Dru

the inuit live above (north of) treeline - they don't have a word for tree well

Try using your other hand sometimes. I'm referring to eating, drinking, typing etc with your "wrong" hand and arm every once in a while. We now know that the brain retains plasticity, and it has been proven to be possible to learn ambidexterity or improve your off handedness even when mature.... good for brain development!

he'll be able to brag to his grandkids about how he once got to belay a famous climber

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i heard that somewhere on the web there is a climbing site where some guy made like 15,000 posts and about 13,000 of them are total spray

i met a dude who jammed his hand in a crack and cut it off at the wrist and then rapped off the hand to get himself off a mountain.

So what? There was honest to god icecicles forming in the Gorge! at Smiff? it better melt by Friday!

i went to squamish to go solo on some easy gaper type apron route but it was cold and i saw verglas so i went home instead i am uli gaper wimp.

just for you i keep Hello Cthulhu up another day.

Yes - there is honest to god verglas and icicles forming up in Squamish particularly in the Murrin area. Nothing remotely climbable but 2 weeks of the same temperatures would do wonders! But it sux to climb rock in the cold like that!

The Little Ice Age ended in 1886 and vegetation has been recolonizing barren ground ever since that time. Given the colder weather of the 1800's a vertical cliff may have been just too harsh a niche to exploit.

I HATE CAKE

HEY CRIPPLE! Since you can't climb but still want to hang with the bro's come to Smith next weekend, I have never had a dedicated belayer, I have always had to swap leads and belays with some other climber. If you belay all day you can pretend like you actually went climbing!

The new .45 gauge Snaffle can be shot FROM a gun to wreak havoc on enemy encampments from a distance.

when you are seconding and it gets cruxy it always sucks to hear your belayer, from up above, say "hey, don't fall off cause this belay really sucks"

just like guy waterman

I saw a photo of Miss Lower Malemute once

look here I think they even have pit zips?

VW? Like this?

Why don't you take on Gray and write "Mars and Venus in The Haulbag: Rel;ationship Advice for Climbers" They can put it on the shelf with "Cold Chicken Soup From The Can For The Dirtbag's Soul"

Here's some news for ya: it's the 21st century. Globalism is irreversable. It is impossible for any nation today to be totally self-sufficient. Seeing as it was the US that pushed so hard for this in order to develop foreign markets for its products it seems kinda late to go back to protectionism and self-sufficiency and waaaaay higher consumer pricing.

waterproof breathable