Dru

Ok i dont feel like sending out 17 PM's so I will post here Thanks for the outwelling of support. There is clearly a lot of interest in such a project. To date I have 8 men and 9 women volunteers. The shoot dates are TBA but will probably be on warm days in late May. Pro climbing photographer "Little Richard" Wheater has agreed to help out with the photography (see I knew going to high school with him would pay off sooner or later) So far (to satisfy various volunteers) we have Kakodemon Boulders, Icicle Canyon, Tumwater and Smith planned as shooting venues. We'll add more if we get volunteers from near other locations. Would still like to have at least one person posed on UW Rock for verisimilitude. thanks to all the closeted nudists coming out for this shoot!

You'd be hard pressed to find a car that's as big of a danger to other drivers as a suxpidition, slugburban, nadgrator, etc. Yeah - size matters in this respect, but the main thing that makes a vehicle dangerous is the person behind the wheel, not the size. Beyond a certain point, additional regs are in order, though. Like if you drive a semi for instance. there's a proven correlation between safety features and poor driving. the best way to make people drive safe is to make it obvious they are gonna die if they crash. no air bags. no seat belts. put a big sharp spike in the middle of the wheel with the point pointing right at the driver's heartt. they'll drive safe then.

they should just make land mines which detonate over a certain weight (like twice the weight of a Subaru) and leave them in the highway fast-lane.

eddy wanking.

so take a gun already.

Dru's Dinner Surprise 1 hungry climber 2 friends Bake hungry climber on 1/2 oz. for two hours. Walk to friends' house at dinner time. SURPRISE!!! What's fer dinner?

he had put beer in!

i did it when it was 5.7 [chestbeater icon here] yas we were MEN in those days... actually i think i made Fern lead it cause it was scary and exposed like

LAMB BONE!

google results i say we blame these guys. Pangaea Adventures, you have a lot to answer for.

bah!

Fern's question is a good one Super Slab or what? Cinnamon Slab? Are any of these routes worth brawling over? Or by beginners area do we mean Morning Glory? Those cheater sticks make good quarterstaves. It's be funny to see some Little John twirling going on as the gumbies and send hogs square off like the Sharks and Jets in West Side Story. Mini haulbags are thrown. Redpoint lasers are whipped out in an attempt to blind but renfdered useless in a cloud of chalk dust. Someone is tacoed with a bouldering mat and thrown in the river. A lycra wearing would be poseur is flogged with a chain of quickdraws. When the dust clears the send hogs are supreme. The gumbies have taken a beating. For the rest of the day, crushed like the Revolutionary Guard, they are forced by imperialist lackets to be belay slaves. But none of them know how to use a Gri Gri. That's not taught in Basic Mountaineering course. Once one short-over-fleece wearing slave has dropped a Prana halter top crank queen from the 4th bolt on Chain the others get the picture. This time there is no quarter. A troupe of passing boulderers swarm up onto the boulder in Aggro Gully and open a third front by throwing rocks and chalkbags into the melee. No one wins. As the sun sets vultures flap down from Smith Summits to feast on the piled corpses. Shit, its like Wild Kingdom!

Dude even if there's gear or a rope at the base, if there isnt an OWNER there there is no route line up. Its your responsibility to be ready to climb when the climb is free. If you're off putting on lip gloss or taking a TR burn on a nearby route or whatever you are NOT ready to climb even if you have the whole trunk of your SUV piled at the base.

If I was newly arrived party of 2 I would have told loud woman "you snooze you lose" and if she still kept it up i would have trundled coils on her from a great height caveman style. I agree with Off White. If you aren't climbing a route or physically waiting at the base, ready to proceed at first available opportunity, it is not yours to tell others to get off of. Or even if you are!

Dru's Amazing Buffalo Chili Get a 6 pack of porter, drink one to start. For inspiration. While working on your porter boil a handful of navy beans and a handful of red beans for 40 minutes to an hour. If you haven't got navy beans use pintos. Let liquid boil and thicken. Don't drain. In large cast iron pan - 500 grams (~1 lb.) lean ground bison, 1 whole red onion, 4 cloves garlic, med. heat. When onions are clear and meat is browned add beans and liquid. Simmer. Add the rest of your 2nd beer and open a new one. Dice 2 large tomatoes and 1-2 green chilis and add. Also a jalapeno, habanero, or cherry bomb if you got it. Spices: paprika, chili powder, cumin, coriander, salt & pepper to taste but better a bit too much than not enough. Add a shot of soy sauce, a splash of HP sauce and its good to go. Eat with blue corn chips. Serves 4 hungry climbers. Aside from the garlic, soy sauce, HP sauce and beer I think every ingredient on this list is native to the New World. Authentic. If you wanna be a purist use oolichan grease instead of soysauce. I take it back, cumin and black pepper are old world substances too.

The fall factor determines the force on your piece. A 100 foot fall on a fall factor 0.5, 200 feet of rope out creates less force on your piece than does a 6 foot factor 2 fall on a 3 foot daisy chain. In via ferrata, where the rungs are 5 meters apart and you are clipped in with a 1m leash, people took factor 5 falls (5m fall on 1m of line) and broke their biners and died. thats why they make special shock absorber screamer type things for via ferrata now. thats right a 5m fall broke a biner due to high fall factor. get the idea... the "shock force" thing you mention has nothing to do with it. laws of physics do not change just because you doubt them.

You know what? Forget the SUV Get a Pontiac Asstec

dude isnt exactly well hung is he?

better than a penguin suit! iain did say "...went to the fridge for some ice cream" now we know what he was really doing... hint it involved a seal.

what is global determination anyway? "hmmmm.... its round. Yup, a globe"?

it would be poetic to puke on a Yukon

Dude, tape is aid.

You guys could both be naturalist buffoons in the cc.com stone nudes calendar.

are you criticizing trask for not being bisexual, minx? i'm not scared of nudity, male or female. i've seen Prospero's Books and the Christian Griffiths ad.

It was a 2001 model.