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I once held my partner, who was climbing with an overnight pack, on a 5.8 alpine pitch while he dicked with some gear. As he hung there, I put more weight on the anchor which consisted of two bomber Friends behind a flake (it was all I had left that would work.) As I slowly added more weight to the anchor I heard a rattling noise. Looking back, I was horrified to see the flake expanding and the two cams reaching the tipping out point. I took the weight off the anchor and asked Kevin to start climbing again. In some cases, SLCD's are all you got, and even so, they aren't the best.

Your choice Dru, it could anybody in DEVO. I bet Dru would do them all.

Text from spam I got yesterday (bold print by me): "Dear Citibank Member, This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your e-mail address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit Card number and PIN that you use on ATM. This is done for your protection -- because some of our members no longer have access to their email addresses and we must verify it. To verify your e-mail address and access your bank account, click on the link below. If nothing happens when you click on the link (or if you use AOL), copy and paste the link into the address bar of your web browser. " I clicked on the link and it took me to what looks like an official Citibank site, but then a pop up appeared asking for the above info.

#1 TCU fits into a pocket moving out the roof on Narrow Arrow Direct, Pitch 1

Pretty popular in England back in the 70's

My neighbors have two chihuahua/greyhound mix mutts. Long legged yappers that can run is what they are. Annoying as hell, but can get away from the hose spray really easily.

The DNB on Middle Cathedral... It requires just about every technique known, the line is beautiful, the views are awesome and when you top out, the full Katwalk awaits.

Dru is the funniest guy he knows.

Some of those represented: 1 National Assn of Realtors $10,000 2 SBC Communications $9,999 3 Verizon Communications $6,000 4 PG&E Corp $5,500 5 Sun-Diamond Growers $5,250 6 American Hospital Assn $5,000 6 Associated Builders & Contractors $5,000 6 National Rifle Assn $5,000 6 Wine Institute $5,000 10 BellSouth Corp $4,500 11 American Health Care Assn $4,000 11 Farm Credit Council $4,000 11 National Assn of Convenience Stores $4,000 14 Society of Indep Gasoline Marketers $3,500 15 Grangeville Homes $3,350 16 American Medical Assn $3,000 16 American Society of Anesthesiologists $3,000 16 Caterpillar Inc $3,000 16 Conference of Natl Park Concessioners $3,000 16 Duke Energy $3,000 16 Edison International $3,000 16 Georgia-Pacific Corp $3,000 16 KPMG LLP $3,000 16 Philip Morris $3,000 Money talks...

Hmmm... Of the top 16 contributors to the Radanovich political machine, the Conference of Natl Park Concessioners is right in there with a nice little 3k donation. More campsites...Park Concessions...hmmm...I wonder if CurryCo is a member...

Jim Wickwire as one of the pall bearers/coffin lowerers in (I think it was) the movie K2.

Amanita muscaria contains muscimol that produces feelings of euphoria, hallucinations, muscle jerks, drowsiness, sweating, pupil dilation, and increased body temperature. Symptoms appear 30 to 90 minutes after eating this mushroom and are most intense after two or three hours. People who eat these mushrooms usually fall into a deep sleep.

I think a couple regular cc.comers were climbing at Index during the March 2001 quake. Pretty scary from what I recall. I was looking up at Shirley on the Lower Town wall last Sunday. Thought it'd be a fun practice pitch. Thought about the rockfall that Dr. Jay had last year while trying the pitch...then noticed another big block right at the base of the route that looked very recent. I said and just wandered around for the rest of the afternoon. My friend Rob was at the top of Davis Holland when the Nisqually earthquake happened. He said shit was coming down all over the place, but not a grain of sand came down onto them.

I've always wondered how many people grabbed and pulled out on the mattress-sized flake that used to grace the post-crux moves of Princely Ambitions.

Especially if you use the Beckey approach.

A good site for gear trivia.

To be honest, I've never explored the bouldering possibilities, but further down the slope, it looks like there are some.

Canis Crag...on the Mountain Loop Highway. From the west... From the east...

Here is a fairly recent topo.

That film with Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner: The scene is where they are descending and Robert Wagner is wigging out and takes the "other" snow bridge which of course collapses taking him and his booty to an icy, karmic grave. I'd say the best is the movie El Capitan with the clip of (I think it was) Gary Colliver hopping around on the edge of either the Dolt or El Cap Tower bivy ledge trying to get into his potato sack bivy bag only to find that he isn't clipped into anything.

Yeah, the ignorance of youth. At 185 the bottom dropped away into a rather impressive wall that disappeared into the blackness of the Strait. The glass-like tinkle of the bubbles, the view, and the extreme narcosis was quite a combo. I was diving with a friend who started diving in the early 1950's in Lake Tahoe. He would do dives to over 200' and then drive over the pass to get back to his home in Reno.

A 185 foot shore dive off San Jan Island. We got so narced that my bottom time ended up being thirteen minutes. We followed the bottom back to 100 feet where I realized I was fucked. we ascended directly toward the surface from there. The only deco stop was a 3 minute swim at 10 feet (navigating back toward shore) before we ran out of air. Another 30 yards or so to the beach on the surface and we spent the next two hours laying motionless on the shore hoping the itches and twinges weren't the onset of what should have been a nasty case of the bends. As we lay there, a purse seiner placed and pulled it's net right around the area where we had done the navigation swim