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But most of the mixed crags in Canada are not 15m high chunks of rock next to a popular hiking trail... Louise Falls area excepted...

CBS, if you pay me $20 or so, this year I will introduce myself

I thought Crime and Punishment WAS enjoyable. But I bet I wouldn't read a chemistry textbook all the way through with pleasure...

Maybe we should kill catbirdseat at the rope up and Marie can try and figure out who did it.

Lead in blocks then you only have to swap the rack once every 4 or 5 pitches.

Yeah the Yuji article did seem to contain some chestbeating (blah blah no one but me could do this, blah blah) but the overall tale of the buildup to the failure was pretty interesting... and also interesting he couldn't do the girly moves Lynn Hill or Beth Rodden could do, and figures it's harder to onsight a 13 on El Cap than to redpoint a 14d...

Oh really what makes you think that

I bought my copy of Alpinist 8 yesterday The featured "mountain" is The Titan, a Colorado mud pile. What next, Columbia Boulder? der Toof? Steve Seats The rest of it came across as a little bit same-old. All the interesting stuff seemed to be a few months late and/or a few months out-of-date. The only thing that really interested me was Yuji's article on trying to onsight El Nino. All that preparation (5 years!) and then he blows it on the 4th pitch.

I like to carry all my gear around in a rubbermaid. Also I can bivi in it and it is waterproof. BUT it's a bitch in chimneys and offwidths!

I'd prefer to eat an aminal than jail it

it seems like quite a few people got mad when Argentinian party removed fixed hardware (rap rings) from Der Toof, nearby. Double standard? Or would removing these draws cause a similar outcry....

I ran into some kids at Lighthouse Park once trying to TR with rope running directly through slings, no biners.... I don't think they had ever been to a gym in their life... "Uh my big brother quit climbing and gave me all this stuff, I think I know how to use it"

25 years ago it was 1979... .I have news for you but one of the hottest issues of the early 70's was the supposedly burgeoning population of outdoor enthusiasts crowding up the backcountry! Not that I recall it myself, probably unlike you, but one has only to read the letters columns or alpine journals of the day to see page after page of ethical yammering about the onslaught of "nature loving" hippies and the impact they were wreaking on crags and alpine meadows. Oh yes and guides and outdoor schools such as Outward Bound were taking the flak for putting these poorly trained n00bs out there.

If guns are aminalized, only aminals will have guns. How safe will you feel THEN????

Remember "The thicker the cushion the finer the pushin'"

Infant rat heads grafted onto adults' thighs 17:10 03 December 02 NewScientist.com news service Infant rats are being decapitated and their heads grafted onto the thighs of adults by researchers in Japan. If kept cool while the blood flow is stopped, a transplanted brain can develop as normal for at least three weeks, and the mouth of the head will move, as if it is trying to drink milk, the team reports. The grafted heads could be "excellent models" for investigating brain function in human babies after periods of no blood flow, known as ischemia, they claim. "Our main purpose is to investigate how the transplanted brain can develop and maintain function after prolonged total brain ischemia," researcher Nobufumi Kawai, at the Jichi Medical School in Tochigi, told New Scientist. "And we tried to investigate the effect of lowering the temperature of the brain during the grafting." But other researchers are far from convinced by the grisly technique. Denis Azzopardi of Imperial College London, UK, who investigates brain injury in newborn babies, says many well-characterised animal models of studying brain ischemia already exist. Public concern "These are well established models for testing different degrees of ischemia and potential treatments. And there are plenty of studies showing experimentally that cooling during ischemia can be neuroprotective," Azzopardi says. "So I'm not sure that this complicated technique offers an advantage in any way - I can't see it being widely used." Vivisection that provides no obvious research benefit and involves clear animal suffering will only cause public concern, adds a spokeswoman for the UK's Research Defence Society, which advocates responsible animal experimentation. "Regulations in the UK are much stricter than in Japan. If expert opinion says there are better or other ways of doing an experiment that would cause less animal suffering, it wouldn't be licensed," she told New Scientist. Temperature sensitive The Japanese team removed heads from 12-day-old rats and waited 90 minutes before connecting them to the blood supply in the thigh of an adult rat recipient. "The grafted brain appeared to develop normally provided the operation was done at the low temperature of 19°C," says Kawai. But in operations conducted at 29°C, still well below body temperature, the brain was severely damaged.

surfboard wax works better in warmish temps. i'll keep that in mind next time i'm ice climbing on Oahu.

4 days next wk hey merv dwayner! have you been?

ps. happy 10, 000 iain!

Somebody got a pagetop and didn't add the snaffle! I remedy this by posting the snaffle in my post: Thus is tradition maintained.

since it's san fran shouldnt they change the name to the 69'ers?

Have you considered hiring a professional, cause it seems thats the only way you are gonna get sum.