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they have probably tweaked the design of the Theta AR about five times since the jacket was first produced in 1997 or 1998. that's 5 different jackets. some very old closeouts can be floating around in the supply room of internet retailers

There is a lot of snow and ice left in certain places, hidden away in couloirs that never see the sun. You can still see snowpatches tracing the line of the 1976 route on the north farce of Cheam, as of today, for instance.

you need 6 cold beers!

what snoboy said, they went south, but came straight down the ridge crest instead of following the descent ledges east of the crest!

You tell em "Merv"

The Plutocrat and Paymaster are nice lines up the Cadwallader too. If'n we get a nice freeze in late fall there are about 21 waterfalls that form up on the north flanks of the Cheam Range...and we only climbed one of them

an otter? I'm looking for the ugliest, skintightest LYCRA I can find

Koflach Vertical has kept my toes warm & dry and climbed well in winter and on alpine, and on winter alpine too. I had to get them reranded after 4 years, otherwise no problems.

horne lake was solid from the get-go

It all goes to the same place in the end

an overhanging rap? for the benefit of other parties repeating, i will say that if you stick left on descending south and follow the obvious fault/ledge system that aside from a 10m chimney downclimb that is 4th class the rest of the downclimb can be done as 3rd class. it sounds like you may have been further to the right but i guess that late in the day you did the right thing for just givin'er instead of scouting around for the downclimb. here's a trivia shot of snoboy and fern downclimbing the chimney i speak of

you'd have to talk to the designers but i recall they dislike those zips for some reason, so probably no

1? what? finish how talls are an option on any pants the teryx makes. you can get an xs-tall or an xl-tall if you need it or you used to be able to anyways. the tall pants are just 2 inches or so longer for the same waist than the regular pant.

What did you rap coming off the south side - the chimney?

why not just come out and say you are looking for a ropegun jeff?

There are 4 short technical cruxes, all well protected. Usually the hardest part is stopping yourself from gorging blueberries below the Acrophobes.

Yeah I was planning on onsighting El Nino and all these political gapers are going to get in my way

Well - only sissies aid!

Why aren't you working then slacker! Deadline is in 2 hours!

Let's have a meeting of Climbers4Lenin. Who's got the vodka

Well mnaybe it's OFF WHITE's real name that's gonna be revealed then!

The Whitecap fire is east of the mountain in Whitecap Creek. Connel Creek has been a better access to Whitecap recently, although it goes to the S side of the mountain so you'd have to hop over the W col to get to the N face.

but... Marylou is really named Allison

Is having partisan rallies in National Parks even legal? Would the Repubs or whoever be able to have a Bush rally with laser beams and country music singers (but not the Dixie Chix) on top of Devils Tower?

Well who do YOU think he's gonna "out" then? Sexual_chocolate?