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dancing plab-guy has really short arms too! his arms are only slightly bent but they are at waist level. must be a really negative ape index. i belioeve the GIF was made by pasting together heads and bodies of several different people, though.

probably on planetfear.com or ukclimbing.com (Both have gear reviews online) or in one of the british magazines (On The Edge, High Mountain Sports or Climber). actually the planetfear.com site articles are from OTE and High...

You are only gonna girdle the tree with direct friction of rope on bark, like if you wrap the rap rope directly around the tree. A sling tied around a tree will not "girdle" the tree, because the sling will rot or snaffles will eat it or someone else will replace it. I have encountered plenty of manky old slings around trees (some 20-30 years old on obscure routes) and have never seen a sling that the tree has grown into and been girdled by... the only way it could happen would be with thick hawser or cable or chain, I think. ( I have seen this with old chains people were using to anchor a hauled-up-on-the-beach boat to) So then, the setup Daler describes does not benefit the tree the way he purports it to.... Why NOT use it? Well the only real disadvantages I can see are that it uses 2 knots instead of one, so it requires a greater length of tat than just a simple loop around the tree... also two knots is twice as many potential points of failure as one knot, so it's a tiny little bit less safe. Basically I won't be using it cause its a case of aint broke dont need fixing.

as far as i can tell from the picture you use one leg of the cordelette as a prussik/autoblock/bachman while descending. now i have seen how prussik loops can get worn/frayed from heavy use and my own opinion is that i'd rather not have that happen to my cordelette...

And yet, many of these experiences are similar, if not identical, to religious enlightenment, in nature. Of course you don't need mushrooms nowadays. You can wear the GODHAT! and do it all electromagnetically! No chemicals, no pee test worries.

http://www.live-the-vision.com/wwwboard/messages/3626.html This one is worth reading, both as a reminder of the risks of ice climbing and a demonstration of the benefits of knowing first aid. if YOU had been there would you have been able to deal with it? worth asking yourself.

see live-the-vision.com and gripped.com and gravsports.com there was something on one of them about it. seems like i remember you can walk to some of them and pretty nuts has been destroyed by construction and no longer exists.

terms of service?

DISH! Oh wait if its who Fern said it is then you don't need to but isn't this a recurring problem with you two

since she's clipping bolts she's not "really climbing"

wont using one leg for a bachman weaken the cordellete due to the friction? i rarely use my backup prussik sling for any other use. also my cordellete is spectra and i clip in to the anchor with a daisy. but the system described would work if you didnt take a daisy and used a 6mm or 7mm cordelette, i guess.

what about Time's Canadian edition's pick? http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=93DCBA93-26BA-4478-960A-4614199D6575

murray!

PLAyBoy am i the only one who thinks dancing guys head is too big for his body? other than that he looks too much like danny devito or richard simmons to be plab.

show me a case where the sling tied around a tree actually prevents the tree from growing? maybe chains but not slings. the snaffles will chew through it long before the tree expands by that much diameter.

robots never unionize.

"fuck dude I'm not gonna go climbing with you tomorrow cause I tore ligaments in my thumb while scrolling my mouse reading cc.com last night"

Judging by her asymmetric chest and flying chalkbag she just finished hangdogging and is chucking a dyno to get back on her highpoint...

Yeah... twilight tiers is right above the duffy bridge. Serendipity is on the left (south) side of the big rockfall scar, to the right of synchro. The area you are describing (I think) is left of twilight teirs and is helpfully marked "projects" on Lyle's ice map cause the south facing area catches sun and the ice has never been known to fully form. GRR I wish I was in Lillooet right now... oh well Im going alpine tomorrow!

I might even get my Xmas shopping done before Xmas at this rate!!!

Partners who bail at the last minute cause they charleyhorsed themselves playing shinny are so suck. Discuss.

wow, this thread ALREADY got moved to Spray!