Dru

get some of that zit cream teenagers use and rub it on your shoulders and back before you hike.

check out this site for alpine packs like the middle one above: hello alpine kitty

and trading 5L of water for a chance to jug some fixed lines Chongo hitchhiker style. also forgot to mention filed down Pika Mallards! and use of helium balloons while hooking delicate flakes.

enjoyable slog?

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: quote:isnt 'nwog' a racial slur? you got some aryan nations goin on at nwog.org or what? gapers like you that just got to spout off about some rescue somewhere and second guess should all just go fellate each other in a windowless room somewhere. kiss it Dru: Sure is nice that you can take such a tragedy and then in the same thread you can start shit with fellow posters, even if they are gapers such as myself. You need to grow up, you all around kick ass kind of guy. I wish I could be your friend All my friends are "Cool"

quote: Originally posted by dope on a rope: Go through the Lynden/Aldergrove crossing - at least my experience, nine times out of ten they don't even ask for ID, even after 9/11. My fiancee crosses the border daily, and it was news to him that they were going to require passports. If they are, when? (Dru?) I get asked both ways (up and down) every time I go thru Sumas.... but i always have passport so i dunno what they do if you dont have one. shoot you? ask for 30 pushups and a lap around the field?

aid climber can always get past the missing heads with some extensive trickery: cam hooks zerocams splither gear onecam units, 'popeheads', duct tape time bombs, trained squirrels, or stick clip your next piece or whatever....

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: Well no shit Scotty. Maybe you should smoke some ALPINE INSPIRATION to help you think about that. Like maybe one dude self arrested and held the others or something? If they weren't roped up why did 7 of 8 fall in, maybe they all stopped to dig out their modems and laptops and make a summitpost at the same time and just happened to be over a hidden crevasse???? Dru, chill out dude Maybe you should start shooting heroin, it gets you much higher than the poser weed DRU: Posts: 4561 It seems like you got nothing else better to do in between flipping hamburgers at your minimum wage job isnt 'nwog' a racial slur? you got some aryan nations goin on at nwog.org or what? gapers like you that just got to spout off about some rescue somewhere and second guess should all just go fellate each other in a windowless room somewhere. kiss it

well did they chip to get those granite chunks or not?

check out I like To Gape At People Dying on the Mountain for more footage of suffering to watch from the privacy of your computer.

Every time I see that other thread I misread the title as the title of this thread...

Shit, 8lb sledgehammer, you can get chunks of basalt from Vantage with a toothbrush and/or a strong wind....

ya well the guy soloed Blessed Rage, Nemesis etc probably it felt cruiser to him.....

It can be faster to hike up the Upper Shannon Falls trail and link up with the road system, than hike from the gate at the chlorine shed... more direct.

You can clean old fixed heads with funkness or with a little physical lovin from a Lost Arrow... no need to chisel... or you can bounce test them that usually works

Go in via Shannon Creek and plan to walk from the first switchbacks, you will need 4x4 or high clearance 2wd to get that far. Snow should appear from where you turn into Shannon Cr valley if not before. Gunsight Gap couloir and west ridge should be white right now. I would recommend you try west ridge based on your previous email to me.

quote: Originally posted by ScottP: and that David Blaine levitation thing... On a serious note, is a pitch really considered free if the majority of the population has to aid it? Yeah the Lithuanian Lip has reportedly gone free, but is it really a free pitch? Yes. Too bad we all suck.

I can just see the musical interlude during the pre-Kyrgyzstan Muir Wall scene.... OOps I did it again, I bounced on your copperhead..lalalalala

quote: Originally posted by glen: If you ignore the ethical issues of gluing, chipping etc... The 2-part 2 ton epoxy is awesome for gluing rock. it is low enough viscosity that if you put it in while still warm, it will flow in well behind the flake and work well. A disposable syringe may be useful. I use it to glue chunks of polished granite to frosted glass and it works quite well. There is also a 5-minute version, but you would have to mix that in the middle of the route. Ya are you gluing on lead or rap-gluing? Ethical shmethical....

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: Now that I have watched the news updates, they are in the Bergshrund on the Hogsback. On death has been confirmed, and the weather is sunny and clear. I guess a snowcat is being sent up there right now as close as possible. The only person that did not fall in is a paramedic with a cell phone. How did 7/8 fall in? They must not have been roped in since one did not go in? 2 Rope teams that swept each other in the bergshrund? I can't think of how this happened? Well no shit Scotty. Maybe you should smoke some ALPINE INSPIRATION to help you think about that. Like maybe one dude self arrested and held the others or something? If they weren't roped up why did 7 of 8 fall in, maybe they all stopped to dig out their modems and laptops and make a summitpost at the same time and just happened to be over a hidden crevasse????

Bergstrom = mountain storm? Sturzstrom = 'stone storm', major rockfall.

quote: Originally posted by faust: Hey, just about to head up the Alaskan Highway, and thought I'd ask for recommendations for places to stop along to the way for some climbing. We will stop in Squamish if the rock is dry enough. Anything worth trying out north of there? Big limestone cliff in Fort St James (thats NW of Prince George, not Ft St John where the AK Hway starts); Bella Coola if you dont mind a 750 mile round trip detour... Good cragging near highway in Chetwynd, also limestone slabs at Summit Lake; North of Whistler both Green River Bastion and Lillooet Edge are worth a visit and drier than Squamish. Cheakamus Canyon is pretty good too, I can personally recommend a route called Beefwhale take a #4 camalot and helmet

quote: Originally posted by Norman Clyde: So far I've seen a lot of emphasis placed on the fact that these climbers had come up Liberty Ridge, but in fact they were at 13,900 feet-- i.e. on Liberty Cap, probably on flat terrain-- when they had to hunker down. The route itself is not as important to what happened as the collapse of the snow cave and to their being stuck high on the mountain in a storm. I know I'm reading between the lines, but it sounds to me like they attempted to descend because they were becoming seriously hypothermic and had to get moving. Unfortunately, it sounds like they attempted to descend Liberty Ridge instead of the Winthrop/Emmons. But they may have been disoriented as to direction. It also sounds like the one survivor did descend Liberty ridge solo, while missing the hard shell from one plastic boot. A difficult task for sure. Bruce Hendricks lost one of his plastics at the bivi ledge on Supercouloir on Mt Deltaform in the 90s and finished the climb (he was soloing) with a crampon strapped on to his foot clad in 6 pairs of wool socks

quote: Originally posted by turn_one : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I got three arcteryx gore jackets, one I got for $250 CDN, one I got for $25 CDN and one I got free... o ya i worked in shipping there -------------------- where???? hook it up!!! arcteryx warehouse and they dont hire scum like you