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10-4. Cross from Hale's. That place good.

Hattie's Hat sucks. Its dark. And smokey. Really smokey. and crowded with the pasty pseudo-hipster types.

25..... More days 'till Britney Spears comes to the Tacoma Dome!!!

quote: Originally posted by sidhayes: I cant believe you guys. All this rancor for posting smaller, easier mountain peaks on Summitpost? You are either kidding about all this or you have delusions of grandeur. I have news for you, I am not a big wall climber but rather a adequate free climber and mountaineer, and I can certainly whip all of your asses, in achieving the summit of real mountains while you are still frothing around on the approach, sucking wind. Sid Hayes Conquering all the real mountains of the desert southwest. Next summit attempt: a road trip to the forboding and dangerous Mt. Si via an alpine capsule-style attempt on the Southwest face. Apparantly he plans to add a sit start variation to the existing route, as if a repeat ascent of this route up the challenging behemoth wasn't enough!

I might actually be able to climb that boulder. If, ya know, I projected on it for a few days and put tick marks on all the holds and used my crashpad and all. Oh and if I had my rad Rasta knit cap on.

C3PO, R2D2?

quote: Originally posted by mtngrrrl: I've never been called old school before. I... I feel so... HONORED!! Oh wait, I actually DO own three sewn runners, and even with my big pile o' webbing, I guess I'm not quite there yet. Either old school or just too new to know any better

Just got off summithomo.com posting as IandI. What a bunch of wankers. Editing my shit. But I figured out how to get around it by adding an extra letter to my poddy mouth words (how you like that Karl!) or spelling them wrong. Fuckin instead of fucking. Ha!

"We don't just say no, we're to busy sayin YEAH!" -Eazy-E, N.W.A.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Why dont you guys ever have house parties instead of going to the bar? The beer is cheaper at a house and you can smoke dope while you drink. Because that's what we do every weekend at the crag.

quote: Originally posted by pope: That's the only coffee-table book worth owning! I purchased a copy from Jim Phillips who, if you didn't know, sells books out of his house and can find just about anything you can think of. That's my favorite book! Its classic. Hard to find huh? I'm waiting to inherit my copy.

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quote: Originally posted by Retrosaurus: And if you think that's an issue then get back on the short bus. Back on it? I never got off it!

Pope, I was half-joking about the hippy shit. My old mans got this book called "Yosemite Climber" with a bunch of Bridwell-era dudes with long hair and bellbottoms styling burly shit in the valley. And of course, tied tubular webbing was the standard then. I just think its funny. I do also think tied slings are fairly obsolete. Of course its good to carry webbbing and cord of assorted length with you on multi-pitch climbs. But if thats all you use - you're way old school!

No dude that hippy earth whatever's the chump, not you.

Talk about "hippy-ass". What a chump.

quote: Originally posted by roger johnson: "Friends" are a product of that era, "hippie-ass pieces of shit" you say? Try not to let your prejudices rule your life. I'm trying not to be prejudice but I really find that show annoying and I just don't care that Joey has a crush on Jennifer.

I'm not rich but pimping out Erik as a male prostitute does have its financial rewards. But I'd rather carry and fall on pre-sewn light weight and stronger (perlon?) slings than some hippy-ass tubular webbing from the 70's.

Fuzzy Bunny slippers at the belays. Way more points if you suprise your partner when he climbs onto the belay ledge by wearing a gorilla suit.

Thought maybe they'd opened up early or something. Maybe the birds left. Maybe someone shot 'em and BBQ'd 'em during last weeks nice weather. But who cares I'm going to Smith!!

I generally agree with MattP. Passing or being passed usually sucks. Thats great incentive to not put yourself in that situation by either climbing more obscure routes with long approaches, getting up super early, starting late, etc. Sometimes congestion on a route is unavoidable but its common sense that if you start a route right behind some gumbies there's probably going to be issues. Maybe in PDXclimbers case, their best bet would have been to come back another day once they got to the base and saw the situation. [ 04-10-2002: Message edited by: specialed ]

quote: Originally posted by Greg W: I do the same. Leaving a liberal (2-3") tail on your waterknot is a good pre-caution as well as checking the knots just as you would the rest of your gear prior to a climb. Using shoulder-length slings also gives the flexibility to extend them to reduce rope drag on wandering routes. Y'all climb with swami belts and EB's too?

quote: Originally posted by Country Jake: Ya ok f@#%ers... you guys rrr the ones bring up the; oooo check out the cooool new web site man.... all I said is that marketing is marketing we don't gotta like the shit... just don't not buy some thing good because you don't like the poor marketing skills of the company... so go take urrr stupid and shove it up his daddies ass, soulless, dickless, bitchless, son of a dogless mother suckers... [ 04-10-2002: Message edited by: Country Jake ]

quote: Originally posted by beefcider: I'm short on the QDs but have plenty of biners. I;m wondering if there is an expedient way to make QDs from pre-sewn slings or should I juts save the bucks and wait until I can afford a set of draws. I've heard that using webbing and the water knot doesn't produce very reliable results and should only be used in a pinch. Expedient Way? put the friggin biners on the presewn slings and ta-dau you've got a quickdraw. I like to duct tape the ends of the sling togethor to pinch the biner so they don't rotate all over the fuckin place.