Dru

quote: Originally posted by E-rock: Hey chuck, It's my birthday too. Happy Birthday! Maybe I'll come out and say hello at 4:30. E Yeah cause E is straight EDGE he has to wait until 4:20 is well over to say Hi.

I regret to say I might be off exploring some fall ice in the Canada, eh - instead of wild .com party.

Roadkill Cafe.

Where was Stefan's helicopter support

"Blotter is my spotter"

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: even if it's a friend of a friend who cracked their skull open... lame I would take a jacket off a dead body if it fit me and wasnt too ripped up.

Those of you who only know Mike Adamson from his belligerent postings on this site probably have never experienced his more 'sensitive' posts as arefound on www.alpinelite.com I quote here a paragraph fragment from one of the newer writings to appear on www.alpinelite.com quote: With no rope, and the one partner I had falling quickly behind, it became a climb that involved only common sense decisions. I found that freedom from a route description allowed me to instinctively make the necessary decision about which way to turn. Or maybe it was just the big arrows painted on the rock. Who can say?

If I find it in the mountains its mine and karma be damned.

Beware of accidents as happened to Erik & SpecialEd's bro a few months back. Erik sez there is still most of a rack of cams yup there somewhere plasced as bail anchors off to the side of the route BOOTY ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's not what I read in "I Was An Overweight Love Slave: Confessions of a Hoochie Mama". Get in on Amazon.com for $29.99 Operators are standing by!

A crag is anything that is not a Big wall or Alpine or Highball. To make it more confusing there are "Alpine Crags" like South Face of Prusik.

ATC vs. Trango Pyramid, i like the pyramid better. doesnt heat up as much rappelling and can flip it backwards for more friction. also doesnt wear as fast as atc and the keeper loop is stronger and doesnt break suddenly like the atc does, or did...

I thought it was a "highball"

I thought it was closed and you couldnt reserve anything just first come first serve. In which case majority rules and the huge mob of cc.commers will displace or absorb all other camping parties. [ 10-16-2002, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: Dru ]

Looks like someone is off making Sasquatch tracks.

Cougar bait thread.

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: Pacifica is at least on par with Al Jazeerah in terms of objectivity... Yeah, how dare those Arabs listen to al Jazera when they could get their unbiased, objective news straight from CNN - and in English too, a much superior language!

String topropes all over the campground and tell any other parties "Oh, we're using this campground all weekend"

quote: Originally posted by gapertimmy: she's beta testing a new HC hybrid. The HC is now filled with GU, much like a twinkie, fascinating! and "comes" in an easily-stored 8=======D shape

Figure 8, if used in "Rappel" mode with the biner clipped through the small hole, can slip down over the gate of the biner. Then if it is loaded it cross-loads the gate and can easily break it due to leverage. Its real easy to demonstrate this yourself with a fig-8 and belay biner. just let the small hole slide down a bit so it is over the gate, then crank the big end towards you and note which way the little end exerts force. At least two people died in exactly this fashion when their belayer broke the belay biner while holding a fall, in Britain. It was written up in High Mountain Sports mag. I dont think it got nearly the coverage over here, Ive never seen this style of accident discussed in Climbing or R&I or even ANAM.

I really like Black Orpheus, mostly 5.8 and easier with one sustained 5.9 pitch and one supposedly 5.9+ pitch that is actually a boulder problem off a ledge with a bolt in your face as you do it. Ddnt have the crowds associated with SSlab, Cat In Hat etc. Tunnel Vision is fun too.

Were you the guy in the shorts or the second? If you were the Shorts guy I have great respect for your cold resistant properties.

Scot'terrodactyl's TR said there was a blue sling jammed in final crack to summit of Prusik. When I was up there, the jammed sling was green. Leprechauns at work? Aliens? Invasion of the booty snatchers?

A super-sized bird in Alaska By PETER PORCO Anchorage Daily News October 15, 2002 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks. Villagers in Togiak and Manokotak say they have seen a huge bird that's much bigger than anything they have seen before. A pilot says he spotted the creature while flying passengers to Manokotak last week. He calculated that its wingspan matched the length of a wing on his Cessna 207. That's about 14 feet. Other people have put the wingspan in a similar range. Scientists aren't sure what to make of the reports. No one doubts that people in the region west of Dillingham have seen a very large rapto-like bird. But biologists and other people familiar with big Alaska birds say they're skeptical it's that big. A recent sighting of the mystery bird occurred Oct. 10 when Moses Coupchiak, a 43-year-old heavy equipment operator from Togiak, 40 miles west of Manokotak, saw the bird flying toward him from about two miles away as he worked his tractor. "At first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes," Coupchiak said. "Instead of continuing toward me, it banked to the left, and that's when I noticed it wasn't a plane." The bird was "something huge," he said. "The wing looks a little wider than the Otter's, maybe as long as the Otter plane." The bird flew behind a hill and disappeared. Coupchiak got on the radio and warned people in Togiak to tell their children to stay away. Pilot John Bouker said he was highly skeptical of reports of "this great big eagle" that is two or three times the size of a bald eagle. "I didn't put any thought into it." But early this week while flying into Manokotak, Bouker, owner of Bristol Bay Air Service, looked out his left window and 1,000 feet away, "there's this big ... . bird," he said. "The people in the plane all saw him," Bouker said. "He's huge, he's huge, he's really, really big. You wouldn't want to have your children out." Nicolai Alakayak, a freight and passenger driver from Manokotak who was flying with Bouker, said the creature looked like an eagle and was as large as "a little Super Cub." Comparison to an eagle, certainly. Super Cub? Probably not, scientists said. "I'm certainly not aware of anything with a 14-foot wingspan that's been alive for the last 100,000 years," said federal raptor specialist Phil Schemf in Juneau. Schemf, other biologists, a village police officer and teachers at the Manokotak School said the sightings could be of a Steller's sea eagle, a species native to northeast Asia and one of the world's largest eagles. It's about 50 percent bigger than a bald eagle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.shns.com.)