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oh you could fly by for sevetal days afterwards and it would still look like that.

i seem to recall a good pink tricam after climbing about 3 meters out from the belay at the top of the diagonal crack... and some rp tomfoolery, but no pins. whatever works good to hear the arete goes without bolts

All too often the people i have encountered who have said " I am looking for a mentor" are sketchy to the point of being scary. These people are not just inexperienced so much as dangerously incompetent. Also, they have no concept of the climbing partnership as a two-way relationship. They are looking for an experienced climber to spend time with them with no regard for what the experienced climber will get out of it. These are the people who guides were made for. "The client is trying to kill the guide, the other clients, and himself". After being "mentored" by a succession of more-experienced dangerous incompentents for several years, the climber will become capable of endangering larger groups of people, eg. as a scoutmaster or member of a rural search and rescue team. I have climbed with climbers both way more and way less experienced with me and not once did i ever utter, or have uttered to, the mentor phrase. More than anything else if someone says to you " I am looking for a MENTOR!" that is a signal to get the hell out as soon as possible. For some reason people who get it in their heads that the solution to their problems is to find " a Mentor" are dangerous time bombs who are relatively incapable of becoming decent/safe/experienced climbers. I don't know why this is true, but it is. Forewarned is forearmed.

six days for one roof???

if you don't use a headlamp all caves are on sights or maybe nonsights is the better term did you guys find any evidence of cpt.caveman in your cave?

im kinda gimped myself because i have a blister the size of my heel on my heel and my chicken-wing is col.sandersized

no frank baumann took that pic while out for a flight n saturday. i just saw it posted on bivouac and figured as many non-bivouac users would be interested.

So is "rack" or "bust" the better term for the breasts? "Bust" sounds sort of old fashioned. Layton has the funny t-shirt with "Nice rack". For this reason I'd vote for rack over bust.

is there still a super secret bellingham party tonight to celebrate our favorite gimp's escape from portland?

boom! its early this year

i think you just need to keep your tool dry not your whole suit

valhalla pure and farwest are in the pnw too. and hey no one mentioned taiga works yet

I just thought that since all the ice climbers out there are nervously watching the mercury I should post some conditions! Mousetrap - high volume Better Mousetrap - grass and dirt Hells Lake Falls - jetskis on approach, may be difficult to cross lake Sailor Bar Gully - nice collection of plants flowering at crux Super Heroes Cirque - Kryptonite Column slightly dripping; other routes dry but not well formed Under The Big Top/Water Music - in situ pigeons at crux Also of note is that a forest fire is currently burning above Honeyman Falls. Does that red foam freeze???

caving is a sport for climbers who are scared of heights

GET A ROOM YOU TWO

Climb: Alpine Niceness-Distel Style Date of Climb: 6/20/2004 Trip Report: This is the distilled style photo-tR only Gear Notes: bring blow torch or maxis with wings for 3rd pitch Approach Notes: 2 locked gates, 2-3 hr bushwack, black flies, hot

did fred hit on you

ya h00t

well i am out two tri cams and a bit of webbing and i have a blister on my heel and a bit of a tan.

you are gonna go down on someone in the chatroom?

Quite often when someone says " I am looking for a mentor" they are looking for a GUIDE for free.....

that planet appears to be floating in otter space

I am eBay. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them, I am the word and my name is never spoken, The name which no one knows. I am called eBay, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

it aint new at all. michael de guzman did something similar during the bre-x saga.

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