free
  16. AFAIK
  17. One time I found this internet bulletin board thingy about climbing and I started posting to it. FUCKING MEGA RETARDED!
  18. Dru

    Free Advice

    I can't believe all the quality sprayt I missed just by going to an island with no internet access for 4 days!
  19. Attempting to use a new avatar to troll with is smart. Using the same troll technique that got your last 10 avatars banned is STUPID.
  20. Alpine ABCs: A is for Aid. There is no time to frig around trying a move free a million times if its faster to just pull on a sling or whatever. B is for Beta. Get as much info as you can ahead of time. Know where the descent is before you climb the mountain. C is for Conditions. If Conditions are good you will be a hero. If Conditions suck you might epic or Die. D is for Die. Lots of alpinists Die. It is the most dangerous part of climbing. E is for Epic. Epics can lead to death or internet Embarassment. F is for Fast. Speed is safety. G is for GriGri. Don't take one in the mountains. G is also for Gu. Learn to love the energy gels. H is for Hard. Alpine climbers like to think they are Hard so they eat Horsecock and try to emulate steve House. But Hard also indicates that what you can climb easily at the crag will seem very HARD indeed when wearing big boots and carrying an overnight pack and there are no bolts and the rock is bad. I is for Ibuprofen. After a 20 hour climb and a 6 hour descent back to your bivi you might want to pop Vitamin I. J is for Jumping Crevasses. An essential alpine skill. Don't fall in unless your name is Joe. K is for Knots. Alpine climbing uses more Knots than crag climbing does. I never see people tying in with a butterfly at the crag. L is for Light. If you are Loaded Lightly you can climb Fast. M is for Mountain. Alpine climbing is about these babies. N is for New Routes. Climbing New Routes is the essence of Alpinism. O is for Oxygen. As you go up it gets thinner. Learn to deal. Bottled O is for wankers and guided clients (suckers). P is for Precipitation. The alpinist's enemy and the skiiers friend. You will find wet rock and snow covered rock to be entirely new challenges. Q is for Questioning authority. Don't delegate your safety to others. Learn how to do everything and how to test everything. Trust no one. R is for Rock! Alpine climbing often involves Rock of questionable quality. When you fling some down, always yell. S is for skiing. A necessary evil in order to approach climbs. S is also for Seracs. Climbing under Seracs is often necessary, but always scary. How fast can you run up a 40 degree slope with a big pack on? T is for Trees. Alpinism begins above the treeline. Usually. Look out for mountains named Johannesburg. Long vegetated approaches are part of the game on the Coast and in the Cascades. If you dont like it, move to Chamonix where T stands for Telepherique. U is for Ultraviolet. Destroys your skin and degrades your nylon. V is for Varmints like snafflehounds bears and goats. W is for Water. Stay hydrated. At some point you will find that it is lighter to carry a stove and a pot and melt what you need than it is to carry liquid water. W is also for Whiteout. This is when the air is so full of frozen Water you have no idea Where you are. X is for X-rated. Scary and runout climbing is more often found in the alpine than anywhere else. Y is what people will ask you and what you will ask yourself. "Y, Y, Y did I say I want to climb this god damn mountain?" is a mantra often heard during epics. Z is for Z-pulley. Learn how to set one up.
  21. Getting in an epic just so you can spoon with your hot partner is not RETARDED, but it sure makes you look desperate if that is the only way you get some!
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