Dru

Sorry I was not heywood, guess again. If you DO guess one of my avatars I will fess up.

What should I do this long weekend? Smif Rox or Niut Range? Every time I decide Im gonna do one I second guess myself. Smiff = big party warm rock climbing socialize do nothing significant (by this I mean I can climb fun routes but nothing that isnt gonna be there next time Ihead down thataway) Niuts = helicopter fly in 2 day climb of a line we were intending to do in the spring cold and suffering new route probably a little more spendy If anyone has some advice or just wants to make fun of me go ahead I probably have to commit to one or the other in the next day or two.

Trask actually climbs? You sound awfully sure there homey. I think Trask is actualy an expert system sprayer beta test ray borbon is running for bill gates.

quote: Originally posted by trask: And that would be Dru. I only have 6 or 7 avatars and most of them are hand-me-downs from Ray and Mike.

I am NOT CHIPS although I have a vague Idear who he is... chips why dontcha come to the show homeboy and i bet you a beer you will leave satisfied. not that i have ever done anything significant or anything and there is no underlying theme or ideal except a bunch of cool pictures and maybe some inspiration for a few kids out there. [ 11-03-2002, 07:14 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

15 names registered to cc.com = 1 real person

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: jsut got back from a great trip... photos soon to come... just like nwog.org

10%REALITY + 90%BULLSHIT = TRIP REPORT

quote: Originally posted by NoBolt: Nice, now if we could only get some snow in the mountains. Hey try skiing through the trees at night with only a headlamp. Drop shrooms and powder snorkel by moonlight

quote: Originally posted by Mr. Chips: Dru, perhaps you should read the whole thing and get a true gist of what's being talked about here, that way your comments are more relevent. after reading everything i realized i inferred correctly what those pgs were about before i even read them.

quote: Originally posted by Mr. Chips: When I am belaying a friend who has intermediate skills at trad leading, I usually pipe up that another piece would be a great idea, Dru originally said quote: So despite my advice he starts trying to run it out to the next restdats what i was doing, piping up. at least until he was in ground fall potential area, cause then he was scared so bad i figured he didnt need me telling him if he fell he'd die, he was shaking enough already and any more shake might just help him fall off.

TALK - ACTION = SPRAY

quote: Originally posted by snoboy: I would never judge a climber on one incident. One of my buddies who is sometimes on this board came _very_ close to falling off the top of the apron here in Squish (about 7p). I would still rope up to that person. I think you are just after the drill that person owns snoboy I do believe that very incident was discussed on this bulletin board back in Sept. 2001 and someone could even look it up. saved by a real vegetablebelay if I recall correctly - caught a tree on the way down.

ICY BC is in as of Saturday. Just barely. Pretty thin. Dont bash it or it may never get fat. Also dont step on Kris Wild's ice farming hoses.

yeah im stuck in a office on a sunny sunday too this thread could one day surpass the famous chinese muir on politics thread if we all try as for people making newbie mistakes, here is a little story about my friend "Solrac". Solrac took up climbing for the first time ever one fall, and climbed a few times at Squamish (TR) then came on a road trip to J Tree with a bunch of us at Xmas and did seconding and TRing there. He also goes to the gym 2x a week and does TRing there. Come January we have a dry spell and a bunch of us ditch university one sunny weekday and head to Squamish. Solrac is keen to try leading and has 2nded a few routes and practiced placing gear and building anchors while standing on the ground. So we go to the Smoke Bluffs and Solrac leads Davy Jones Locker a 5.6 with gear placements and bomber rests every 5 feet. Stoked from this lead he wants to try something harder so we go to Mosquito a classic hard 5.8. Solrac leads off up this but finds without the good rests its harder to get gear in. So despite my advice he starts trying to run it out to the next rest. He puts gear in then liebacks thru the crux and is finger traversing a flake with the full on Elvis shake happening when his last piece of gear falls out - classic gumby mistake he put in a cam too small for the crack and it walked till it opened up and then fell out. so hes looking at a ground fall but doesnt know it and as he sketches up the flake both feet cut out and he hangs by fingers for a moment with feet scrabbling then does a desperation lunge to a hand jam and pulls up to a big ledge and me screaming at him GET GEAR IN NOW ASSHOLE CAUSE YOU NEARLY DIED THERE! So who is to blame in this case? Me or him or what? Solrac went on to become a good gear placer and lead 5.12d before giving up climbing for mtn biking a few yrs back. The only advice I have is learn from your mistakes and those of others. No matter how much you prepare for your first leads at some point you have to actually do them and at that point if you screw up you can die. What that has to do with Annas circumstances im not too sure cause i didnt read pages 3-6 so I have no idea where Chippy and Shoes came in on? But my advice to Anna would be not to give up climbing yet but to practice anchors etc a hell of a lot more. Also to realize that if'n she doesnt improve safety that eventually word will get around she's a sketchball and she will have to give up climbing cause no one will climb with someone dangerous unless they are full on sketch themselves. Sorry for rambling gotta work on the slideshow now.

quote: Originally posted by Fence Sitter: does anyone knwo any short cuts from lanley B.C. to the heliotrope ridge trailehad or shoudl i jsut hit I-5 to bakerhighway or whatever? grab sack of weed drive to cultus lake look for footy prints heading thru the edge of a farmers field to hook up with US backroad

what are you doing inside on such a gorgeous day wanker i myself am typing this on my quokka enabled web phone from 7000m on the west facew of k2. i will let you know when i send.

anna is cool by me.

i could be the first person ever to record the fa of a wi 1

I believe PageTop is an ephemeral route that will appear and disappear two posts after this. i was mislead into believing it had already formed

If as many avatars as climbers show up it will be pretty schizo down there. I just bailed on doing a heli assisted first ascent to come down to Smiff Rox tuffytuff with you I hope you appreciate that!

Ding a ling lang a lang dang ding dong, dingidingy dong a lo. Jesus built my hotrod.

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quote: Originally posted by philfort: Perhaps he traversed just below the Price glacier, then up the rocks near the Labour Day route, before ascending Winnie's Slide to the NW couloir. You know, like it says in Nelson. Sounds like an ascent of Beckey's obvious descent gully