Jens

Pax & I tried for the FWA of the South face but got shut down.

Sweetest pictures on this site in ages!!! I must do this route! Eurostyle climbing!

What is the area testpiece?

Sweet pictures!

I hope your buddy is doing OK now.

Dudes you can't plan a pub club and then give folks only a few hours to find out about it!!! If I wear my trucker hat, puma jacket, and shave, I can pull off a younger Sigma Nu.

The petzl ropes are cousin "COOO-sin" ropes (they bought the production line) always known for a nice hand. Millet "Mee-ay" ropes are rad- Millet is the best softgoods gear company in the world by a mile.

It is really good!!!! Hopefully the brush can be kept at bay by more traffic. The brush was winning last time I went.

I don't know how the core shot occured. I've proably taken whippers on 30 different blue water ropes so it ain't a bad batch. I won't pontificate any more but it isn't just a durability issue. Handling, kinkage, lying aobut diameters, poor weaves, inconsistent lableing, sheath slippage, flat spots right out of the bag, and a whole lot more. Don't buy one.

I didn't hear about this! Let's plan the mother of all pub clubs in a few weeks and we'll all pledge to coax 2-3 of our luker climbing partners to attend- (You know your partners that read this site every day but only post like twice a month). Someplace empty with a couple of huge tables. Let's shoot for 40+ folks- It could be done. We could scare off everyone else from the bar with all our route beta.

sweeeet!

nope.

What is the status of Zodiac since the cleanup a few years ago?

Thats Tavsh...not me Ironically, we saw KC hitch-hiking no less than 4 miles from marble canyon ice the next afternoon. He was wearing the exact same outfit he'd had on the night before. That's at least a 25 mile walk from Lillooet? Lillooet has a enough volume to even survive a long February heat wave.

The Asolo Ottomilla 8000's are probably the best plastic boot made. I've never worn them but that is what friends tell me. All Koflach boots suck bad and are exclusivley for gumby snow sloggers.

After years of swearing off Blue Water ropes (many bad experiences with em' in the 90's-they suck!) I was a sucker and bought one a couple weeks ago. I ordered it because it was on sale. I got a core shot in the first 4 hours of climbing on it. I wasn't abusing it at all. The rope is toast and pieces of core are bulging out from a blown sheath. My last expereience in the 90's was almost as bad. Friends don't let friends use bluewater ropes. (I've climbed on a lot of them and know what I'm talking about!)

Isn't the Gustav burger $5.95? I've been to most of the other joints and I'm staying with Gustav's. Michael Jackson picks his nose at the other places.

Anybody ever do an extended ice stay at Lillooet for ice? Am I smoking crack to consider such an idea? I just went back and forgot how much it delivers. *Way cheaper than the Rockies. *Way shorter drive *Way colder than Washington ice venues or Hope *The town and bars have tons of character *Tons of new route potential (especially if you bring your Bosch) *Climbs are way closer drive from the hotel than Canmore * The Theft is perhaps the most impressive single piece of ice in north america that is within 3 hours of a road.

No it was just me and a buddy. Tavashtarketena and I got started late on Sunday due to being at the Vic and the Reynolds the night before. Climbs were plenty fat. The Duffy was pretty strange on saturday- Ice in more new places than I have seen in 10 years of going to Lillooet averaging 2-3trips a year but all the climbs were are had taking a beating from the sun and or warmth. It is plenty good right now though and I'm betting Feb. is gonna be really good! I forgot how much I love Lillooet.

71 days is my record. If you like to climb ice it really conflicts.

The guidebook is still practically brand new!

Who's gonna bolt the mixed route to the left of the climber in the 4th picture?

For the hardman challenge........ Show up at "the Vic" in your pink softshell and say that everyone in the bar sucks at pool. _______________________________ Man, I forget how much Lillooet can deliver for good ice. I gotta start going up their a lot more again like I used to. Screw the thin dripfests of Banks and Leavenworth. 4:40 drive up (my shortcut and driving in th middle of the night)

18F in the afternoon when Tvashtarkatena and I left Marble Canyon at Lillooet yesterday.

Anyone ever seen one of the deflatable Pika stunt pads? Anyone ever fall on one? From 50 feet plus?