Fritz

Thanx for the scoop W,JENS and MATTP. I've heard stories of rockfall that has crushed a woman's helmet and killed her and all sorts of other heinous shit that has happened on Dragontail. Thus, to avoid all the nasty projectiles coming down, I was thinking of shlepping up the right side of Colchuck glacier or possibly talus on Colchucks right flank, then crossing left to get on backbone. At least that would limit some of the rockfall hazard on the aproach. And you guys say it goes at 7-8 pitches? Is that with 50, 60 or 70 meter rope?

Free rope in a parking lot? HMMMMM. I think I would rather have one of my roids lanced by a blind doctor in a third world nation than climb on that "free" rope. And what is all this hippy karma shit about when, where and how often we should seek out the owner? I've lost hundreds of $ worth of gear on epics when forced off a wall. The only thing we cared about was to make it down. New gear is cheap compared to taking a screamer when that knotted runner blows out! As for booty, you better only be using it for aid unless you put an X factor on every climb you use it on.

What about slopping on some bugjuice? And what works best? Deet,DDT,Agent Orange? This tuck yer pants into yer sox and cross yer fingers is a little to passive for me!

O.K......The Plugs,X,Wierdoes,F-Word,Stranglers,P.I.L.,Crass,The Fall,The Ramones,Rick L Rick,Joy Divition,Throbbing Gristle,The Damned,The Clash,The Sexes,Stiff Little Fingers,Buzzcocks,Eater,Wire,Poison Girls,Warsaw,Middle Class,Bauhaus,Birthday Party,Generation X,U.X.A.,The Dills, The New York Dolls,Iggy Pop,The Adolescents,100 Flowers,Rick Agnew,The Germs,Fear,The Cramps ....Don't get me started! All you snott noses were wetting yer selves when I was watching these guys transform music from the commatose state it had bogged down to. Most of this stuff was underground back in the 70's to early 80's so good luck finding any of it. If you are into kickass tunes, turn yourself on to some of these bands. Drop me an email if you can't find something, I'll make you a tape. I've got over 200 rare L.A. and British imports on these big black plastic things called "records".

I'm planning on doing Backbone on Dragontail and need some beta. How many pitches is it. Becky sez 21, but he's been known to get kind of fuzzy in his discriptions. Select Climbs is calling it 13ish. And what about that offwith. Protected by "questionable chockstones"? How many and how questionable? Will it take #5 Camalots or #3-4 Big Bros? How about bivi sites? Any big enough to sleep four? And finally, it would really suck to hump axes all the way up that mother. I was told that in June, Aasgard Pass would kick my "Aas" without them on the descent.