Bronco

I would like to disclose to who-ever attmepted to break into my truck last Saturday (12/22)that there is nothin in there that is worth your life.

erik: were you out at Index this saturday? I thought I recognized your truck parked next to mine but decided it wasent as you would certainly been courteous enough to come by the GNS area and scream beta as we flailed on Libra Crack.

What kinda gloves do you like for cold weather rock climbing? I've been using fingerless wool for the climbing and leather work gloves that fit over the wool for belaying/rappelling. I guess I am not super happy about the performance of the wool gloves but they seem durrable and grip the rock reasonably well. Any suggestions??

a. Motivation/Comitment - For me it's not placing Climbing ahead of other priorities and comitments that keeps me from really "going after it".

I think I saw a tall green hairy guy sneaking around stealing anything realted to Christmas. Since yesterday was Christmas, he may have assumed anything was game. So surry. I hope you get the poles back.

quote: Originally posted by Zenolith: ...(BTW, [to noone in particular]you will notice the proper use of they're, their, and there in my posts. If you wish you may follow my posts to learn more about your native toung.) Flame on girls! maybe Zenolith is talking about American Indians wearing lingerine.

so I'll bring the guns if someone else can find a dead animal to hang on godzilla.

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: At this time my calves were burning pretty bad oh yeah, so sorry to hear about your cows catching on fire why didn't you guys sleep in the lookout? was AlpineK and friends in there? [ 12-20-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

quote: Originally posted by scot'teryx: and snow kept burying a small portion of my side of the tent making it a 1.5 man tent. This year I learned it pays to anticipate this and always take the outside of the platform. [ 12-20-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

Last year I had no Idea what spray was.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: USA is threatening Canada right now cause you want us to ship you raw logs....... you gonna protest that one too Fairweather? Seems like I read somewhere the US was protesting your lack of a sewer treament plant in Victoria sending us too many "raw logs" through the Straight of Juan de Fuca. [ 12-20-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

Index Washington, no police force, great granite, lots of construction going on within 30 minutes west.

Nice web site - Check it out: www.naclassics.com

RURP: Shadup for a minute and quit speaking so I can answer your question. My favorite Big Wall is the Great Northern Slab at Index. Especially the first pitch although hauling pigs while they drag across the rock and up that gully is really hard. My portaledge is hard to set up on those boulders down at the base and just doesn't sit level. I think big wall climbing is just not for me. What is your favorite? (thats your opening for chest beating Tarzan)

I wondur if she knows her undies are stickin out in the back!!! ha ha! Looks like Pam Anderson gave her a wedgie!!!

Thanks for your warm comments Kathy, and I have no idea about the Monroe humper shirts, but, I am intreaged. Back to the work at hand, I'm considering recruiting some locals who engage in these kind of activities for recreation on a regular basis. In fact one of them punched me in the throat this weekend, (all I did was look at his beer). Seems like I saw a big dead cow somewheres recently........

it's caveman and dru! Sometimes its hard to be me - I guess you'll have to use the link. http://www.climbing.com/Pages/Techtip_pages/209/images/TT-sport-fig02.html [ 12-18-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

quote: Originally posted by Kathy: Hey Youngins, Me, Rat, Joe, Dean, and el Ski Thing are all getting older, and it is up to you to do the cool Index shit like we used to do. We are willing to mentor you in the fine arts of: Burning shit up (including tires, spray cans, and dishes) Shooting shit with our potato gun ( who can ever forget Rat hitting the belay slings on Princely Ambitions from the RR tracks!) Puking green shit in the parking lot Getting real drunk and yelling "fall, fall, I hope you fucking fall" Spending all day fighting each other in the parking lot and Private Idaho And of course - the vertical installation sundry deceased farm animals. This kind of behavior has gone on at Index for many years but recently it has been lacking. One of the most famous climbers in Washington helped grease City Park. [side note] Everyone who hates spray is always bitching about how we are going to drive off Cascade ledgends and yet one of them greased City Park [side note] We just want to help the next generation carry on some fine traditions. [ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: Kathy ] Kathy: Some clarifications are needed: - Are old fiberglass canopies on a stack of pallets going to create the right kind of thick black smoke that will coat all the other climbers cars with soot? How about dousing the old truck that's already there with some deisel fuel and shoot it for effect? - If I don't have access to a potato gun is a real gun ok to use? ( I like guns ) - pukin is self expalitory, the brighter the color the better. - yelling at the other climbers is fun and easily rattles the newbies, I think I got that one. - fightin is probably gonna be automatic once you start the aforementioned behavior. - is road kill an appropriate substitute for farm animals? In your opinion, should we hang them in an area hidden from below so it suprises climbers when they reach a ledge or hang it out for all to see? -I think running around the lower wall with a chainsaw and cutting up downed logs would be considered annoying by others, but maybe not enough to actually make them angry. Thoughts? - is it ok to climb on the days you are being abnoxious or should you just focus on keeping the place looking snappy? All in all it sounds like a good way to waste time you could be climbing, but if it needs to get done, then, well someones gotta do it.

It seems like a precarious place for a glass container, I would wrap it up in an extra set of socks and put it inside your pack. Although that kind of interferes with regular rationing Is it a possibility you switch to Jim Beam while you are climbing? If so, you could get 2 of those plasic traveler bottles which are smaller than a fifth and it would fit in your wand pocket and it's unbreakable.

I've hot dried a 10 year old goretex parka and it works sweet. I didn't want to hot dry my newer one incase it melted, but it seems to work pretty good and hasn't melted anything, yet. Has anyone done this (hot dry) with a scholer product to revive the waterproofing? [ 12-17-2001: Message edited by: Bronco ]

so who's on the power trip now?

about 10' of duct tape and a hefty garbage bag

I'm with philfort, sometimes you start a reply and you get this feeling that you're just spittin in the wind. Or you had a funny thought that once you type it out looks pretty stupid.

Thank God for my BD nut tool. Since I spend most of my time cleaning gear that is firmly jammed, yanked and hammered into cracks, (except traverses which go unprotected for some reason ) i really need a beer bottle opener when we are done climbin.

Dru, if # 2 said clothsline instead of rope, probably 1/2 the people reading this would fit that catetgory, or did at one point in their life.