Dru

You're right, in fact, as I was sitting in my living room last night, I smacked my head and said "I forgot Vbouldering!!" which is easy to do because reading it is like bouldering, no commitment and over fast. It is funny though. You aint gonna find stories of epics and suchlike in here but since it only comes out 4x a year its not that expensive to buy and you pick up all the latest California boulderdude slang.

I think that information is private. wasnt it zdfg???????????

Tod you state it well. Why get upset that you haven't "done" the traverse? You are right, few people have. Would you say youd climbed everest if youd been to basecamp?

you mean like serpentine arete or backbone on dragontail? i think jordan's last one is maybe the east lion or something and the previous one is near clowhom lake maybe... i go home now my eyes hurt from squinting at tiny mountains. no one has guessed any of mine yet

Zelda Skylark (the conqueror of all the peaks on Earth whose name starts with the letter "E"); this is apparently Tami Knight in disguise

OFFwhite is that Clean Break? or something on the wine spires?

that last one looks like stupendous or something off the bella coola highway.

Its not the south buttress of Gimli...that is granite not gneiss for starters im almost drawing a blank on Jordan's #2 unless it is the east ridge of mcdonald S peak? And darin yours is black velvet canyon i think?

It IS TOO Whitemantle!!! You cannot pull that shit on me. Oh wait I mean Stanton. Duh.

So, you want to duke it out on the Ballard bridge too, eh? can you say massive wealth transfer from the poor to the rich? sure. i knew you could!!!

a gi gi works the same as a reverso except you cannot belay the leader, only two seconds... i will sellyou mine, its only ever been used once!

ya but it took me 10 seconds to get jordan's right so = not that he took it himself, apparently, he stole it from the BCMC web page!!!

nothin shocking?

jordan that picture is too small to see but it could be whitemantle? here is another mystery photo name the route!

Just ell them , you have climbed the peaks in Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit, and Into Thin Air. "Everest 96? Yeah, I was there..." tell them you were filming with Brashears. Theyl dig it and since they dont climb, will never question you.

I saw this quote below on another bulletin board. i dont know if its true, or not.

one alternative to both climbers seconding at once, is that climber B seconds fast and leaves the gear in, and climber 3 follows on a Ushba Basic on a fixed rope, and takes the gear out. We did this on a summer climb of Rock On, left the car at 9:00 PM and topped out at 11:30 PM i havent done it much in the alpine, and it isnt the greatest method for fullpitch traverses - or when the leader needs the gear back for the next lead. but if you take a rack and a half it works fine. one thing i have found about reversos for 2 or 3, is that you really have to be a few feet below the anchor for them to work in the autolock mode. so if your clip in to the anchor on an alpine route is to gear at waist level, and you cant get below it to pull on the ropes, youre gonna be screwed. also they are suck when the route is low angle.

Yeah ditto cause they keep sending me free ones!!!!

Lene Gammelgaard, as someone who self-describedly went to Everest to kick start her carreer as a motivational speaker, should be distrusted no matter WHAT she says.

Jordan 1) wrong again!!! You should be able to tell from the shadows, that the view, wherever it is, is looking South so it cannot be "east to piebiter". Also Piebiter is not granite and everything in the photo is granite. 2) How can it be s face of Viennese, when (here is a clue) it is only about 100m high?????

its a little action figure glued onto a boulder right!!!

What I like about the British mags, is you can figure out lots of tricks for gear protected face climbs with double ropes, just by looking at the pictures. its funny to see someone actually leading with a rope clipped to a nest of 4 or 5 equalized RPs or to a taped down hook or whatever cause shots of trad climbing in American mags are almost always a splitter crack with cams every body length, or someone freeing an aid climb, or a runout bolted slab.

I will putem up on Bivouac as photo essays in a few days if no one gets them

politics is but that said, have you noticed how the euro (and CDN $$ too but not much) is climbing against the dollar, american unemployment and debt are skyrocketing, gold is rising etc. and no one has caught osama or mullah omar yet? and what about north korea? are they still on the axis of evil or did they get sent down to the minors cause they have nukes but no oil.

Darin, nope