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Since Will Gadd is off in Nepal climbing peaks the best Rockies ice conditions report at the moment is the live-the-vision.com bulletin board. Sounds like most of what's in is in the Front Ranges and Kananaskis. Will Gadd's "Canmore pages" on gravsports.com have tips on how to go out on the town. If buying weed at the Canmore Hotel ask the kid with the doo-rag to return Pete's Axar

i have huge blocks to trundle up here piton destruction can take a number

global warming not all bad - scientific proof the wine tastes better! hi j_b

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don't you mean "smith"?

fixed goes clean

Did you take a hammer and a bunch of pins up Glacier Peak, big shot?

The Drake or Grizzly Paw for beers. Got a 4wd - the Ghost for free camping Otherwise camp at Yamnuska parking lot no one checks in winter and only 25km drive to Canmore. Banff is for posers and Japanse tourists. Canmore is for posers too but most of them at least climb. I know of a couple of free, warm bivi spots but they're secret so I leave them for you to discover. How to talk Canadian, for Americans: do a web search on "Rick Mercer" and you will find some interesting info.

says here "a clamorous, soulless barrage"

drinking the winter ale as we speak! sooo damned good! i'm on my 3rd of the night

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Average temps in PNW up 2 celsius since 1930's Another 1-4 C increase is forecast You are gonna be waiting a while!

how come there's nothing on that Survivalist site about "How to tastefully decorate your armed compound with dead ATF agents" or "Dave Koresh's BBQ recipies" or even "Rules of Russian roulette for when you are trapped in a bunker, out of food and ammo, with a horde of radioactive mutants outside" ?

so you would rather see the few hammer required placements on a 99% clean route get blown out until clean gear goes into the scar, than see a fixed pin or two?

a fixed pin is also cleaner and less damaging to rock than a bolt, at least according to the Hubers. of course they get manky and rust and fall out eventually. the brits like that cause then the E grade creeps up over time...

a fixed pin is "cleaner" and damages the rock less than 100 placed and removed pins in the same spot. the only reason America has the "place and remove" ethic is because early climbers were too cheap to leave many pins fixed.

any time murray order the shoes too!

some people like hammering!

full moon in the alpine = no headlamp required. lighter is faster

Isn't there another one without the notch, that has a twist in the wire with a ball and slot at the end? thats the freaking dmm wirelock

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they dont put em in and take em out they put em in and leave em in. fixed pins.

i like those dmm wirelocks cause they are sexy beasts like me.

Don't we have this same thread like every month? I just finished THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by Jonathan Lethem. Next I am gonna read some John M Ford book from the 1980's, or reread PERDIDO ST STATION by China Mieville. I need a couple of 400 page specials for next week when I go off to logging camp to get me through the long nights with nothing to do but talk logger.