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You're in big trouble now Clint!!

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ Some of these games are freakin tough!

Yeah "some guy on the internet told me his bother caught a fish like that" Snopes is really gonna love that!

so, if it cools down it can take a couple days to reform what rotted in the rain... one area that is fairly high and good for beginner ice is cedarvale falls up the Bridge River. also you have to drive by everything else to get to it so you will get to check out Plan B and Hell Creek which are also good easy areas. finally if it is cold enough that things stayed formed Spray Creek Falls is an awesome place for a new ice climber. altho it is multipitch it is more like two single pitches separated by a canyon and the first pitch alone has 3 or 4 wi2+/3 variations possible.

i would wait and see if it cools down again first...

this one has two faces!

It isn't. Or do you mean "pasty"

Its going to be funny when the Scouts see a Mountie scrambling class acting unsafe and rappelling down the trail without a separate belay.

deja vu!

I wore black before it was trendy.

Well pope, if there was a little snowstorm on you as you were chopping the bolts on Town Crier or whatever at Index, in July, you still wouldn't be able to call it a winter ascent. The rules of the game round here are "it has to be calendar winter to be a winter ascent". You might find "winter conditions" at many times of year but the chest beating must be saved for the times dictated by the Earth's axial tilt. On the other hand in scotland you can apparently break out the tools for classic summer rock routes any time the temperature is below freezing and there is hoar frost or verglas around, even if it's in October or May, but woe betide anyone who dares touch a crampon point or pick to a climb that is "not in condition" even when it is the middle of February. Their standard is subjective. Ours is objective. Ours leads to fewer debates. If you want to claim a winter ascent then climb it in calendar winter. If you just want to climb it and don't care if it is a "real" winter ascent or not then just go for it and keep your trap shut when referring to the possibly wintery nature of the ascent.

Windstopper sucks, so there is no situation under which it is better than Powershield. Unless you like to sweat.

I am trying not to want anything too much. There is no end to desire. I am trying to learn to appreciate what I have.

That is quality suffering. Why an alpine axe? Did you go with one of those and one ice tool?

I heard stories about UPS warehouse employees playing soccer with packages in transit

But how long would it take to telemark it

25%!

did you keep the snaffle hide to make yourself a marmot chalkbag?

I justabout choked on my chewtoy with that one. Great timing. Great delivery. I'm woofin my ass off here. (That's "wmao" - can I get my own graemlin for that? Jon? Oly? ) Anyway, I just wanted to say: (Don't go to the site - there's nothing actually there. Damn.) how bout some korean bbq?

I prefer ADSL Seriously though, I use DHL for work and they always show up on time

Get this going for you on ice climbs! http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051219/full/051219-1.html

Shit man, it's +9 and raining Ice is melting all the way to Lytton.

Damn! Get well soon mtnHigh!

They can't run with their legs tucked into the high top boots