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If it's the pack pictured below, you're probably best off using an old bleach bottle or diswasher detergent bottle and storing the crampons inside bottle in the pack. It doesen't look like any good lash points are on the pack to me. If you are real determined, you can sew a couple of fastex buckles on 2 nylon straps on a strategericlly located spot on the rear of the pack and lash the 'pons there.

doh!

cut down on the carbs, desert and booze.

so where's your stories whiner?

and thank you very much for lumping us Church goers in with the Gym climbing crowd you heathen!

major insult flaw there Dane, it's Loser not Looser!

footwork Kitten, work on the footwork. Nice job on Easter Tower by the way!

Sure it does but it sucks worse to be on the recieving end.

my fucking point exactly truth be told, they're probably all jacking off to the latest edition of Playgirl If you guys have ever had to listen to the garbly goop JayB and GregW discuss on approaches you wouldn't doubt some of these folks are voracious readers and pretty damn smart too boot. At one point, I thought my brain might explode just from listening too closely and trying to follow along as they discussed various authors and books about Libertarianism and economics and stuff. I'm still working on reading Moby Dick for some reason. Reading that novel is my white whale. My favorite read is Last of the Mohicans. But, like trask, I keep my reading pretty light. I think I've read 30-40 climbing text's and novels in the last 2 years.

Wallstein is aid!

I injured a hamstring a year ago when I jumped off a the top step of a 8' step ladder when the tree I was cutting down bucked. I mistakenly jumped into a big stickery bush that inserted and broke off a 2 inch thorn in my left hamstring. The DR who looked for the thorn said I just had a pulled ham and sent me home. Every time I tried to run after that, I would get these sharp "stabbing" pains in my ham. Even sitting in my work chair or hopping in my truck seat would aggrevate it. One day ( about 3 weeks later) I got out of the shower and noticed it felt like a little scab had formed over the little hole where I got hurt. I scratched and picked at it and promply pulled out the thorn. Hamstring feels much better but, took a couple of months before it was 100%. But the moral of the story is don't cut tree's off of ladders and jump into thorny bushes AND -Hamstring injuries can take a LONG time (months) to heal if you keep re injuring them. You might see a Physical Therapist if you want to heal up anytime soon. Seriously.

You want the TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! I'm pissed I can't run in the Teleferique in my G-10's! This puts a big kink in my car to car times!

Go with a 60m and only have 18m between you, which is plenty of distance. Don't forget to tie some big knots (2 or 3) between you for extra braking on the lip of the crevase as your partner drags you to a certain blue doom. Obviously, you should try this out before you get up to Denali. There's my two cents on that matter.

Midgets are aid!

oh yeah, you're clicking on porno!

you can check it out at www.hotchili.com it is pretty hot although I didn't see any climbing stuff.

black star in a can Moose Drool is pretty good too, but not really working beer, maybe good for cleaning up and putting tools away, but, yer not gonna get much done if yer drinking it at 10am. True story, I helped a friend of mine tear off a roof and put a new one on last summer/fall. He brings up a cooler with a case of bud or budlight. We work our asses off for about 10 hours occasionally sipping a brew, I musta drank 3 or 4 and was going for another and the cooler was empty! That bastard drank 20 or 21 beers in 10 hours and never missed a beat! I sure was proud of him!

I went into REI today and put one of these on the candy scale. With the plastic wrapper still on, 7.5 oz. You could remove the big handle and prolly get it down to the same weight as the "evernew" Ti pot at 6 oz. Thanks for the tip It's even a little bigger than the Ti pot in case I forget my helmet.

Al is definately cheaper than Ti, but what's the latest on the correlation between cooking with Aluminum and Alzheimers? HUH? WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? very subtle grasshopper!

My wife just got some and climbed a couple pitches Tuesday, she liked them. I think they are fine but, like special ed said, once you develop good technique, you don't really need tape or "jammies". Plus, it's one more thing to forget at home, kinda like my rock shoes on Tuesday. Nike rubber is so suck for rock climbing!

Ironical that they just launched the search about the same time he was hacking through his elbow tendon. I wonder what kinda knife he had.....

Not for long! And where are you hangin your hat nowadays?

yeah, that's plan B if I don't find a Titianium pot for less than $20. I just want to be cool

I know there has to be some old USSR or other off brand titanium pots available somewhere on the web for cheapskates like me. Anyone know of any sources? Just looking for a good snow melter, nothing fancy.

As with all heavy leather boots, plan on a long and possibly painful breakin period. Don't wait until 2 days before you climb Baker or Rainier to start wearing them around the house. They should be fine for 3 season use although they are pretty stiff and thin soled - thus, more of a technical climbing boot than a glacier slogger.