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he's worried about the rope cutting on the arete if he falls off, so its triple redundancy instead of using 2. note he unties from 2 on the first ledge and drops them so when he gets to the top he only has one left

see "binners" thread in the gear critic tie offs of any sort suck even slipped over the screw. clip the hanger! and use on sight cause those are cheap at MEC or Valhalla Pure for that matter

it's odd they ran a pic of tex rather than tlg with both of them there that night... i would rather look at tlg than at tex's duct-tpe job

your butt is ALREADY big

well when the ice around whistler is in who drives all the way to the duffy anyways?

yeah you are saying Don should pander to the WA market and screw the locals the fact is you see a lot of WA climbers in Lillooet because they are not clued in enough to know about Whistler, D'Arcy, and Fraser Valley/Canyon ice as witness all the climber rushing by the amazingly IN Mousetrap to go Marble Canyon and the Rambles a few months ago

I got some closeout Blue Aces for $80 CDN I think they are making it in Gray now, so you can continue with Aces if thats what works for you

sure enough, Genesis = dull sound and blows!

spray is amost a muffy forum already at times but if you could moderate the chatroom muffy could be the mod of that

ya my grandad had some sailor story about some sailor who neeed ropes for rigging. all the chandlers were sold out so he went to a church and begged for the bell ropes. monks said he could have them if he could get them down so he did some set up like that, fix rope at one end, slide down the rope then shake it till the knot at the end shakes free and down comes the "fixed' rope.

thief knot Did you know, the knot that is to the square/granny knot as the thief knot is to the reef knot, is called the "why knot". no one knows that one but knot math geeks, because it is totally useless!!!

the thief knot is a retied reef knot with the tails on opposite sides instead of the same side if that description makes sense... sailors used to tie their kit bags up with it then if someone was in their bag, they wouldn't know the knot and would retie it as a reef knot, and the sailor would be able to tell a thief had been in their bag o gear, and go looking for the culprit.

i like Boreal Ace's I have been wearing them for 11 years now more-or-less. i had so many pairs of the black n green ones i skipped the red years and went straight to the blue ones i find Moccasyms fit my feet great too, but none of the other 5.10 rockshoes. WTF? scarpas are too narrow and sportivas just feel weird, like they are for someone with a club-foot.

sheepshanks are just not all that cool. now the thief knot and the highwayman's knot on the other hand are pretty useless but definitely cool

this is some GOOOOD pizza the box is talking to me

uh - uh, those blowers are full of bacteria. nice, warm, moist environment. i just wipe my hands on a couple handfulls of TP or seat covers rather than uise one of those blowers

Heathcliffe is from Jane Eyre isnt he?

just rate everything grade 3, I'm sick of ppl whining about "soft Squamish grades" give them "hard Lillooet grades" to balance it out sort of like Lyle's Marble Canyon rock grades with Coyotes Penis at 5.4 and Pavilion edge at 5.8

next time i get paid to go in there i will be sure to investigate the reserves are in there blowing things up right now according to the local paper. i wouldnt want to get shot.

yeah, high mountain sports, alpinist and aaj all claim the line to the right is still unclimbed so if it has been done that info should get published ASAP.

Ebbers (WorldCom CEO) surendered to the cops earlier this week. Dude that finked on him was his accountant (plea bargain deal) accountants's 15m house has a private golf course and 16 JAcuzzis. WTF!!!!

I already saw the "Martha's Lesbian Prison Nightmare" headline in the Enquirer.

how many female lurkers have posted to this empowering thread so far?

if raised in a sterile environment with no bacteria ptresent the human organism will develop severe auto-immune reaction and allergies as the immune system, desperate for activity, begins to attack other parts of the body and harmless substances. bacteria are good. let your kids play in the dirt, eat yogurt, and don't wash your cutting board every day. public service announcement

a survey i once saw said that if there is another guy in the washroom 80% of guys will wash hands after peeing but if alone the percentage dropped to 20%. speaking of bacteria did you know those hot air blowers have like about 50 species of bacteria on average growing in them and when you use the blower, you blow bacteria all over your hands.....