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after examining it i have concluded that the 6000' north face of Hope Mountain offers a Mt Index type winter route. when will we get good conditions? approach is minimal, hopefully one only has to go a few hundred m up a creek canyon before hitting avvy snow.

Look on the bright side - those scabies you got from trask may be doing you some good

That story was in Rock N Ice at one time wasn't it?

Are parasites good for you?

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That has to be the sketchiest advice I've ever heard of from one of those columns. Pray tell what conditions would this be useful in? So I guess that means you're supposed to turn the skins around backwards to walk back down the snow approach? Or maybe just glissade? Yeah, the whole concept sounds pretty sketchy. walk backwards!!!!

look what happens when you Google "Lillooet Ice Climbing" "Shit, why didn't I think of that!"

Hey did you ever listen to Praxis II or Praxis III I still think Buckethead is really Joe Satriani behind that mask.

Dang I only woke up at noon Lefebvre Road Erratic is on Lefebvre Road in Langley more or less between 8th and 12th. You can see it in the woods from the road. Two TR 5.8 and 5.10 and boulder probs to V6.

snaffle crap

note legs....

TROY is such an 80's mullet name. Hi, my name's TROY. Ladies, wanna sit in my Mustang and listen to some Def Leppard? It's totally bitchin'!

some dude on Logan held a 200 foot fall onto a single fluke where the rope was YELLOW BOAT POLYPRO back in the 1970's. I think it was Dave Jones author of the NEW SELKIRKS NORTH GUIDE in point of fact.

they fuckin rock and you can cut your rack of nuts in half, carry 6 bolos instead of 12 regular nuts. also make good quickdraws in emergency! i dont like the silly rails though. supposedly it makes them easier to stack.

"In the 1950's they were selling Smoke Bluff lots for 50 cents an acre! I could have bought Neat and Cool!"

I hooked a spectre over a flake once and ran it out 60 feet on mixed ground my sphincter nearly failed but the spectre stayed hooked on the flake even though the line traversed a fair bit to gain verglas. i think spectres are cool but the DMM ice hook is way better, for one thing it weighs half as much!

veggie burger

marble canyon is about 700m but north facing rambles is closer to 1100m; pass by joffre lakes is c. 1500m you can check it out yourself with the BC Basemap online at maps.gov.bc.ca

you could probably glue them to your thermarest to stop your sleeping bag slipping around, or, it would slip but only in one direction

sometimes at high pressures like after 6 or 12 beers, a secondary stream will develop at right angles to the primary stream. i don't understand exactly why but it probably has to do with the viscosity of unmetabolized alcohol in urine and the Froude and Rayleigh numbers anyway when i piss 90% in the bowl and 10% on the handtowels nea rby that is my excuse! it is the cursed "secondary stream"

what was spray about suggesting they would make good kneepads for ice climbing? the friction of goretex or softshell on ice is minimal and it seems a sticky knee would be helpful topping out on low angle bulges. i think the best idea would be to somehow turn a big tibloc inside out so that the spikes were on the outside though, but skin material would be easier to fit than something rigid like that. this is not spray! this is a serious suggestion!

i don't have a map scanner but I have 3 copies of the ice map including a waterproof one THANKS DON!

There is a brewery tour you can go on in the westland region of south island, the beer is called Monteith's, IIRC the brewery is in Greymouth.... anyways you get a free beer if you take the tour

Polish Sausage isshown on the INFAMOUS LILLOOET ICE MAP I got mine

if you can find old SMC shallow angles they cover the same range as lost arrows but are lighter. they don't make them anymore, i have been told this is because they were weaker than they should have been and the eye sometimes broke when shock loaded speaking of which I will pay up to $3 US D each for anyone's old SMC shallow angles! purely for my collection