Dru

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 ]

4:20

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....

Mitch 4 posts in a row? Dont get worked up 4:20 is only a few minutes away.

quote: Originally posted by chucK: The only thing better than a yellow alien is an old (out of print) WC #6 Stopper with the stock peach tape. They suck though now that they changed the color of the tape . I have two peachies I will trade one for a non-peach colored one and 6 beers

I take it you're just doing WA/PNW descents Lowell, not Canadian stuff... or you would have the Trevor Petersen (I think?) W face of Welch on there.

fitovers make you look cool too like this idiot [ 06-19-2002, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

Brooke Sandahl of Metolius and Smith Rock fame (and worked the Nose with LH and accompanied her on her FFA) freed it on the fixed copperheads etc, Lithuanian Lip was 13b and the 3rd pitch was 12c or something? I bet that is unrepeated.

quote: Originally posted by Jedi: Do keep us up to date on the axes and leashes. I am pondering a new set of crampons. Switchblades have to go. Need something to help me compensate for my lack of ability and strength . I have been eyeballing a set of M10's on sale right now. I have to admit that I do not like CM's crampon straps as they do loosen throughout the day. Have not tried the one's on the M 10's Unsure about the Bionics because BD has not recalled them, yet. Robocomps look nice and I have heard great things about their "stickyness" ice. But their long secondary points sound like they make mixed/rock climbing not as enjoyable as it could be. Any experiences with these crampons guys. Jedi m10's - have never had the straps loosen and they are noticeably Stickier than the Grade 8s. have never had gr 8 antibotte loosen either. however the current m10 antibotte SUCKS!!!! for waterfall ice get the Quark.... unless you plan to do lots of dry tooling. it has the most clearance of any of them and damn it is good. all the weight in the head, not like the rage with the stupid heavy shaft. i found drytooling with it fine but I heard that it is a bit skatier on micro tiny edges than some of the others. i guess i wasnt climbing hard enough...m5? that said the new air tech wing or whatever might be good. [ 06-19-2002, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by mattp: Dru - Should we see if we can get peace-officer Larry to issue tickets for excessive or irresponsible bolting? I bet he could be good at this -- if we could get him to leave his cruiser and hike up the mountainsides. Then our canyon could be saved and we wouldn't have to fear encounters of larry kind in the parking lot because he'd be hiding in the bushes up at the Pearly Gates or somewhere where he could surely solve the crime of the century. I agree with you that it is up to us to act, and I indicated my support for some bolt removal -- like the principal that bolts do not belong where natural protection exists, I believe that nearly everybody who has participated in this debate agrees that there are at least some offensive bolts in the Icicle Creek canyon that should be removed. What we're talking about is how to undertake such a program and how to talk about it, before and after. Matt Ya if I ever chopped some bolts I would tell whomever placed them, that I did it and why. HOWEVER sometimes the perpetrator is unclear and I would not wait until the culprit was identified, to remove the offensive metal. Act first talk second. [ 06-19-2002, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Dru ]

quote: Originally posted by trask: Dru=merry prankster with all the toys (if ya get my drift). I wanted to marry a prankster but she told me her proposal was just a joke

So Gord does that mean you are giving up on Simond or what?

Dwayner Do you mean to say you have never ever in your whole life worked a route or hung on a rope? I dontget you on your last point. Should people not work routes? Are you advocating a return to the yo-yo ethic or just stirring up the shit?

Retro - make him admit to what he's in prison for before you agree to marry him

So where is the video of the Dwayner-Peter love in from Pube Club last night?