Dru

quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Nevermind they are back! They just sent me an email!!!!!!!!! Now the truth is out. They were just hiding from their girlfriends talking about "guy stuff".

quote: Originally posted by David Parker: You know, I've been trying to climb the Liberty Ridge for years. No wonder I never made it. I had no clue it was in the North Cascades! And to think I always thought it was on Mt Adams!!! I thought it was on Liberty Bell????

Dont be afraid to call in a rescue - better safe than sorry. You can buy them beer if they are Ok and you jumped the gun calling in SAR.

After years of wearing size 9 or 8.5 rockshoes on my size 10-10.5 feet I decided to buy a pair of size 10 rockshoes for alpine climbing and long routes. I was wearing some old multi-resoled Aces that had stretched to about 9.5 but thought what the hell (there were multiple holes in the rand) might as well get some new'uns instead of resoling. I got Scarpa Infernos and am gonna try them out. They fit pretty tight for such big shoes but have a just-touching-the-end fit on the toes whereas with my slippers, the toes are slightly bent. I plan to wear socks in them sometimes too. we will see how well it works. any ideas from others who have done this?

quote: Originally posted by sk: quote:Amphalang? dru, this word is not in my dictionary, please tell me what it means [/QB] Try using a search engine nstead of a dictionary. think Hammerhead Shark

Your mamas so skanky they named a perfume for her: eau de horsecock

quote: Originally posted by AlpineK: Horsecock all the way. It's power food. If you look at the instructions on Gu you need to eat 3 Gu's/hr. Who has time for that. why dont they just make 1 portion 3 times as large, or, if it gets totally absorbed in 20 minutes, put it in a time release patch? How many horesecocks do you need to eat in an hour? Is there a coca leaf and red bull flavor gu?

quote: Originally posted by jkrueger: quote:Originally posted by trask: ...and give new meaning to sportin' some horsecock I think if you sport it, then it would be considered aid! It would have to be bolted to sport it. Amphalang?

50 nude ascents, 40mph winds, temp was +50C with horizontal fog and whiteout. the biggest hazard was the kamikaze skiiers

quote: Originally posted by Terminal Gravity: I liked the TR so much that I acctually read it 3 times; start to finish. I even read it backwards!

Hilleberg tents rock. They are bomb proof. Why not just take bivi sacs and a tarp if you want to go light? Personally I think singlewalls are the shit for Arctic/high altitude but conditions that are good for them are never to be found in the PNW.

March of The Kitchen Utensils I think nude ascents are more popular on rock cragging type routes than ice climbs or alpine routes. but by all means try for the FNA of Liberty Ridge if you must. Bear Mountain, Mount Baring and Bears' Breast would be good peaks to do FNA's of.

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.