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I'm an experienced noobie, happy to help bwahahahaha How long are you going to stay for?

I have had the MG 35 for 6 months, pretty much haven't used my other packs since. Works nicely for up to 2 day trips in winter, haven't tried 3. Great climbing pack, slim profile and a good feature set. Go check out the Wild Things Ice Sack at Pro Mountain Sports, I think that's a better pack in the 45 liter range. Haven't used one myself but friends rave about it.

Ya heading up a no-hammer route without thinking about the conditions is ill-conceived. It's not like a couple of pins matter now, but it would if suddenly nailing Index clean routes in a storm were perceived to be cool. Shame on you Collins, not because you did it but because it is a bad precedent. If I had made the same mistake and had to pound a pin to get down I would keep my mouth shut.

Heeheehee, silly boat myths. How long can the British navy go to sea for before sodomy is no longer punishable by hanging?

Larry the Tool and the Concrete Cop definitely belong on the list of Cascade Villains. Who else should be nominated? Spray wildly.

bwhhhhh... :cff-splrtng-grmln:

There is this story of two of the Ptarmigans (as in Ptarmigan Traverse) climbing some peak in the fog, they were well-known for arguing like cats and dogs about most things and apparently in this case they couldn't agree on who would belay and who would get to lead. So somehow both wind up leading at the same time, going up adjacent pinnacles, and wind up on top with the rope hanging in the air between the summits. I read this in a Harvey Manning article about the Ptarmigans, he said something to the effect that if the summits had been more than a ropelength apart this might have resulted in one of the more sad and confusing climbing accidents in PNW climbing history... Just figured I'd share this enlightening example of one ascent of two routes simultaneously Perhaps the Ptarmigans also climbed the Black Spider?

I'd rather get a Met than a MOAB (not to mention a MOAT )

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I could definitely "use an extra 50 or 100 grand". I've has an attorney send a cease&desist letter, and recieved a terse response. It's litigate, not negotiate. But litigation is a complicated decision, and what's right, or wrong, isn't the only contributing factor. The parent corporation of the offending company has annual revenues of $50 billion. Bringing a lawsuit could cost me $200,000, or more. What's the risk/benefit ratio? As my father told me, life is hard. Sending you a terse response is cheap for them. Big companies ignore patents and trademarks regularly when they know the intimidation factor is high or the cost of settling out of court is a small fraction of their profits. Take a cut of their money. I'm with Attitude - sending you some legalese is a quick easy way to maybe scare you off, then the problem just disappears. If you registered a trademark that they're infringing on then that sounds pretty simple to me. But then again I'm no lawyer.

Been for sale in Europe for years. Google for avalanche airbag backpack or some such thing. Basically an airbag with a ripcord, keeps you on top of the slide unless you get sucked into a terrain trap.

Have take-home exam

Maybe she is Miloshk Antonopov.

Moo-hahah, Allison gets in a surprise lefty on Kurt! Stick it to her big K! Funny considering how congenial y'all seem at the pub

Not a problem since you rarely if ever see anybody hiking in carhartts.

"mostly" ?? well it's not about the numbers is it? I don't want to be accused of chestbeating. TOO FUNNY Actually, when I bought my costalots I just didn't quite know what I was doing. Not that I don't like them or anything, but if you're primarily interested in alpine climbing then you probably only need one set and something lighter makes more sense - like DMMs, or Metolius.

I'm gonna show, I want to meet Timmy

Scenario went like this: Idiot guy hits on girl and convinces to go climbing. Girl has no idea what she is in for, just trusts the "expert". Expert makes idiotic mistake - there is no way to interpret rope on webbing for top-roping as anything other than dangerous negligence. Girl falls, suffers life-changing injury, gets no damages and is stuck with the medical bills. No wonder she sued. The thing is that in this case the partnership wasn't for real. When two people that know what they're doing climb together they're both implicitly acknowledging that error on behalf of one person can lead to death or injury for either or both.

Kaia isn't working at Jim's very much (at all?) these days. It's the off season I guess.

What happened to putting little marks on your gear so you can recognize it at the end of the day? I liked Erik's take - one obvious mark, another "secret" one

Seems that there are quite a few ways the guy could have "rescued" himself, which is interesting considering that he was apparently pretty calm the whole time? What was the climbing like, that he was on? Was it fat ice? As for your friend, whoever suggested just replacing the draw with another one had the right idea... that way the guy could even have finished the pitch

Trundling too? Not that I've ever heard of a trundle resulting in an accident to somebody below.

That's probably me chatting with the party of two that climbed after us. My two partners were a little bit ahead, at the boulder where we stashed the snowshoes. Can't wait to get my pictures.

And what might those be?

Get crampon off foot?