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The advantage to using one skinny rope doubled as opposed to the "glacier" approach is that its quick and easy which is usually the goal when simul-climbing. Coiling up slack and measuring rope takes too much time, even if you get a little bit of added safety.

Get a 50m 8mm double it up and use it as a twin rope. Its light, your wife will be close enough to complain and you can rap 25m.

If you don't know, then I'm definetly not going to tell you.

quote: Originally posted by pindude: I'd gladly buy up those stickers if I still didn't have so many unused ones dating back to the early 90's. -pindude Sad bro, sad. Good thing or I'd have to laugh at your ass when I saw you at the crag. As for their lame catalog. The best thing about those is the photos of real climbers out doing cool shit, like the PAtagucci catalog. Look at BD's Winter 01/02, almost every photos from some dumb photo shoot of pro climber / models sporting all the trendy gear and clothing and pre fab BD stickers on their immaculate brain buckets. That's not cool, there's no soul there. That's not down with real climbing. Lame I tell you, LAME! [ 03-26-2002: Message edited by: specialed ]

quote: Originally posted by pindude: Never seen a J. Crew catalog (who buys that stuff, anyway), but sellout? No way. BD has always made stickers, given out liberally by their folks. Guess now they are offering them as a regular item for order. pin This doesn't seem like a fat sellout to you?

Even Steven next to Toxic Shock. Just don't fall in the wrong place and impale yourself on the rock spike off the ledge.

Is it me or is the BD catalog looking more and more like J. a Crew catalog with ice tools. And now you can buy your own helmut sticker pack for only $9.95. Sellout?

To an extent its a good argument that even though BD covers a range of sizes you often want multiples so it don't matter that BDs have a good range. That argument makes more sense for cragging but in the mountains you're usually going light and not climbing at your hardest level where you want multiple sizes. That's where BDs range makes the most difference. Also sometimes you just want to strap it on take a skinny rack and go for it.

Man I hate that helpless feeling when you're caught in a slide or rock/ice fall and there isn't shit you can do but move your ass out of the way as fast as humanly possible and hope it doesn't hit you.

Smile you're in Jamaica... er, I mean Tacoma

Yeah Mtneers aid practice. Talked to some dude with them who was practicing aid and big wall techniques at Vantage so he could go to the valley so maybe he could do the Prow and the Lost Arrow. Then maybe he'd be good enough to a route on El Cap. We were like, why waste your time? if you know how to stand in aiders and set up a ledge why deal with that BS just go get on the big stone!!

Just don't miss the right hand bucket off the start of Jihad and turn the first few moves into 5.12 fingers instead of 5.10 crack/face.

Maybe thats why I'm the worst offwidth climber in the lower 48.

Whiskey used to be my weekness. Now beer is.

LEt me get this straight. Wallsteins bitching because he has to work two days in a company his daddy owns, and he's on his way down to the valley. Asshole.

Ask KeithSchultz, he sells insurance for a living. Funny that climbers are a lot less likely to use their insurance than some fat ass tv jockey with clogged arteries. And often when a climber gets injured its not all that expensive - they either die or break a leg or something. Cheap compared to long term care for heart disease or all the shit that happens when your just fat and out of shape.

I need some bush access too.

Sounds like a downright hootinanny.

Fowler's definetly a badass but I didn't think his Patagonia ascents were pushing any standards or anything. Though I think its cool he gos down there almost every year for the season.

Buckaroos not that smokey and my experiences with the local "bikers" have been positive. BUt you are right, its too small. Espescially after all those that showed up last week.

Beer good. Let's try the Buckaroo Tavern in Wallingford sometime.

Yeah but you can't watch hockey while climbing... [ 03-20-2002: Message edited by: specialed ]

Cheater sticks = the epitome of lame.

Yeah it was way cool meeting "Hot" Henry Barber. I didn't really think he'd come all the way out here just to drink beer with the dirtbags. But thats his style. He drank us all under the table and apparantly he's out at Index today climbing Iron Horse with just nuts and hexes in the snow. Barefoot. Wow, what a cool dude.

That's almost worth driving all the way to Spocain for.