specialed

This site is to kill time at work and occasionally get some useful beta on fun routes to do and places to ski.

D-wayne: I'm not dissing on your near-death experience in the cave. I wouldn't touch one oif those things with a 100 foot cheater stick. I get claustrophobic in squeeze chimneys and I'm definetly skeered of holes in the ground. But reading your story totally reminded me of that infamous BB episode, so sorry. I think your stories are funny and insightful. I also think you and lambone's rivalry is funny too. No pedantics intended I apologize.

Sorry Ed! [This message has been edited by specialed (edited 07-17-2001).] [This message has been edited by jon (edited 07-17-2001).]

Dwayner, your story sounds eerily like the Brady Bunch episode when they visited Hawaii, got lost in a cave, and discovered a voodoo tiki doll, while unmasking heinous criminal activity at the same time. And was that amateur historian you met named Higgins by any chance? - BTW, you and Lambone make me laugh my ass off too. [This message has been edited by specialed (edited 07-17-2001).]

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El Capitan: my post was just a response to your post the other day about me being "limp wristed", etc. I didn't take it seriously or personally as I am secure in my masculinity. I just don't get it that when I give you a little good natured chiding in return, you fly off the handle and go balistic and violently threaten me. That's where I'm coming from. Gimme a break anyway, what are you gunna do reach through my computer screen and choke me?

Old Caveman can dish it out but can't take it. Obviously he's overly-sensitive to any threats to his "manhood". Maybe there's something he's hiding? He obviously tries so hard to live up to the testosterone-fueled redneck GI stereotype, that its not a challenge to push his buttons. He flies off the handle quicker than one of his redneck buddies who misplaced his Bassmaster 2000. Lambone, we don't need to tag-team against poor Caveman, he makes a fool out of himself without us having to put any effort into it. As far as Dwayner goes, I'm content sitting back and listening to his incoherent ramblings about hemp rope and 2 x 4s for pro, and mickey's wide mouth - I think its quite amusing actually.

I hear Capt. Caveman's boyfriend gets really pissed at him when he takes off for long climbing trips. Poor Caveman

This John Long story on the subject is one of the best humorous climbing pieces I've read: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/Climbing/Net-stories/0003.txt.html

How is that there tooth & claw route? -

Farmer caught in hay baler cuts off arm to save himself ROBBINSDALE, Minn. — A 34-year-old farmer sawed off his arm below the elbow as he was being pulled into a hay baler, saying "it was either my whole body or my arm." Jarrod Wagner was removing a clump of hay from twin rollers in the machine Tuesday when his left arm was caught and he felt himself being dragged in. He used a metal piece from his headset to perform the crude surgery. The amputated arm was too mangled to be reattached, said a spokeswoman for North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, near Minneapolis

Can anyone recomend any longer (5+ pitches) free routes on any of the spires at Wash. Pass? Something with good exposure, good rock, 5.9/5.10/5.11 range. I've already done Lib. Crack and Boving route on NW EWS. Freedom Rider perhaps? [This message has been edited by specialed (edited 07-13-2001).]

Its really sad about the firefighters killed. One was 18, one 19, one 21, and the other in his 30's. All local kids from Yakima and Ellensburg. Bummer.

Yeah those Llamas are pretty hardy. they don't eat much, and they don't drink any of your beer but they're always praying and blabbering about enlightenment this and five perpetual truths that and yadayadayada. They've got these cool orange robes they're always wearing though.

Rent lamas. That way you can take the kitchen sink and not have to carry it. Bring steaks, beer, camp chairs, and don't forget the pink bunny slippers for those cold belays. Apparatly people take llamas into the winds quite frequently.

Sorry, my subscription to the National Enquirer ran out last year and I haven't renewed it. I must have missed their story on that one.

Cap't everyone knows its always the latent homosexuals who go around accusing others of being limp in the wrist. Just don't take Will's suggestion to "go hard or go home" too literally.

George Michael's "Faith" when you're going for a long runout.

Thanks but I got a bunch of shoes with no toes too. I just want the ones I lost that had toes.

Dude, sounds like slogans from No Fear t-shirts.

I've got a couple Rock Empire's. I admit I haven't fallen on them but as far as I can tell they work fine. They modeled after Wired Bliss cams and to me seem to be comparable. Rock & Ice's recent cam review said pretty much the same thing: they're legit and a good value.

Hey yall I know I'm a bonehead, but I left a pair of red Scarpa Infernos at UW practice rock on Tuesday. Did anyone pick them up or know who might have?

They've got Alien offsets now too for flares , but for mostly free climbing why worry about it? unless you climb on funky, hard-to-protect rock.

BD's have a significantly wider range than Metolios or Aliens though. This is nice, espescially in cracks finger size and smaller since a couple millimeters of range can make a big difference.