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if all your posts were printed out as alphabet fridge magnets and stuck together end to end they would stretch to the moon and back

the master at work link

la nutria es muerta

actually it took me about 5 seconds cause i posted it the first time i read the thread... i guess it took me 7 hrs to notice the thread

I like Alpinist but I find the mag kind of schizophrenic. The news and title are all about the big hard alpine climbs but the "climbing lifestyle" part seems to be about Eastern Europeans and the same old Colorado/Utah scene to date. I mean they have Steve Seats as a major contributor and I bet the guy has never swung an ice axe in his life. Or take the profile of some aged dirtbag boulderer in issue 3. I mean it was well written but didnt have anything to do with alpinism. It's like the mag has two different focusses that have little or nothing to do with each other and are uneasily cohabiting. The lack of the bullshit "tech tips" "How to sport belay" type articles and gear reviews that clog the pages of the other mags with the same old shit every issue is the most notable difference between Alpinist and the other mags. I mean just how many rock shoe/approach pack/stick clip reviews do you need anyways? Everyone know the advertisers pay the mags to run those things anyway. I really like the peak features every issue in alpinist and the new climbs notes although the latter feature is duplicated by High Mtn Sports MOUNTAIN INFO feature, and also by the AAJ etc. The continuing fiction piece is kinda dumb especially with Steve Seats writing it. It wasn't much better with Jeff Achey or whoever penning it. I mean it's kind of amusing but not all that new or original. Some tired boy meets girl shit and now gangsters! I did like the Dumpster Diaries recently. Speaking of Steve Seats there is an amusing story in the latest Gripped of Steve Seats trying to pick up this chick he was climbing with, narrated by her as part of her quest for a regular climbing partner.

you just know he'd say it was soft for the grade and he's been on much harder

but you know i have a complete-but-one-ish-of-each set of climbing and r&i from 1994 to the present... If i stop buying them what can i substitute for them in the piles on my living room floor

i heard an interesting tidbit about a famous Whistler local who has done the Spearhead 2x in one day and is gunning for 3 laps in a day on it. Take that Dan -!

captain kirk????????????????????????????????????????????????

Gripped is starting to slip as well.... the clothing/fashion article in the latest issue was lame. but gripped has had sucky, paid-advertising-masquerading-as-review-articles type articles like that since day one!

Hey I'm the resident skinhead on this site .. you might think you don't have much dru, but you've got w00t quanities of hair compared to me but i clippered it all off 2 days ago!

it's got to be tough for rescuers and survivors when the chopper or ambulance picks up the climber alive but they die before the hospital is reached

classic snaffle accident but a classic can be hard too dp.

Trask's latest antics are in the news again

well after alpinist decided to run the annabelle bond centerfold to pick up flagging sales r&i decided they'd better get with the program. the british magazines are sucking lately too. at least climbing itself is coming on a bit. even the photo issue was ok.

more like tonya harding

out of pawprint rare snafflehound

it's going to be damp in squamish this weekend but some people will be there anyways. look for a skinheaded guy drinking coffee with a rusty subaru waiting for the rain to stop

there's also a skaha rock fest this weekend. barry blanchard will be giving a slide show... details www.skaha.org somewhere.

"Dwaynner" huh. I gues that's kinda like the Noddder vs Steaksauce. Oh my god!

i'm just talking accidents not fatalities. interesting about cooper spur. as for stats, the raw numbers are needed so you can calculate the per capita values. in otherr words, hood yak route might have 20 accidents out of 10, 000 climbers, lib ridge might have 5 accidents out of 100 climbers, which one is worse

iain will be able to tell us if the standard route on hood has more or less accidents than lib ridge. chuck - thx for the heads up on shuksan. weather is pretty socked in up here so kinda surprised they could fly in - i can't see the mountain from my window at all.

I thought I would split this off by starting a new thread instead of replying in the Rainier accident thread. Mods if it should be in the Rainier section pls. move it there. Anyways I have the perception that although not involving particularly hard or dangerous climbing Lib Ridge sees more accidents than other routes on the mountain, and than other similar climbs on other mountains. I am curious if anyone has any ANAM statistics that back this up or disprove it. If the perception does turn out to be true is it because of the route's high popularity or some other factor? For instance, because it is a 50 Classic, are teams that wouldn't otherwise attempt it getting on it? Think of Shuksan NF for instance. I can't recall any accidents on that one for a long time. Certainly it is a less committing, shorter and lower route but the difficulty of the climbing is pretty similar. Why are there fewer accidents?