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Frickin cool stuff! Never done any of it, but it looks fun. So I checked out Heaps Canyon (among others) and was wondering the setup for that last 300' rappel? Anyone know? One report said they had two 50m ropes for the regular raps and then one 8mm 300ft rope for the last. They rapped on the 8mm, with the two others tied together to pull the setup down. So I was thinking you could put a figure eight bite on the end of the rap rope, put the other end through the rap rings then through this loop. I guess you could clip a biner to the loop for the pull rope or leave the bite end long to tie together with one of the 50s. I tried to do a paintbrush sketch to help illustrate, but in the end wound up confusing even myself. The other way would be to tie all three ropes together, rap down to the knot halfway (on the two 50s), and then pass it. But these are only thoughts on how it might be done. Three hundred feet is one helluva rap. Anybody ever faced anything similar and what was your setup? On a side note, if you could keep your rig dry, this would make a seemingly nice base jump.

Why bother with the "secret location"? Any fool could take a million pictures of routes I'd look at and say, "Shee-it, no way in hell would I try that." I'd think readers would get more satisfaction from this post being able to analyze the peak than take a monkey's guess as to where it might be.

Yeah, good job guys. Both on this and Buckner.

Ditto what the doc said. Geez Lowell, you're such a well known person around here, I bet you could resurrect that race for at least a year if you wanted to. Maybe besides looking for a partner(s), you could make it into some sort of challenge/race next winter since folks respond well to that kind of thing. I'm a total dork at cross country skiing, but if I was in a group of three dorks, I'd give that race a try for shits and giggles. Maybe even the mounties would be interested too.

One more web link for this topic: Prescription drugs and their application for high altitude mountaineering

Yeah, then they'd have thirteen days to do other climbs

There's something missing in that photo, Dave. Nice pic.

Those two were up shit creek without a paddle. So, yes, Simon made the right choice and Simpson miraculously survived. That's a nifty idea for the munter hitch and the edk, assuming it works

Two deaths for every three years of climbing? How the heck does an office-wank from Spain manage to find this thread on this little website?

There was mention of this in a Buckner TR a week or two ago. Check there.

Happy birthday, Jon. Nice way to spend a birthday.

Check out hippy hollow while you're in Austin. Good crack climbing. It's right by Lake Travis so afterwards you can sip a few at the oasis.

Bring a handheld cb radio, find the local truck stops and offer to lump for a ride. 'Lump' means you unload their trailer at the destination. Hard work for a long haul. Whatever city you wind up in you can usually find a Labor Ready job office where you can "work today and get paid today." Wasn't there some train-hopping dude that was robbing or killing people a few years ago? The hobo train was his getaway car.

Trek alone??? I always thought you had to have some stupid e$cort. Do they allow foreigners to travel alone there?

Good job, way to hang in there despite the odds.

Yo ehmic, got your drift... looks like I'm not the only one that can't take a little teasing E-rock, here's my picture because I wuv you

So long as dbb gets me a free scientist parking pass, I have no problem with them doing major construction in Leavenworth.

Yeah...overtime they tend to become introverted, shoegazing, types that are more comfortable hanging with their male buddies than having a conversation, let alone a relationship with a chick. This is particularly true if alpinism attracts them early in their development. Too much Chicks dig this climbing shit. A guy in good shape going alpine/ice climbing... that's Tone Loc's other secret on how to get more chicks. Sorry this dude didn't work out for you. Post your pic and profile on this sight and see just how many "introverted, shoegazing" types there are here!

I voted for alternative one. No option really affects me, so that's the extent of my opinion on this.

I think having someone to run with is a whole lot easier to get motivated. Signing up for a race helps too. Being with someone faster can suck but it's payback like a m*thrfr when you can either keep up or put a little distance ahead of that source of time-again pain! (of course this person could just be feeling sorry for you and not want you to get too demotivated running with them) Whatever works, works.

Now that is an interesting (while illegal) idea, caching a keg in the mountains. While seemingly impossible to initially do, imagine the thought of reaching your secret keg while on some high-alpine route, year after year... How long does beer keep?

So was the photo on Extreme Alpinism touched up? I wondered this because it looks like on the left side of the photo, underneath the snow, there is a triangular shaped shadow. Added that he's got a locker on the last piece and his moves go to nowhere, I figured this was a poser shot. I like the book, but there are a few things in it that have me go

Shit, the least you could have done was spelled veterans correctly in the first place.

Challenger in a day?! Are you crazy? Sounds schweet and I gather I'm not the only one that thinks so...

My hat off to the living and dead of the various militaries. They may be gone, but not forgotten. While I appreciate and honor their sacrifices, I sure do hope those leaders that send the troops off to their deaths know the hell of war. Cue Ozzy's warpigs song...