Lambone

Too bad the DOT didn't post a photo of the slide, I'd like to see it...that's a bummer.

Dude, we used one rope..don't make me repeat myself again.... although...I don't see anything wrong with your set up, except that it's hard on double ropes to TR on one strand. Still a gaper photo though...dude the homemade gorts and hunter orange pack have gotta go...

dude...ICY BC is only 30 meters. I've TR'd all of those routes with one rope. You are a gaper. Not only that...if you were trying to "top rope a 75 meter tall wall" you'd neet more than 2 ropes. Do the math...

um...where? I just looked all though that shite and didn't see anything. Link it bro.

dude I find that picture offensive, and I'm going to kick your as should I ever be unfortunate enough to meet you again...

man who are we to make fun of cracked when the best we can do on a saturday night is sit here and make ffun of cracked...

oooh yeah...break an ankle on that there burly mixed climbing uhuh... on newbie

dude, arn't you embarrased by that photo? Not only does it show a complete disregard for technique...can you say "take!" dogpile on cracked

Wherd you hear this dru?

ok guys, start making sense or I'm gunna havta moderate some shit...

That North-East face on Tower Peak looks sweet from Liberty Bell. Does it get climbed, or just Choss? Looks kinda like Baring...

Whatever you do, don't drive through Columbia! I had some friends drive a UNIMOG type vehicle back from Patagonia. They flew from Peru to Panama and paid someone to drive their truck through Columbia...he said it was an amazing trip otherwise though...

My wife and I were planing to go visit the Torres Del Paine over Christmas...but the cheapest plane tickets were like 2,000 each

I think it's a good poll. You'd sort of have to define "lame" trip report though. If you mean like the TR's on NWOG.whatever...then I'd probly have a different answer. Maybe we should have a "Sick and Gnarly TR Forum" and a "Lame Gaper Wannabe Hardman Forum." I'll post in the later... I wish Dylward, Forrest and Colin posted more TR's, cause I know they are out doing cool shit and the used to write some good ones. Theres lots of other folks doing cool shit too. I like TR's cause I enjoy dreaming about the Cascades while sitting in this damn office.

I don't know about "climbing harder," but the androids do give you alot more options. I like mine, I still think the lockdown is the best for alpine though. Perhaps a combo approach. Use and Android on whichever hand you place gear with the most, and a lockdown for the other one. The Twist leash (if they still even make it) and the Slider both suck ass. Don't get either one...If you let go of your tool the twist leash untwists, and the slider gets cloged with ice and frozen and won't work. The Lockdown holds your wrist better than anything else on the market, even the Android. I allways feel like I'm slipping out of my Androids. But I just got Vipers, so I'm pretty much done with leashes, unless the pitch is way above my limit.

I don't think you could compare it with a Bibler.... It is basicaly a urathane coted rainfly with some fancy ventilation. I'd think you'd get serious condensation if you spent any time in it.

Wish I could have...but FF is kind of a long drive for me these days. Which is sad, because it's my favorite geear shop, along with PMS. Climbing shops in Southern Oregon are lame, unless you want a new set of quickdraws...

Mike, if you get desperate gimme a hollar, I'll drive up from Ashland and pick you up, then we'll epic together. You ropegun the crazy pitches...I'm good at driving all night...

August 1st?

I had a hard time soloing el cap...well sort of. Luckily I had a radio to listen to and lots of cigarrets and tequilia...I know for sure that I'd never want to row across the ocean! just my .02 cents

Nice will! Dude, what an epic descent! Fuck Tamarac...east ledges isn't bad, and there is water along the way...oh well.

I kind of agree with specialed, but I still think it's cool when American's win. Too bad we don't have "iron lung" Lowe to sweep the competition anymore.

I had a friend/roomate who spent a couple of years living in Telluride. He worked as a ski tech and roomed with 6 other dudes in a studio apartment. he says it was the best time of his life. I was never able to keep up with him on skis, Telluride sounds like a great mountain. I'd like to go to Ouray. I don't care if it's a Circus, the ice looks nice, and I hear they turn the water on every night to replenish the routes. I'd take this over dry hacked up pockmarked Marble canyon ice any day. Plus my wife digs toproping, and getting lots of laps in can be fun.

cracked...sometimes, I swear...you are like an annoying songbird that never shuts up...and one who never learned to sing very well. Tele skiing is fun as hell, try it sometime...

right on, just curious...not saying that it isn't one hell of a burly concept. Fair winds