Dru

what's up with God's manboobs and pink shirt? If he can look like whatever He wants, why doesn't he look like Tom Cruise or sumpin? How come he looks like a fat old guy?

see HERE catbirdteat posted same news story hours ago

what jk said but additionally hike north from the Monkey Face along the trail following the cliff line. route starts in a bit of a dihedral (in case there's other bolt routes on the same cliff now) about 300 yards (i nearly said meters ) north of Monkey Face. 3rd pitch is full pitch traverse to left. dont get suckered by a bolt or two you can see up and right from 2nd belay.

it's neat and all but i thought the 54 year old Italian guy who climbed a 14b roof route barefoot and chalkless was cooler

i guess the fact i have to guess you mean coefficient of friction, and that I don't know how to fix my DVD drive, disqualifies me from true geekiness

naw, it was a coffee table type book with lots of pictures and then this big block of text. It was sopmething like Bears of North America. It had polar bears and black bears and kermodes and grizzlies.

dropping acid and free soloing

WTF is "mu"?

well, it's not the project grizzly guy, and i don't think its the same desensitizer guy because he was an actual academic funded researcher, not some recovering drug addict. i wish i could remember what book it was! then again a wild animal is never truly predictable, just look at Roy Horn

i read a great article once about a guy who decided he would research bears by getting them sensitized to his presence the way Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall sensitized the primates they studied to their presence. His journal was pretty cool. IIRC the entries went from something like "Day 7: Big male growled and bluff-charged to within 20 feet when he scented me" to "Day 119: approached Male #3, who was eating salmon. Pulled salmon out of jaws. Male #3 appeared confused, slowly walked away to get another salmon"

Twenty-two ton loader in the first three gears, reaching a final top speed of 25 kph (15 mph) through a wall of glass and bricks. Why oh why couldn't there be a video? there's a two hour documentary called "Project Grizzly"

i have the opposite problem, i hit the drive with my knee by accident while it was out, and now its stuck out and will not close

compo makes me wear a hard hat in the bush for just this reason, but its the first time i ever heard of a tree branch actually hitting anyone. jon, did you notice if it made a sound? you could help solve an important philosophical conundrum

The reason there is a standing committee on permanent geographic names, is so that people don't automatically get to name something whatever they want. in essence it is to protect us from boring names like "Holyoke". the committee is supposed to evaluate proposals for new names and accept them if there is a strong rationale for the name, or reject it if there is already a better name (like a native name) or if it duplicates an existing name (Red Mountain aside obviously) or for similar reasons such as obscenity or political incorrectness or whatever.

VERRRRRY grassy

you can't hurt me by calling me a geek. i wasted 10 years of my life playing Dungeons and Dragons

we vote for the MPs the MPs vote for the leader. (except they don't really - the party does - but in THEORY they do...) if you dont like the leader - change your MP. as I recall the Americans vote for the leader but due to the electoral college system, the one the majority votes for, often loses. I guess democracy is such a powerful weapon it can't be trusted to the masses. on the other hand the most democratic thing both Canadians AND Americans could do is get rid of political parties entirely. all they are is machines for siphoning up money from lobby groups in return for guaranteeing a vote from their elected members in favour of the lobby group's desired outcomes.

hunt something that can fight back

What about: Names like Sem7Am (the 7 is a glottal stop), Xwitaoz, or Xit'olacw? They are very hard to pronounce for an English speaker. Should we use these names or make the "official" name an Anglicized phoneticization? Like "Tomyhoi" for instance. You can look up the actually used Halqomelym spelling in the Sto:Lo Historical Atlas - it isnt Tomyhoi. Its got a couple of those diacritical marks and weird aspirated h-sounding x'es in it too. How "Native American" do you want to get? The real deal or some 18th century European explorer's misspelling of the Native name?

Call us when you manage to elect a leader democratically or make the top 5 list of best places to live in the world

M & M Wall

i thought solid rock went defunct about the same time as lycra and doug englekirk. guess i was wrong.

dude with rug chest and nipple bling, Layton has a pinup, ask to see it.

What is the point of naming anyway? In my point of view it is to distinguish between peaks. For instance giving Sherman Pk a separate name from Baker. If you don't climb separating out the different peaks and naming them individually is not so important. The Chilliwack natives called the whole Border Peaks area "Putlushgohap" or "Tomyhoi" according to good ol' Henry Custer whose adventures I am now devouring (thanks Harry!). Now we have five separate peak names in there, ABP, CBP, Larrabee, Pleiades and Tomyhoi itself. (And Petlushkwohap is up near sKihist in the Fraser Canyon ) So basically my view is that it's OK to name anything with a distinct route to the summit. No matter how much "prominence" or other arbitrary criteria, the summit has. As for new names: what are the most overused mountain names? Around here there are TOO MANY Red, Green, Goat, Bear, Needle, and Cathedral peaks. NO MORE!

Icicle Butt. Any good? Full pitch traverse? Underclinging or edges/straight in?