Dru

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

yeah if you coat the Ti screw in WD40 you can place it once. the friction in cold ice is unbelievably bad, they tend to get about 2" of ice plug in them and then lock up with the ice in the barrel not moving save them for belay screws if you place more express than you thought you would on a pitch. or in the alpine where softer neve-source type ice lets them sink in smoother.

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

I was there when dru took this picture, and I didn't even get it. What a loser. I didn't see you anywhere around when I took this picture. I was standing on the Alice Ridge road by the bike trail info sign eating a mandarin orange. Were you spying on me?

Darin would be correct if only he was able to commit and say that he was SURE it was Habrich and Sky Pilot

If up at Lillooet and a river of melt water is pouring down "Cherry Ice" WI2, you can bust out either right or left and climb M2 up surprisingly "solid for the area" ( you won't kill your belayer) rock to the belay. however you will still need screws for pro or tie off a few shrubs on the way cause the rock is too suck for good rock gear and probably too suck for bolts too

so who else has got a PM from crackbolter threatening unspecified angst for talking about unclimbed routes? I support the "sacrificial route" theory - when you are gonna go try the unclimbed Mega Face of Mount Badass the next weekend, you start a thread about the unclimbed Not So Harsh face of Mt Suck to lure the gapers away on that note who's going in to the east face of Mt Spickard this winter

i can't tell you anything about aspiring except that i did half of the hike-in several times and got stormed out every single time. however if the weather is bad up on aspiring it may well be warm and sunny in wanaka and you can pull down on schist! or visit a winery! or eat a pastry in Kai Whaka Pai! wanaka was my favorite town in all of new zealand. hey fern didn't you climb aspiring? josh you might want also to check the new zealand alpine club website in case they have current conditions reports.... i dont know what the website address is but i bet google does

a little cold for the material girl wouldn't you say?

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and some of these fucking soap box actors even get elected Governor of California or NRA president

in this famous painting by bolticelli, "Venus on the Softshell", naked Venus in the centre, must choose between the Gore tex technology on the left, represented by the allegorical figures Waterproof and Breathable, or go with her instincts and choose the Softshell offered by the symbolic Stretch Woven and Form Fitting person on the right.

solar radiation in the dead of night love in the middle of a firefight....