Dru

over urinal "look left" left wall "Look Right" right wall "Look down" floor "look up" roof "you're pissing on your shoes, sucker" seen at a urinal somewhere. [ 11-13-2002, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by iain: Mountains are almost always a complex of various rock types with different levels of hardness and strike/dip, which would seem to make the glacial action, while a considerable force, less relevant when producing steep routes. sadly, you are mistaken. the factors you mention are of secondary importance to glaciation in the mid-latitude temperate and subarctic zones. of course the equatorial regions are a different story, esp,. places like african desert that were never glaciated recently. there prevailing wind direction is actually the most important!

quote: Originally posted by philfort: quote:Originally posted by iain: so I made the stupid joke that Chimborazo, on the equator, would be easy from all sides. Or maybe it could also be hard on all sides what about peaks in Antarctica where pretty much every direction is north when you are near the pole.

glaciers dig out big holes out of mountains called cirques and cirque headwalls make steep faces. also between two cirques makes a ridge and when you cut away cirques on multiple sides you gettum steep horn. like Steinbok with Steep NE buttress between NE and N faces and the Sw side is gently sloped. on the other hand when you dont get a cirque you tend to have more of a gentle suirface caused by the natural processes of erosion filling in holes and reducing the heights of cliffs. so its rarer to get steep faces on S and SW aspects although obviously you do sometimes, like Eg Cathedral Mountain S face again that is part of a cirque with the other side being the N face of Amphitheatre.

Queen Creek, ~70 miles east of Phoenix, has rad tuff bouldering. There is granite up by Scottsdale-Prescott area too. I suggest you check out www.rockandroad.com if its working or go into a climbing store when you are down there.

Read a 3rd year level Geomorphology textbook. Here is a hint: something like 60% of cirques in the Canadian Rockies have an east, northeast, or north aspect. What mysterious geomorphic processes could be affected by temperature and aspect

I think I told you this already but dont forget the north island Volcanoes which are similar in nature to the Oregon cascades. Except they have geysers and cool stuff. Ruapehu was very fun.

just because a climber is a girl does not automatically make them cool. there are just as many sketchy chics out there but because of the gender imbalance they can always find single climber guys to overlook their sketchiness and if they ditch one they have 3 more clamoring for the position. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

If you like your life dont do this

1. The most difficult climb in the Alps 2. A good challenge for a competent team 3. An easy day for a lady.

You could work at REI if you worried about that cause I hear they are always out of stalk

Yeah where the hell is Dwayner and the Mickey's???? For that matter (non sequitir)what ever happened to verticalturtle? Did he morph in to Alpine Turtle or what?

So soon all the Polish hardmen will be washing down chunks of 'speck' with TG stout!!! as they send new M10s in the Tatras.

quote: Originally posted by Muffy The Wanker Sprayer: see it now although dru, I must say the real Fern IS MUCH PRETTIER Yeah well Kurts nose is not as big as Moomintrolls either.

quote: Originally posted by iain: quote:Originally posted by thelawgoddess: i think the word "sandbag" comes from theatre. don't quote me on that, though. not sure how it came to get its current meaning ... you've just doomed yourself to all kinds of theatre rigging spray now... "friggin' in the riggin'" anybody know that song

A friend of a friend was on top of Weart when the cairn fell over on her injuring her leg... after limping the 4 hrs out to the car (it would take me at least 5 unijured) she went to the hospital and was told her leg was broken and she had been at risk of the break severing her femoral artery, if it had happened while she was walking out she could have died in minutes or something you gotta watch out for those breaks you dont know about, oh and the scary cairns that attack you

what you put in your bong right

I see her now!

Based on your theory does that mean scot'teryx is a girl??

Naw they took baby food cause its already pre-digested so easier to eat or saome theory like that... Sort of like proto GU. And 7 days is not exactly FAST, call speedclimbers.com on that one huh

Have you ever noticed that the Asterix's got a lot worse when Rene Goscinny kicked the bucket and Uderzo had to WRITE in addition to drawing?

It might be cached, turn your machine off then back on??

Was there a fixed aider on Golden Horn summit block?

If you are in Muir Hut will they tell you how high you are??? or do you need a LIST of instructions

quote: We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing. If this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more information and assistance. For general questions see our main help area, or search for other member pages. We musta crashed it with all the heavy traffic. In the image I posted above Little My is the one on the left. [ 11-13-2002, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]