Beck

Thoughts on another thread brought back memories of childhood mishaps and perils faced undaunted by the innocence of youth. Who else out here crossed paths with danger fraught with fear by blindly stumbling into a dangerous arena? Thinking about these risky idylls of youth is still refreshing my mind of long past adventures with brothers and friends, running around a rural landscape with plenty of time on our hands, and not much parental supervision. Some youthful dangers I've been in- Multiple falls thru ice, some with skates and skis More dangerous ice travel, both with and without boat drags falling asleep in snowbanks wandering home in obvious hypothermia going whitewater canoeing with "found " canoes drifting about in "found" boats with 2x4' for paddles climbing granite with clothesline and body belays rapping dulfsitz on same watching friend deck on same getting lost in woods more than a couple times lots of solo xc skiing in strenous bc terrain, breaking skis, running into trees luger plenty of body surfing on biggest lake around long distance swimming in same generally falling out of trees, off small cliffs, and barreling into terrain features at high rates of speed on various impedementia and I was wondering if anyone else has fond memories of those mishaps of youth? [ 10-25-2002, 09:35 PM: Message edited by: Beck ]

You'd see these strange flying peaky backed kinda pyramid shaped delta wing jet planes prowling around the high deserts Basin and Range country of central Nevada back when I lived in those boonies back in 86-87. We figured they were flying out of Fallon Naval Air Station (I'm sure you rotor heads know how a NAS got to be stationed in East off the Sierra Nevada crest in WWII, anybody?) But that's unrelated to seeing these WACKY planes tooling low over the pinon at twilight- you'd see them if you were out there enough.

engine cowling's way funky, ya. Gettin high on huffers-specifically an adolescent perversion, so many hobbies of youth bearing hazards- painting lead figurines (remember licking the brush?) shop, rocketry, extremely unsafe boating/climbing practices,not to mention mumblety peg! Oh the days of youth!

all the more reason to start taking a low dose aspirin in with your vitamins, and substitute your post workout ibuprofins with the some regular strength aspirin, the may most climbers drink we shouldn't be taking ibuprofin anyway!

...Since I've been waiting in line for one of those, it looks like some variation of stealth fighter that've been flying around Fallon NAS for the last 15-20 years! Can't say I'll win the prize, though!!!

We up north have heard of these strange, savage customs south of the great Columbia where beverages are served by females is various stages of undress!!! Such curious habits these savages possess!

...not an expert here, but the screamer takes a potential heinous yank on a piece into a series of successive, small, 350 (or whatever they're rated at) pound tugs on the anchor, as each stich line is ripped thru . From FALLING,Force factor placement failure, to, FALLING,rip,YANK,rip, YANK,rip,slightly less yank, until you stop ripping, or until the piece either fails, or it holds, rips all the stitches (does Yates still make two "sizes" of screamer?) and the screamer is now a near full-strength runner.

Lambone's comments about mm ropes/lower impact forces generally holds true, doesn't it? Thinner ropes less impact force, twins an even lower impact if clipped into one piece? This is just one small contributing factor to this whole topic, still it that might mean Ehmmic's rope choice is an OK one for her?

check out the pass cams this morning if you're getting sick of this Seattle fog-sweet!

What's keeping Hagens out of the US marketplace, any way?- their skis are the most economical ones out there, it's CRAZY!! People I've talked to that ski on them have good things to say about them, they'd make tossing out 450 bucks for a set of planks nuttin but lunacy.

got to do your own Dirtbaggin' Col. Von Spank, you should be able to go in and grab one if you gots huevos for that type of thing- I haven't had one of those since my eighties days, sorry, bro- Maybe the good Doctor or some other med type can hook you up!

I think I caught some whiff of sarcasm out of it, Lammy!!

Raukous! how about "I think he said...blessed are the cheesemakers..." or "...You think YOU had it rough? We lived in a shoebox at the bottom of a septic tank and our parents whipped us before breakfast!!" Someone should throw a Python party in Seattle and have a pubclub at their house!

hehehe funny stuff! I've done both, depends on the conditions, but blueice glacier glissades- OUCH! To avoid the glaciers altogther you could run up the NW route on Colchuck, cross over to the gully up Dragontail, then work back along the plateau and drop off closer to Little annapurna- I think that looks doable from Little A, thought there was a shorty section of cliffy ramps you could either downclimb or rappel- I don't want to qualify that as good beta, as I've not been up on it to test its' doability and can't find my damn CAG right now.

has anybody tried replacing old sewn slings on tricams with flat/tube webbing? Also, on old wild country cams with the wire stem and forged thumb nob/sewn sling, will it take to 5.5 mil spectra, or should I just bring them in and get them all reslung?

sorry for the thread creep, JEEZ... just putting out some variety for the lawgoddess' thirst...for a beer that's kinda funky, those beers with smoked hops have got a taste akin to lapsang sooshong and not that enjoyable in a malt bev.

Rusty nail on crushed would be sure to cure you! Got any current drink faves? I used to make so many old fashioneds at a country club I gave one a try once, not to bad if you don't make them too sweet. If you like them sweet, a golden cadillac is a very decadent summer concoction, one best sipped thru a straw in a porch swing. Let's not forget how good a classic mint julep goes down in the heat, too! For liquers, a Drambuie is a mighty fine sipper after some home cooked haute cuisine, cuisine verite.

What kind of drinking do you prefer, lawgoddess? Something mixed, or a Grand Cru from an excellent harvest of some sorts or other? i'm partial to french country stuff and exploring Washington's excellent offerings, or a vodka gimlet, muddled, with fresh squeezed lime instead of Roses, spash of soda- tasty!

I bet the Mounties don't even cover standing glissades, too dangerous! Show everybody how to slide on their asses with axe in perfect self arrest position in case they actually get moving too fast!

Now that'd be a reason,!!!

his chest harness/gear slings are the shizzy.

do you guys remember when drug testing was entering our work culture, the postal workers' took the federal government to prohibit the practice of random drug tests? They won the suit, if I recall correctly, but the truly ironic thing was, it didn't apply to the private sector! Just them. I can help you guys randomly test any drugs you got!

C&S is one way crazy bartacker!!! I'd forgotten about that manufacturer, we should get him to do a demo at one of our pub clubs!

Marmot out in Bellvue or the Tacoma store usually have a pile of older AT bindings they're closing out,still not going to be Cheap Cheap. If it's just the approach and you want to go the 10 dollar way, you can find a NATO standard cable binding that's got an adjustable toepiece, fits approach shoes to Sorels if you want. You should be able to buy this, new, stock, for under twenty bucks if you hunt up the right surplus store. They are quite worth the time to hunt them out and mount them on some elcheapos from a garage sale. I used to use them to make tele turns in mountain boots at the resorts a couple seasons, they actually work very well.

Tyvek will work well, but for a cheap ready made alternative, check out Adventure Medical- they offer one for twenty bucks that are durable, have a little nap like Toddtex so they wick/insulate- I 've used one both with and without a sleeping bag when conditions got foul and the work good. Twenty bucks. Or, true dirtbaggers choice- sneaking around a pathology department and scoring one of the body covers off a gurney - they are Goretex!!!