Dru

"Still some quiver when I deliver" - Chuck D

Well I have a picture of a goat drinking my pee, but anyone who has ever climbed in the Cascades has a picture of a pee-drinking goat.

Who cares? Strap on the nitro!

So Dru tell me this, if you were trying to lose weight and you had the choice of using oxidate phosphorylation or using a purely anaerobic glycolytic state, which one would you choose? Who weighs less? Weightlifter Aerobic athlete?

The reason Dougherty guide has a reputation for sandbags is becauise the author assumes you are an experienced climber who knows what you are doing! As opposed to the Beckey "Descend obvious gully" Dougherty just tells you "Descend easiest way" because you- as an experienced climber, will know that you should go down via the gully rather than the shitty scree covered ledges of doom. You have to read the guidebook while imagining you are Barry Blanchard. Then it all makes sense.

The panty stains from the avalanches.

They are going to hold the arena type events like hockey in Vancouver, and the winter type events that need snow or luge courses, at Whistler, and never the twain shall meet.

Bogen had a similar setup from Simond last winter, and what can i say, it froze up, spontaneously came undone, and generally sucked. The Android system works way better. Want to go leashless? Just don't clip your Android to the tool.

The ACC/AAC published two complete guides in the 1970s. They are called "A Climbers Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada - North" and "-South" respectively. South covers everything south of the Columbia Icefield North covers Icefields to Robson. Very shitty old school guides but they are all that is out there for comprehensive books! you can usually find copies on Abebooks for about $15.00 like for instance: click me!

jobs come to town, jobs leave town when the olympics are on tv in 2010, you aint gonna see any shots of the squamish pulp mill. thats what its all about

since there is no ice and no local snow i saved my pennies and then drove over to rossland in search of fluffy kootenay champagne powpow. snoboy, snogrrl and snocat welcomed me, fed me dinner, organized party and let me sleep in the attic snoboy was on patrol on fri so snogrrl and some friends took me lift skiing on red id love to say that i hucked huge air and threw down a mute 180 into a tailgrab but my accomplishments were limited to skiiing down the green runs without falling over yesterday snoboy and i went for a tour we skiied thru a bunch of trees, some were quite close together and over several mountains snoboy did 95% of the trailbreaking through fluffy powpow i followed along in his tracks after digging some pits and stuff and seeing scary facet layers and christmas crusts we skiied out to the groomed run at sundown and i made several glorious yardsale wipeouts late in the day but we survived then we went to a new years party and drank champagne and played a party game and went extreme bobsledding! rossland is cool yay for snoboy and snogrrl

i remember seeing some multipitch length ice in the back of oak creek canyon in a cold snap

nice softshell

No, I mean like Huey P Newton or H Rap Brown, right?

that can't be layton. layton has thumbs!

understanding conditions is one of the keys to mountaineering success going out on a trip with guaranteed bad conditions is a good way to die. it isn't a sign of determination as much of ignorance. bailing was the smartest thing but he should have bailed before driving to the icefields.

Of course the one climbing market where Titanium HAS made substantial inroads is in the spork models. It's damn hard to find steel sporks anymore.

There is this great thing called Google! All you have to do is Google "titanium ice axe" before you ask a dumb question, to see that there are 6 or 8 models on the market. Then you don't have to ask... But why go to the problem of doing any research on your own when you can post on cc.com and have people make fun of you instead, it's sooo much simpler!

Hmm, you went to A+A for mountaineering at a time when avvy hazard was supposed to be skyrocketing? Maybe you should think about getting rid of the "HydrogenPlus" part of your domain name.

If you put on weight that easy, it will never come off. You really need to change your lifestyle. Lifting weights isn't going to help you lose weight. Aerobic exercise and eating less is going to help you lose weight. That and doing unequipped bivis. Unequipped bivis burn a LOT of energy. Maybe you should start with the polar bear swim. Try to stay in for 15 or 20 minutes.

If by "alpine ice" you mean like the North Ridge of Baker then by all means use leashes as you will never really have to switch from rock to ice or swap hands on tools. Leashless climbing is for crag and waterfall ice where you can lower off if you drop a tool. I mean you aren't going to hike in to Mount Stuart wearing rock shoes are you, even though they are better on the actual climb?

Maybe this question should have been asked in the newbies forum where it is Ok to ask stupid questions? There are dozens of different Ti ice axes from various companies. Got any other great new ideas? Ever wonder why no one makes an expandable chock, maybe something spring loaded, to replace clunky hexes?

Yup

but do you have the spendy grivel ones??????? or just the run of the mill BDs