Dru

quote: Originally posted by Terminal Gravity: Marty, Thanks for the TR and congrats. Why did you come in from the US side? Cheaper, less beaurocratic hassel, route considerations? Was there any Canadian ranger hassel? The reason I ask, is I am planning a solo attempt of Logan in 2004 and expect that I will have a difficult time getting permission from the authorities. If any body has comments or hints please spray away. Dru? Naw its easy to get permission to solo Logan these days. They changed the regs in 1997 or something. In fact some Czech dude (first solo of East Ridge) said its way easier to solo it since you dont have to multi-carry all that gear you just single push up over and down. It took him half the time it took other parties on the route that season.

you should probably get rid of that old spectra. fortunately i run a spectra recycling service. your old sling will be made into a bulletproof vest to help shield north amerca's peace officers from crazy g8 protestors. for address of my recycling service send a Private Message.

yeah, horsecock with cheese gu is basically just a corndog.

quote: Originally posted by Fairweather: where did you get your "50 years and glaciers in the lower 48 are gone" data? I think you might have read a few too many Greenpeace junk mailers. statistic cited in Sapiano, Harrison & Echelmeyer, J. Glaciol. V. 44 no. 146 pp. 119-135, and elsewhere. I summarized it as "50 years more or less". see original article for error bars.

given that its sensuous massage therapist bob-n-polish you are talking about shouldnt the title of this threat be 69ed?

calcium carbonate - you just grind up some chalk and throw it in or what?

You can probably make a bonfire out of horsecock logs. They are full of fat for fuel!! MMMM barbQ

landjaeger is like the ferrari of horsecock.

flip flops.

quote: Originally posted by Fairweather: Hey Dru! Why hasn't Canada ratified Kyoto? Has it even been submitted to your parliment? Maybe it's because your govt sees it as the joke it really is. Only difference is GW has the balls to come right out and say it while the "smug" Canadians let us take the heat. ....I think they're GLAD we're holding out!...takes some of the political heat off of themselves at home. Please go to http://unfccc.int/resource/kpstats.pdf to see a list of countries who see fit to judge the USA on this matter, but are themselves hypocrites. And please don't respond with the usual statistics....USA consumes XX% of the world's resources, yet has only XX% of the population, blah, blah. ...Last time I checked we were almost 40% of the worlds economy. By the way; where did you get your "50 years and glaciers in the lower 48 are gone" data? I think you might have read a few too many Greenpeace junk mailers. ...And if you're really looking at ways to twist the system; I always thought the ADA could be used effectively to temper the Wilderness Act or the ESA. You know I started this whole thread to see if I could troll myself a Fairweather and it took a few days, but, I GOT'UM!!!!

Hey Avatar how come you post at midnight? Blue balls or insomnia?

quote: Originally posted by D-dog: quote:Originally posted by Dru: ? people have been base jumping baffin for like 20 years... thor got done in the 80s i do believe.... d-dog have you base jumped steins pillar? I am not sure that Mt. Thor was jumped that early, though yes Baffin has seen a number of BASE visitors. I believe that Will Oxx was one of the earliest to jump up there. Even so, there are many formations on Baffin that have never been climbed, let alone jumped. See: http://www.leadingedgebase.com/about/le_baffin.htm Check out The Fin. Still, to my knowledge, never jumped nor even climbed. Holy crap! Not yet gotten off Stein's - I don't know anyone who has, but not 100% sure on this. This winter had pretty bad weather for jumping in central Oregon - more wind than usual, and unpredictable winds. I was up on Monkey Face at one point this spring, with only one rope, in the afternoon, everyone else had gone home. A calm afternoon turned into a windy afternoon at about the exact minute we bid farewell to the last party rapping off, and rigged up. We waited several hours for the winds to calm, without much luck. Finally, running out of day, we waited for a momentary lapse and made the best of it. All worked out ok in the end - not even a scuffed knee on landing. Wind is not your friend in BASE. Being under canopy is like being a piece of toilet paper in a gusty valley - you do have some control, but if the winds are strong (10+ mph) or erratic, you are basically at the mercy of random chance. Not good when dealing with bad landing areas, trees, whitewater, etc. Peace, D-d0g There are 2 or 3 routes on the Fin if i recall my info from AAJ, CAJ, Desnivel, Mountain Info etc. correctly. west Face of Thor was definitely base jumped in mid 1980's prior to the first completed route on the face (Redfern et al) but after the 'worlds longest free hanging rappel' was made off it.

hey what route did you climb on hozomeen? Those walls are called "Silver Lake Bluffs" ( w face of Mt. Wells subpeak). See Fairley guide. Culbert et al did a 'central nose' in the late 60s or early 70s. Mixed Culbert 4th and Culbert 5th class (so probably 5.8). Chris Atkinson former Bugaboos Park Ranger, soloed some aid routes there in the late 80s or early 90s. The bitch is a 3 hr vertical bushwack to get there or you could drive up the Hope Mtn logging road and rap in.

lets have it at Bobs Burgers and Brew in Sumas

If you had these on your To Do list you might as well give up now Neufeld has been up there the last 3 weeks in a row climbing several routes per day ..... sketchy details availableat present

quote: Originally posted by Juneriver: C'mon Dru, give us a name so we can seriously trash talk him It was Juneriver actually No Im keeping it a secret in case dude put me on Ignore list accidentally or something. Dude wanted to know abnout Central Coulour on Joffre. Send me a PM saying "No longer on ignore list" and I will supply the requested Beta. Otherwise Too Bad.

he used a sock and there was snow on the ground too

LA MAUDITE. Even though it costs more beer

quote: Originally posted by JayB: FWIW, I've had the misfortune of ascending stuck ropes ... I'd be interested in hearing about any other means of getting oneself out of this situation...

Yeah, what the hell.... obviously you cant get a research grant to study iceworms so the info out there is full of factoids with little truth to them.

FIXED ROPE???? You shoulda unfixed it. [ 06-24-2002, 03:34 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by Stefan: Thanks for the info on the wall. It looks huge to me. We climbed the gully on the SW side of the North Hozomeen peak. It was filled with snow. We planned to do the South Hozomeen the next day, but motivation was a factor.... We camped at about 5000 feet up there. Well it aint as huge as it looks... when you see it from Isolillock, looking across,its maybe 400m.. that would be 7 pitches or so i guess, probably less than 10 anyways... there are bigger walls with shorter approaches left unclimbed... except maybe for that rap in.........

quote: Originally posted by iain: quote:Originally posted by Jedi: Pants pocket are usually gooey after a trip with all the emtpy packets. Jedi You'll run into the same problems with h.c. 'n cheese. You can buy the EXXXXXtremeTex Outdoorsman CheeseXtremekeeper With Quick Release Horsecock Action ExtremeTubes at gander mountain sports for $49.97 this week only on sale. easily washable and keeps leaky cheeses from staining your pants. clip it to your belt loop with a locking biner for easy access to horsecock during crux nmoves, cheese when you want it, and a fashion statement that screams "EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXTREME CLIMBER!!!"

quote: Originally posted by Big Wall Betty: And who lives in Vantage? Deadheads waiting for the horde tour to hit the gorge?

? people have been base jumping baffin for like 20 years... thor got done in the 80s i do believe.... d-dog have you base jumped steins pillar?