Dru

quote: Originally posted by mikeadam: I've been slammed on this site about 50 times using my real name. That hasn't changed too much since I quit using spray avatars. When I run into people in the really real world they don't have much shit to talk. I have talked more shit here than anyone else using just the one avatar (Capt. Caveman takezs the overall crown, still, I believe) but no one ever send me nasty PMs or emails. Maybe its cuz Im such a cool guy? Or Im not sprayin hard enough? To Mattp's point, sometimes the banter gets a bit juvenile but if you have ever been in a car full of stuinky climbers on a 24hr straight drive you will know that happens in real life too. In the offline world not everyone loves one another why should we try and make our cyberworld a utopia either? You just have to remember this BB is basically just a big non alcoholic drunken free for all. I commend Jon & Tim for creating the site and maintaining its tone and the contributors who not only talk a good line of spray but go out and climb lots too. The fact is though that endless positivity and hugging get boring. Although I missed some of the vitriol last night I dont see why either Peter or Dwayner feels the need to sulk off from this BB. They should just shake their heads remember spray is spray and go out climbing together.

quote: Originally posted by IceIceBaby: quote:Originally posted by Dru: How many walls do you climb based out of NYC anyway? I will answer that in a Q too How many skyscrapers are in NYC? (remember to carry the -2) (every weekend I do the "Escape from NY") and a whanbe full time climber Neri Carmi = Peter Parker.

quote: Originally posted by danielpatricksmith: Gary Hemming Gettin' closer....

How many walls do you climb based out of NYC anyway?

quote: Originally posted by trask: George Lowe? "Live it up, fill your cup, drown your sorrow And sow your wild oats while ye may For the toothless old tykes of tomorrow Were the Tigers of Yesterday." -- Tom Patey No but you are getting closer...

JON Muir is a crazy Australian guy from Arapiles who climbed Everest and wears hand sewn rabbit fur clothes. Naw you are all still way off. Here are two hints. 1) It is a guy, who is dead now. 2) It was written in the 1960's. So much for Twight, Stevie Haston, etc.

No one is even close yet!!!

All wrong so far.

A famous climber wrote this in his diary and it is quoted in his biography: "A great hardness is setting in, and I am increasingly able to treat the petty and the mundane with utter contempt...I will do many things for people I respect, and for fools nothing. They deserve to be trampled on." Any guesses as to who it might surprise you!

What is that thing on the left a premixed orange margarita??? And climb bar? Is that where you have pube club?

So Cal is a desert!!!!! It never snows down there

The funny thing about the Dwayner Peter thing is thatthey both thought they were trolling the other guy and then started to take it seriously. Trolling is trolling, don't believe the spray. If anyone calls you a nasty just agree with them and . PS I retrobolted Sabre yesterday, now it is safe for the sport climbers. Maybe this neglected route will now see the traffic it deserves.

Good to hear Tackle got rescued and is alive. After all he is the guy who defined "dry tooling" as "what we used to do in high school when we couldn't get a date".

Actuallymine is made from old missile nosecones. It doubles as a headlamp.

I got one and love it. Not just an ascender but a mechanical prussik and a great device for self-belayed toproping. Also you can use it as a floating fix in point so you can jumar without daisy chains. I bet it will clean my laundry and mow my lawn too if I figure out the Cyrillic instructions. I have never used the Petzl Shunt but I heard this is a better self-belay. You can buy them at Climb-On in Squamish and probably lots of other places too.

Snowline is near 7000 feet in Lillooet and 3500 feet in Chilliwack. With a north-south gradient like that there must still be snow on the ground in downtown Seattle.

quote: Originally posted by fern: quote:Originally posted by Dru: S Mid latitude temperate glaciers (including all in the Lower 48)are projected to vanish in the next 50 years or so due to global warming.... really? good thing they keep finding new ones in Montana ... didn't they find 50 brand new glaciers last year? average size of those glaciers 100 square feet?

"Trask Middle" school = the Widest school in america.

METOLIUS - made in the PNW. Gave me a nice pro deal one time. CCH - wanky Colorado brand. The choice is clear. I mean Aliens are OK but they get stuck more easily and are harder to clean when they get all stuck-up. What I cant figure is why no one makes a 3-cam unit with internal springs like an Alien has? It would be thinner laterally than a TCU OR an Alien, and would be more stable than those silly SplitHer Gear things.

mattp you say "take the law into his own hands". I would suggest, in the continued absence of gun toting Rock Cops kinda like Larry The Nut Tool who would arrest nefarious perpetrators bolting cracks, that it is up to the climbers as a group both to police themselves, and to deal with ethical transgressions (LAWBREAKERS in your metaphor) by doing what everyone agrees should be done namely removing the bolts from beside the cracks.

Get Fitovers from MEC or similar. The brand sold at MEC costs $30 and gives full UV and glacier protection. Fit over your regular prescription eyeglasses and you look like a cool senior citizen (you know how they wear those things on cruise ships and so on...) I have used these for ~15 hr days at elevations over 10 000 feet with not only no eye dazzle, but no sunburn on the skin around the eye. Also gives you some of the protection of a ski goggle in that if they steam up you can lift them up a bit and still look out through your regular glasses, whereas if your prescription sunglasses steam up you are screwed.

At Trask Middle School shouldn't that be Bares? School motto: "Our students are the most educated students in America - they repeat every grade 3 times!" [ 06-19-2002, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

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See... iceworms are only found on glaciers not in your average snow patch. Mid latitude temperate glaciers (including all in the Lower 48)ar eprojected to vanish in the next 50 years or so due to global warming.... That will probably kill all the iceworms in the Lower 48 SO - could the US Endangered Species Law be used to force implementation of a stricter Kyoto Protocol, in order to reduce global warming and protect endangered iceworm habitat? (And glacial ice climbs for climbers as an unexpected side benefit?) Just wondering.....?

quote: Originally posted by jkrueger: I thought Dru was more the dirtbag type, but it seems he prefers to do his spawning in satin sheets? Now I have lost all respect... Yeah my silk ones are bloodstained....