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Foged friends can get angry if you misbehave.

Heeheehee, somebody make me moderator fast Where's Erik when he's needed?

Here's mine. Where's yours? Btw thanks for the reply Wayne, that was a cool day ice climbing

It's pretty easy for a prof to put all the stuff that scales with the size of the class onto the TAs. Thankfully I've not had to work with one of those yet. But, the profs know what they're headed into beforehand, and the TAs get to scramble like crazy during the first week until things are settling down a little bit.

The log in your eye, eh?

So how come you were all nice to Amber but suddenly all horny when icegirl came around?

Why do you think that tool ever had a mom? More likely he came off some conveyor belt somewhere.

Hahaha, you made me go back to that, icegirl's first post is fucking classic - so is Amber's first post. Too bad her dead giveaway picture isn't there anymore...

Phew, thankfully your contribution helped tremendously.

Unbelievable. Can't believe you people aren't seeing the possibilities here. All we need is some unsuspecting fucker and cascadeclimbers.com can become world famous for the first real world gerbil rectum recovery. Hmm, actually, we don't really need an unsuspecting fucker, right? We have trask, he'll surely do it.

Ach ja, those voluntary extinction society people rock. Didn't know they were accepting snafflehounds now.

He's making fun of you, for sure. Cream the sucker!

Train to menace sport climbers? No, wait, even better! Train to menace all people with tape on their helmets! Throw them off cliffs

Nothing short of a classic example of DFA arguing his lungs out just because most everybody else seemed to disagree

Two cragging day trips from Seattle So how come nobody is planning anything very alpine? Are you silent bastards holding out on us? Or are the conditions wrong? I haven't been keeping up, school has me in complete utter fucking head-above-water work hell this week and the next - but I'd like to read about it... Oh, and I call bullshit on Erik's story

Ah, misread the topic title. How did he get in there, was I thinking.

Hmm, quite interesting solutions on offer here. Cut off your arms and head and then climb naked. Should work, and if you're missing your head you won't mind the cold. Buy three GT jackets in different sizes, cut apart to create one jacket that fits Frankenstein's monster. Unfortunately will never work since you'll go insane with the large number of wacky color schemes you could create. What else did we have? Oh and by the way that's my picture! Didn't know you'd posted it here, cool.

That's a good picture. The guy in it is standing at the halfway anchor. The crack is the thin stopper crack that is fun/easy to learn to aid on.

It seems like a nasty pitch to rope solo with one rope. The lower half is at least 50' and I'd guess the upper half is ca. 20' longer. Falling from the halfway anchors is an awful scenario, it's a big fall and the landing below Thin Fingers is very broken and nasty. When you say the rope was found dangling at that level, do you mean it was attached at that level or the ends were at that level?

Yes, you're right, and the micros are pretty small. They're quite nice for body weight though. I shouldn't have said very well, it's more like reasonably well.

Erik, I think you're only talking about the first half, up to about 50-60' off the deck, right? The last 10-15' of that takes the worst gear, but takes microstoppers very well. The upper part of the pitch, the second half, is a hand crack. There are many other pitches at the Lower Wall that are more fun for aiding that that. Was Dino aid-soloing or free climbing rope-solo? Could he have been lowering himself using an upward-pull anchor at the bottom of the pitch?

I have been using the lower half of the first pitch of Thin Fingers to learn about aiding. This is about 50' of thin crack, takes small stoppers in bomber placements, and ends at a two bolt rap anchor on a ledge. I haven't climbed the second half myself, although I belayed a buddy up there (we have lots of rain showers here in spring, sometimes plans don't work out ). I think it's another 50-70'. It starts with thin, difficult (5.11) slab climbing for 10-15', up to a hand crack that goes all the way to the anchor at the top. As far as I know the anchor is another two bolts, with chains, but I haven't used it. It's not likely Dino was using two ropes to rappel from the first, halfway-up rap anchor, and it is also not likely he was using one rope to rappel from the anchor at the top of the pitch. The bolts at the halfway anchor are solid, no spinning hangers or such. There will be a number of people looking at this thread tomorrow that are far more familiar with Index than I am and should be able to answer any question about Thin Fingers.

Ya how bout that? Oh, wait, can't happen, can it, since you're the notorious recluse? Dangitt, eh?

Just a typo. The edited post is the first one Erik makes that doesn't have a typo So many fractures can hardly be called luck, but escaping spinal/head injury is definitely fortunate. to Dino. Was the rap from the top of the first pitch of Thin Fingers, or from the two bolt rap anchors about 50' up? Did a knot joining two ropes unravel? I realize all of this is still unclear, I don't mean any disrespect by asking, but quite a few people here climb, aid, aid-solo at Index. I aided that pitch or half of it three times during the last month myself.

Hmm. Better not make trask moderator. "DFA, you commie traitor, you're banned. Muffy, massage my pulled groin muscle, or you're banned." The fun would never end.