Dru

But unlike Squamish, Marble canyon is Romantic !!

trask you wanna bring that 12 gauge up here to dealwith my neighbours retarded barky dog?

North American cars are suck. Go Japanese.

drop dynamite down the gopher hole and hope they dont carry it to under your house before it explodes. TRUE STORY some guy was gonna blow up gophers with dynamite, he lit the dynamite with a long fuse and threw it out towards the gopher hole. His dog ranand fetched the dynamite and brought it back and then went under his brand new F350 king cab with it...boom. no dog, no truck, damn gophers everywhere...

Jordan did you get suckered by the 5.9 bolts to nowhere right of Sol Direct at the start? Darin the Rock at Marble Canyon is good in many places. There is lotas of choss butthe best climbs avoid it. If you have ever climbed in the Rockies you will find it similar. It is a great place to visit in Spring and Fall. It can be scary hot in summer, like after 2PM you are screwed. Marble Canyon as once described to me as a "girlfriend area" in that it is the type of place you and your girlfriend could have a great 2 days of climbing together, but you'd be bored if you went on a week long roadtrip there.

1) Yves Good Dog is vegan horsecock, sort of. I begged for one on Rexford cause I forgot my GU and Snickers bars... 2)Picture this: Squamish Sunday PM. It has rained all day and the slugs are crawling back and forth on the new paved road to the climbers campground. Here comes an SUV. Big slug lined up under the tire: SBLUP! 3) I had 4 days off. It rained for 3 of them. but it doesn't matter cause I HAVE A NEW FACE IN MY LIFE Yes, about 37m.... I have been examining this line for about 6 years now. ecided to get to work. Rapped it 2 months ago and did some trundling off large boulders. Scrubbed the top 15m about 3-4 weeks ago. Got serious on Sunday (everywhere else was rainy) and scrubbed the last 22m and also worked the moves some via Ushba. Went back up on Monday (O CANADA!) and scrubbed a few more sections missed 1st time around. Worked moves 3 more times finding a few gear placements and eventually TRing it no falls . Got out the Jumars and Bosch and added 9 bolts to the gearless sections. All prepped and ready for the redpoint go Thursday evening (weather permitting). Grade? I dunno, now I know all the moves it feels like 5.9, before that it felt like 11a. So it must be a good 10a

ya the moral of the story is, dont tie a fig-8, tie an overhand, if you wanna use the euro death knot, cause the fig-8 can invert and become a literal death knot. duh.

Three Americans and three Canadians are taking a train through the mountains in Europe. The Amwericans each buy a ticket and are amazed to see the Canadians only buy one ticket amongst the three of them. "How are you going to get 3 people on one ticket?" the Americans ask. "Wait and see" reply the Canadians. Americans board train. Canadians board train and all huddle in to a bathroom. As the train chugs along the ticket taker comes and takes the Americans tickets. Then come to the lavtory Canadians are in and knocks on the door. The door opens a fraction, the sounds of grunting and straining are heard, and a hand comes out around the edge of the door holding the ticket. After the ticket taker goes away out come the Canadians all smiles. "How do you like that eh?" asks one of the Americans. "Euros are too polite to look in the stall. Works every time." So, a few days later, the Canadians and amwricans are boarding the same train to head back thru the mountains. This time the Americans, grinning, only buy one ticket for the 3 of them. The Canadians, this time, buy NO tickets. Again the Americans are surprised and the Canadians grin "Wait and see." So, they board the train. The Canadians hide in one bathroom, and the Americans in the other one across the corridor. The train gets underway. After a few minutes one of the Canadians stealthily emerges from the bathroom, crosses the corridor, knocks on the door behind which the Americans are hiding and says in his best Euro accent, "Ticket, please!"

quote: Originally posted by iain: The string and cans thing CLEARLY wouldn't work underwater, dumbsh*t. The only option is morse code by beating two horsecocks together. I believe macguyver did this in episode 12 Underwater you could send 'smoke signals' by pulsing the bubbles you emit from your regulator? You could practice this at home by farting in the bathtub.

i dropped a few logs myself there last fall...

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: I dont like posting TRs Except of da TOOF, or pix of you in your Fedorov suit

quote: Originally posted by RayBonbon: Hey bubba, for your cell phone the service matters less than the phone itself. I recommend one of those with a retractable antenna, that way it won't hurt so much when shoved up your ass. and if it has "vibrating ring" feature (the phone I mean) you might even enjoy it more that way!

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Rent or borrow a cat And if you get some itty bitty paw planks for it then you can go Cat Skiing too!!

quote: Originally posted by AllenB: Don't you mean 'slave'? Regards, A NOOOO man, "belay salve" is this new cream from Petzl, you rub it on your rope and it magically stops falls

taciturn = not saying much talky = spraying trolling avatar = Dennis (Pope) Harmon Hey Dennis how is Donna TopStep these days? Didnt Antagonizer get 86ed just like bob n' polish did?

I say get Lambone to interview Caveman I had a carpenter ant crawl in my ear once while i was asleep MOTHERFUCKER!!!!! Talk about a wake up call!

There is no bush on the N face of Shuksan approach if you go the correct way. Send $20 for details.

ISO certification does not currently cover belay slaves. That will be reserved for ISO 20002 which is under UIAA development at this time.

I have just patented the Dirt Bolt, after extensive testing on the TOOF, North Gully of the Chief and other exotic locales. I expect Utah climbers to buy large quantities. Exact details are in the Pat. (US Pat. No 15497523-876A-G1) but I can tell you each DirtBolt is 1 foot long and operates on the approximate same principle as as a CO2-capsule-emplaced ice screw. See Cliffhanger for more details of our propietary placement system.

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: Dru- Is MEC still carrying the Inferno? My latest catalog (Spring) didn't have them listed. I realize not everthing in the store is in the catalog, but have seen them before. I'm thinking about getting a second pair and don't know a good source down here. Greg MEC vancouver has them, dont know for how long... i noticed they arent in the catalogue maybe they are just selling off what they have?

Good you mean MEC might actually be in stock on the items for which Im looking for once?

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: Dru; I have been wearing my Scarpa Infernos for a season and a half and have noticed some stretch. Not much, but enough that they feel a touch more comfortable now than they did when I bought them. My $.02 (or .0302CAN) Greg The way I see it is if you fit them loose to begin with they will never stretch...its only when they are tight to begin with that they stretch, I dunno if this is actually true or not but it makes some kind of sense... Your $0.02 is now worth only $0.0299 Canadian as the CDN $ continues to rise against the weakening US $...

quote: Originally posted by gregm: that was probably us you saw topping out. we had hiked in saturday and camped at the base of the climb. we were moving the next morning at 4:10 and by the time we topped out it was getting somewhat slushy. if you try again go left around the pyramid (unless the ridge is snow free and climbable). we went right and lost a lot of elevation we had to regain. i guess you already know about the approach Sounds like a good glissade back down White Saddle. You see any cougars up there ? here's some pictures if you're interested.

Ingraham Direct pshaw... real smoker would do InOunce Direct.