slothrop

I'm sorry to hear the bad news, Lambone. Post some stories! It'd be a good way to celebrate his life. Did you two do El Cap together?

I'm a large, but maybe you should send me the XL so I can sell it to cracked for an exorbitant sum.

What is the advantage of using removable bolts? They're a very specialized piece of gear to buy -- the routes mentioned above are the only ones around here I've heard of that use them. But there are real bolts on the same pitches that call for rebolts. Why? Are bolt holes somehow supposed to last longer than bolts? It seems like weathering and repeated falls can wear out a bolt hole just like they can wear out a bolt, so there's no apparent advantage in lifetime. If you are going to drill a hole on a crag route, you might as well make it safer and more accessible by using a real bolt. I don't see any appreciate difference in the impact of a real bolt vs. a rebolt, either. Both are artificial holes, and you can always camouflage a bolt hanger with paint. Maybe the placements are such that a bolt hanger close to the rock is less safe than a rebolt, which hangs further out of the rock? But I can't imagine not being able to find a bolt-friendly piece of rock within a reasonable distance of a rebolt-friendly placement.

I remember reading somewhere that they were originally called Alien Sex Toys or something like that.

What's a rebolt? A removable bolt? I've never seen those in a gear shop.

Pope, you're hilarious. What a bunch of shit.

http://www.bdel.com/gear/rock/protection.php#hexes

I twitch my damn mouse arm enough during the day. Just upload it to the photo gallery and link it from there, sucka.

She's 25 and goes to Bastyr... it's a fundraiser for her third-year trip to China. Chuck, where is that???

Exit 38, overlooking I-90

Ran around in the woods Friday night scaring little kids, belligerent teenagers, and drunken adults at the Haunted Trails fundraiser for my girlfriend's school. Took a header over a log while running back to my hiding place in the dark. Good times! Saturday: Stone Gardens, then work Sunday I went climbing at Exit 38 with a bunch of newbies. Lots of fun, except for a couple ridiculous overgraded overbolted 20' climbs.

An asshole is an asshole, Canadian or American. What's a "certified" copy anyway? Notarized? And exactly how hard is it for a Canadian to get into the US? If they don't allow you back in, do you have to live in Blaine the rest of your life? Is that why that town exists?

Damn, Gary, that's terrible! Maybe you should call the border office and complain to a supervisor about the asshole guard. Of course, that'll probably put you on The Blacklist. fascist assholes!

You can get in a full day with the routes in Climbing Washington. Definitely do Orange Sunshine. I think it's 2+ hours from Seattle.

Ingalls TH is open and there's no reason you can't approach Stuart that way. There was an inch of snow at Ingalls Pass yesterday.

Mozilla has built-in ability to disable popups, as well as the ability to block images from a given address. You see an ad, you right-click on it, select "Block Images from this Server", and no more ads. Just make sure that the same address isn't serving useful images for the site. I want something like that for Flash ads, too. I rarely run into websites that are useless because they're written for IE, but it does happen.

Are you having to move out because of the floods?

Holy shit, it's closed for the SEASON: web page

It looks like Highway 20 is closed for a good stretch due to a landslide. I can't find any more news about it than this (click on "North Cascade HWY SR20"): web page

Speaking of "iron lung": Chad Kellogg was competing against a Kazakh who had been training in a pressure chamber to simulate altitudes of up to 9000m (!). Bubble boy only got third, though.

Yeah, must be the stress of not climbing enough. I know what tech is, having been an actor since high school. I didn't think the cc.com/theatre crossover was very high, though, and your comment was like an inside joke -- infuriating and pointless to those who aren't "in". See PM. On topic: I can't decide whether sprinting at twenty-odd-thousand feet or the flying dyno with ice tools is the most outrageous part of Vertical Limit.

Oh yeah, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, so it's NOT FUNNY TO ANYONE BUT YOU.

Believe what you read in Spray and email forwards... it's easier than thinking! Any Democrat or Republican who believes everything in those lists deserves a slap upside the head. And since when is adultery a sex crime? Don't you bone the neighbor's wife every Sunday morning, trask?

Yikes. Well, at least you can still ride your bike up the last 7.6 miles...

http://www.nps.gov/noca/news-release.htm#94