Dru

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I once saw a dirtbag Canadian girl climber steal a spoon from Big-O and get chased down the street by a waitress! Incidentally, where is the all night coffee hang in Bend now that the Paradiso is RIP??? Seem to recall cruising the streets last year to a noteable lack of late night java/dessert type places.

You scared of spindrift

Leavenworth is all fake Euro. The Dutch Cup has a real windmill though! How come you cant get strawberry icing many places in USA? Mmmmm artificial pink color and flavour mmmm.

Dwayner hates the term FRESHIEZ so i say verily FRESHIEZ COMETH! BEHOLD YE FRESHIEZ!

Your skin is waterproof & breathable. Shells are hyped BS. Go naked!

One where I can walk to whatever friends' place I will be sleeping at cause I wont be in a state to drive back to the Wack.

Those are natural formations. There is no life on the Martian surface.

Fred Beckey and Lisa Rands Robbin the Cradle. "It may be horsecock.... and its old, but its good"

quote: Originally posted by jordop: I'm a Canadian and my beer ACTUALLY HAS THE ALCOHOL CONTENT WRITTEN ON THE SIDE OF THE CAN ! Bier Forte 7.2%

i think mec vancouver might still have a few in stock if you are looking to buy one.

That August team was two Slovenians. Here's the beta from Raphael Slawinski: Two Slovenian alpinists, Matej Mosnik and Jure Prezelj, climbed what they originally thought was a new line on the Emperor Face in August. This is the obvious big gully on the far right side of the face which leads to the base of the steep step on the Emperor Ridge. They reached the ridge, bivied, and descended back to Berg Lake. However, this line had in fact been attempted several times before by Blanchard, House and Josephson, who reached the same high point as the Slovenians. So although any activity on the Emperor Face is noteworthy, the Slovenians did not in fact climb a new route. As to whether the route in question is in fact complete depends on whether you consider a new route finished when it joins an existing line, or only when the summit is reached. Below I have pasted in a portion of an email from Matej Mosnik in which he describes their effort. Pretty impressive! And to further put the depth of climbing talent in Slovenia in perspective, neither is well known back home. "I and Jure climbed in 16.august. We start at 3 am from our tent. After we crossed a river we start to move up trough moraine to the snow. We climbed up inline with big couloar and reached first short rock section (4+,UIAA). After that we came to the snow field and moved up to the rock at right at the bottom of the big couloar. We got roped then. The next was a five or six pitches of snow and ice climbing. It was an intresting climbing because of a big, 3 meters deep gully in the middle of the couloar. We have to traverse it several times. It gave us some fun. And we were lucky, because there wasn't any rockfall at all. In next two pitches we have to climb a rock section (5, UIAA) to the upper couloar. We just start to climbed a rock when the snowfall began. So, in upper part of the routh we were attacked by avalanches all the time. Upper we climbed the bigger avalanches came down. After a steep ice chimney we were in the bottom of the last couloar which leads to the Emperor Ridge. But we were forced to move to the right. The avalanches in last couloar were too often and too big. In next two pitches of mix climbing we reached the Emperor Ridge. The weather were still bad, and we decided to go down. At 11pm we were in the bottom of Emperor Ridge. We climbed about 13 hours to reach the ridge and next 5 hours to the point where we take a bivouac. The next morning we moved back to our little tent."

quote: Originally posted by eric8: quote: posted by Dru Who beat your ass and burned down the white house in 1812? Wasn't that the British and how many times did we kick there ass oh yeah and we won the war of 1812 i believe to. Canada was still part of the Empire then and we whupped your ass in 1812 so bad you have never dared to attack Canada again

Show up drunk then we go to the bar after.

quote: Originally posted by rbw1966: Wow--1812?? Yikes, I stand corrected. Canadians are emminently qualified to join the worlds powers on the stage of modern warfare. We'll make room in the stables for your horses. War is for countries without hockey.

its all true we will be raffling off a snaffle dream date and many other prizes.

quote: Originally posted by rbw1966: A canadian giving adice on how to conduct war is akin to a priest giving a lecture on sex. Who beat your ass and burned down the white house in 1812?

I seem to recall a few of the Central/South American pre-Columbian societies had a system where their "army" was composed entirely of criminals. If you committed a crime, you were given weapons and sent off to attack enemies of the state. The USA is eminently qualified to return to this system. Empty the prisons, give them all weapons and a one way flight to the Middle East via a big transport plane. Think of the losses to your fighting force you have inflicted with capital punishment!

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: quote:Originally posted by rbw1966: Do you ever find yourself wondering whether the activities of your government may be questionnable? Like why they take so much of my money? Sure. I believe that the military is the purview of the government and that the military has a specific purpose. I do question why our government sends our military on bullshit "humanitarian" missions. Yeah. Saving people from natural disasters etc. bad. Enforcing a peace or ceasefire, bad. Killing people good. Especially civilians or friendly forces. Fuck dat humanitarian shit. More killing!

I read somewhere (I think it was in Ed Abbey but it might have been Abbey Hoffmann) that if you take plastic triangular flagging like they always have at car dealers and bury it just under the surface of the snow, when a sled runs over it the treads suck the flagging up into the tread and it melts on the engine and wrecks the sled. Anybody know if this is true or not? For jet skiis I prefer torpedoes or mines. I was up on the summit of the Lions once and I could hear the whine of the engine all the way from over where one was circling around Gambier. 8 miles away and 5000 feet lower down. Now if only they came up for an electric engine for jet skis, quad ATVs and sleds 90% of the problem would be gone. Course no rednecks would buy a silent one, except the guys who like to poach winter elk and deer from them.

Who needs a sled when you can just tie a bundle of bottle rockets to a crazy carpet?

quote: Originally posted by thelawgoddess: quote:Originally posted by Dru: I have climbed 1200m of ice (and snow) in the last 2 weeks that's sick. you need help. yes me hasv gud self steem no afur lobotmy.

The only difference between regular bouldering and ice bouldering is that the latter is much harder, not only on the bouldering mat, but on any spotters you kick on the way down

I don't get what the problem is either. Obviously being in the military turns you into a psycho. Just look at Capt. and Mikeadam

"I was so scared... as the glass shattered over my head my life started to flash before my eyes. I remembered being born...toilet training...my first wedgie, in preschool. The first time I realized how girls were different than boys. The teasing in elementary school where my monocle was thrown on the roof of the school. That time at band camp when..." Shit, maybe you could call Greg Child up. Im sure he needs a new epic to write about until he gets the rights to the Haston story.