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50:08-124:12 more or less?

There is an excellent chapter on "Blobs and Globs" in the excellent book Monsters of The Deep by oceanographer and marine biologist Richard Ellis. These unidentified chunks have washed up on the beach on many occasions. His conclusion: a yet unidentified species of giant octopus which may grow up to 100' long.

Jordop leads pitch 4, a nice 5.6 groove, first time sun was out enough to take pictures. Szy sets out on 7th pitch. Block that pulled when offending orange TCU was yarded on during removal indicated. I had told Szy that it was "safe to belay off of" The scar. This was taken from the belay. Jordop and Szy got hit. I just got scared and my ropes got the chop. Probably we got off lucky. Main Wall of Marble Canyon where it all transpired. Back at the car beers are consumed as survival reward. This may be in the Guys of cc.com upcoming Photo Annual under the "man tit" section. Survival is good. Got beer?

Actually McLane got the names reversed somehow and it stuck. The original Slow Duck is the 5.8 A2 above Dead End Dihedral, and the original; Slow Dyke is the 10a single pitch no pro dyke Peter Croft on sight solo FA'd. If you get that the Slow Dyke is a pun on Slow Duck it actually makes sense. As McLane has it it makes no sense. Oh well.

So szjakowski jordop and I set off to celebrate Canada Day with a climb of Yellow Brick Road in Marble Canyon. Everything goes smooth at first. On the 7th pitch it is Szy's block starting and he heads out on a 10c pitch. Now its his 1st time ever climbing on limestone and after a couple of meters he decides to head back to the belay. While he is cleaning a TCU from an undercling, which he'd had doubts about but jp and I had assured him was "totally bomber man" a 3 foot by 3foot by 1 foot chunk of the undercling busts off catching him in the side and Jordop in the head & hand and he takes a short factor 2 on the belay... One severely chopped rope, one slightly nicked rope, one beat up leg (jammin) two smashed hands (jammin and jordop) and three severely wrecked psyches were the outcome so we bailed and liveds to climb another day. Beers later. I took some pics.. will post em eventually.

hey if you want sympathy break your feet and then whine, cause it works

"My advice is don't ever go where there's slide alder or devils' club" - Art Cooper

how come its only exChristians who become Satanists, I mean really, its like "I don't identify with your dogma but I am too lame to think for myself so I will take all the negative stuff from it and pretend it is really cool whereas I am just an unimaginative adolescent rebel. By the way this death metal is soooo cool. My mom just doesnt understand me. She refuses to wash my Slayer T shirt. I'll show her, I will wear her makeup"

basking sharks look like sharks, and whale sharks look like whales.

"As an instructive generalization, novices in the mountains are afraid of falling, while experienced climbers are afraid of things falling on them" -Dick Culbert

e rock already pointed it out but was nice enough to edit when i told him to ssshhhh

go ardarvin go

i bet you could find out the answer here

missconfused

unfortunately fenderfour registered about 3 hours before MN was seen registering online. not the greatest detective work but i guess we have to cut you some slack since your kanadian. but i never said MN was F4 i just left it to you to infer erroneously that that was what I was implying, which you did...

nurse sharks are NOT whale sharks

got mine today

i see our newest avatar is "fenderfour"

"[the ice was so hard that]Putting a screw in was like trying to twist a banana into cement" - Eric Dumerac

oh yeah nothing beats the ol vengeful kiss n tell for entertainment value

...one more post trask

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well i guess you thought wrong!