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quote: Originally posted by Lambone: since when do you find putting greens next to big walls? He better becarefull not to impale himself with that ice axe! What big wall?

quote: Originally posted by mattp: I don't believe there is an easy way to climb Agnes. Though it may not be the most difficult technical climb in the state, it is a rock climb and it is not right next to the road. Also, I believe there is no way to avoid the need to crawl through the jungle for at least a couple thousand feet. Viewed from the air when I flew over to Stehikan one time, it was the most impressive thing around, appearing much more massive than any of the peaks along the Ptarmigan Traverse or in the Cascade Pass area. But would you say it is a "hazardous enigma"???

quote: Originally posted by greghinemeyer: let it go I think you meant to post that comment on the GODZILLA thread ???

speaking of Long drawn Out musical interludes... I gotta mention Ginger Baker, possibly one of the world's best drummers (Cream, Material, PiL, etc.) he had a 10 minute drum solo on a Cream album that it is sOOOOO funny to watch the clapton fans skip past to hear their guitar dude play again!!!

What did the Deadhead say when the acid wore off? "who are these guys, they suck."

They need to spend more time practicing? CLIMBER magazine from Britain once proclaimed that on sight ground up first ascents were "better than Sex" in a headline. A friend of mine said "depends on how good the sex is". Maybe Phish guy needs some tantra?

Yes, there are two adjacent routes on Yamnuska (choss pile found in the East) called Red Shirt and Brown Trousers.

And here is the beast!

quote: Originally posted by SEF: (Now I'm dating myself). At least when you date yourself you can assume youre gonna get lucky at the end of the date!

quote: Originally posted by ScottP: I've noticed plenty of new barcodes on the backs of the trail signs and on the downstream side of bridges. And something else I noticed this summer is the little magnetic strips that they are putting in the permits and forest passes. What's up with that? mark of the beast- see Revelations.

quote: Originally posted by gapertimmy: meow Cakes!

a lot of Phish's music is just self-indulgent musical wanking, though. i mean so what if the dude can play guitar while bouncing on the trampoline if they're gonna make albums like HOIST now PRIMUS good

that's some belly piercing!

quote: Originally posted by Jason Martin: The Strand on Hamilton Mountain is an elusive WI 6 that seldom comes into condition. It has a history that goes back to 1981 when Robert McGown and Mark Simpson made the first partial ascent. To date it has not seen a complete ascent. Unfortunately, there is ice on this thing once every four or five years. It is unlikely that it will be climbed by anyone but a person who watches it closely over the course of a cold winter and gets it when it on one of the very few days that it is in. Jason so bolt it and make it a great mixed climb

see.. overhanging 12c in the needles...not the whole route but roofs, bone... anyways to answer off white's question, you hammer directly with the drill until you can make a little hole to rest the drill in then you start using the hammer. paul piana wrote an article in climbing mag c. 1994 about this crazy old man named gene somebody that put up all these routes in the needles using exactly those ethics - free, no hooks drilling on the lead. his quote "Its a lot of work and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone". I still have that issue but im not gonna spend 6 days digging thru the pile looking gfor it. i bet its in the climbing magazine index anyways.

Helmets WORK

i have seen that off polypro.

are you saying you don't like getting a "shocker" or what?

quote: Originally posted by Peter Puget: Glad to know you often concurr with me. Thanks for the correction. I must have confused you with someone else. With all the churning in here it's hard to differentiate who said what. But my point still stands. And to reiterate it: 5.11 is further from 5.14c than it is from 4th class. That's total BS, there are many days when both 5.11 and 14c are impossible but 4th class is always possible!! First 4th class - prehistoric hunters c. 10 000 BC or earlier First 5.11 - probably Joe Brown and Don Whillans c. 1957 (also first V7 in Fontainebleau) First 14c - Hubble 1990. So that's something like 11, 500 years from 4th class to 5.11 and only 33 years from 5.11 to 5.14c... seems like 11 and 14 pretty close together...

quote: Originally posted by Dr Flash Amazing: quote:Originally posted by trask: you can't collect on your own bet dru=dfa Coming from you Trask, should Dru be offended by that sporty comparison? trask is my avatar i never offend myself.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: I hear that works really well on routes ove 90 degrees... Yes you hang-on with one hand and drill with the other. If you get pumped you fall off and must lead back up to your high point to continue drilling. Just A little Corner (12c) in the Needles of S Dakota was put up in this fashion by a 61 year old man.

Rap bolters are real weak. True men run it out gnarly hand drilling free on the lead

quote: Originally posted by trask: Sure dru- British Rating System E7 extremely severe VS very severe why do you ask? Thats prettty good for A guy who doesn't climb, let me guess you cut and pasted all dat from rec.climbing.uk???

I hear Orgasmotron at Little Si is a good nailing route